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ok howdy howdy y'all ^^.

first up I do hope you enjoy this little short that I made. Ok so you may have noticed that I start video with a little title saying to see the full description and a fine howdy to everyone whose bothering to read the description! you see for me this project was a test where speed was the name of the game while still having something presentable to the general public. I'd say that I suceeded in that regard. I started off with a one page 12 panel story board sheet, shown below.

My overall goal was to produce something in a short amount of time and seeing as this whole thing took me less than a week on and off and I'd say in terms of hours spent on this project its somewhere between 5 and 10 hours. Animatics are so pose to be cheap to make. To see if an idea is any good and you can change things without much pain and your able to toss things out on the fly here too.

I'm aware there's a couple places with things may look weird, like the lack of a walk cycle on the victim character but that's something I'd address in the animation stage, not here, here I just want to see oif the idea visually works. Why waste time animating something if it's not working at this stage ya know.

if my little animatic left you intrigued by my assassin character here; then this animatic did it's job. Also I'm able to decide here if I want to spend the time actually fully animating this sequence, In this case I probably don't but I'm glad that this worked as well as it did. I can also safely assume that each crappy story page roughly equals about 30 seconds of screen time.

let me know what y'all think in the comments!