The mask of the necromancer

Reference:
​ I took video reference for makings believable limp and not make it look like an animation mistake, that can happen quite often with limps)

Video reference -> making the walk cycle a Loop -> add details

Video reference (of me in my incredible role of mindless zombie)

Design:

The design for the zombie was thinking about a revived corpse. Something that is inhabited by life but it is not really its own.
I wanted  a skeleton part showing.

I made a quick sketch of   any variation I could think  for a corpse.

Main Selection:
I choose the designs that where closer to what I was looking and more appealing.
I like the idea of this magic - spirit light inhabiting a corpse 

For Animation:  testing the pipeline

Thinking about the animation, how  I had a deadline to submit it and that I could only work in photoshop I tested for a way to color while saving the major part of inconsistencies and to make no background.

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Animation Clean up:
It is a long process, but the best way is to go by steps in all frames While doing it, I keep checking how is it looking without any background and also correcting things I find looking weird from the previous steps. (I think it could be more efficient with some adjusts from the beginning)

Line and Black

Spirit color

All with plain colors

Color the lines and add light soucers

ready to go!

Screenshot of how I animate in photoshop.
The Key is having the correct actions in the keyboard and a lot of patience for keeping the layers organize

Process

Finished

The Mask of the Necromancer
The mask is an artifact used to revive a corpse moving it by its bone; the mask generates and artificial breath of life that inhabits the
​ corpse until it falls apart or the mask is taken away.

Details: