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Yasha wakes up in a super secret Siberian bunker where strange things happen as his body is made more flexible than ever...Reading Time: about 8-10 minutes
Yasha woke up in a super secret Siberian bunker. He was laying on a table, surrounded by people in surgeon masks.
One of them, a very stern looking man in a dark brown suit with a Communist party badge, spoke. "I'm sorry about this. In another situation, we would have had you executed for your crimes. But given your certain physical capabilities, we're going to give you a chance to join the FAPs." The man paused, as if to allow Yasha to respond but Yasha didn't. "Which stands for FoldAble Partisans... Very well. Here's your new identity. Have a good life, comrade."
The man handed Yasha a folder. Inside was an identity card, some papers and six red ribbons. "You have to put them around your wrists, ankles, neck and waist." The man explained. "The colour will symbolize your loyalty to the people, the workers, the army, the state, our glorious leader and, well, the blood. There is much needed for it, you know."
Yasha took the ribbons. His head was a bit mushy, he couldn't clearly think of any reason not to try them on immediately. He put the ribbons around the required areas on his body. It seemed like they glued to his skin, then Yasha felt as if someone's tickling him really hard.
Yasha bent in half from the sudden tickling all over his body, it was unbearable, he curled up into a ball on the padded floor, laughing like crazy and begging for it to stop.
The masked personnel remained calm, none of them even moved a brow. A woman spoke in a commanding tone. "The infusion will take a few minutes to act. You will feel some heavy tickling, but you will live. After the tickling is gone, you will continue your work as normal, in the shadows, for us."
Yasha laughed even harder, which caused the people in surgeon masks around him to frown. The woman continued her speech. "Yasha, this is an..." Yasha couldn't stop laughing, he was dying from laughing. "Yasha, we are infusing you with..." But Yasha was still laughing. The woman stared at him, annoyed.
"Yasha!" The stern man was getting annoyed.
Yasha stopped laughing, panting heavily. He was still in great pain from the tickling. "I'm sorry comrades. It's just.... the tickling." He begged for forgiveness.
The stern man nodded to the woman, who smiled. "Alright, alright." She ruffled Yasha's soft hair. "There, there. It's alright, good boy. How are you feeling?"
Yasha slowly crawled to his knees, still laughing at the top of his lungs. "I feel... strange." There was a lot of red in his field of view somehow, he realized all the red was coming from his own body, his entire body was covered in some red material. Only his head was uncovered, the rest of the body was wrapped in this red material to the tips of his toes and fingers.
Yasha suddenly felt very light, free. "I feel wonderful!" He finally answered. The woman nodded. "Good, good."
The personnel lead him out of the room. He walked slowly, his body didn't seem to be as firm as it had been. They held him up whenever his knees betrayed him.
Yasha was led down a long, straight hallway. His body felt alive, moving under its own power... Soon, the hallway started turning. The people around him seemed to shift, moving in slow motion. Yasha's mind told him that they're moving fast, but his eyes told a different story.
"This is strange..." Yasha thought to himself. Soon, the hallway began to turn in a circle. As it did so, Yasha noticed a large portrait of Stalenin on the wall. The leader of the Communist party looked at him with pride. Yasha was so close to him, he could touch his large picture. He wanted to touch him so bad, but his mushy hands couldn't move a single finger.
Yasha felt silly. He was a nobody, just an extraordinary being caught in this weird world of slow people. The hallway turned into a large room, like a room in a mansion. In the middle of it was a large round platform and the slow people eventually dragged Yasha all the way in the middle of the circle.
There were no windows, just a circle of white light on the high ceiling. "This is for the entertainment of the people!" One of the personnel said to Yasha in slow mo. "We have some flexible people come in once a week to perform for us, usually it's a contortion dance but there is always someone willing to do something different, up to the participants. It's good for the Community!"
The circle turned red, and the additional lights in the room turned off. Yasha felt unusual lightness in the body, like he didn't even need to touch the ground to stand up. Something went wrong with the gravity. At the same time his body felt incredibly flexible.
Suddenly Yasha realized he could twist his limbs at will and jump incredibly high. He jumped, or rather floated up and put his body into the most twisted position he could think of in mid-air, completely upside down, his legs encircled his head, his arms spread wide with his thighs in his own armpits...
Yasha tugged himself tighter and tighter, the thought to stop didn't cross his mind at all, he could go on forever. At some point he realized that spinning would help to compress more and so he began spinning like crazy until he felt his body was nothing but a solid sphere. No, it wasn't just a contorted pose that was very compact, it was a real, ideal sphere. His body turned into a ball!
Suddenly everything changed, he opened his eyes and found himself in a whole different place. After a few seconds trying to tune his brain, he realized he woke up in a triplefold, in front of him was a screen and a gamepad, the screen said "Game over" and Yasha remembered he was playing the last Metroid game to see how long he can hold a triplefold.
