#skullgirls

Naggyon függő típus vagyok. Egyrészt telefonos játékokra vagyok hajlamos ráfüggni olyan szinten, hogy már káros hatással van az életemre. Először volt a Love Live, aztán a Bandori, most a Skullgirls lett majdnem ilyen. Közösségi média hasonlóképp: volt így az Ask, most a Tumblr.

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Ha fogyasztható dologról beszélünk, elég kemény szénhidrát/cukorfüggő vagyok. Szép lassan küzdök ellene, radikális változtatásra sajnos nem voltam képes, pedig egy hónapig próbálkoztam low-carb diétával. De annyi lett az eredménye, hogy ideges lettem, fáradékony, ellenséges, és csak arra tudtam gondolni, hogy hogyan vessek véget értéktelen életemnek.
Azért haladtam már a leszokás felé. Már nem is nasizom minden nap. Azelőtt volt időszak, amikor napi két zacskó gumicukrot minimum felzabáltam. Nem esett jól, hányingerem lett már tőle, és a pénzem is mind erre ment el, de muszáj volt. Szerencsére ahogy a lelki dolgaimat rendbetettem, ezen is könnyebbé válik változtatni.

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I'm aware of how it could come across yeah. What you're ignoring is that I don't just single out negative stuff and ignore that, there's a lot of people who speak positively about my work that I don't engage with either. I think there's a lot of good reasons to do that. It helps avoid bias and getting pulled into cliques or idiotic dramas that distract from the actual goal of the channel. On a personal level I'm just not a very sociable person so I don't feel that need to reach out to others anyway.

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I've also been upfront about my desire to make games myself some day and I see the channel as a way of practising for that. If I'm in the middle of designing a game I can't rely on a bunch of other people to single out what the problems are, I need to be able to do that myself. To do that it's important not just to learn about certain games but to learn how to approach analysing them in the first place. What to look for and how, developing a mentality that sees the bigger picture and can build around it, that's what I want to learn. Relying on other people to make those observations would strip me of that practise.

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This isn't to say I don't look at any outside sources at all. I'm learning Guilty Gear right now so I've been looking up info on Dustloop. When I did the DMC video I binge watched a load of GDC talks to broaden my knowledge, most of the talks unfortunately weren't relevant but the Skullgirls animation one helped me explain what sort of techniques they used on Dante. I have a degree in games development which required me to sit in college for four years while the lecturers told me how games are made. I've watched all 8 hours or so of Kamiya's Bayonetta commentary, something I wish more developers did. When I want info I tend to listen to the developers themselves which is why you can often find quotes from them in my videos. I've been reading developer interviews constantly for about two decades now so I think that counts for something.

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Anyway if you want discourse you can watch other people that provide that, if you want my view you can come to me. You're free to watch or read any responses to my work and make up your own mind. I don't feel the need to get the last word, if I've done my job right then I won't have to.

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Photoshop is not made for animating, that's for sure. But I like having the tools I normally use to draw so I kinda just got used to it. I use the animation frame window instead of the timeline. There are a few things I do to make it work:

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- I set up a few of my F keys for animation. I have F3 and F4 set to previous/next frame, F1 to make a new frame.
- I have F2 set up to open and close the animation window, because for some reason if I try to transform with the animation window open Photoshop will crash, so I have to be opening and closing the window often enough that I needed to dedicate a key to it!
- Spacebar plays your animation, which can get annoying if you also use it to move the canvas, which I do. Tap spacebar to play, hold spacebar to move the canvas.
- For opacity/onion skin, you can hit W and a number and it'll change the layer to that opacity (hitting 3 makes the layer 30% opacity, etc). So I'll turn the layers I want to see on, use that to quickly make them transparent, and then use that for onionskinning. Again, a hassle, but I guess I don't think about it anymore.

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So yeah, my hand are on B and E for brush/eraser, W and numbers for opacity, and then F2/3/4 to switch frames. That's all I really need. A couple more things to note:

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- Turn off Propagate Frame 1 for whatever layer is displayed in your first frame. It makes it so when you turn on a layer, it'll display on all the frames which you probably don't want, so make sure that's off.
- Timing is displayed in seconds, so we figured out how many seconds is a frame in Skullgirls at 60fps. I think it's something like .06 is four frames, .1 is six, etc. .06 is also the equivalent to 2s if you're animating at 30fps.
- For Skullgirls specifically, we have a few Photoshop scripts to export frames into PNGs so we can get them in the game.

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Maybe sometime I'll learn a proper animation program like Flash or Toon Boom, but since we work in raster images anyway, Photoshop does the job.

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