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Caution: volume might startle you if you're not expecting it!!

So alot of people ask me

"Dan, how fast can Syron go?"
"Can you show us more crystal formations he has?"
"what do his crystals even sound like?"

Answer? yes

This is a short (lol) animation test of what my longer animations are going to start to look like in preparation for a few larger projects coming your way soon! The idea for Dragonfly started a year or so ago with my first attempt at it, but it didn't really hit the mark, so I scrapped the idea twice before reincarnating it last month and brute-force finishing it. So what does 'dragonfly mean'?

Dragonfly is a crystal formation state for Syron (my main character)

He uses sound as a primary tool of defense/attack/propulsion, and Dragonfly, the state that allows him to jump to supersonic velocity, is the main idea this animation revolves around. However as an added bonus, I also decided to debut Knuckleduster , which is the anterior phase state of dragonfly, which lowers Syron's speed to its lowest potential, yet maxing out his attack power in the form of giant crystal gauntlets. Combine the initial speed burst from dragonfly and what you have is Syron with the capability to punch missiles in the face!

...However those hellhound missiles don't get deterred so easily, and at the Kerberos Weapon Institute R&D, scientists are always happy to prove that their missile designs cannot be outrun or evaded. ever.

Big thanks for everyone who helped me out with this! While I did animate and do all of the sound work, there were several individuals who contributed in some way to what you see here:
- Using Kerberos (which is entirely her idea), redlines, smacking me for errors.

billboard contributors:

Thanks for watching! This one took alot more time and work than metamorphosis, which you can watch here: Metamorphosis

i was going to add music but the sound work turned out to be more than sufficient!
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Art, animation, sound-design, all of it ©
4 weeks, (150+ hours? i dunno)
Photoshop, Firealpaca, Aftereffects, Flash, Trapcode, Redgiant