Designing a Character for Anime/Manga Today I wanted to talk about character designs and work on the grydscaen: A Storm’s Coming anime episode 2 as we are coming up on the first rough cut of the episode being done. In this blog post I wanted to focus on how a character comes to life from original concept sketch to the lineart character design to the final character design in colour. We will be using the character “psychic killer” from…..
Work has started on episode 2 of the A Storm’s Coming anime series. The storyboards have been sent and the character designs for 2 new characters that are in this episode. The A Storm’s Coming anime is a 5-episode short anime series based on the A Storm’s Coming short story and manga by Natsuya Uesugi. Natsuya Uesugi is acting as art director for the project. All artwork in the series is based on art created by Natsuya including character designs…..
So I just finished the process of getting the grydscaen manga “A Storm’s Coming” converted for Amazon Kindle. I previously had printed a 7 x 9.5 saddlestitch versions of it which I was giving away for free but now I have the ebook file complete with ISBN. I wanted to get that done. I had originally drawn the manga which is based on the short story by the same name from grydscaen: tribute over a period of 2 weeks on…..
Anime is one of my favorite things. I have been watching anime since I was young. The funny thing is that you can see anime when you are young and it has no effect on you or you can watch it and become an avid fan. I grew up with such shows as Akira, Robotech, Voltron, Ghost in the Shell, Gundam, Gatchaman, Transformers, Dungeons and Dragons. I like anime that is art driven and plot driven. Things like the Simpsons or…..