Final Form update

I'm thinking of calling it "Final Form".  Picking titles is sometimes difficult because you've got to think about something that a) is a good title that represents the cartoon b) doesn't give too much away, and c)is something people will click on.  Some of the title suggestions I've gotten tick A and B but not C.  I also considered calling it "Anime", "Anime Made Me" or "The Anime Song", all of which fulfill item C but not so much A.  Final Form ticks all the boxes for me.

The first part of the cartoon takes place in a dark room, which is not my favourite environment.  I've developed a technique for painting rooms where I use vectors for the lines and paint the rest in Manga Studio.  This is because I'm not very good at painting edges, nor am I good at determining perspective in Manga Studio, where you cannot draw outside of the stage.  Illustrator is particularly good at drawing in perspective because it has a gigantic stage which allows you to find those distant vanishing points.  Flash is a bit crap at this because it's stage size does not extend very far.

The frame above depicts a young me watching Dragon Ball Z.  I didn't actually start watching DBZ until I was 16 but the line is "Anime made me the man I am today" so it's more effective to start from a younger age.  Anime was actually very difficult to access when I was a child, the very first films I saw were Akira, Ghost in the Shell and Ninja Scroll, age 12.  Then Neon Genesis Evangelion was on TV late at night at one point, that was pretty much it until DBZ was aired in the morning.  

I'll finish the assets for the dark room shots today and tomorrow and then its all explosions, panty sniffing and sailor suit J-pop from there. Hooooo!

Btw if you missed my last post and don't know what I'm on about, I'm animating a cartoon to go with this track.  The track is still a work in progress.