Animation WIP (Patreon)

I know this isn't much to look at, but just figured I'd share a WIP of this animation to show y'all what I'm trying to go for with this and where it's at so far. Some of y'all might recognize her, especially given the "inflatable" theme (the finished will be a full thigh-up view)

Anyway, as you can imagine, trying to visualize multiple stages of animation and how they'll all fit together is pretty tricky (especially when you're not an animator), so this is the guide that I setup to help me draw the actual expandy bits. I used a song as a baseline for the rhythm, then I made the little hand pump to figure out the proper timing with keyframes. Once I had that, I just made two blobs and used keyframes to (meticulously) work out the timing of the growth spurts in time with the pumps

Still have quite a bit of work to do, so I'm not sure when it'll be done, but this helped a bunch with simplifying the workload. As I said previously though, I might just do a normal pic as this month's reward and save this for another time, depending on how much progress I can make. So, we'll see how things go