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This is the continuation of Leader Part 1. Since I didn't know how big file sizes would be ahead of time, it was difficult for me to know if my GIFS would be small enough to upload to Yahoo groups. Rather than split up animations based on story beats or dramatic reveals, I split the GIFS due to filesize restrictions and impatience.

The behind the scenes for this one is kinda fun.

- You probably won't see this clearly, but when the pink haired terminator breaks through the tress, her pixels are huge. This was because of me scaling the image when I realized I had drawn her either too small or too big. Whoops!

- The dirt cloud when the pink terminator lady lands was going to be too challenging to animate. So it remains static while Jenna bizarrely lands inside of it.

- Because I wasn't a very good artist or animator, I took A LOT of shortcuts animating the movements. I don't think I need to point them out because you can see them plain as day.

- This I can't wait to talk about. ANIMATING BACKGROUNDS IN PAINT IS BORDERLINE IMPOSSIBLE. That waterfall background in the scene was a huge pain in the ass and a nightmare to animate in paint. The reason why it stops moving suddenly is because I got tired of trying to make the background work with the foreground characters.

In paint, I had to come up with several workarounds to composite the characters onto the BG. Generally what I would have to do is draw and color the background and then re-draw the background to create the animation. However, in order to put characters in front of the background, I had to draw the characters on a separate paint file. I figured out that as long as I didn't draw in the backgrounds, you could cut and paste the characters into another Paint file and the background would be transparent. Well, you can imagine that when you're trying to cut and paste 16 frames of animation onto a moving background, it could become difficult to remember which frame of animation the background was on. Also, because the background would be blank, it was extremely difficult to place the characters in the right spot.

In other words, adding characters to a moving background was really hard and not something I stopped doing out of laziness. This is why I assumed that switching to Photoshop for my final animation would be a great idea because then I could use layers. However, the ability to create layers only created a huge workflow mess that ended up discouraging me from ever animating again.

So yeah, moving backgrounds are hard.

- Jenna's punch animations were references from Super Double Dragon on the Super Nintendo.

- When She-Hulk turned into Grey She-Hulk in the John Byrne comic, that's when I discovered my fetish for women hulking out. The Grey She-Hulk character in this animation was included simply as an excuse to have Grey She-Hulk in my animation. I had no idea she was going to appear in future GIFS.

- I was disappointed with the quality of the hulkout animation in this GIF. I even tried to include a boob bounce, but it didn't really work because of how slow my animations played.

- As someone who really enjoys animating feet bursting out of shoes, I'm really surprised that I didn't draw or animate that many. More show up in later animations, but not that many. Very surprising.

- In the last title card you'll see "that ends part 2 of this GIF. Only a couple more to go before the big grand finale." Ha, ha, ha, yeah right. I wish I could have told my past self that he had a deadline to draw the final animation. If I had made it before real-life, I would have had a completed series.

Description

This is the continuation of Leader Part 1. Since I didn't know how big file sizes would be ahead of time, it was difficult for me to know if my GIFS would be small enough to upload to Yahoo groups. Rather than split up animations based on story beats or dramatic reveals, I split the GIFS due to filesize restrictions and impatience.

The behind the scenes for this one is kinda fun.

- You probably won't see this clearly, but when the pink haired terminator breaks through the tress, her pixels are huge. This was because of me scaling the image when I realized I had drawn her either too small or too big. Whoops!

- The dirt cloud when the pink terminator lady lands was going to be too challenging to animate. So it remains static while Jenna bizarrely lands inside of it.

- Because I wasn't a very good artist or animator, I took A LOT of shortcuts animating the movements. I don't think I need to point them out because you can see them plain as day.

- This I can't wait to talk about. ANIMATING BACKGROUNDS IN PAINT IS BORDERLINE IMPOSSIBLE. That waterfall background in the scene was a huge pain in the ass and a nightmare to animate in paint. The reason why it stops moving suddenly is because I got tired of trying to make the background work with the foreground characters.

In paint, I had to come up with several workarounds to composite the characters onto the BG. Generally what I would have to do is draw and color the background and then re-draw the background to create the animation. However, in order to put characters in front of the background, I had to draw the characters on a separate paint file. I figured out that as long as I didn't draw in the backgrounds, you could cut and paste the characters into another Paint file and the background would be transparent. Well, you can imagine that when you're trying to cut and paste 16 frames of animation onto a moving background, it could become difficult to remember which frame of animation the background was on. Also, because the background would be blank, it was extremely difficult to place the characters in the right spot.

In other words, adding characters to a moving background was really hard and not something I stopped doing out of laziness. This is why I assumed that switching to Photoshop for my final animation would be a great idea because then I could use layers. However, the ability to create layers only created a huge workflow mess that ended up discouraging me from ever animating again.

So yeah, moving backgrounds are hard.

- Jenna's punch animations were references from Super Double Dragon on the Super Nintendo.

- When She-Hulk turned into Grey She-Hulk in the John Byrne comic, that's when I discovered my fetish for women hulking out. The Grey She-Hulk character in this animation was included simply as an excuse to have Grey She-Hulk in my animation. I had no idea she was going to appear in future GIFS.

- I was disappointed with the quality of the hulkout animation in this GIF. I even tried to include a boob bounce, but it didn't really work because of how slow my animations played.

- As someone who really enjoys animating feet bursting out of shoes, I'm really surprised that I didn't draw or animate that many. More show up in later animations, but not that many. Very surprising.

- In the last title card you'll see "that ends part 2 of this GIF. Only a couple more to go before the big grand finale." Ha, ha, ha, yeah right. I wish I could have told my past self that he had a deadline to draw the final animation. If I had made it before real-life, I would have had a completed series.