I’ve been bumming around for the past 4 days, largely because I only have 1 chapter left to do and about 5 weeks to do it, which is more than enough. I tell myself, I MUST get started on Chapter 7 inks tomorrow… get it over and done with. Come on!! *tries to whip self up into a frenzy*. I’ve heard through the grapevine that I seem to be the only TokyoPop creator who is actually ahead of schedule. Well, what an honour, not that it matters at the end of the day. Anyway, here are 2 sample pages from chapters 5 and 6.
Sprites!: That’s not saying I haven’t been doing anything – look at this! I’ve always been a great admirer of sprite artists (the ones that don’t rip sprites from other games, that is). I love how the way they’re able to inject personality into a smattering of otherwise insignificant pixels. I’ve always been interested in graphical story-telling, regardless of the kind it is, so I have more than a passing interest in animation of all sorts. Oddly enough, I think that sprite story-telling can be extremely effective if one uses it well. *Gets all sorts of ideas in head*. Being someone with an agenda at all times, it’s actually a more efficient and less time-consuming form of telling a story. Definately less dramatic, but hey, I need to get these stories outta my head (and I’m only talking about the good stories) and I ain’t cranking manga pages out fast enough.
Link and Epona!
This took me a fair number of hours to animate smoothly. Damn horse tail…it’s only 11 frames, and each frame is running at 0.04s …I should be working on Chapter 7, really.
Block 6: Another new page at Wirepop.com! Now that “The Dreaming” is wrapping up, hopefully I’ll be getting back into Block 6 and all the other “left hanging” manga at my site. I’m planning for volume 2 work to start in January 2006, so hopefully I can use the time from August to November to fix up any manga I have left in the frozen food section. That would mean finishing off “Keeper of the Soul”, who is a mere 3 pages from end of the prelude, and “Blood of Snow”, which is about 24 pages from the end. Not to mention I have to start promoting “The Dreaming”… and the art exhibition coming up too… ARRRGH!!