Currently Storyboarding:Chapter 1, Scene VI
Artist's Status: PANIC
Okay, so it's been awhile. A long while. I apoligize....but now there is a disaster and the whole futre of this project has been thrown into Jeopardy once more. ANDNOBEFOREYOUASKIDIDNOTFINISHTHESCRIPT!!!!
I'm storyboarding chapter one and everything is going great till I do a page count...I'm currently on page 70. 70...in Chapter one...granted, the first 8 pages are prolouge, so chapter one is really only sixty some pages at the moment. But still, this is about twice the length that I had origianlly thought. Chapter one is not the longest part of the script either. So what I had originally thought to be a 150-200 page graphic novel is now completly out of control. The thing is, that it doesn't FEEL long when reading it. One of my friends said that the pacing was fast enough to not make it feel long. This is terrible...
Looks like I gotta totally scrap chapter one and figure out something else...I got an idea, which invovles getting rid of the smugglers in chapter one and merging in parts of chapter two...but it's very complicated...ack.
Tuesday, July 27, 2010
Thursday, June 24, 2010
The Race to The Finish! Does it All Take off from Here?!
Currently Scripting: Chapter 6 Scene 1
Artist Status: Dazed
I finished chapter 5! Now there's only two chapters left, and I'm excited because they are action packed a full of awesome! It's pretty much like a race to the finish from here on out, because I have a more solid idea of what needs to happen in these chapters. It was the middle part up to Chapter 5 Scene 6 that was iffy. Now it should be smooth sailing....should being the operative word in that scentence.
To gather some interest, I decided to include a little preview from part of the script to entertain you. It's from Chapter 2 Scene 5. The 5th Division has just finished investigating a crime scene in the office of Soujiro Gintoki. His android, Eimi, has (for seemingly no reason) jumped out of his fifth floor office to her death. The group is in the elevator, heading out of the building.
Takaharu: Cares about his andoid, is devestated over her "death" and then wants to sell the parts to get his money back. A real sweetheart for sure.
Yukina: An android throws herself out a window. Someone's got a secret.
Junko: We still need to talk to the wife. There could be a breakthrough.
Takaharu: It'd be easier to conceal abuse in the home.
Junko: Kagehito, you'll come with me to get the remains. Katsuaki and Yukina--find this Hoda he spoke of. Takaharu, Akari--go question the wife.
--The elevator opens to the lobby, they get out--
Junko:Meet back at the station. --She and Kagehito start to walk away--
Takaharu: Eh, Kagehito!
--Kagehito turns as Takaharu throws him something--
Takaharu: Thought this might be of interest to you. --It's a used condom in an evidence bag--
Kagehito: (smiling) What a nice gift...
Hope you enjoyed!
Artist Status: Dazed
I finished chapter 5! Now there's only two chapters left, and I'm excited because they are action packed a full of awesome! It's pretty much like a race to the finish from here on out, because I have a more solid idea of what needs to happen in these chapters. It was the middle part up to Chapter 5 Scene 6 that was iffy. Now it should be smooth sailing....should being the operative word in that scentence.
To gather some interest, I decided to include a little preview from part of the script to entertain you. It's from Chapter 2 Scene 5. The 5th Division has just finished investigating a crime scene in the office of Soujiro Gintoki. His android, Eimi, has (for seemingly no reason) jumped out of his fifth floor office to her death. The group is in the elevator, heading out of the building.
Takaharu: Cares about his andoid, is devestated over her "death" and then wants to sell the parts to get his money back. A real sweetheart for sure.
Yukina: An android throws herself out a window. Someone's got a secret.
Junko: We still need to talk to the wife. There could be a breakthrough.
Takaharu: It'd be easier to conceal abuse in the home.
Junko: Kagehito, you'll come with me to get the remains. Katsuaki and Yukina--find this Hoda he spoke of. Takaharu, Akari--go question the wife.
--The elevator opens to the lobby, they get out--
Junko:Meet back at the station. --She and Kagehito start to walk away--
Takaharu: Eh, Kagehito!
