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Reskinned Model

I'm still adjusting the model but this is getting closer to the fun charming design I'm looking for. 

Which do you prefer?

  • My long lanky character designs
  • Or my shor...

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Mock-up Battle Phase!

Battle Phase!  Characters run to the right to meet the enemy and auto-battle each other.  You should either be able to modify their formation before battle OR maybe their aggression meter...

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Character Menu Mock-up

Okay here's my latest mock-up of the character menu. Since there will be a lot of characters, the stats should be simplified. 3 stats:  
• Damage
• Defense ( or Damage reduction ) &n...

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Jade Jogger

Okay, it's been a while but I'm back to doing color work and animations again. Here I'm experimenting with my old Akumi art style. Adjustments need to be made but I think this style bring out more ...

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Drawing Exercises

Bought this book called "300 Drawing Prompts" last year. There's a bunch of random suggestions on each page for you to draw. I just started it last week. I figure this will be a good creative exerc...

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Creature Concept

Just a quick literal living fur-ball. :D  Could be a cute companion or enemy in the game. Maybe they move in packs like wolves!

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Monsters Men and MORE!

More sketch ideas I did during the week. This really got me into a mental flow of creativity. Although the ideas weren't particularly innovative, it got easier and easier to just create characters ...

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Character Design Shift

Design shift??? Some of you including Adam might be thinking, why are you making a design shift? The style looks fine! Well it's more of a design refinement than a shift. I was slightly changing my...

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Akumi War's Art Direction

It's 2020 and we're already into February and you might be asking, what's the news? I've been burning pencil lead trying to find that "secret sauce" of art direction. Yes, I do have somewhat of an ...

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Akumi at Anime Impulse this Weekend!

 It' almost here! If you nearby, come say hello!

  • Saturday-Sunday  January 18-19 10AM-7PM
  • Artist Alley Booth#1201

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Update: Anime Impulse Convention - Akumi Booth #1201

In 2018, I applied to a bunch of conventions to get an artist booth. 2019 I was accepted by one, the Anime Impulse Convention in 2020. January 18-19, 2020 that is! So I've been rushing to prepare, ...

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Animation: Defeat

If you ate too much yesterday, you might be feeling like this....

Lets build this Akumi Wars rpg game! Onwards and Upwards!

-Miltonius

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Animation: Dazed

Here's what happens if she's hit with a stun attack... or eats too much. Later, special effects will be added to have animated stars above her head.

More posts coming after the Thanksgiving h...

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Animation: Dodge

What she'll look like when she dodges an attack. Again, trying to add life to the characters with facial expressions this time around. Before, I just didn't know how to achieve that in the Spine so...

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Akumi Run 'N Gun

How Akumi would run with her pistol weapon option. Akumi wil have a ton of different outfits and weapons to use so this is just one idea of many!

More animations posting tomorrow! Onwards and...

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Animation: Walks

Base female model walk with a dash of "jiggle".

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Akumi: Pistol Attack

Here's Akumi firing her weapon in her new outfit. Gun fire effects and lighting will be added later!

More animations posting tomorrow! Onwards and Upwards!

-Miltonius

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Animation: Gun Attack

Where are the gun effects? This is something I'm gonna animate separately to keep files small. So once my focus is on special effects, I'll repost these animations with the appropriate effects adde...

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Animation: Idle

Who knew standing in one place could have so much movement!

More animations posting tomorrow! Onwards and Upwards!

-Miltonius

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Animation: Runs

First of all, my apologies for the long silence. I have good reasons though. I've been in the trenches: cleared out my workspace, cleared my schedule, dumped all distractions/projects I had on the ...

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Male & Female Base Avatar Mock-ups

Okay got some male and female mock-ups ready. Still need to animate them to see how well they can move but we're getting close to an official base model to build from.

The picture with the gu...

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Akumi Wars - Male & Female Template Test

So I have this bad practice of building game characters from scratch out of "artist pride" or something... I did this with my game Oversoul. Every character I built was 90% from ground zero. From t...

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Monster List (Akumiverse-fied)

I was talking to Adam the other day and he pointed out we have a lot of hero/boss looking characters but nothing for them to really fight except each other. We needed stock monsters for our heroes:...

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Akumi Wars Gameplay

Okay friends, it's time to get to the finish line with Akumi Wars. Above are ideas of one way the gameplay could work.  The game is a "Tower Defense" model but these are IDEAS that could be im...

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Akumi Wars - Akumi Variant

Here is the latest Akumi redesign I have in the works. Still not the final but it's close. Akumi will have a variety of looks in the Akumi Wars game. Some of the variants will have different charac...

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Akumi Blu-Ray Animations Released!

  Akumi Blu-Rays now Available!  - 10 in stock ...

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Happy 4th of July!

Akumi showing her appreciation of Merica. Happy independence day everyone! :)

More Akumi Wars updates coming this week! Onwards and Upwards!

-Miltonius

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Design Notes #2: Akumi Wars Game

So I spent today animating this little loop. The final animation will have Akumi and Drone having a conversation but this is just a nice little showpiece.

Things are really moving. Just talke...

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Design Notes #1: Akumi Wars Game

The other day Adam (Artix) suggested I work on some story elements for the Akumi Wars game. Story elements that could provide choices for the player. The idea is there could be multiple endings. &n...

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Akumi Wars Patreon

Hello Patrons! This page will be hence forth dedicated to Akumi focused projects and be suitable for most audiences.  Currently, my main focus on this page will be the development of Akumi War...

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