if you remember, remember.

LEYLA CAN HAS NEW SCANNER OH GOD THANK YOU FATHER I LOVE YOU FOR SPOILING ME. My new Brother MFC-240C All-In-One scanner/printer/copier/fax machine is made of ultimate win and beast. It scans at like, 2400dpi if it wants to (I keep it at 600) and the images turn out huge and gorgeous. o_o SO ANYWAYS. Sketch dump for you? ;D

Let's start out by introducing my new OC, Arthur Bedegraine! He's my favorite dork-glasses gay boy, and he runs a magical flowershop with his BF(FL), Zeke! 8) More on him later, he too sexy for his shirt.


Next up, Tales!Ley! From the Tales of the Rising Shadow and the Crimson Adventurous Tears of the Dusk in the Moonlight, otherwise known simply as Tales. She has a pet duck. Fear it.

Joe says:
So, basically, TTOTRSATCATOTDINTM
Osi says:
*snort* In short?
Osi says:
XD
Joe says:
Abbreviated ^^



THIS IS NYE. NYE IS SEXY. ... Well anyways, this is Nye's demon form that I doodled while babysitting. His tattoos make me glee with joy, and I'm pretty happy with the overall turn out. o_o He's too pretty.

This is the result of playing way too many MMOs. I doodled Tori (left) and myself (right) as MMO characters. It's... a work in progress. >_> Tori looks like she's drunk, for God's sake.


And finally, what you've all been waiting for, the it's-all-in-the-swish boy that EVERYONE loves and wants for their own- JAYE! This loverboy belongs to none other than Jenna, and simply put, he's my faaavorite. x33 So I drew him. >_>


These two pieces are just two doodles I was playing around with a little. They're obviously unfinished (and it kinda tells you about my sketching process), but I was listening to Hoppipolla and I wanted to draw mush ('cause I never do). So here's some unproportional Vlad/Ria crap for you! ;D


Remember my animation project? SAY HELLO TO FRAME ONE. <3


Ria/Ivirie and Asher in the corner. >_> Citadel doodles. Associated with drabbles. I loff it, sorta.

Ria's dad! Well, a doodle of him, anyways. >_> I was bored at six in the morning, therefore propotions are way out of whack. Leave me alone. D:



This piece is clustered with the following, but I think it deserves its own description. Athie and Vlad. And a lanky Ria doodle. Gods. I'm gonna cry when we have to write that out. She looks up to him too much.


And of course, an Athie reference sheet for story five. She's just made of too much win. <3

animation project?

You heard me.

So, a while ago Jordyn and I were discussing animating Vlad (more accurate reference on the left) singing Jordan Knight's Give It To You (I think that's the most hyperlinking I've ever put in a single sentence), and I told her that I actually have all the necessary equipment to make an animation of my own. Which, I do. My trusty LightTracer II and I are the perfect simple animation team!

Now, Jordyn's promised to animate Vlad for me (I'll have to find some denying song to do Ria with xD), but since I have lots of time and no imaging software, I deceided on trying something short. Back when I was a wee little toddlekin, I watched a special about one of my favorite cartoons, and they said that in traditional animation, it takes 24 drawings per second to make the thing flow right. Jordyn and I did some calculations, and to animate something like Nara (which is about five minutes long), about seven thousand sketches are involved. A feature length Disney movie, say about two hours long? Something around 170,000 individual pictures.

No way am I doing something like that on my own, kay? ;D

So instead, I planned out a little 50-55 sketch animation of how regular peppy-o Ria goes into full-on Ziegte mode. It'd be a decently large file animated by hand, edited in Adobe Photoshop 7.0 and animated in Adobe ImageReady. A lengthy project, but if I do a little at a time, I ought to get it done.

(If I ever felt up to it, I'd complete it. But I'm estimating it'd be... 35-40 seconds long, meaning like 840-960 sketches.)

Yes, it'd be tons easier in Flash 'cause every line's a vector.
Yes, I'm set on doing it traditionally.
(It's just more dramatic the way I have it planned.)

INOTHERNEWS~
I'm gonna try to use our old Kodak cam to take pictures of my drawings and upload 'em that way. :3 I wonder if it'll work ~

Oh.
And as for background music, I'm thinking of composing my own. xD

Edit:
A quick, mouse-drawn plan of what this thing is gonna look like. Don't click if you don't want spoilers (if you can count this as spoiling anything...). I'm in the middle of doing the math to figure out just how much I'm gonna need. (I'm calculating over 100 drawings because of the short sequences at the beginning and at the end). Split into two parts 'cause Blogger hates big files. xD

Edit II:

So, I did the math, and came up with the scary-as-all-hell number of 734-753 frames. There's a cheap trick I can use to eliminate about 336 of them, so I think I'll do that instead and end up with 398-417 frames. It's prolly even less than that, now that I think about it. Mid to upper 300s, definitely.
It's gonna take a while, but I'm looking forward to it. : D