WIPs: animation + alt sequence | General thoughts
Added 2024-07-20 23:37:58 +0000 UTCHello wonderful people, I have some progress to report :) Because my sketch style is so sloppy I feel the need to wait until I have one frame of an animation done before posting, and you see it before you. There are also some gifs/sketches in the newsletter folder. I will also work on a secondary project involving Sarah, I want to bring the story out in her relationship so I plan on adding some text detailing her thoughts in journal form. I plan to split my time 50/50 between this Sarah project and the comic with Nahal.
Effort post below, no need to read unless you like that sort of thing.
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Some ideas: I've been thinking about the handle "Block08", what does it mean. I think a few things for style/content to make it unique:
1. Content: Topic of cute girls in the situations we all know and love. Original characters, avoid following the lastest anime/game girls. Medium to heavy themes. Focus on my own characters/stories, experience has taught me I'm not good at requests so I don't want to distract myself working on projects that are better done by other people.
2. Style: Animations/CG - A flat style, typically dark, heavy use of shadows, not overly detailed, should evoke the old 80s styles OAVs to an extent. Comic style - still a work in progress but I have some ideas.
3. Medium: A focus on animations, traditionally drawn (though digitally), this is the area I stand out as an artist. I should always be working on at least one animation project. CG "alt-sets" when appropriate, and aim to complete one ~30 page comic per year.
4. Story: Realistic personalities/scenarios, no pathetic dude, over experienced girl, mind control, etc. Exceptions possible if I ever make some fantasy theme story. I want to tie together the world of all the major girls into a coherent world.
5. Girl's perspective: I think this is maybe the biggest departure from what I have been doing. I want the girls to talk, and be the subject of the story rather than the object.
6. Marketing: I will plan on publishing the comic on dlsite/dmm/booth when its done. I will also try to make the censored animations easier to share on pixiv and watermark them. Idealy I'd like to take the channel from "a hobby I don't lose money on" to "a part time job I can pay some bills with".
Addendum: The question of AI sloppa. As I create a lot more sketches than finished work I feel this is something of a waste. So in the future I want to play around with this new computer I have to see if I can't create a unique style that "finishes" these sketches. I fully expect this project to fail but I will show any positive results here in a unique folder. I'm denfinately not going to make it the highlight of my channel, but I do want to experiment. I will limit any content to a seperate pixiv channel if by some miracle I succeed. Maybe I'll make a "Block12" or "Robot08" (haha) channel if it works out.
Comments
For sure a finish is always appreciated! Why not! AI is also meant to help artists, not using it indeed will slow you down, see it as a super photoshop making you able to do everything much faster, you could release longer animations in far less time.
ねこさん
2024-07-27 21:14:46 +0000 UTCThanks, I'm about half way done with the coloring and shading, the linework is done so it should be a few more days to a week. I feel like I'm really improving on this one. (I have a second part where he pulls out but that's in very rough sketch stage) Thanks, yeah I need to just focus on my girls and make them shine. Thanks I think I might even make 2 internal dialogues where appropriate, one of the both guy/girl. Yeah, I feel like a lot of my ideas just languish in sketch forever, meanwhile I see these "ai" channels pumping out 10+ pages of stuff every day, most of it is still boring garbage but a few people have managed to make pretty high quality compositions lately, so I feel like maybe I can use my "style", mostly the animation style, and the sketches as a guide and get it to complete the sketches that would otherwise remain unfinished AND actually maintain a definable style, not the airbrushed crap look that most of them have.
Block08
2024-07-27 18:17:21 +0000 UTCWoooow that animation looks insanely hot man good job :D cannot wait to see the final ver. Nice to see a full project with Sarah, she's a true cutie. "I want the girls to talk, and be the subject of the story rather than the object." -> I like this very much! You mean training a model in AI for last part?
ねこさん
2024-07-27 14:53:40 +0000 UTC
