Project KIBO - 2D animation
It took me about a year to complete this animation between other commissions. I created animatics, character designs, crowd assets, and a 3D model for environment reference. About half of the run time was animated in Blender's Grease Pencil with backgrounds painted in Clip Studio Paint. I also used Blender to create the reusable crowd assets to share with other team members as PNG sequences and chroma-key-friendly mp4s. During the project I switched fully into Clip Studio Paint. Blender's method of moving the camera was more intuitive to me, but the ink and paint was a little unwieldy compared to CSP. I also used DaVinci Resolve for compositing.
Process for one shot
Final animation (watermarked); all my assigned shots
Front view screenshot of the 3D model I made as reference for background paintings
3/4 view with robot scale stand-ins
reference model screenshot
rough sketch of background made from reference shot
full background painting
3D reference was especially helpful on layouts and backgrounds that needed to pan
final shot; background painted with help of reference (parts outside frame left unfinished)
Simple scrolling background painting
Sketches for possible robot designs
Character designs (more detail on this in this post: https://www.artstation.com/artwork/3dNNYJ )
Reusable, chromakey clip of a crowd member
Another reusable asset