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WHEW O_O

This animation is based on the Vocaloid track "Smoooch" featuring Sparks with his twin Neochu @ and nephew Zip @ dancing to the music. Adjust your volume responsibly ^^

I included Zip as a special reward for Pikacshu's winning contest flash ^-^

Yes I know of a pikachu and pichu version already made, which is where I did most of my referencing.

I worked on it since last Sunday practically non-stop, which explains my inactivity since then. Overall it took me 30+ hours to get a 1300 frame animation complete, which ended up being 1 minute 50 seconds which is longer than my previous long animation and is almost 8 MB in size. Thank goodness the limit is 10 MB!

This was challenging yet rewarding at the same time, I was able to practice drawing pichus in all sorts of angles and poses I never worked with before, so it was a great warm up to some of the planned drawings too. Some of the animation movements look even suitable for animated icons and I will post these in scraps so you can let me know if you'd like any of them for yourself

One of the most critical lessons I learned in making this was to make smaller flash files on parts of the animation and put them together so the main file won't be so huge. I didn't do that exactly here but I did save parts of the animation separately. Right now the .fla file is a whopping 607 MB and takes up 1.5 GB of RAM when loaded, so yeah lesson learned.

Another issues was syncing the animation to the music, which I still am not 100% satisfied but it's good enough here. Also, the music file I had to hunt down on a website for it and NOT take a youtube converter to mp3. I used the mp3 instead of a WAV version here unlike the "Pichu Theme" one.

If you got through all of what I said, I still enjoyed this project and it is not the end of the year animation I planned, so it's still a surprise ^-^

Comments and critique always welcome ^-^

Description
WHEW O_O

This animation is based on the Vocaloid track "Smoooch" featuring Sparks with his twin Neochu @ and nephew Zip @ dancing to the music. Adjust your volume responsibly ^^

I included Zip as a special reward for Pikacshu's winning contest flash ^-^

Yes I know of a pikachu and pichu version already made, which is where I did most of my referencing.

I worked on it since last Sunday practically non-stop, which explains my inactivity since then. Overall it took me 30+ hours to get a 1300 frame animation complete, which ended up being 1 minute 50 seconds which is longer than my previous long animation and is almost 8 MB in size. Thank goodness the limit is 10 MB!

This was challenging yet rewarding at the same time, I was able to practice drawing pichus in all sorts of angles and poses I never worked with before, so it was a great warm up to some of the planned drawings too. Some of the animation movements look even suitable for animated icons and I will post these in scraps so you can let me know if you'd like any of them for yourself

One of the most critical lessons I learned in making this was to make smaller flash files on parts of the animation and put them together so the main file won't be so huge. I didn't do that exactly here but I did save parts of the animation separately. Right now the .fla file is a whopping 607 MB and takes up 1.5 GB of RAM when loaded, so yeah lesson learned.

Another issues was syncing the animation to the music, which I still am not 100% satisfied but it's good enough here. Also, the music file I had to hunt down on a website for it and NOT take a youtube converter to mp3. I used the mp3 instead of a WAV version here unlike the "Pichu Theme" one.

If you got through all of what I said, I still enjoyed this project and it is not the end of the year animation I planned, so it's still a surprise ^-^

Comments and critique always welcome ^-^