AHHHHHHH!!! WE'RE FUCKIN' BACK, BAY-BEEEE! After taking pretty much ALL of 2025 off on working on this monster between stress and burnout, I am SO fuckin' excited to have scene 1 of Zone 2 up and alive!
We got everything! Sonic! TF! Eggman gloating! Ill-advised intravenous injections with no antiseptic preparation! Fun for everyone!
And look! Sonic's gonna show up and rescue me any minute!...Any minute now...!
Last step of this (after tightening up the timing) was dropping in the sound effects and background music. As far as SFX goes...it ended up mostly being the door. I wasn't happy with the bed sounds I found in conjunction with how I animated things, sooo, we went without. But music we needed. My first instinct was to grab Hot Shelter again. I used it in Zone 1, but I do really like it. So since I had it conveniently sequestered away in a place I could find it easily, cuz again, used it in Zone 1, I popped it in to see.
And dudes...I didn't tweak that timing of the opening. With the eyes opening syncing to the initial metal hit sounds...? IT JUST DID THAT. So yeah, it was too good, it synced too well, and the slow start before hopping into its bop self was too perfect. So yeah, Hot Shelter again. Pray I do not use it further.
^_^ This scene also has the first instance of on-screen TF! It's only 3 frames, because I'm slow enough and just one boy, and WANT TO TELL THIS STORY. But I'm so excited to show it! Fuck yeah, TF!
