Research - Hand Designs

Should we outsource all Works about Hands and Feet?...

The Production Pipeline

* Some Changes might be made.

Character Design - Leo Colour Test

Yusri and I have decided that both Leo and Fenrir should have Colour Schemes that will contrast with each other.

Therefore, we chose the Classic Black and White Colour Scheme...

world belt interior

Finally it is being upload to the blog. Sry for the late posting. pls comment

Character Design - Inubis, Fenrir, Agnis Colour test

Inubis





Fenrir

I fixed his Legs. I think he should be alright now. Yusri did not draw his Legs in the Original Design.




Agnis

Sihiria Grand Hall colour test

I tried putting the builds together. Ya, they are all the same. I thought of having a little different pattern. what you think??



I use blur on the buildings that are further away. I think it has more sense of depth.

Meeting 4

Ben, Taohui, Yusri, Jasmine, David

Stuff to do
Have to do a animation test clip By next week. We have decided to not to use outline for the background and the character with outlines.

Ben
1) Continue to make more samples.

2) Upload them, so that we can preview them to give some insightful comments.

Taohui
1) Draft out Storyboard and layout.

Yusri
1) Charcters turn table

Jasmine
1) Continue colouring

2) Animation test

Meeting
If can, meet on tue. 16 oct. 4pm. If not Wed?

We are going to brainstorm about Design interface, Storyboard, tittle and a detail pineline.

If you can't make it please reply.

which one better?

Character Design - Anna Colour Test

The Top Left Version is Yusri's Original Idea of Anna's Colour Scheme. The other Colour Schemes are my own.



Some Monochromatic Colour Schemes. I like the Blue Version.

Sihiria Building Colouring test

After a meeting we desided to use vector as the style for the comic.

We think that if we are doing it in flash, why not use the tools there? Each of us have different style of drawing therefore we think that if we use vector, we can have a more standard style of drawing. And if we uses jpeg files it will also slow down the loading time. Therefore we think that this is the best choice.



Sihiria Building.
Trying out different colours.
The two black thing over the right is the human size.

(Click to full view)





I think black, purple and red symbolise evil.
I think this is the best.







And without outline.




I think with the outline is a better choice. It act like little shadows at the side and have a more soild feel.

Know Thyself

click to enlarge gif

Design interface

Interface
Some thoughts...

We can have a long long scroll.

About the save as the 1st. But this one moves down. The readers dont have to filp pages.

It's like a map. This one the camera move at the reader make his/her choice. I think this one is good. When the reader makes his choice, the camera will move very fast to the next panel. kind of like cool effect.

Design
It can be this type of olden books Design. Taps at the side can be the menu.

I thought of different making books. We can have 2 book 1 for each chapters or more if we can. History and the story.

Colour tones

check this out
http://www.shareedge.com/public/20050510-001/Help/en/Anime.htm

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I reckon having something near monochromatic colours to give the feel of the characters and scenery aka background

Art Direction

Time to fill in the ??? for art director.

Here is an example of one style of "Anime" eye (there are many):

1. Drawing in the lids/shape of the eye and the Iris
2. Defining the iris and lids more, adding the eyebrow
3. Placing of the pupil in the eye
4. Starting to shade the Iris
5. More shading of the Iris (light is coming from the right)
6. Shading the Iris is finished up
7. More Highlights are added to the Iris
8. Eyelids are more shaded, eyelashes added
9. Finishing by shading the Eyeball and around the eye.

I reckon that Anna and Leo's eyes be a little more on type of eyes.
Leo can be a 5 or a 6 because he has more heart and human feelings
rather than his eyes now that always has his killer stare from his training.
Anna can readily be an 8 or 9

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One of the styles eyes based around a triangle shape which is good for sexy/evil characters:

1. Drawing the shape of the eye in
2. Refining the shape, adding some eyelashes and the eyebrow
3. Placing the Iris.
4. Placing the Pupil (notice that in this case the pupil is not round, but more triangle shaped - like a cat or vampire eye)
5. Shading the Iris
6. Adding highlights to the Iris
7. Shading the eyeball
8. Shading under the eye & highlighting corner of the eye
9. More shading around the eye and finishing the eyebrow
10. More shading under the eye
11. Darkening shading under the eye and placing the scar
12. Finishing with shading more around the eye, highlighting and blending in the scar.

Wonderful job with Fenrir's eyes. It can get more vicious than Leo's.
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Interactive Comics online

Some interesting online comics I found. Take some time reading a few pages of each.

Meanwhile by Shigabooks
I like graphics they simple and cute. Interesting thing, they have many pipes for the readers to have a choice to choose which path to take. That becomes a design for the comic. Read more...

Argon Zark by Charley Parker
Some page may take a longer time to load. Interesting thing, When you mouse over the animations plays. On every page, if you click on the image you can see what is going on in the main character's brain. And it takes me a while before I know that NEXT button is at the bottom. I don't like the use of rainbow colours everywhere. I think is ugly.

