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I've got one more thing to do before resuming the comic, and this is part of it. It's a looping idle animation for a Flash thingie I'm working on, which will include voices; people keep asking me how yinglets sound, so it's about time I addressed that!
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This is basically my reply when someone asks me what it's like to be a twin.
BUT, I don't think this sort of stuff is actually fundamentally unknowable, or impossible to communicate. Being a twin obviously implies having a sibling of the same age; it doesn't grant telepathy; and if I wax real Darwinian it gives me a comforting feeling of having an extra copy of my genes floating around in case I die. There's plenty that can be said. I think the problem of limited perspective boils down more to the difficulty of thinking of all the things to say. (Also the difficulty of deciding what we mean by "what's it like?")
BUT, I don't think this sort of stuff is actually fundamentally unknowable, or impossible to communicate. Being a twin obviously implies having a sibling of the same age; it doesn't grant telepathy; and if I wax real Darwinian it gives me a comforting feeling of having an extra copy of my genes floating around in case I die. There's plenty that can be said. I think the problem of limited perspective boils down more to the difficulty of thinking of all the things to say. (Also the difficulty of deciding what we mean by "what's it like?")
Being pretty low on the ladder of society, most yinglets would be pretty eager to be adopted into a human household as a pet or servant. But with their jittery, unstable personalities, physical weakness and scatterbrained minds, they make bad pets, and even worse servants! Then again, some people like pathetic pets, like pugs, so...
And thanks! I have to work out how these little things move and such when drawing them, so I've got a solid idea of how they look in motion; I'm just glad I have enough animation skill to depict that decently!
And thanks! I have to work out how these little things move and such when drawing them, so I've got a solid idea of how they look in motion; I'm just glad I have enough animation skill to depict that decently!
Yeaaah, you and I both know how much work animation can be, but that the payoff can be great!
With the rest of the comic incoming, I wanted to get this out there so that the readers could picture the yinglets' movements and voices from this point on.
And you know, technically someone could convey the little motions in still images, but it would require at least two panels to convey each little movement, and at that point, you might as well just be animating, eh?
With the rest of the comic incoming, I wanted to get this out there so that the readers could picture the yinglets' movements and voices from this point on.
And you know, technically someone could convey the little motions in still images, but it would require at least two panels to convey each little movement, and at that point, you might as well just be animating, eh?
Thankfully not too big; I just drew the moving parts (upper head, jaw, ears and neck) in different parts, and then slapping together the basic rig in After Effects just took 10 minutes or so. The lips for the talking sections probably took the most detail work, but it was pretty fun!
Yow! Yeah, rigging is totally different in these programs; AE's "rigging" process just involves setting the rotation points at the joints and parenting the sections back towards the torso, as opposed to a "real" 3D-type rig.
...Plus it sounds like you were putting together a whole body, as opposed to just the neck up!
...Plus it sounds like you were putting together a whole body, as opposed to just the neck up!
If you think that's cute, you should ask him a question! http://www.furaffinity.net/view/14957646/
Ohhh you think you're the first human to try this?
Everyone thinks they're soooo clever until the yinglets inevitably start creating bigger messes in their attempts to make things cleaner. And/or start stealing things.
That's not to say that there aren't some households who have yinglet servants, but it definitely takes some dedication and training to get them used to indoor/civilized living. Otherwise, it's kinda like paying a group of hobos off the streets to clean your house!
Everyone thinks they're soooo clever until the yinglets inevitably start creating bigger messes in their attempts to make things cleaner. And/or start stealing things.
That's not to say that there aren't some households who have yinglet servants, but it definitely takes some dedication and training to get them used to indoor/civilized living. Otherwise, it's kinda like paying a group of hobos off the streets to clean your house!
Usually pretty "uneven," but then again, a lot of yinglets are totally into that kind of thing! It's a lot like a primitive human during the Bronze Age being taken as a lover by a D&D-style elf; the older race has a major advantage in terms of culture, intelligence, maturity, lives a lot longer, and would probably blow the human's mind in terms of how impressive they seem.
It's not too hard for a human to win over a yinglet, but once again, society views it something like bribing a hobo for sex. Sure you COULD, but they're dirty and uncivilized and desperate, you can do better than that!
...It's for this reason that there are certain individuals who keep entire menageries of the little things. If someone likes them, there's no lack of yinglets that would simply love to be taken into a human household, given baths, dressed up, fed and loved on!
This can be a divisive issue for other yinglets though, who usually have a low opinion of the 'pets.' Imagine how you'd feel if one of your friends was taken in by a superior, elf-like being as a 'pet!' And being prideful little things, a lot of them feel those yinglets are making the rest of them look bad.
It's not too hard for a human to win over a yinglet, but once again, society views it something like bribing a hobo for sex. Sure you COULD, but they're dirty and uncivilized and desperate, you can do better than that!
...It's for this reason that there are certain individuals who keep entire menageries of the little things. If someone likes them, there's no lack of yinglets that would simply love to be taken into a human household, given baths, dressed up, fed and loved on!
This can be a divisive issue for other yinglets though, who usually have a low opinion of the 'pets.' Imagine how you'd feel if one of your friends was taken in by a superior, elf-like being as a 'pet!' And being prideful little things, a lot of them feel those yinglets are making the rest of them look bad.
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