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Published: 2014-06-28 17:26:00 +0000 UTC; Views: 1556; Favourites: 88; Downloads: 0
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Here's the next character in my animation, one of the protagonists on Brack's team.Original character art by xbodycountx: www.furaffinity.net/gallery/boβ¦
I thought of the design of the character, the back-story, rendered the lines, added flat colors, and of course will be animating the various movements and posing.
As always, here's a brief description before I post the full bio:
Cassandra is a talented thief and hacker, and has spent half of her life running from authorities, and the other half stealing valuables in high stakes heists.
Cassandra is young, impatient, and becomes bored easily; she constantly is searching for something to challenge her or a score big enough to make a name for herself.
She travels to Korsun after hearing that whole cities of treasure lie abandoned and waiting; little does she know that there's a good reason it's unclaimed.
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Thanks, though remember that much of my art comes from a contributing artist that I commission regularly.
You can find her page here for more:
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oh understand ^^
no problem!
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Yeah, I'm mostly the storyline writer and the animator.
Also, I saw your page. You have a lot of talent, do you draw things other than anime?
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yesΒ I draw cartoon realism scenarios etc, however I like to draw manga style is what attracts me most, and what I thought would bring me more attention on DA know?
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Ah ok, I personally animate and commission anthros mostly because their easier to draw than humans (in my opinion); and the various different races allow you more flexibility in background and setting.
Anyway, good luck on your manga style.
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ah thank you! if you need just ask
when I have more time I post other artworksΒ that is not in manga style
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Very well. Good luck with your page.
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thanks for the support
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She is amazing I love her desing you rock at anthros~!!!
Β Β Β Β ~DarknessΒ
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Well I helped come up with the design and the colors, however my primary contributing artist is the one that deserves most of the credit.
Her page is here: www.furaffinity.net/gallery/boβ¦
She's a very talented artist, and I'm very luck that she's working with me.
Anyway, just figured I'd clear that up.
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is still just amazing
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It's a team effort, I give her certain design choices like the vest over the turtle neck and the baggy cargo pants, and she makes it a reality.
I'm just glad she has a lot of experience with anthros and clothing. Anyway, feel free to comment on her page, I'm sure she'd love to hear from a fan.
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sure I will find some time
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Alright, I'm sure she'd appreciate that.
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I'm sure that I will give her also some comments
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I'm sure she'd like that very much.
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does she have an DA acount?
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She does, but I don't think it features any of the work she's done for me on this project. Most of our communications and postings are on FA, lemme find you a link...
Here is her DA page, though she's less active on that and will be slower to notice comments.
Link: xcountingbodiesx.deviantart.coβ¦
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be sure that I'm gonna watch her and comment to more of your drawings cause you are simply an amazing artist X3
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Thanks, just remember; I only choose the design and story, she's the one who actually draws it.
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yes I'll remember that
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Very well. Thank you for the support. I'm sure she'll appreciate it as well.
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Hey, she's really cool, great outfit and nice pose, i like her!
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Thanks, glad you like the character. I mostly came up with the design, but the real artistry was my primary contributing artist "xbodycountx"
Here's her page: www.furaffinity.net/user/bodyxβ¦
Thanks for the feedback!
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wow she is really beatiful owo
and attractive tehee
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Yes, Cassandra is meant to be agile and graceful looking, like any feline anthro should be. Ha ha.
I'm glad you like her. Thanks for the comment.
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no problem
oh yeah, cat's always look perfect, even anthros XD
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I think I'm going to have fun having her personality sometimes have odd quirks like a cat; but mostly she'll be used in stealth scenes where she has to sneak through some kinda area without being seen or heard.
Anyway, she'll be a lot of fun. Thanks again for the feedback.
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She really looks great.
Β And I like her bangs and ponytail.
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Thanks, glad you like her. This was one of the first models I commissioned from my primary concept artist; when I saw how well she did with this I knew she would make a fantastic character artist.
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Thank you, glad you like it.
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Is she a specific kind of cat, because she looks really cool!
