January 9th Update

This week I move onto my next batch of extra’s shopkeepers:

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The overall design is slightly based off of Yoshiki Aoi from Horizon in the middle of nowhere:

I actually don’t know much about the character, but I love the head cloth which gives her a real hard working feel. The Colour schemes I based off of the shopkeeper from Rwby and Kisuke Urahara from bleach:
 

The Last Colour scheme I actually took from a non-shop keeper source: The misadventures of Tron Bonne, it was basically me trying to recreated the rough look of the stylish colour scheme (which is actually very difficult to find images of online)

In other news I’ve completed a line count of the story and figured out exact amount of voice work I’ll need, which in turn will let me know roughly how much animation I’ll need to do per episode. As it stands the main four characters have about 35 to 40 lines per episode on average and in total I have 2771 lines of dialogue for the whole season, now that probably seems like a lot but I included a lot of one-word lines and split any monologues into a few lines. But now that this is done I can tell any voice actors exactly how much I need them to do! And while I don’t have time to have auditions right now with college, I plan on jumping into it head first when summer comes around. That being said there are one or two people I’ve scouted out and taken note of for voices and will be contacting to play certain roles and will probably continue to do so over the next few months. All in all, it’s exciting stuff to me.

Until next week

Marc Out~~

 

September 26th Update

Here is this week’s character concept, Sakata Kintaro:

I really liked the story behind his name sake, and it was this character that inspired basing the support cast around Japanese mythology. there are little aspects I added from a gender bend version of the old legend that I decided unbend back into a male character:

if your thinking the image is a little washed out, that’s the style of the whole film, Kai Doh Maru, honestly I don’t suggest watching the film, but I really liked this character’s design, in particular the tattoo on the left arm.
As much as I like the design I made, I’m probably going to change it to look more European, the same with Haru and Sho from previous posts, to help highlight the differences between the two species, but I’m still going to post up all version here to document the evolution of the designs.

Also in concept news, I’m finding college very time consuming, so I’m giving warning that these character designs are going to get a bit sporadic, I have next week’s done, but after that I’m not sure I’ll have one done in time, I’ll still post every week, but it’s probably going to be more experimenting with Blender and planning my next step.

Speaking of Blender and 3D work I’ve added a tiny bit more to the blue business district in my city:

Its not a huge change from last week, just a few buildings at the lower side of the district, but its that area filled.
I’ve also been thinking in how i’m going to add more detailed buildings to the city when its all full, I think the best course of action is to take an orthographic render, make some template buildings and use the render as a blueprint to place them, its a puzzle I’m still working on.

Also I’ve started planning the second season script out, it might be early days for it, but I really want to hit the ground running with this project, I’ve decided that I want each season to have a theme, and each theme is a step in the hero’s journey, so the first season was the ordinary world, so this season will be the call to adventure, will I do each stage of the hero’s journey? Probably not, as far as I know, there is around sixteen stages, and I haven’t got the story even close to that well planned out to do a season for each, but I really enjoy applying the hero’s journey in different ways to tell a story and the different ways of using it for the foundation of a plot. Basically my little writing challenge in Fade is to see if I can use it to tell both an over arcing and season to season story at the same time. Time will tell.

That’s all for this week

Marc Out ~~