Tales from harbor city
Using mouse over again for chat and sounds. Unless have planels, you may not mouse over the one that should be the first to talk. I don't really like the story.

Patriot Adventure
They have a comic version but I can't find it. But is interesting to take a look at the film version. You are the camera man. Kind of like choose your own adventure. I like the intro "Come on in in in in..." If you stop at the choice page, Wait for a while. You get to heard many different sounds e.g. cars moving pass or a old man will come out. The story is quite funny as well. Other Interactive inclues a map. Loading time was very fast just a few secs. I hope YouTube was like that too.

Mediaction

Character Design - Concepts (Part 1 of 2)

Name: Leo
Age: 19
Occupation: 10^th Champion of Heropolis
Residence: Heropolis
Likes: Anna, Cats, Comedians, Cartoons, Comics, Drawing, Games, Music, Sleeping, Weapons
Dislikes: Fenrir, Afros, Boredom, Bullies, Dogs, Examinations, Running, Swimming
Skills: Swordsmanship, Speed and Agility
Powers: None

Trivia: The name “Leo” means “Lion” in Latin and it is also the name of a constellation in the Zodiac.

Name: Anna
Age: 19
Occupation: Mixed Martial Arts Assistant Instructor
Residence: Heropolis
Likes: Leo, Cartoons, Games, Reading, Socialising, Songs, Studying, Sweets
Dislikes: Barbarians, Death, Excessive violence, Low grades, Spicy food, Unruly children
Skills: Unarmed Combat and Agility
Powers: None

Trivia: The name “Anna” is a form of the Latinic "Hannah", which derives from the Hebrew name "Channah" which means "Grace/Charm" or "Mercy".

Name: Fenrir
Age: 20
Occupation: 9^th Champion of Heropolis
Residence: Heropolis
Likes: His family, Challenges, Game soundtracks, Moonlit nights, Ultimate power, Training
Dislikes: Heropolis, Overemotional people, Mistakes, Scars, Wars, Weaknesses
Skills: Armed and Unarmed Combat, Speed and Agility
Powers: Lycanthropy

Trivia: In Norse Mythology, Fenrir is a wolf who is the son of the giant Loki and the giantess Angrboða.

Name: Inubis
Age: Unknown
Occupation: Emperor of Sihiria
Residence: Sihiria
Likes: Battles, Explosions, Fireworks, Obedience, Surprises, Victory
Dislikes: Heropolis, Disrespect, Failure, Incompetence, Nicknames, Losers
Skills: None
Powers: Dark Sorcery of Mass Destruction

Trivia: The name “Inubis” is a combination of “Inu” and “Anubis”. “Inu” means “Dog” in Japanese and “Anubis” is the Greek name for the ancient jackal-headed god of the dead in Egyptian mythology.

Character Design - Anna Colour Test

Colour Test.

How is it? I did the Colouring in different Layers. If you don't like it, I could easily change it.

Since this is a Colour Test, I spent only an Hour to colour this...

Meeting 4

Ben, Taohui, Yusri, Jasmine, Esther, David

Stuff to do
By next week
Pose 360 degree for all the characters
Bring in some simples (colour & animation) <- don't think we have time.
Watch and learn animations from Samurai x and Samurai...
Research on little/interesting items that we can put into our comic.

Ben
We want to hear sounds. Bring them on Monday.

Taohui
1) Coloured version of World's belt

Yusri
1) Refine the charcters designs.

Jasmine
1) Coloured version of Concept Art of location and Buildings (Heropolis academy & Sihiria)
2) Colour test on 3 main characters

Esther
Bring camera on monday.

Stuff to think
Design interface
I was thinking of the history story told as a old scroll. It will just scroll endlessly till it the story ended. Then change to something else.

Background
we can do a long long landscape and pan them. It save us lots work.

Animations
We can use bluring to animate fast movments. Like some nija animations. We have to cheat. It save us lots work too.

Art Direction
???

Anymore ideas? Just throw in. If not we can have a msn meeting before monday.

Meeting
Monday. 8 oct. 4pm.

I redo the world belt, this time the arena is within the mountain range unlike the previous one which on the top of the mountain. If you dun like it pls tell me. I am still working on the interior
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Heropolis Academy (INT)

From the view of the main gate.

Heropolis Academy and Sihiria

Heropolis Academy (EXT)
Grand, big, heroic, old type of design. Warriors and Archers learn their skill here. Everything sticks on the ground firmly. Cause magic was not allowed.





Sihiria Building (EXT)
As priests are all force to leave the Holy Land. They uses magic to make all building floats on water. Designed with mix of different culture. The scripts on the walls is their language.







Sihiria Grand Hall (EXT)
It's huge. The 3 tiny line in the center of the hall is the human size. Big events and importance meeting are held here.



Doing Heropolis Academy Interior at the moment. Sihiria does not need.

World's Belt

This is the outer look of the world's belt. As you can see it is in the mountain region and there is a Moai that is the entrance to the arena . But the arena still developing and so is the script. Haha, sorry handing up late. pls advise if you dun like it or how to improve the look.