@skitzofreak! Tis I, your Rebelcaptain Secret Santa!
I was super stoked (and super scared) of getting a friend for secret santa, but I had a lot of fun tackling your prompt! When I saw your prompt was “nonverbal communication” I got right to work on it. This quality is the best I can muster with the timeframe I was given, but I’ll get around to coloring it in the future! I know this isn’t what you expected- and, if anything, it spills into personal territory- but I consider you one of the closest friends I’ve made in this fandom, and I had to put in a different kind of effort to reflect that.
To cover my tracks, all the snippets I sent you were actually pulled from WIPs i haven’t posted yet to try and throw you off my scent (and even threw in one that @crazy-fruit offered me). I even went so far as to make sure I didn’t call them “excerpts” for plausible deniability.
Some “fun” facts about this animation:
The animation contains a total of 110 drawings
The second half was animated almost exclusively on 2′s (i.e. a new drawing every 2 frames), at a rate of 24 fps
There are about 8-10 smear frames in here between both characters
Cassian’s face is blocking it, but my favorite bit of the animation is the way Jyn’s hair falls back down when she nuzzles Cassian. (If you’re interested in seeing isolated parts of the animation, let me know)
several bags of ice were utilized in producing this because it’d been about 3 years since I last animated in 2D and I was will attending physical therapy sessions for my wrists whoops.
(here’s the gif version in case you wanted a different format) :
say you love me 