Dabbles in Game Design

Ello again!

Well, along side with my Senior Project, I was also taking a class about Adobe Flash called digicel I. Wow, how I wish I had taken this class years ago! I had always been stubborn and figured I could teach myself the program, but after realizing how that hadn't been happening I finally signed up for the class and learned lots!
Anyway, for the final we were allowed to do several projects and one of them was a pitch for a tv show, but I changed it into a pitch for a video game instead! (sort of).


Announcing, Brawl Lolita! A fighting game featuring Gothic Lolita, a popular fashion hailing from Japan that mixes Victorian dress with Japanese taste. The game is meant to be a parody of Gothic Lolita, fighting games, and American fascination with Japanese culture in general.

Because I'm not a programmer, I only animated a mock fight, which I hope to expand on more during break! Below I've got one of my stage designs and some earlier concept sketches of the girls!

More Finalized Layouts

Sorry for the lack of updates everyone! Been so busy with getting the rough animation done that I didn't have time to post. I'm also not sure how much of the animation itself I'm allowed to post, but I've gotten started on my layouts so I thought I would post up some previews of those!






Yup, I plan for the final look of the film to be someone sketchy. These still need to be cleaned up and I'm playing with the color palette, but these are definitely closer to the final design than the original rough layouts!

There's currently a week and a half left and I'm at the tweening stage of a good 28 shots! I showed my most recent cut of the final film to my professor and he made several good suggestions to the cutting that I hope to incorporate.

In other notes, the Senior Soiree I went to several weeks ago was pretty successful! Though, I won't really be needing many recruits until Winter Quarter. I hope to send out emails a week after Winter Break though, to see if interest is still high. Will be trucking along 'til then!

Final Character Designs

Whew, I've been thinking that since my animatic doesn't reflect my new character designs, I'd post them up! Of them, the statue's design changed the most. The chickens changed in shape, but after talking to my professor today, I'll also be adding spurs to the rooster! I had no idea roosters had spurs, I think it's because all of my reference footage was of spurless roosters.

Senior Film Animatic

Here it is, for your viewing pleasure! This was finished in my senior concept class last spring. Since then, I've decided to change the first shot from a vertical pan and zoom into just a horizontal pan instead. And I'm also thinking of taking away the adult language of the rooster's subtitles.

Because it's pretty animation intensive, I'm thinking I'll have to go for some sort of stylized limited animation in order to complete it on time. And I'm also possibly thinking of outsourcing some part, perhaps inbetweens.

Possible Promo Poster

It's the start of weak four and things just keep trucking along. I'll have to admit I haven't quite hit the animation groove yet, but I hope to have at least a majority of my key frames done by next weekend. Also, this weekend there are going to be a couple of recruitment events for senior films, hosted around the campus. So, I got to work on a quick promotional poster this weekend! Ta-da!



I'm still playing around with the title, but until something more sophisticated comes along, I'll just be puntastic 'til then.

I did manage to finish all my rough layouts, meaning I've cleaned up my shot compositions as well and fixed my space continuity issues for the most part. I'll still post up my original animatic sometime in the near future though, so you all can get a better feel of my film!

Senior I Start!

Hello there again!

Well, it seems I have been doing a rather poor job of keeping this place up, but that's all going to change soon hopefully!

Currently, I am in Senior I right now, which means I have to get all the rough animation and layouts done for my film by the end of Fall Quarter, November 17th! I'm planning to use this blog to keep track of my progress, which will hopefully help to keep me motivated.

Anyway, here's a little bit to tide you over for now, before I get together more stuff to show ya! I'll try to put up the animatic tomorrow.

First Post

Hello everyone!

Well, I'm still new to this whole blogging experience, but I was hoping to use this as a space to post up some artsy fartsy type stuff, from animation to comics and sketchy illustrations, etc.

Hope to see you all soon!