Micaiah's Shrinking Spotlight
Miciah’s model was created by SimplyAChair (https://www.deviantart.com/simplyachair)
Story:
Micaiah was walking with Celica when she walked into a strange blue light. She started to feel strange, and realized that she was shrinking! Celica quickly walked over, and picked up her friend before she could shrink any further. Micaiah seemed to be alright, just smaller than before. As she held Micaiah in her hand, Celica got curious. If the blue light had shrunken Micaiah the first time, what would happen if Celica put her back into the light? Would she grow back to normal?
Instead of growing, Micaiah shrunk even further when the light shone on her. Celica quickly pulled her out. She still seemed to be fine, just smaller and more annoyed than before. Sticking her back in the light one more time just seemed to make Micaiah even more annoyed and exasperated once again. As her now tiny friend laid in her hand, Celica wondered if maybe there was a limit to which Micaiah could be shrunken. She was already so small, that making her a bit smaller couldn’t hurt.
So once more Micaiah was thrust back in the light, and once more she shrunk to a very small size. When Celica was satisfied that Micaiah probably would continue to shrink, she pulled her out and placed her friend on her shoulder. Celica had experienced her fair share of shrinking magic in the past, so it was probably best to take Micaiah back to camp to grow her back to normal. Or maybe she could leave her at this tiny size and wait for her to grow back naturally.
Notes:
Yeah, I know the story is pretty lame, but I haven’t actually played Radiant Dawn, and I just wanted to make a shrinking animation with Micaiah because she’s cute in Engage. The whole animation is a bit generic, but I think I did a good enough job with it.
Usually when I shrink people, it’s to a scale of like .05x. Sometimes I’ll go smaller if I’m shrinking them multiple times, but for this one I left her at .2x for a decent bit of time, and it was actually a pretty fun size to work with. Having Celica pick her up with her whole hand around her body was a pretty cool shot with some fun poses. Then she shrinks down to a really small size, at which point I kind of give up posing her because she’s so hard to see anyways. I probably went a bit overboard with just how small she shrinks (again), but it’s still a pretty fun size.
The camerawork here is pretty bad. I didn’t give myself nearly enough frames to actually focus on Micaiah when she’s shrinking, so the camera moves way too quickly, and you don’t get to see her for long enough. I really need to plan out when to show off my characters more to avoid situations like this.