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Okay, this has been bothering me for awhile now, but I want to know what is the best looking way for drawing a balloon in mid-pop. Even though I practice, it never seems to look right when I finish.After going through my manga, I tried making several versions of a balloon being popped, and made this picture featuring them.
A: My original version, based off of still-photography of balloons in mid pop. Slight blurr for the pieces.
B: A more violent style of popping, based off of a bubble popping in a manga. Very slight blurr.
C: Minimalist popping, based off of a balloon popping scene in a manga. No blurr.
D: Same as C, but with blurr to emphasize motion.
Please let me know which one looks the best, or if you have any sugestions, please tell me. Thank you.
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Okay, over the course of a year and a few months of time since my last comment on this, I have been experimenting a little on my own time and looking more into balloon related things.
A> This looks very much like what happens to an overinflated balloon midbursting. It shreds, and usually to one side, while leaving the other side mostly intact. Similar happens if you squish a balloon against something, but get all the air focused in one part of it, causing that particular part to overinflate and burst.
B> Keep in mind that in fantasy or pretty much any kind of fiction, you're not really bound to make things work as they do in real life unless you want them to. I can't see this happening in real life, but as far as it showing up in a manga or drawing or something, I don't see why not.
C/D> Looks closer to what happens from pricking. Though that's one of those situations where I see a lot of variance in how it actually plays out. Most of the times it pops to bits and those go flying, other times it pops to more large-ish bits that still go flying, but are more connected than usual. I haven't really seen a pop from sharps cause shredding, though. But I dunno, as I've personally not used sharps that many times. I'm going mainly off of videos for reference there.
And while you didn't mention anything about how it pops when sitting, it usually flies out in largish pieces, kinda like C/D. On rare occasions, a large piece will actually get stuck to the but that smashed it, or sometimes a piece may painfully snap back and hit that rear (It's not that bad if wearing some amount of clothes, though, I'm very sure.) For sitting, drawing the balloon mid-pop is kinda awkward though, and I think would work out best by representing the pieces mid-flight out from the point of bursting. (Closer to where they'd be when they've all about half way fallen back to wherever they're going to land, rather than showing them close together As they would be at that moment.) Even in the slow motion videos I've seen of it, it happens extremely fast.
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That said, popping by sitting CAN shred too. It's just in my own personal experience, I haven't seen it much.
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Well, once again, you have someone in favor of C. I like it because it seems to me like the balloon went really fast and what we're seeing is only a glimpse of the result- about the same glimpse from the same action in real life. While the first one is based off of a photo, I'm quite sure the photo was taken by a camera that was rigged to shoot on the detection of enough sound, catching the frame earlier than actual eyesight would- most people I know blink at least once when a balloon bursts.
Also, out of curiousity, what manga does that scene you're referring to come from? Is it the Tenchi Muyo thing with Sasami or anything else available on the internet?
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