Weekly Log: 2015.07.17

Greetings, everyone.

As you may know already, I've started development of some Madness-related animations, mainly "Randomness 4 Real" and another unnamed short made just to have something up this month. However, I think I also mentioned Dokuroshima, works on which are also continued, but currently is not the mainly focused thing. And just because it's been a long time since it was mentioned in anything but text, I am now more than willing to show a bit of my progress...

This is a picture of two different versions of a sprite of Hiroshi, one of the three protagonists of Dokuroshima, with the newer one on the right. As you can see here, over some time, I've slightly improved my skills in this style. Maybe the overshadowing of his eyes was a rather cheap shot, and a few flaws can still be spotted here and there, but chances are that I would probably fix those flaws when I continue the work.

The whole part is nearly halfway done, but considering the improvement, I might have to upgrade some of the parts that are already completed. Also, because of quality difference between all 3 parts of the episode, I might actually release Part 3 both as a separate movie and as a part of the Episode 1 Full Edition (With the parts referred to as "Acts").

Fortunately, the voices were done and edited literally months ago, so all I got to do is animate it all and add sound effects. Doesn't seem impossible to me...

So now I'm working on both Madness unnamed short AND Dokuroshima Ep.1 Pt.3. Groovy...

P.S. According to the Newgrounds front page, Madness Day 2015 is actually happening :D. I was getting kinda suspicious about this year, but now, it is definately on: Release date of "Randomness 4 Real" is (presumably) Sept. 22.

Weekly Log: 2015.07.10

Greetings, everyone.

It may have taken half a day to put this post up, but it's finally here. After all, at least I'm not a week late again...

Anyway, what is new?

Well, as I may have mentioned before, Dokuroshima work is restarted, but it goes really slow because I'm primarily focused on Randomness conclusion episode. However, I want it to be somewhat of a Magnum Opus of Madness-based animation, so I decided to make a few other shorts just for the sake of trying out a couple of new tricks and stuff.

Not much is done yet, so I'm only willing to show off one of the custom background posters.

I know it looks like crap, I'll upgrade this one over the course of this short's development.
Also, the short itself contains lots of triggers and lulz, so SJW's, beware.

And this is pretty much all that have happened since the last entry. Yeah, I hope next week will be more eventful...

Weekly Log (hopefully...): 2015.07.03

Greetings, everyone.

Just as intended, it has been seven days, no more, no less, since the last entry. Hopefully, I'll be at least this consistent from now on with the blog entries...

First things first, as you may know already, I've finally managed to submit yet another project to Newgrounds, and the project is Randomness Minus 3: Madman (http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/659952). This one is supposed to be the finale of the "Randomness" spin-off miniseries, and within the Madness Combat flashes, excluding some possible future short movies, there's only one flash planned to make so far - "Randomness 4 Real". It is currently contemplated as the end of the Randomness saga that was started back in 2009 (and restarted in 2012), and in the current story version, it ends with quite a twist...

The release date is currently unknown exactly, considering the lack of information about whether Madness Day 2015 will come or not. Even if not, it's still going to be this year though.

As for the other projects, Dokuroshima works move on rather slowly. Not much to show or tell yet, but not for long. Fight of the Death Angels is still delayed, though I'm not the one behind the actual work on it as you may also know by now. Other than that, it's just me contemplating short flashes just to have something up this month, as well as attempting art. And trying not to get beaten up by the Real Life.

So, that's what I got for this entry...

P.S.

It seems Fluffle Puff is shocked by Madman's behaviour...

(Thanks to fellow Momoiro-kun for noticing this :D
http://momoiro-kun.newgrounds.com/news/post/935658#comments)

Weekly Log (or is it?): 2015.06.26

WTF? It's 26th already?! It's like I got horribly disoriented in time. And I thought this week seems unusually slow-running...

...Anyhoe, greetings, everyone.

Despite such a long time since the last update, there's not much I can write here yet (especially because of this unreasonable headache...ow...).

First things first, Randomness Minus 3 is being worked on, and all things considered, it will be released this month. There are only a couple of actual scenes left, with a few transitions, until the visuals are done. Music is already chosen and the audio doesn't take much time to set up.