--Kagehito turns as Takaharu throws him something--
Takaharu: Thought this might be of interest to you. --It's a used condom in an evidence bag--
Kagehito: (smiling) What a nice gift...
Hope you enjoyed!
Friday, June 18, 2010
Stuck in Every Way
Cureently Scripting: Chapter 5, Scene 3/4
Artist's Status: Meh
Should there be a foruth murder victim?
When should Captian Suzuki storm the 5th Division's office?
When will Yukina get her big moment?
When should I reveal Junko's past?
Can I learn to draw guns?
Can Mark Webber get his lead back i nthe driver's championship?
These are the questions I've been asking myself lately. I'm very stuck at this point because I'm past the middle of the cript (for the love of God, I am in chapter 5) and I need to start tying things together. So I have to make alot of descions, some I knew I would have to make and others I didn't expect to have to make at all. I'm so confused.
I also think I need to go back and take out some scenes, add in some others, and change the oens taht are left. There are some things I'm very happy with in the script, but I feel that the pacing sometiems gets off. Sometimes, things go very fast, and at other times I feel they are slow. They don't really drag, so that's good, but I'd like a more even pacing so a reader isn't feeling whiplash, you know? If it's too hard to follow, then people will give up.
My other fear is that there is too much going on and it doesn't hold the reader's interest. I don't want to explain too much and spell everything out, but at the same tiem I don't want it to be too ambiguous. I really want it to be that the readers feels that things are very ambiguous and cloudy, but that they inatly feel they udnerstand everything, as if they have always been a part of this world, or that this world is possible. Does that make sense?
I've been fooling around with these new templates, but I still kind of want to come up with my own background or sidebar that features some nifty art. That, and I'd like to go back to the blue/orange color scheme. Maybe I will....
I really need to learn how to code...
Also, i want to post pictures, but since I'm home for the summer, I have no access to photo editing software. All I would really need to do is resize the pictures on the computer so they show up nicely on your screen, but I have no photoshop...all I have is the stuff that comes with windows, and that is usually pretty usless. Grrrr I hate having to go back and forth between school and home, being limitied to what equipment I can bring with me. I have photoshop 6 on my desktop, but that is packed up in pieces in a basement in Illinois, so I'm stuck there....
I'll figure out something. I really need to start posting some stuff on the blog.
Artist's Status: Meh
Should there be a foruth murder victim?
When should Captian Suzuki storm the 5th Division's office?
When will Yukina get her big moment?
When should I reveal Junko's past?
Can I learn to draw guns?
Can Mark Webber get his lead back i nthe driver's championship?
These are the questions I've been asking myself lately. I'm very stuck at this point because I'm past the middle of the cript (for the love of God, I am in chapter 5) and I need to start tying things together. So I have to make alot of descions, some I knew I would have to make and others I didn't expect to have to make at all. I'm so confused.
I also think I need to go back and take out some scenes, add in some others, and change the oens taht are left. There are some things I'm very happy with in the script, but I feel that the pacing sometiems gets off. Sometimes, things go very fast, and at other times I feel they are slow. They don't really drag, so that's good, but I'd like a more even pacing so a reader isn't feeling whiplash, you know? If it's too hard to follow, then people will give up.
My other fear is that there is too much going on and it doesn't hold the reader's interest. I don't want to explain too much and spell everything out, but at the same tiem I don't want it to be too ambiguous. I really want it to be that the readers feels that things are very ambiguous and cloudy, but that they inatly feel they udnerstand everything, as if they have always been a part of this world, or that this world is possible. Does that make sense?
I've been fooling around with these new templates, but I still kind of want to come up with my own background or sidebar that features some nifty art. That, and I'd like to go back to the blue/orange color scheme. Maybe I will....
I really need to learn how to code...
