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Browsing around the desktop and found the character models for Tahu and Onua from the BNG 2d short. Unfortunately I do not have the Bohrok or the Matoran, I do have a bunch of the parts scattered in the folder.

The Two Leaders short was, in short, a proof of concept project to see if BNG could do something 2D opposed to 3D. It was a small group consisting of Crainy (director/2D modeller/animator/editor/compositor), Tosha (animator), Fluffy aka me (2D modeller) and Klak. Crainy had some experience animating this way (he showed a walk cycle of Karzahni which was pretty cool :3)We had about one month and a half to complete this, the first week for developing the story, the second and third for creating the assets, and the rest for animating and all that postproduction stuff.

Part of this was also developing and finding solutions so that we could create a short that could be top-notch while using free programs so that we could train and use members in future projects. The drawing program we used was Paint.net. The intended program we were going to use was Synfig but we switched to Anime studio 8.

I created about 70-80% of the assets, pretty much everything besides the background, the balljoint connectors and the Toa torso, all in Paint.net, which I had no experience working with prior to this project. Each part took around 45 minutes to draw. I also had to draw a front and profile of the part for when we would need them in specific scenes. Fun lil' tidbit: To keep consistency in shading, all the parts were actually painted in red first and then recolored for when we would build Onua.

The final 2D short can be seen here: [link]

Description
Browsing around the desktop and found the character models for Tahu and Onua from the BNG 2d short. Unfortunately I do not have the Bohrok or the Matoran, I do have a bunch of the parts scattered in the folder.

The Two Leaders short was, in short, a proof of concept project to see if BNG could do something 2D opposed to 3D. It was a small group consisting of Crainy (director/2D modeller/animator/editor/compositor), Tosha (animator), Fluffy aka me (2D modeller) and Klak. Crainy had some experience animating this way (he showed a walk cycle of Karzahni which was pretty cool :3)We had about one month and a half to complete this, the first week for developing the story, the second and third for creating the assets, and the rest for animating and all that postproduction stuff.

Part of this was also developing and finding solutions so that we could create a short that could be top-notch while using free programs so that we could train and use members in future projects. The drawing program we used was Paint.net. The intended program we were going to use was Synfig but we switched to Anime studio 8.

I created about 70-80% of the assets, pretty much everything besides the background, the balljoint connectors and the Toa torso, all in Paint.net, which I had no experience working with prior to this project. Each part took around 45 minutes to draw. I also had to draw a front and profile of the part for when we would need them in specific scenes. Fun lil' tidbit: To keep consistency in shading, all the parts were actually painted in red first and then recolored for when we would build Onua.

The final 2D short can be seen here: [link]