Week 4/38

Looking at last week's journal, what have you changed so that you can improve your work?

I have spent more time working on my work.

How many hours have you animated this week?

Around 5 hours

What did I accomplish this week?

I completed my section of the Cheese animation.

What did you learn this week?

I didn't really learn anything, I focussed on using techniques I've already learnt to complete the animation.

What stopped me from doing more?

Spent too much time working on other things.

What will you do to make sure it never happens again?

I will try using a timetable to make use of my time more efficiently.

My section is the first 8 seconds.


In terms of applying for university, so far I am strongly considering staying on at CONEL to go onto the Level 4 HND course.

The Redesigning of Miku Sassuran

Seeing as the entire series has been rebooted, it's only natural for some of the characters to get redesigns, right. Basically, this may be the first of many posts about characters redesigns (it's likely that a lot of these will be members of the Izoku Clan.)
Anyway the first character who's been redesigned is Miku Sassuran. Below is her original design which was seen in the first edition of Gesen that went online.

Her appearance was very similar to that of Asuna Kyuno's, you could even argue that she just had a palette swap. So, Miku's been redesigned... 

...to this!

Her colour palette remains the same, however her jumper has changed to a polo-neck, she now has a utility belt/purse/whatever you want to call it, and the most noticeable change is the increased length of her hair.

Week 1/38

How many hours have you animated this week?

So far about 3 hours

What did I accomplish this week?

I created my own reference material, and began animating a cartoon arm clicking in time to music.

What did you learn this week?

I started using the pencil tool.

What stopped me from doing more?

Spent too much time working on other things.

What will you do to make sure it never happens again?

I will try using a timetable to make use of my time more efficiently.

Universal Update Scehdule

Starting next week, all mirrors of Gesen will have updates on Fridays, and all up to date.

New Mirror

You can now read Gesen on gesen.comicdish.com.
Due to the fact that this is the newest mirror, it's not as far into the story as Mangabullet or DrunkDuck, but I will probably try to make all 3 parallel at somepoint.
I hope to have a "Cast" page up soon on comicdish (and probably here too). I'm still unsure whether i should continue updating on deviantart or just reserve that for other kids of art. It can be really tedious having to manually post the links to the next and previous pages for each and every page.
Seeing as there's a new mirror I may make a third version of chapter covers specifically for ComicDish, but with other projects that will be announced soon, I doubt I will have time for making 3 different covers for the same chapter. I would still like to if I could.

You can check out how Gesen looks on Comicdish here, but it's still under construction XD.

The Making of Gesen HD Collection

At long last, the Making of Gesen has been concluded with, admittedly, a rather abrupt conclusion. Because I've changed the method of each oage of chapter 4 so far, I talked about how the pages of chapter 3 were made, which all used the same method. The first page talks about pre-production, the second, the production itself and the final page talks about the post-production (or what little of it there is.)

              
There is also a page where the making of  Gesen can be found.

Details on Chapter 4

It's been a while since the conclusion of Chapter 3, and part of the reason Chapter 4's taken a while to get started is that I had a bit of a writers block, however, I have Chapter 4 written out (mostly) and it has already begun on MangaBullet. Currently on DrunkDuck is the "Making Of Gesen" special, and so chpater 4 won't be beginning for another week or two. (meaning updates should be smoother over there.) The making of will be posted on here and possibly on DeviantArt in time, but for now I want to focus on making some progress.

Each chapter title has two different "versions", a DrunkDuck Version, and a MangaBullet Version, however the main (and only) difference was the colour scheme. The Drunkduck Version used all colours, whereas the MangBullet Version was limited to shades of blue. For the first time, two completely different drawings have been done for the two and here they are.

 

As you can see, the MangaBullet version still uses the limited palette, but the Drunkduck one features a character who will debut in the chapter, and also was drawn in the same style that Chapter 4 is being drawn in.

Yes, once again i'm experimenting with shading and lineart styles to try and see what sort of results I get. I'll probably talk about it more in the near future, but hopefully history won't repeat itself.