Sera belongs to @Judgemint21 and you can find more of her on twitter!*

This is Sera! This was a commissioned piece by her creator, Judgemint. It's a riding animation that was recently completed as part of a 3-scene project. As you can tell, she has several unique features like her abs and long, spiked-up hair. So there were several things to take note of.

At first, I animated her base very roughly without any other moving elements like hair, jacket, or breasts. At that stage of things, I am only concerned with 2 things: 

speed and pacing. 

From the get-go, I knew that I wanted her abs to be the highlight of the show which is why I intentionally went for a direct spotlight lighting, something warm and sultry (like her!) I knew that they needed to be emphasized. I gave her an extra bit of dimensionality by thrusting her hips toward the viewer so the final product had this really nice grinding thrust effect. Did it make animating and shading her abs a bit harder than it needed to be? You bet! haha. But it was all worth it for the final product.

Her hair was also a bit time-consuming because of the little 'whisps' and layers, so each strand was animated independently one by one. Yep.

When animating a scene where you know that there won't be much camera movement, it is safe to draw only up until what you need to show. And it is always nice to give yourself something extra beyond the confines of the borders. It'll save your butt when you decide that you suddenly want to zoom waaaay out later on. You never know!

This was the first time that I had ever considered making an actual pubic hair brush lol Could come in handy down the line