Ahhh, that makes enough sense to me. When I was starting with 3D to 2D, I noticed that they roughly lined up in style everywhere but the face and hair. I guess if they used the 3D models instead of 2D model sheets as their model refs, it would explain some of the model inconsistency between scenes.

I don’t know much about the internal working of it all, but I think it’s super interesting. It’s cool to know that the waves are mimicking the tides, and crazy to think that if I hadn’t been actively looking at the date UI across a sample, I probably wouldn’t have noticed.

And a final unrelated note, while pulling references I noticed that the water animation on the Day/Time UI changes height with the moon phases. I don’t know what to do with this information, but I just thought it was neat.

And the other thing I worked on was a really questionable layout I made from a screenshot of the actual scene to learn the general feel for it. I haven’t done layouts in forever, so I re-learned a lot with this practice one.

Her… ❤️

Thank you! Thank you for all your work on her model. It looks great!

Maybe after Yukari is finished, I should do a rough layout as practice. Gaussian blur my beloved.

I would still like to make a femc version someday, but in hindsight, it was very ambitious of me to have my heart set on animating something I didn’t even have the audio editing skill OR any actual audio for 😅

Maybe someday…

Anyway, I might end up using the movie’s model sheets and the actual model as references for Orpheus, Thanatos and the Magician.

I wish they had included anim pre prod sheets in the Reload artbook like they did in the p3 one….

I would love to! I offered to help a bit ago, but since production hasn’t started, I’ve just been chilling till it starts.

Anyways, happy Halloween!