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…..
I wanted to talk a little about character design from the grydscaen anime “A Storm’s Coming” using a scene from the anime trailer. The two characters in the first trailer are Rom, the homeless teen with psychic power and Xander Storm, the Zone Police officer. In designing the anime we did character sketches working with the production company. The scene below is Rom panhandling in front of the Tram eatery in the Red Light District of the Echelons in Haven…..
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…..