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Description

Youtube link for much better quality: youtu.be/S4A4_kRZndc

Story:
“Melia, are you sure this is the right place?” Fiora and Melia were searching an ancient High Entia temple for a device Shulk needed to build his Monado REX.

“It should be down here. Long have the High Entia prophesied about the Monado, so it stands to reason this should be the location where they attempted to reverse engineer it.”

The two continued to walk down the dark hallway, until without warning, the floor dropped out from under Fiora, sending her falling into the unknown. “Fiora!” Melia shouted as her friend fell.

After a short time, Fiora landed flat on her back. Hearing her friend’s worried voice above, she called back in response. “Melia, I’m alright. I seem to be in some sort of room.” Suddenly, she started sliding down the floor, towards a black roller, flushed with the ground. Not having time to get out of the way, Fiora’s feet were suddenly pulled into it and crushed. She was helpless to stop it as the rest of her body was pulled into the roller too.

Once her entire body was flattened, the machine spit Fiora out on the other side. She tried to get up, but couldn’t even move a bit due to the feeling of an immense pressure on her body. Before she could try to respond to Melia’s calls from above though, she felt the floor that she was on start to rise back up into the ceiling that she fell from.

Melia watched as a platform rose from the hole, carrying what looked like a cardboard cutout of her friend. “Oh no, Fiora. What happened? Are you alright?”

“Uhh… fell… wringer.” Fiora managed to squeak out in her flattened state.

“Don’t worry, I’ll take you back to colony 6 so we can restore you. We can come back later for the ether furnace.” Melia reached down to grab Fiora, but she then heard the screech of metal, before two plates shot out of the walls, smashing Melia between them. When they pulled away, Melia was revealed, crushed into two dimensions as well. Unable to control her body, she flopped to the floor, laying on top of Fiora.

Despite how embarrassing it was, the two flattened girls had no choice but to wait for Shulk or one of their other friends to come find them and restore them. Hopefully this was it for the traps hidden inside the temple.

Notes;
I just realized that I’ve never actually used this version of Fiora, or Melia, in an animation before. So I decided to rectify that and I made this animation. I’m actually quite happy with it.

The background here is super boring, but it’s fine because it’s not really the focus of the animation, and it sort of fits into the setting of “dark and mysterious location.” I tried to use the spotlights to make it more mysterious as well, which sort of worked. Maybe adding in some fog would have helped as well, but I like how it came together regardless.

I want to give a huge shoutout to DistortingReality, who made this excellent tutorial (www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9Cpv7… ) about lattices, which lets me flatten and animate parts of a character getting squished at a time. It’s how I was able to have Fiora get flattened as she slid through the wringer, which I wasn’t able to do in the past.

The walk cycles look pretty decent as well. I’ve gotten so much better at making walk cycles too. It used to take me like an hour to make a really bad looking one, but now I’m able to make a decent one in less than 15 minutes. These two aren’t the greatest or anything, but I’m still quite pleased with how they turned out, and how efficiently I was able to make them.

Also, I remembered to use camera shake. It really helps add a lot more impact to the plates squishing together, and makes it look a whole lot more convincing. And the spin that Melia does after she gets flattened is really cute too, and I love how it looks.

Overall though this is just a really solid animation for me and I’m really happy with it. Let me know what y’all think of it.

Description

Youtube link for much better quality: youtu.be/S4A4_kRZndc

Story:
“Melia, are you sure this is the right place?” Fiora and Melia were searching an ancient High Entia temple for a device Shulk needed to build his Monado REX.

“It should be down here. Long have the High Entia prophesied about the Monado, so it stands to reason this should be the location where they attempted to reverse engineer it.”

The two continued to walk down the dark hallway, until without warning, the floor dropped out from under Fiora, sending her falling into the unknown. “Fiora!” Melia shouted as her friend fell.

After a short time, Fiora landed flat on her back. Hearing her friend’s worried voice above, she called back in response. “Melia, I’m alright. I seem to be in some sort of room.” Suddenly, she started sliding down the floor, towards a black roller, flushed with the ground. Not having time to get out of the way, Fiora’s feet were suddenly pulled into it and crushed. She was helpless to stop it as the rest of her body was pulled into the roller too.

Once her entire body was flattened, the machine spit Fiora out on the other side. She tried to get up, but couldn’t even move a bit due to the feeling of an immense pressure on her body. Before she could try to respond to Melia’s calls from above though, she felt the floor that she was on start to rise back up into the ceiling that she fell from.

Melia watched as a platform rose from the hole, carrying what looked like a cardboard cutout of her friend. “Oh no, Fiora. What happened? Are you alright?”

“Uhh… fell… wringer.” Fiora managed to squeak out in her flattened state.

“Don’t worry, I’ll take you back to colony 6 so we can restore you. We can come back later for the ether furnace.” Melia reached down to grab Fiora, but she then heard the screech of metal, before two plates shot out of the walls, smashing Melia between them. When they pulled away, Melia was revealed, crushed into two dimensions as well. Unable to control her body, she flopped to the floor, laying on top of Fiora.

Despite how embarrassing it was, the two flattened girls had no choice but to wait for Shulk or one of their other friends to come find them and restore them. Hopefully this was it for the traps hidden inside the temple.

Notes;
I just realized that I’ve never actually used this version of Fiora, or Melia, in an animation before. So I decided to rectify that and I made this animation. I’m actually quite happy with it.

The background here is super boring, but it’s fine because it’s not really the focus of the animation, and it sort of fits into the setting of “dark and mysterious location.” I tried to use the spotlights to make it more mysterious as well, which sort of worked. Maybe adding in some fog would have helped as well, but I like how it came together regardless.

I want to give a huge shoutout to DistortingReality, who made this excellent tutorial (www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9Cpv7… ) about lattices, which lets me flatten and animate parts of a character getting squished at a time. It’s how I was able to have Fiora get flattened as she slid through the wringer, which I wasn’t able to do in the past.

The walk cycles look pretty decent as well. I’ve gotten so much better at making walk cycles too. It used to take me like an hour to make a really bad looking one, but now I’m able to make a decent one in less than 15 minutes. These two aren’t the greatest or anything, but I’m still quite pleased with how they turned out, and how efficiently I was able to make them.

Also, I remembered to use camera shake. It really helps add a lot more impact to the plates squishing together, and makes it look a whole lot more convincing. And the spin that Melia does after she gets flattened is really cute too, and I love how it looks.

Overall though this is just a really solid animation for me and I’m really happy with it. Let me know what y’all think of it.