June 26th Update

First off, the final set of Extras: Members of Hojo, the organisation the main characters work for.

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I won’t explain the mean behind the name right now, since I want to save that for when I’m designing the actual building itself.

As for the design of the characters themselves the outfit is based on a combination of the characters Gaara and Sakura from Naruto, which I then varied with colour schemes based on the primary colours red, blue and green:

In other news I’ve started uploading some of the concepts to my deviant art account Which you can check out here.  There isn’t anything majorly new there yet, but I will be uploading previous stuff there in chunks, I was hoping there some way of mass uploading things there, but I haven’t been able to find anything yet.

I’ve also have been searching for good project management apps, and I’ve found one called Trello which is just what I’m looking for, its not as social as Archmule, but its way easier to see exactly where I am progress wise on each item, you can find them both here:

Fade’s Trello

Fade’s Archmule

So here is this week’s status on concepts:

• Background extras:37/42
• Main Characters: 13/13
• Main character re-designs: 1/5
• Secondary Character: 7/12
• Secondary Character re-designs: 0/4

That’s all for this week
Until next time

Marc Out~~

May 29th Update

Missed last week’s update unfortunately, College project got in the way, but for the next few months I’m free, so I can promise it won’t happen again. So without further delay, onto the last Businessman extra:

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I decided to go for a richer looking design, so I decided to add a waistcoat, which I think adds an elegance to the design, The colours are recycled from some of the earlier designs but I decided to darken them to help them fade into the background better.

In other news I’ve been looking into project management and figuring out how to let people keep track of the project without having to decipher the massive amounts of notes and spreadsheets, and I found a project managment App Archmule, which will let you know exactly what I’m working on at a given time, you can check out the objective list here:
https://archmule.com/@marcconroy/fade-season-1/

I was also planning on starting to gather voice actors over the summer, but after listening to another episode of tip of the tongue (Which I totally suggest you check out) Made me realise that I was jumping ahead of myself again, so I’m altering my pipeline a bit to compensate, music and Voice acting will be left till a bit later, and for now I’m going to continue producing concept art, the hope is that I can build an “Art Bible” for the show, so if I can bring on other people to model and animate I can just show them the rough ideas for assets and they can build them. I’m also going to redouble my efforts for the story boards and animatic, since I can use temp music and my own voice to work out timing.
I’m reluctant to use temp music, since I wanted an original score and honestly I wanted to avoid it, but in the efforts of producing a proof of concept it’s a necessary evil. The great thing about keeping everything just to an animatic is that their far easier to edit that a rendered animation.

That’s basic plan for the next two or three months, next week we’ll be onto a new background extra template.

Till next week,

Marc Out~~