Remember I made a post awhile ago saying how crazy it would be if I added a new character to the main cast of Class of 2422 this late into its development?
Well crazy's here!
Just when I thought that I had the main cast totally finished and set in stone, we have a new character to introduce! Meet Aika Koizumi (小泉 愛佳), a Japanese student that transferred to Codik High School in an exchange program for her final year of study.
Her creation comes from a place of necessity. Even though the main characters are Robert and Marilyn, I came to the realization that because the supporting characters are mostly relationship-oriented with Robert, Class of 2422's story is primarily Robert's story.
Of course, the supporting characters also have relationships with Marilyn, but not in a strong sense as with Robert. I realized that I didn't have a character that was tailored for Marilyn, so from that void I created Aika. I wanted Marilyn to have a friend she can hang out with and talk to about her interests and bring out Marilyn's personality; she needed a good gal pal that's not mixed up with the main "will they, won't they" story.
Why make the new character Japanese?
YOOOOOOOO WHY DIDN'T NO ONE TELL ME I FORGOT TO POST OCTOBER'S ANIMATION FROM LAST YEAR AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
For October's animation, I wanted to do something a bit spoopy with a splash of humor, and with a jack-o-lantern somewhere in there for good measure.
My voice-acting returns in this one!
It was a funny idea of "what if a jack-o-lantern came to life" sort of situation. I wanted to add color, but I was out of October at the time. I like how this one came out.
This animation is almost long enough to be posted for the Doji Pocket channel for content! Man, I miss making stuff to post to the official channel. One day, I'll have something new to post! I swears!
I can't believe I totally forgot to post this one on the blog! Good thing I was scrolling through past posts out of boredom; that's when I spotted the gap between September and November!
Hey! Sorry I'm late with this one! With the long tedious rotoscoping process and the coronavirus stuff kicking in mid March, this animation process was slowed down a bit.
But it's finally done! Thank goodness! It was such a slow-moving process, but I think the end result is worth it. See for yourself! (Oh, and enjoy that rare cameo of me in the animation!)
It's no secret that A-Ha's "Take On Me" music video was a huge influence on this one. I recently re-watched the video after not watching it for the longest time, and of course I always come out really impressed by it.
During the month of February, the idea of trying out rotoscoping was something that kept bugging me. Once March rolled around, I started on it as soon as I can since I knew it would take a while to complete. It was kind of a good time to start since the music video recently hit one billion views, so this was a nice way to honor such a popular video.
Hopefully, this will be the last time you guys see my irl hairy grizzly face.
So with this whole "coronavirus" nonsense happening, my classes moved online and I've been stuck inside for the past few weeks. From this situation, I got an idea for a short comic strip.
I haven't drawn one up in forever, so I was excited to start one and was glad with the end result
Will this be a one off thing? I don't know yet; drawing a cat and raccoon character was pretty fun, so maybe.
I would like to do more comic stuff in general, so I hope I'll get around to that one day.