Also, i want to post pictures, but since I'm home for the summer, I have no access to photo editing software. All I would really need to do is resize the pictures on the computer so they show up nicely on your screen, but I have no photoshop...all I have is the stuff that comes with windows, and that is usually pretty usless. Grrrr I hate having to go back and forth between school and home, being limitied to what equipment I can bring with me. I have photoshop 6 on my desktop, but that is packed up in pieces in a basement in Illinois, so I'm stuck there....
I'll figure out something. I really need to start posting some stuff on the blog.
Wednesday, June 16, 2010
The plotholes fill!
Currently Scripting: Chapter 5 Scene 2
Status: Going Nuts
Well, I am home for the summer which means lots of time to work on Akari, ideally. IDEALLY. If I get off my lazy bum and do some work. But it's hard to be motivated sometimes when I'm feling down. AT home, I don't really have anyone to talk to, and I never have any exciting plans to go anywhere. Most of my high school firends (and there weren't many of them) don't talk to me anymore, which is the natural part of going to college, so it's not like I'm that upset about it. But is does make it kind of lonely and boring, just sitting in my house all the time and surfing the internet...well, I've been doing more sleeping than anything elsse really.
I don't even have a summer job though. So I feel totally worthless about that.
But I have had a rough year at school, so damnit, I devesre to sleep a little bit, right? Right?
I have been working on the script though! I got some good work done yesterday while I was watching Law & Order, which is always a good show. And usually inspires me to write or draw, for some reason. I was just kind of going along like always, when suddenly, everything fell in to place. See, I had this gaping plothole between chapter 5 and the happenings that lead to the ending, and I had no idea how to fill it. Then, with just two lines of dialouge and a deflected bullet, it all made sense and then BAM! plothoel filled. I love these moments. Hopefully from here on out, the script will go alot smoother and then I can get it done and go to the storyboards. But I still need a bunch more in my production sketches. Most of them are really rough, so I feel I should do some more refined ones so I can have clear pictures of everyone and everything. Also, I haven't been doing as many background sketches as I should. I just really hate backgrounds! It's bad of me, and I know I have to do it, but I just don't want to! I'll get down to it eventually. I want to try and do backgrounds in as many panels as possible, so it looks refined and professional. It'd be pretty boring if it was all just white space in the background. However, I also have trouble drawing buildings and tables and other background objects...ARGH it never ends.
And stairs. I always want to put stairs in the background, but I can't draw them! I do this to myself, I swear. Urgh...
Status: Going Nuts
Well, I am home for the summer which means lots of time to work on Akari, ideally. IDEALLY. If I get off my lazy bum and do some work. But it's hard to be motivated sometimes when I'm feling down. AT home, I don't really have anyone to talk to, and I never have any exciting plans to go anywhere. Most of my high school firends (and there weren't many of them) don't talk to me anymore, which is the natural part of going to college, so it's not like I'm that upset about it. But is does make it kind of lonely and boring, just sitting in my house all the time and surfing the internet...well, I've been doing more sleeping than anything elsse really.
I don't even have a summer job though. So I feel totally worthless about that.
But I have had a rough year at school, so damnit, I devesre to sleep a little bit, right? Right?
I have been working on the script though! I got some good work done yesterday while I was watching Law & Order, which is always a good show. And usually inspires me to write or draw, for some reason. I was just kind of going along like always, when suddenly, everything fell in to place. See, I had this gaping plothole between chapter 5 and the happenings that lead to the ending, and I had no idea how to fill it. Then, with just two lines of dialouge and a deflected bullet, it all made sense and then BAM! plothoel filled. I love these moments. Hopefully from here on out, the script will go alot smoother and then I can get it done and go to the storyboards. But I still need a bunch more in my production sketches. Most of them are really rough, so I feel I should do some more refined ones so I can have clear pictures of everyone and everything. Also, I haven't been doing as many background sketches as I should. I just really hate backgrounds! It's bad of me, and I know I have to do it, but I just don't want to! I'll get down to it eventually. I want to try and do backgrounds in as many panels as possible, so it looks refined and professional. It'd be pretty boring if it was all just white space in the background. However, I also have trouble drawing buildings and tables and other background objects...ARGH it never ends.