And right after that is done, I am going to continue the work on the actual Randomness 4, a.k.a. "Randomness 4 Real", as well as the final part of the first episode of Dokuroshima. Both worked on almost simultaneously. However, if the latter is not done, then if I get closer to the next Madness Day (assuming it will take place, of course), then the focus will shift to Randomness just so that I could finish it in time. But nontheless, the next installment of Dokuroshima will be done waaay sooner than 2016 comes.

Now another thing that came to my mind is that I've reached 65 fans on NG already, so why not to give myself somewhat of a challenge? So I pretty much aimed myself at attaining 100 fans within this year. That doesn't seem like much, nor do I plan to do anything specific with it yet, it's just there to motivate myself a bit further.

So, that's pretty much it for now...

(I hope I won't end up in yet another time trip...)

P.S. I've noticed over 1000 views of the blog. Does that mean someone else reads these entries and not just myself? Cool. Very cool.

Log of questionable update frequency: 2015.06.12

Greetings, everyone.

New month has started a while ago, and as promised, I've finally continued works on the next installment of Randomness Minus, although there's also Vanishing Love that also needed my assistance. Nothing much of an update on those yet...

The collaborative project I did with Momoiro-kun as you may know, is finally done and off my hands (I only did audio editing, MLG sprites and backgrounds BTW). If you're interested in seeing THAT, you may go through the link below:

http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/658762
(Warning: NSFW)

There's also somewhat of a sequel planned by Momoiro-kun which will be a scene compilation of sorts, but this time, he is on his own (or with someone else)...

As for myself, the Real Life keeps beatin the shit out of me as always, but I'm finally getting myself somewhere with the stuff I work on. Dokuroshima, for example, has been revised and the story has been slightly improved to be both amusing and consistent.

So, this doesn't look like much, but that's it for now. I hope I WILL make it here in a week this time...

Log. Supposedly weekly(?): 2015.05.29

Greetings, everyone.

Once again, it's been far too long since the last message. And it seems that even if the Real Life kicking me in the nuts is true, it looks like an overused excuse by now, so I'll just skip to the projects this time...

Unfortunately for some, Randomness Minus 3 is postponed until June because of all of the other projects I work on. Only a couple of scenes are completed anyway.

Speaking of other projects, it just so happens that a bloke known as Momoiro-kun is making yet another pr0npgraphic flash, and I decided to lend him a hand in making it by giving some ideas and doing some of the work (mainly backgrounds and audio editing). The flash is near-complete, as it is now literally days, if not hours, from being submitted to NG as our collaborative project (maybe not the only one that we will both work on...).

More on it can be found on:
momoiro-kun.newgrounds.com

As for other projects, they're mostly on hold just so that I could get this one off my hands ASAP already. Like I said, not much is left anyway. And right after that, I'll be working on Vanishing Love (if the animation works will finally be started) along with a few other animators. And alongside that, I'll continue working on Randomness Minus 3, which will hopefully be released in June.

Well, that's all I got to say for now. Hopefully, the next entry won't take almost an entire month to compose...

Almost Weekly Log: 2015.05.04

Greetings, everyone.

This entry is rather late, but otherwise, I wouldn't have much to write about today.

First of all, my recently continued project, "Fight of the Death Gods", is still in production by LTHS1222, with minor help from myself. According to him, the animation will be finished in the middle of May, although no precise date was given yet.

As for my main project, Dokuroshima, the work on it is finally continued, slowly but steadily. I doubt that I would make a log of that of sorts, though.

The short of May, Randomness Minus 3, is being planned. Like the other two, this one will also be about the past of a character. Possibly, there can be more of those, but as of now, this short is planned to be the last of Randomness Minus miniseries.

On top of all that, adamleon97 recently begun an animation project called "Vanishing Love". According to the forum post, he is looking for animators, so I, as well as a few other yet unknown people, have joined the project animator crew. Of course, my part of the work haven't started yet, since I just got into it yesterday and I'm yet to contact the person behind the project himself. It looks like quite a bit of work would go into it (hence the fact that a team is being gathered), but I hope it will not put a strain on my own projects.

The Topic: http://www.newgrounds.com/bbs/topic/1390033
The Project itself: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/humanelement/vanishing-love-0

As for the comic, I am still in the drafting stage for the next strip, as I still got barely any idea what should it look like and stuff.

So, I guess this is it for this message. I hope I won't be so late next time...