Wednesday, 26 March 2008

Ok, I'm sure I've spent too long with photoshop.... My eyes feel funny....

I guess, I'm at an annoying stage of development for Mk.01 right now. The base colouring and shading is done, dialogue written up and inserted. The only thing that's holding it back now are finishing styles. I still haven't decided how to set the lines for the final presentation; each of them can look good, I'm just not sure which one to pick, because whichever one I choose, I'll have to commit to using for at least the entire series....

Right, this indecisiveness is really getting to me now.... Well, I'll try and move on to the other stuff I've done:
- A bit more dialogue work. It's not a big deal, just minor refinements here and there.
- Mk.02 has almost reached the same stage as Mk.01, I won't work on any finishing for this until I've decided how I want to present this series.
- Oops.... I think, I forgot all about this on the last update.... I played around with a few more Being designs, some are a bit.... well, special I guess....
- I decided to do a sample sketch of dynamic henshins, including the failure henshin.
- Just for fun, I laid out the attack lists for Streak A/G in an SD/SRW style.
- Finished off the kick-style sketch sheet I started some time ago.
- Some more FLR work. I came with another dynamic finisher for Fin, this time taking advantage of recoil from explosions. Su-chan's really been standing out recently....
- I've been doing a lot of catch-up work recently. Over the weekend, I turned a out fair number of SIC re-designs for the major STK characters. I'm really sorry about all the recent neglect to everyone from TAMASHII, CHAIN and uh, SPIN. ....I just remembered I haven't even made any finished-up concept sketches for Project SPIN, yet....

Ok.... just for reference, I'll note down the SIC versions I've done so far:
- Streak A/G
- Swift(Hide)
- Flare v.1
- Fusion (Reflect, Aque/Suisei, Alloy/Goukin, Variable, Rider/Hybrid)
- STREAK (Shin Gekkou)
- GDR Edge
- Fin (Uni)
- Flare v.2
- IMPACT
- Aura. NOT a re-colour of IMPACT!

Well, one more little thing to say. I played around a bit and made some SD Kiva sketches. Maybe I should put them up on the PhotoBucket album I haven't touched in a while...?

Tuesday, 11 March 2008

Things, are kinda all over the place, recently.... I'm confused....

Well, like I said in the title, things are a bit cluttered, at the moment. I've also, been slightly.... distracted, by all the new Kiva forms and IXA info coming out. In some way, it kinda happens every year, when new riders or forms come out.... I end up sketching stuff I like. That's not a bad thing, is it?

Sorry, about always having silly things to say. Right.... I'll jot down my progress:

- I've been re-re-working the the effects for the logo, again. It's looking more and more like a badge for a car or bike company.
- Took a few "photo-shop breaks" to re-write sections of older dialog and properly name a handful of the placeholder titles.
- I decided to make a "pseudo-palette" of regularly used colour samples. This should help consistency and save time in the long run.
- The appearance for "G-Tank" has somehow warped into a camper-van. Not good?
- Su-chan can be so entertaining just by being herself:
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????: "Ah!! A fellow gunfighter!! We're not so different, you and I."
Szm: "Just... WHAT are you talking about?!"
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????: "Stop the denial!! We both have a preference for distanced attacks!! Am I so wrong?!"
Szm: "That doesn't even make any se- Why am I reasoning with you again? You're insane!"

Ok.... because I'm getting sick of photo-shopping recently, I kinda went a bit crazy and ended up making this collage of spoilers. Ummm.... be careful...?