the lighthouse girl (working title)

[rtil]

cool story - the song we wanted to use is from skies of arcadia. since the game was published by sega, i needed to contact them for permission to use the song. but finding contact information for the company was near impossible. i resorted to printing out and physically mailing a letter to their US headquarters two weeks ago. i was 99% not expecting a reply.

but 2 days ago i got a letter back saying that they basically could not care less so long as the song is used non-comercially, is not defaming, and credit is given - which won't be a problem. of course now my school has to look at a copy of the letter and hopefully none of the higher-ups will still request this ridiculous ballet of faxes and documents that we originally would have had to go through. but now at least we know sega is responsive, which i thought was really neat.

[Kirbopher]

At least in the future you can use other music from their games without having to worry about the process. That's one thing you can depend on the company for, their music's typically always great.

[shura]

cool story - the song we wanted to use is from skies of arcadia.

yes!  
which one?

[rtil]

when vyse crash-lands on crescent isle

it's called "uninhabited island"

it's kind of fitting because the girl lives on a mostly uninhabited island herself

[Greenkitten]

looking nice so far

[SHADOWFOX2]

Wow, I can't believe I haven't looked into this recently!
I love the screenshot and look forward to the animation

[rtil]

some bg's w/ rough cel

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[zomfgbie]

the entire thing looks amazing

[Blordow]

man i cant wait to see this in action, its sure to be a great inspiration for a lot of people.

[creamcorn]

man i cant wait to see this in action, its sure to be a great inspiration for a lot of people.

[Ashington]

man i cant wait to see this in action, its sure to be a great inspiration for a lot of people.

[f0d]

nice lighting

beautiful background

very professional

[Daveb0t]

ok that was terrible, the characters looked like pedophiles

[Loathsome]

I adore this!

Gets me in the mood for finishing my own stuff, lmao.

[psi43]

nice lighting

beautiful background

very professional

[billy]

wait, so which one is violet and which is revi

[GRINACE]

whats ur zoom when u animate?

[Loathsome]

whats ur zoom when u animate?

Uh, what kind of question is that?
That differs of what kind of scene it is and what you're animating. You flip between the zooms til you find what works for you. Isn't that quite logical?

[rtil]

yeah the zoom level varies greatly from scene to scene. also when we clean up the animation it may be very different, we're going to try to go for the most painterly style we can achieve to mix with the backgrounds for the final colored cels.

just an update here, the rough animation is almost done. i hit the 2 minute mark a few days ago which means i've done over 120 seconds of full body rough animation in less than a month - way more than i can say i've ever done in the past. most of it is on 4's but it's not a big deal as cleaned up frames will be easy to inbetween. jenna has 6 more backgrounds to go then she can start cleaning up the animation. soon i will join her and after that we will color cels.

on another note, we have made some significant changes to the original boards. the main story hasn't changed but we had to drop 2 characters (the first and last ones she meets). we simply did not have time to add them in this tight schedule unfortunately. but we are happy with the changes we made and the story is still very strong. hopefully we will be done with everything animation-wise by mid-april and can spend the rest of the month putting the video together to do sound & post. if worst comes to worst we have until may 11th to finish this, but our goal is april 27th

don't really have anything to show , but if you want to see some more backgrounds just check out jenna's da

[ZekeySpaceyLizard]

just an update here, the rough animation is almost done. i hit the 2 minute mark a few days ago which means i've done over 120 seconds of full body rough animation in less than a month - way more than i can say i've ever done in the past. most of it is on 4's but it's not a big deal as cleaned up frames will be easy to inbetween. jenna has 6 more backgrounds to go then she can start cleaning up the animation. soon i will join her and after that we will color cels.

jenna has 6 more backgrounds to go then she can start cleaning up the animation. soon i will join her and after that we will color cels.

soon i will join her and after that we will color cels.

we will color cels.

color cels.

cels.

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so this aint flash eh?