/vt/ - Virtual Youtubers

Otsonny!! Oh god we've finally overflown into a two-part post, I knew this day would come. Yatta for the return of my favorite artist! Honestly, when he cancelled the original stream back then and said he didn't have enough time to prepare for it I was expecting something a little more... gimmicky, but it's been so long since his last drawing stream that I can't complain. Besides, maybe he meant mental prep, for the stress that would inevitably be caused by opening photoshop. ...Anyways, I can't believe there's a totally real niji fightan coming soon and sonny's bringing us expertly drawn leaks! Guys it's real I swear. Now is it the same fighting game as shu theorized a year ago...? Who knows! Even as an ideas guy, I think he quickly realized he overestimated how much work would go into brainstorming a kit, as is evidenced by the fact it practically took him an hour to conjure up an idle pose. For the record, I agree hand in pocket is generally cooler than arms crossed. The whole thing was starting to look very jotaro-esque... I was unironically worried he was gonna throw in the towel after an hour when he was fighting for his life on that first drawing, but once he had a "base" down it was a little bit easier. Not much, mind you, but he didn't spend an hour on every drawing. From then on it was decently straightforward stuff, just going through the basics. Jabs and all that. The concept felt a little more grounded in general, maybe something closer to classic arcade games like street fighter than the wackiness of something like skullgirls (big band players ww@). Shotoclone sonny... he seems like a zoner to me, at least based off his mains in other games. Yes, he did start to get immensely frustrated halfway through because he's such a perfectionist. Yes, it was both funny and painful. I thoroughly enjoyed when he'd get up to practice his own kicks for reference though, sure he could just google it but the mental image (and sound) is great. In the end, I think six drawings is probably pretty good for under three hours knowing how much he struggles with these things. The gun is neat and I was picturing something very similar in my mind when brainstorming my own ideas, and of course kicking in a magic door has to be involved somehow. He said he had fun in the end, but who knows what the ratio of fun-stress actually was? I jest. He just got some of the simple stuff down, there's plenty more fun to be had in specials, aerials, all that good stuff. And obviously after that is actual frame data, right? During stream, part of me was thinking "how did you push this back two weeks and you still have no idea wtf the moves would be" and the other part of me just enjoyed his thinking process. Sonny is utterly retarded and I love him dearly. He seems to shave five years off his lifespan every time he tries to legitimately put effort into drawing something, but hopefully mental recuperation doesn't take too long and he can schedule a part 2 sometime soon. Would be neat if we can see all this with more polish in the future like he said he wanted to do, and maybe it could even be used for something more...? We'll see!
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