His triplefold was so tight that he almost felt his hipbone pressing against the back of his ribcage with a thin layer of skin and muscle in between. His spine was bent completely in two halves. He looked at the time, trying to recall when he started, then reached for his phone.
"Hey man, what's up?" Andrzej's voice on the other end of the line.
"Guess what, I'm holding a triplefold for 11 hours and 37 minutes already!!"
"Holy sh-..."
"Also, I just had a dream."
"What?"
"I was playing Metroid but fell asleep, haha. I had a dream of myself becoming a red Samus, the FAP experimented on my body and bent me up into a ball. It was pretty crazy fun!"
"That's... really wild."
"Yeah... So umm, still in the triplefold but my spine feels so loose... Now I only have two things to dream about, if only someone could sit on top of me to fold me tighter with all his weight and also if he could bring me something to chew on..."
"Sure, I can do both."
"You're a life saver Andrzej, you really are!"
"Wait... did you change your room code again?"
"Oh, I forgot, it's 114765."
"When the Chozo developed from their ancient form, each race's characteristic physical abilities were enhanced. Each member of the various tribes had the astonishing abilities to perform quick movements while running, leap high in the air, and have flexible bodies that can uniquely transform into a sphere. These abilities contributed greatly to the prosperity of the Chozo culture. The various powerup items Samus gains contain the physical abilities the ancient Chozo excelled at."
ItΒ΄s the first time, you show the process of folding and it looks really beautiful. There are subtle movements, I like the lip bite and how he smiles, when he starts spinning. The eyes have movement, which is important, but you can still tell that they are parented to the head. Real eyes donΒ΄t turn slowly with the head, they stay fixed on what they are looking at, while moving the head and jump quickly, when changing the view point. That alone helps immensely, to make animations more lifelike. But he is in a dream and on drugs, that can explain everything away XD. Also great are the folds on the back of the suit and generally, how the body retains its proportions. 3D characters tend to look like kinked rubber hoses, when doint extreme poses.
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Also thanks for noticing the folds and the fact the body stays intact at all stages, it really makes me happy to read as I didn't even count on getting a comment about it... Animating reminds me of Alice in Wonderland, "you have to run faster and faster just to stay in the same place," similarly I had to fix SO many stages of the animation because "by default" almost everything looks wrong...after all the fixes the animation looked ideal, but also as if I did nothing at all. That's the curse of 3D art, the more ideal you make it, the more it looks like you did nothing. In 2D art perfectionism can be clearly seen and appreciated because every single person in the world tried to hold a pencil at least once and everybody knows how hard it is to draw even a simple circle... But in 3D only very few experienced people can notice some nuances that took the artist hours... In this case, I'm very fortunate to get a comment about it! π
βAlldenspa
This is my first longer and non-looped 3D animation, it makes me very happy it's something worth looking at frame by frame... I sure had to do that a lot while making it, there's still several bugs like a strand of hair falling down on his chest but I couldn't afford losing sanity over it anymore...haha...
What I can do depends entirely on the programs available in the market today... I couldn't do the same thing a few years ago.. I'm just trying to watch more tutorials on youtube and see if there's any other media that I could use to worship bendy femboys... Probably now the next step will be making a video game with them...mwahaha...good %uck π
βAlldenspa
So far my best idea was that you're a teacher with a group of boys who all get trapped in an ancient temple, the only way out seems to be a huge mysterious door, but the engravings around it suggest that the only way to open it is for several people to perform very advanced contortion poses at the same time in front of it. None of the boys in your group are flexible at all, but everyone realizes there's no other choice but to start some intense training. This idea can turn into a horror game where they realize they're not the first ones trapped in this place and they find various contorted skeletons of the past victims. That makes them work way harder, but here I'm kind of out of ideas for the actual gameplay between the intro and the ending. Can be just a sequence of right items to pick up and right things to do, but it can be more like a survival game where most items are generic like "stick" or "rock" and you unlock recipes to build more and more effective training machines. Also thought that doing contortion emanates some weird energy that can be stored in some special containers, then certain amounts can be used to activate magical items around the temple that help with more advanced contortions and energies until you unlock the last door. Can be like a Sims game where the boys live their own life, sleep, eat, train, talk with each other, you just walk around, enjoy their training, listen to their babbling about their progress and improve whatever you can for them.
The first problem here I can think of is how to create 3D characters who look attractive and not like eyes painted over lowpoly models or something. I guess if I ever get through this stage, the rest might be possible π€
The ideas you shared all sound super interesting, I'd be hyped about a little game like that. Actually, I've been thinking about it over the afternoon and I have a few ideas of my own how that setting you described might be turned into a neat game! I don't want to share them here and spam this comment section unnecessarily, but maybe we can talk about the whole idea over DA/discord or something! I think it really has the potential to be a fun project!
He looks like a flexible aeroplane here, haha!
I wonder who will be the next character you're thinking of a clip!!
Thank you so much!