After the roughs, I then did a second pass focusing on consistency and cleaning up the line art. I also added the faces in this stage, however I simplified them from my character design as they're quite far away, but also because their faces would detract from the acting of their bodies. I really like the cleaned up line art version, as it looks very fluid and complete despite the lack of colour.
I then added the colour, where I encountered several problems with how exactly I could colour the animation. I ended up creating a layer below the lineart, and changing the paintbucket settings to "above" so that it would draw its selection from the lineart layer. Doing the colouring made me regret the choice of a pencil brush for the lineart, as the lower opacity and texture of it interferes with the fill, as well as makes the animation look a bit more amateurish overrall. Despite this, I think the animation looks good, and the colours aren't competing against each other too much, nor looking off in the environment.
Finally, I took the animation to after effects where I added the rain effects. This was a bit trickier than my first test, as I had to animate several masks to follow the characters, as well as to illustrate the rain stopping and starting through the cracks in the roof. The result isn't completely perfect, and if I had more time I would go back and tidy the discrepancies up, however I'm very happy with the effect and the final animation.
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