Posted July 17, 2025 by Ayback
I've spent the last week tackling two things I was kind of nervous about: animated scenes, and facial expression graphics! These are both things I've not spend much time on, but I wanted to get them done, since they are needed for my "Day 1 Vertical Slice" project I'm currently in the middle of. Basically, I want game-day 1 to be as polished as possible, so I have a standard to work towards for the rest of the game's assets. That meant facing my fears and throwing myself into something I wasn't sure I could do: an animated Magical Girl Transformation scene!
Since this is an 8bit-ish game, I didn't want anything too complicated, so I settled on two poses and an outfit switch. But I wanted Chiyoko floating, with her hair and skirt kind of flying around. So I had to watch similar scenes in anime, and find some tutorials as well, before I figured out how exactly I would go about it. That's when I noticed that these things kind of blow around in this "wave" pattern, so I did my best to arrange it into a four-frame loop.