And stairs. I always want to put stairs in the background, but I can't draw them! I do this to myself, I swear. Urgh...
Sunday, May 23, 2010
Is it a Post for the Sake of a Post? Or Has Something Important Happened? Well, Someone Gets Shot!
Curretnly Scripting: Chapter 5, Scene 1 (it's kinda long)
Storyboards: ON HOLD
Artist's Status: Discontent
QUITE DISCONTENT! With this layout! I wish I understood better the language of HTML. But if I couldn't learn French in four years, then there's no chance of HTML happening. I used to know some basics, but you can't FTP anything on this site, so I'm at a lost of how to upload my images...I guess I have to get one of them image hosting sites? Hmmm...
In other news, someone gets shot in Chapter 5. You'll have to wait to find out who though!!! *evil laugh*
I'm really starting to fall in love with my characters though. I was showing some of my production sketches to the painting teacher here who's standing in for the REAL painting professor. Real painting prof is a jerkface. This one is lovely. She sad Akari was "beautiful!" WOW! And she loves my page layouts! I feel so awesome from that.
I'm gonna do some artwork soon. Like, offical Akari artwork, so that I can show you guys what the characters look like. And also, so that I can get some images in the blog layout. Seroiusly, how the hell am I supposed to edit this thing! I AM SO INADEQAUTE! RAWR!!!!!!
And that is all.
~6H
Storyboards: ON HOLD
Artist's Status: Discontent
QUITE DISCONTENT! With this layout! I wish I understood better the language of HTML. But if I couldn't learn French in four years, then there's no chance of HTML happening. I used to know some basics, but you can't FTP anything on this site, so I'm at a lost of how to upload my images...I guess I have to get one of them image hosting sites? Hmmm...
In other news, someone gets shot in Chapter 5. You'll have to wait to find out who though!!! *evil laugh*
I'm really starting to fall in love with my characters though. I was showing some of my production sketches to the painting teacher here who's standing in for the REAL painting professor. Real painting prof is a jerkface. This one is lovely. She sad Akari was "beautiful!" WOW! And she loves my page layouts! I feel so awesome from that.
I'm gonna do some artwork soon. Like, offical Akari artwork, so that I can show you guys what the characters look like. And also, so that I can get some images in the blog layout. Seroiusly, how the hell am I supposed to edit this thing! I AM SO INADEQAUTE! RAWR!!!!!!
And that is all.
~6H
Thursday, May 20, 2010
We're rolling with the Script again!
Currently Scripting: Chapter 5, Scene I
Storyboards: Chapter 1, Scene 2
Status: Unaccomplished, though I should be
Good news! Chapter 4 is finished with a bang! It's shorter than chapter 3, granted. A LOT shorter. Chapter 3 is going to need some help, that's for sure. But today wasa big step. I feel that the plot is about to take another huge step forward, and my characters are developing nicely.
EXCEPT YUKINA. I was making some character notes for my thesis director, and I realized that Yukina has so far done nothing extremely influential. It's not that she's useless...she just doesn't seem to have a big impact. She has a big part at the end and nearly dies but...oops, I'm giving away the plot now...
Also, another character may be entirely superfluous. And I like him...he's awesome, but he's not a main character and just adds a lot more complication to the plot rather than driving home any important plot points of moving the story along, besides for being the gang's doctor and fixing their parts when they break. Is it odd to call a cybernetics technician a doctor? Hmmm....
Still really cold here. Hope that it's warming up soon. Maybe I'll be able to kick it into high gear and finish this script. But then I have to change around a few scenes in order to get things to run a little smoother. I might even split chapter 3 in two part or something...but 8 chapters doesn't sound as nice as 7. Ah....I'll figure it out.
~6H
Storyboards: Chapter 1, Scene 2
Status: Unaccomplished, though I should be
Good news! Chapter 4 is finished with a bang! It's shorter than chapter 3, granted. A LOT shorter. Chapter 3 is going to need some help, that's for sure. But today wasa big step. I feel that the plot is about to take another huge step forward, and my characters are developing nicely.
