Animated Gyarados Character

This was a fun little project I "opted in" for after watching fellow Twitch Artist Cosmos Sketcher (https://www.twitch.tv/cosmossketcher) knock up an amazing piece of Gyarados Fan Art for one of their viewers. After a bit of poking & prodding on my part (I really wanted to animate a Pokémon - sue me) I convinced Cos to send me over the .PSD file which I broke up into pieces for animation. I proceeded to paint additions onto the piece (using Procreate) so the assets could move independently. I set to animating the piece within After Effects where I added 2 particle systems (one for the text & one for the water droplets), utilized the puppet warp tools with offset motion for position and rotation controls. In closing I added a gradient background and pumped up the tonal range with glow effects to make things pop.

I did not create any of the art (Cosmos Sketcher did) I just added motion/tweaked the art and neither myself nor Cosmos Sketcher own the rights to the Gyarados character this is a fan/fun project. The Gyarados character is the legal property of Nintendo, Game Freak & Creatures Inc.