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 DUN DUN DUUUUUN.

The last pic is filled with potential for a gag gallery.  Now to animate ...

Yay for Yu filled with moar angst.

random scribblings of an idiot

little concept art ideas that were starting to form in my head o__o
i stole the first bg from one of jades china town pics as well as the masks from an ealier post..

these could potentially be for the magazine;




and these two are just random.. the second one has a bit of the magazine concept art over it to suggest shes being haunted by LATERNS. OH GOD NO.

Hungry Whispers Sprite Preview

lol sprite

Download the full version off my dA, my all-nighter can now end.

*collapses into bed*

Kemi's Phone Painted >:(

My painting skills pale in comparison to you guys:

Also, I am not sure about the colours...

Kemi's Phone

Kemi's phone is here. I have based it off the FF7 Advent Children phone, with the rotating screen and camera on the side. The back has a screen for showing incoming calls and a thinner screen showing battery life.

Sprite update!!!!

Say hello to my little friends.

Oh yeh, I dno which colour to go for, for the bartender's uniform so I'll wait til the bgs are done for it then it can either go with or against the decor.  Either way, he looks pretty snazzy in that jazzy vest.

Sprites done, now I'll focus on the audio for the a bit! YAY.

indeed it is a splendid butt

okay heres my attempt at some train guard and bartender designs based on mike's earlier pics;

bartender


guard


and i tried to do some kemi fanservice... i really did XD

PERVERTS =9

Mental Asylum stuffs

Inspiration pics I've been looking at for the asylum..;



And my first attempt at crazy!kemi;


I wanted it to be much much more epic with detail in the background but it just didnt look good so I'm going to attempt another pic this week for it..

And then for no reason... Kemi crouching in a straight jacket XD

Team Wasabi meetup? / Kemi concept

I just remembered that I'll also be London this weekend plus a few days for a relative's wedding dinner. SO. Seeing as the last meet up went really well I propose another team meet to see where everyone's at and general stuff.  Sketch day to the British Museum/anywhere else doing any Asian exhibitions will be a major plus for this project! Or we can just meet up and draw in a coffee place and eat cake.  That's cool as well.

Remember that this project is my dissertation for my master's degree so you don't know how much I appreciate you guys helping out.  As long as you update me on what you're doing and keep in touch with me, I can re-assess all the stuff to be done and either get someone else to take over or I'll just have to adjust my own time to tackle things which is a-ok with me too. Just let me know! I can't stress it enough and I can't stress it enough on how you guys are AWESOME too.

Lastly, this is for Michelle as I'm starting to be finally happy with my rendition of Kemi.  Excuse the other character, I was on a role drawing Luna from TKON so she makes an appearance too ;D.

I profusely apologise for the shockingly horrible scanning as my sketchbook is just horrible to scan with.

Kemi designs - colour

Do we have a favourite?? =o
or none at all?

kemi sketches

I thought it's been too long since I last uploaded so here are some warm-up kemi pics i did today XD will do more colour designs tomorrow but let me know if theres any particular item of clothing that has a colour you like haha

she looks very manly in the bottom two pictures... o__o

Mini Sketchbook dump

Drawing Yu Level + 5 (I hate side profiles, can never get it right.)

Lol....can't draw girls anymore, will keep practising... sry Michell!

Train carriage colour testing. Perspective/everything fail mainly because I was drawing this at 4am as well as talking to loads of ppl online so my focus kept going all over the place.  Anyway - I'm not sure whether to keep it similar to Hotel Dusk and have the characters coloured in but static when players explore the environment.  I'm going for the royal/navy blue with cream colour combination.  Not sure what everything thinks about it here - any colour suggestions?  Also since I have Photoshop open I've compiled a quick screenshot in how I'm envisioning the game to be.  It'll be similar to my last game by having two characters in the same dialogue panel because I think it's cool to see some of the reaction shots of the characters. The game interface will need to be designed soon - any takers for that?

Rage Phone Guy FTW.

what hair

hmm.. im not sure what counts as being done on the asset list for me (im in charge of all the phone poses for kemi and yu) but is there a specific one i havent done yet jade? or one you want more poses for?

short post is short :D

Skit face ideas

As you all know I am a persona freak so I have been using these pics as inspiration for the asset list skit faces ^__^

examples;


And the sketches!
A few for Kemi;


And some for Yu!;


with both of them on the phoooonnneee <'3
feedback much appreciated, still have a few more of Yu's skit faces to do but am wondering if i'm going about it the right way first..

Sketch & Storyboard dump

Beware, mini sketch and storyboard dump o_o;

Some more Yu sketches, haven't quite decided whether he should have a light colour jacket or a darker colour one.  Will do a colour test once I start animating the storyboards.  On the other hand, I enjoyed drawing Yu and Kemi together, that was fun lol. OH and I've decided 

Minus the random Kenny drawing, some storyboarding ideas.  The opening blogologue begins with Yu looking out the train window.  Although his face is still obscured from the players view ... planning on having small animation touches such as those moving hazy reflections you get when you ride a train.

I drew this a bit big, but the next scene shows Yu typing on his laptop and the sunset rays hitting the keys over the desk.  I visualised it to have a big bright/dark contrast with small animations like the on button/screen glowing.

The next scene transitions to one of those minimal art flash backs cos I'm lazy - though I'll change the teddy bear to be on it's side lying in a puddle of questionable red liquid.  Will also overlay some hospital sound fx like the chest pedals, life line signals and some other stuff.  The life line signal die over time.  Cheesy I know.

The scene transitions to the distraught mother being surrounded by Yu's team, again with the creepy minimal type flashback.  I planned to make them appear like weird hazy shadows surrounding the mother.

LOOK MA! I CAN DRAW HANDS  The scene ends with the mother turning slowly to Yu once he tries to apologise.  I had the idea that she would be at the window with sun setting again (wth is up with me and sunsets lol) so it can look really red and bloody.  Also the mother will be like a silhouette, making her eye more prominent through her dishevelled hair until it suddenly cuts as the laptop batteries die.

Also I can't seem to stop drawing Yu's hair longer than intended, please forgive me D:

colour experiment of doom

Messing around in Photoshop trying to get the ball rolling with colours..


(was this the outfit design you liked jade? amendments are welcome! even if it means a total clothes makeover haha)

I made them kinda dark since its a dark game but perhaps i should have done the opposite since she's a 'light' character?

any colour suggestions throw them my way..

and maybe suggestions on other things that need designing.. i know theres yu and kemi but also the detective gumshoe character..? anyone else or anything else? (incl. backgrounds and props)

i really like drawing kemi hmm.. :/

More concept sketches

Taking into account feedback from the outfits Jade posted I tried giving outfit designing a go;


Any good? Or should I brainstorm some more?
Once the outfit is decided I'm going to mess around with the hair once more to the style Mike suggested and then try and do a rough colour design.. Hopefully i can do it before friday as thats i wont have the internet for 2 weeks after that..

also, my fail attempts at Yu's hair XD

boys are harder to design than girls...

IMPORTANTTTT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Please read!
for some reason i can log into my gmail account and post new entries but i cant comment on entries anymore...
im not sure why that is but sorry for now I can't reply..
and jade - i like the name team wasabi!!! i also got the script now, thanks :D
and mike - love the concept sketches, i like the design in the middle with the long hair ^^

until next time when hopefully this bug will be fixed..