It's a project i set out to work on for around a month and, while it does say in the description of the video that I worked on it for a couple months, it was mostly due to my work occupying me. Hard to estimate but I think total work hours probably got in around that time.
I will say that the biggest challenge aside from the animatic itself was most likely the scene at the start with the bird moving over Dawn Winery.
I'd been wanting to try my hand at a moving camera for a while and thought that'd be a good opportunity. I'll be honest, going into the editing program later had me worried my plan wasn't going to work, but fortunately it did! Now that I know the method, I'll definitely be trying it for a project further down the line.
Reference material from the game Genshin Impact and the Genshin Impact Comic
The final version! Very glad still that the bird-view in the beginning turned out as good as it did.
There's supposed to be a bird at the bottom at the start, but was clipped out for clarity
Reference
This was more or less how it looked before editing. Some details I liked were lost, but a lot of things worked out much better. It's to be accounted for.
More or less the first official draft. some spaces are empty and some are hard to see, but it gets the point across. At least in my head.