This week I tried to focus on animating the character 'Anna' a.k.a. 'Goldfish Girl' in Live2D. It's a software I've been aware of for the longest time, but never tried using. I skimmed over a few tutorials and imported the PSD file of the character with her body parts in different layers.
Right away I noticed many things that had gone wrong;
- Having the lineart and layer effects in different layers was a bad idea. However, if they're merged together, editing will be more difficult and messy. Might have to switch to an all-around messier art style for consistency's sake
- Layer effects and clipping masks won’t work at all. This is a problem in places like the eyes where the iris needs to be clipped by the eyelid. However I think I saw a tutorial somewhere that explained how to create a similar effect to fix this.
- No of deformer limit in free version. I could either reduce the number of movable elements in the full body, or downgrade to half a body. Usually in visual novels and even Virtual Youtubers, half bodies are more commonly in use
On top of this, I'm a bit confused about the polygon editing process that's the basis of the entire software. Hopefully, these tutorials will help me get a better understanding;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LxUAlcpWLnc (Specific for polygon editing in Japanese sadly!)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2946QxAhLXA (Full tutorial, also in Japanese :'( )
Basically Live2D is an aesthetic choice, and I'd be hard-pressed to say it was an essential gameplay mechanic. So I decided to put it on the back burner for now and work on the main flowchart of game progression.
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