EXCEPT YUKINA. I was making some character notes for my thesis director, and I realized that Yukina has so far done nothing extremely influential. It's not that she's useless...she just doesn't seem to have a big impact. She has a big part at the end and nearly dies but...oops, I'm giving away the plot now...
Also, another character may be entirely superfluous. And I like him...he's awesome, but he's not a main character and just adds a lot more complication to the plot rather than driving home any important plot points of moving the story along, besides for being the gang's doctor and fixing their parts when they break. Is it odd to call a cybernetics technician a doctor? Hmmm....
Still really cold here. Hope that it's warming up soon. Maybe I'll be able to kick it into high gear and finish this script. But then I have to change around a few scenes in order to get things to run a little smoother. I might even split chapter 3 in two part or something...but 8 chapters doesn't sound as nice as 7. Ah....I'll figure it out.
~6H
Saturday, May 8, 2010
Somehow, Work is Getting Done. Honest!
Currently Scripting: Chapter 4, Scene 3
Storyboards: Chapter 1 Scene 2
Status: Relaxed
First of all, I like Romanian pop music too much. Way too much. Remember that internet fad, the Numa-numa song? It's actually "Dragostea din Tei" by Moldovian/Romanian pop group O-ZONE. Now I'm really into a group called Akcent. I've gotten two of their albums already and I just love it. Oh Romanian...your music is so good.
In other news, after a few decisions that had to be made, I am going home for the summer. Hopefully, this will be condusive to honor thesis work. Though I probably won't be able to do many color illustrations, because bringing my water colors home will be a pain. Hmmm...but I'm almost finished with the chaper 1 scene 2 storyboards. Yay! It's not looking too bad so far either! Now if only I could find my thesis director...she's an associate dean of students at my school in addition to being a professor, so she gets really busy. But I have to fill out this learning agreement for the thesis by Week 10 and we're going on Week 7! AH!
Just as I predicted, once I started work on the storyboards, work on the script stopped. Whoops. I'll at least try and finish chapter 4 soon!
Also, I'm working on my proposal for an art show at school next year, which will feature works from Akari and will highlight the creative process. I'm so excited for it! I'm alredy deciding what food to serve!
May is a fantatic month. Not only is it warm out and there are lilacs, but there is (at least this month), The Spanish Grand Prix this weekend, Monaco next weekend, and the Eurovision Song Contest after that! It doesn't get any better than this... ^_^
~6H
Storyboards: Chapter 1 Scene 2
Status: Relaxed
First of all, I like Romanian pop music too much. Way too much. Remember that internet fad, the Numa-numa song? It's actually "Dragostea din Tei" by Moldovian/Romanian pop group O-ZONE. Now I'm really into a group called Akcent. I've gotten two of their albums already and I just love it. Oh Romanian...your music is so good.
In other news, after a few decisions that had to be made, I am going home for the summer. Hopefully, this will be condusive to honor thesis work. Though I probably won't be able to do many color illustrations, because bringing my water colors home will be a pain. Hmmm...but I'm almost finished with the chaper 1 scene 2 storyboards. Yay! It's not looking too bad so far either! Now if only I could find my thesis director...she's an associate dean of students at my school in addition to being a professor, so she gets really busy. But I have to fill out this learning agreement for the thesis by Week 10 and we're going on Week 7! AH!
Just as I predicted, once I started work on the storyboards, work on the script stopped. Whoops. I'll at least try and finish chapter 4 soon!
Also, I'm working on my proposal for an art show at school next year, which will feature works from Akari and will highlight the creative process. I'm so excited for it! I'm alredy deciding what food to serve!
May is a fantatic month. Not only is it warm out and there are lilacs, but there is (at least this month), The Spanish Grand Prix this weekend, Monaco next weekend, and the Eurovision Song Contest after that! It doesn't get any better than this... ^_^
~6H
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