By the Power of The Moon! Anime Style Magical Girl (26SEP10)
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Bluemofia
F=ma
That is so Card Captor Sakura. 
Great job!
Great job!
Goldflash
Grumpy Old Man
Consider my Copters Rofl'd, good sir!
If you were to make a version of the run where she is still in her costume, she would probably fit in GDFM somewhere.
If you were to make a version of the run where she is still in her costume, she would probably fit in GDFM somewhere.
Bluemofia
F=ma
I summon Tomoyo to make his defense.Sakura Card captors sucks, Bluemofia.
Sailor Moon RULES.
Yeah, well, I never watched Sailor Moon, so I can't say which is better. It's just that she (the unit) is waving around some baton and changing into some elaborate costume to use magics, just like CCS.
CCS I watched in Taiwan when I was bored went to visit like 8 years ago or something.
General 666
Culturebringer
What a sweet Lollipop. 
... and which nasty tricks she knew.
DJ Bonebraker
a.k.a Laura
Thanks guys! Good to be back (more or less).
@blumofia: This unit is based on/supposed to represent several different Magical Girl anime characters, including Card Captor Sakura, Sailor Moon, Magical Lyrical Girl Nanoha and others... I spent some time rifling through Youtube to get some decent reference material before making this unit.
@Themanuneed: There is a shadow, but it is rather faint in the preview... Shows up just fine in Flicster and in-game.
@Plot: Well, its a bit of a trade secret, but....
I created a version wearing both costumes, but with one having ALL the materials set to transparent and one set to fully opaque.... I created two separate animations for the first part of the fortify (when she's in the schoolgirl outfit) and one for the last part (when she's completely transformed into magical girl mode), then I created a third animation using the transitional file....
THAT is when it gets painstaking: I then set the first frame of the transitional so that all the school girl outfit materials are 20% transparent, and all the Magical Girl outfit materials are 80% transparent. I then render that frame in 8 directions, manually exporting the render as a numbered frame in each directional folder. I then step to the next frame, set the Schoolgirl outfit transparencies to 40% and reduce the Magical Girl outfit transparencies to 60% and repeat the process. The next two frames of the transitional sequence are the same, but with the original outfit becoming 60% transparent and the Magical Girl outfit becoming 40% transparent in the third frame and the original outfit becoming 80% transparent and the Magical Girl outfit 20% transparent in the final transitional frame.
Finally, I use SBB to generate three partial storyboard files, and patch them together in Paint Shop Pro for the final result.
The process is EXTREMELY tedious and time-consuming, but delivers great results! Thankfully, for the Victory animation I can usually just reverse the frames of the fortify animation...
@blumofia: This unit is based on/supposed to represent several different Magical Girl anime characters, including Card Captor Sakura, Sailor Moon, Magical Lyrical Girl Nanoha and others... I spent some time rifling through Youtube to get some decent reference material before making this unit.
@Themanuneed: There is a shadow, but it is rather faint in the preview... Shows up just fine in Flicster and in-game.
@Plot: Well, its a bit of a trade secret, but....
I created a version wearing both costumes, but with one having ALL the materials set to transparent and one set to fully opaque.... I created two separate animations for the first part of the fortify (when she's in the schoolgirl outfit) and one for the last part (when she's completely transformed into magical girl mode), then I created a third animation using the transitional file....
THAT is when it gets painstaking: I then set the first frame of the transitional so that all the school girl outfit materials are 20% transparent, and all the Magical Girl outfit materials are 80% transparent. I then render that frame in 8 directions, manually exporting the render as a numbered frame in each directional folder. I then step to the next frame, set the Schoolgirl outfit transparencies to 40% and reduce the Magical Girl outfit transparencies to 60% and repeat the process. The next two frames of the transitional sequence are the same, but with the original outfit becoming 60% transparent and the Magical Girl outfit becoming 40% transparent in the third frame and the original outfit becoming 80% transparent and the Magical Girl outfit 20% transparent in the final transitional frame.
Finally, I use SBB to generate three partial storyboard files, and patch them together in Paint Shop Pro for the final result.
The process is EXTREMELY tedious and time-consuming, but delivers great results! Thankfully, for the Victory animation I can usually just reverse the frames of the fortify animation...
@Plot: Well, its a bit of a trade secret, but....
I created a version wearing both costumes, but with one having ALL the materials set to transparent and one set to fully opaque.... I created two separate animations for the first part of the fortify (when she's in the schoolgirl outfit) and one for the last part (when she's completely transformed into magical girl mode), then I created a third animation using the transitional file....
THAT is when it gets painstaking: I then set the first frame of the transitional so that all the school girl outfit materials are 20% transparent, and all the Magical Girl outfit materials are 80% transparent. I then render that frame in 8 directions, manually exporting the render as a numbered frame in each directional folder. I then step to the next frame, set the Schoolgirl outfit transparencies to 40% and reduce the Magical Girl outfit transparencies to 60% and repeat the process. The next two frames of the transitional sequence are the same, but with the original outfit becoming 60% transparent and the Magical Girl outfit becoming 40% transparent in the third frame and the original outfit becoming 80% transparent and the Magical Girl outfit 20% transparent in the final transitional frame.
Finally, I use SBB to generate three partial storyboard files, and patch them together in Paint Shop Pro for the final result.
The process is EXTREMELY tedious and time-consuming, but delivers great results! Thankfully, for the Victory animation I can usually just reverse the frames of the fortify animation...
Ah, I was afraid it might be something like that. Thanks!
By the way, there's no need to do transitions for the Victory - contrary to popular belief, Victory animations should start and finish with the Default pose, just like Fidgets, not go from the Attack pose to the Default. They are always played in game immediately following the Default animation.
utahjazz7
Deity
I agree. You did a great job on the clothing transition.
DJ Bonebraker
a.k.a Laura
Actually, when the unit is promoted after combat, it starts at the fortified position and goes back to default... I've witnessed this several times during playtests of the SuperCiv scenario and the Playground mod (which uses some of my morphing units). It is only if you clear a barbarian nest that it plays from the default frame....
He hasn't, therefore proving the superiority of Sailor Moon.I summon Tomoyo to make his defense.
'Some baton'? Hikaro, please explain to this man the utmost-über-importance of this 'baton'!!!Bluemofia said:
MeteorPunch
#WINNING
Great unit! I was a big Sailor Moon fan...15 years ago, so I appreciate this (hey there was hardly any anime back then!). 
Bluemofia
F=ma
Bluemofia
F=ma
CCS has a character named after the moon. (Yue, the Guardian Angel of Doom)
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