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Well Cassandra is an "alterrian", which is basically more of a stealthy and quick type of race, not as well suited to aggression or direct combat. Alterrains believe in fooling their enemy and getting what they want without their prey even realizing they were there.
Lanre is a "volterran", which is a much larger and more predatory type of race. Now the Volterrans still believe in the use of stealth, but they don't use it as exclusively, and more often that not will use force, propaganda, and political maneuvering to achieve their ends just as much as subterfuge.
Also in this particular case, despite the fact that the volterrans and alterrains happen to have similar names and both be feline they are not the same race, nor are they related. However, eventually on the wolf side there will be two other canid races that are long lost colonists of theirs. I just didn't want everything to be that coincidental. Having one or two direct links is fine, having all of them be linked would be eye-rollingly bad storytelling.
Anyway, I hope that answers your question. Comment more if you'd like to know more, I don't mind answering comments.
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Cool, i liked your other art, do you plan to add any humanoids?
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I was considering it, but the different anthro races are kinda each supposed to represent different cultures and ways of thinking within our present day and history, so it would be kinda confusing to put humans into the story-line unless their culture had changed significantly in some way.
Probably if I did put in humans, they would likely be wearing space suits all the time to conceal their identity; likely they would move in the background mysteriously, being careful to keep their motives and actions well concealed.
It could be interesting, it all depends on if my artists like the idea and if the concept art looks good enough to move forward on.
So to answer your question "Maybe in the future".
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Nice, when is the expected/eta of the animation?
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Quite a ways. Right now I'm working on completing all the main characters and getting their basic storyline etched out.
Then I'll start working on expressions, posing, gestures, misc movements, etc. All to make sure that when their talking and emoting their not holding 100% still like statues.
Then After that likely I'll be working on action posing and effects.
Finally I'll start adding misc props, natural backgrounds (dunes, bluffs, mountains, trees), vehicles and buildings.
Then after ALL of that, I may be ready for actual complete episodes.
Thankfully I've done this one or twice before on other accounts so I have some experience, I'll also hopefully have the build up fan page support by the time I'm ready to release the first few episodes.
To answer your question most generally. I'm hoping "late August, early September". We'll see if my estimate is realistic as I render the workload.
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Most animations on Youtube seem to be quite short and infrequent lasting up to 3-6 mins. How are you planning to go about that?
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Well this is meant to be a more persistent kinda project, so most episodes would probably be more like 8-10 minutes I'm hoping.
That said it won't jump from scene to scene to scene as often as a typical youtube video, and will probably be a lot more focused on the characters, their interactions with the world, and the telling of the background with the planets history as well as the various factions on it vying for political and economic power.
I think you run up against a limit if your submissions go over the 20 minute mark without some kinda special exception, but I was probably going to move between three groups of characters whenenever the group that we were focusing on has to do something relatively mundane; think of the style of 24 or game of thrones, how it's usually concentrating on whoever is most moving the plot forward while letting other characters fall by the wayside until they have something important to do.
That said, I do plan on having action scenes. But likely to keep it from becoming totally overwhelming it will probably shift to more of a 2D kinda perspective with occasional bits in 3D when it involves the characters directly. My hope is that if the character are compelling enough and the story-line and background are interesting enough that people will forgive action scenes that are perhaps more impressively done elsewhere.
Thanks, that got a bit long-winded but I hope I answered your question adequately.
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nice! I like the color of her hair! Cool bio too!
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Yeah with her I wanted to experiment a little bit, give her more of a vibrant hair color to counter her dark fur.
As you might guess this character is going to be primarily stealth focused, and scenes involving her will likely be rendered differently than other characters.
Anyway, I'll post her full bio tomorrow to keep the momentum rolling.
Thanks for the comment!
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cool! I look forward to reading it! Will she be working along side Lanre?
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Nope, there's kinda three main groups in the storyline:
Brack's team (main protagonists).
Lanre and her corporate handler (Volterran antagonists).
Griggs, Vaergas, and the Soldien security force (Soldien antagonists).
Each of them are going to be playing different parts in the storyline, but their points of view are all viewing the same situation from different perspectives, showing a much larger whole in the process.
Hopefully it works out, and doesn't become a convoluted mess.
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