I posted a new sketch of Saeko last night, not a fantastic sketch by any means, but not too bad. It’s one of many sketches (mostly bad) that are part of me re-addressing warmth, the story and it’s characters. The body and the pose is kind of plain, really, but there are some things of note in the drawing.
One of the problems with warmth is the fact that the initial character designs were developed a long time ago. I may not be very good, but i’m certainly better than i was back then. When i was working on warmth two years ago, i was finding that i was having some particular problems with the characters, Saeko in particular. There was something nebulous about her design that just wasn’t cutting it, and was making her hard to reproduce on a regular basis. For example, the highly angular eye shape, the bangs, her forelocks and how long they were, the way her hair fell down her back, shape of her face… many of my drawings from back then did a good job of capturing something of what i wanted in her, but drawing her these days was leaving me thinking that i needed some better control nodes on her design to work with.
So, with that in mind, i’ve been working on subtle tweaks and changes – and these things have to get by me before i have to worry about what anyone else would think. I have been tweaking her bangs, the facial shape, the eyes (these still aren’t right yet) her forelocks in particular, shape of the hair… its all part of a larger process that i’m just starting to get my teeth into.
- pirotunes: Chimaira – Severed -
Posted by fredrin on January 31st, 2005 :: Filed under
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First off, i want to thank everyone for all the useful comments and pointers about Firefox and things i might be able to do to get it up to acceptable performance for me. I’ll have to try doing a totally fresh install, getting rid of old files as mentioned. For now i’ll probably use Safari for a while. I need to revamp my bookmarks anyway.
One thing i might spend some time on today is just that – better organizing my bookmark folders and how i manage them. My current categories and organization is kinda poor – i’m constantly trying to organize bookmarks that don’t fit in any category that i’ve created, or worse, fit into multiple places and i can never find them again. I still have the bad habit of dragging bookmarks to the desktop where things can get cluttered pretty easy. I’ll use this switch as a chance to go thru and clean things up. Moving back to firefox from safari isn’t that big a deal, really. I’m getting used to moving bookmarks around. what i wish i could do is somehow coordinate bookmarks between my laptop and my main computer (without having to friggin subscribe to .mac. that’s just bullshit – another Apple money grab. synching bookmarks between computers on the same local network should be simple (my laptop comes here and gets plugged in because i keep my dev files on the laptop so they are always with me))
Anyways, i’ve got that and a ton of other things to do today. Oh, and if you are wondering why i am closing commenting on old posts, that’s an effort to prevent or at least manage content spam (i actually had some crop up in old posts, i had to go thru and delete a bunch of things and close comments). Thankfully, the latest version of ecto allows you to open and close comments without having to go into the movable type control panel. yay. 
- pirotunes: Dilate – Nemo’s Chord -
Posted by fredrin on January 28th, 2005 :: Filed under
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