Annie & Soonyi

Now that the opening sequence for the game is finished, it's back to making more vector models! Firstly, here's our armadillo heroine that helps out the SpyRats, Annie.

Not only is she cute and smart, but she can roll completely into a ball. Handy!

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Now on to more villains. I've already introduced Blueclaw the cat and his sly siamese minion, Ming. Now, here is another siamese minion. This is Soonyi (pronounced "Sue-nee"). Unlike his playful counterpart, Soonyi is more of a bully.

Here are both siamese minions together! Obviously two very different kitties.

They are siamese if you please. They are siamese if you don't please...

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Just as a side note, I get to do the vocals for Ming! I'm excited about that. (After all, I love villains.) It will also be quite a contrast to the deep voice of Jake Haffie who voices Soonyi.

Operation SpyRat: Word4Word Opening Sequence - finished!

Weeks go by with nothing to show...but that's all done now! As promised, here it is - the Opening Sequence animation that I've been working on for so long.

Just hop on over to youtube to watch it. :)

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Up next will be more character models for the games, as well as other illustrations of a new style... Come back again soon. ^^

Pencil Drawings

This happens every time I get busy with a big project. Because I'm directing so much of my efforts to MousePaw, I don't really have the time to fully render out my drawings, but it doesn't stop me from drawing. So here's my latest sketches. (They're all either original characters or fan art.)

This last one is special. I guarantee that you will see it again, somewhere... Somewhere you probably won't expect!

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Hm... these drawings all have one main thing in common. I should really start drawing some more guys! >w<

Operation SpyRat logo

I've still been working away on animating & making art assets for Operation SpyRat: Word 4 Word.
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I'm not quite ready to show you any more animation yet - though the opening sequence will be done SOON - but I can show you this logo that I just put together today.
Once again, Operation SpyRat is the name of the game series and Word 4 Word is the first title that we're going to be releasing for that series. (We being MousePaw Games - www.mousepawgames.com).
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I think it turned out pretty nice. Now I can stick it on all the SpyRat stills to come. :)

Word 4 Word Opening Sequence Animation - Sneak Peek!

For all of you who are curious about the project I've been working on for the last month or so, here is a little glimpse.

Did you see the lip sync?! :D I still remember being in my Flash class and getting so excited when a guest speaker came and showed us how to do lip sync. Little did I know then that one day I'd be working on a game project where lip sync was a large part.

For those of you who are wondering - yes, both voices are me. Those probably won't be what we use for the final clip (so I'll have to tweak the sync a bit again, heh) but that's all I've got to work with for now, hehe. :3

Although I've only posted a short clip, I actually have 1 entire minute of animation completed for the opening sequence - I suspect it will be 3 minutes when done (including the credits). And that's what I'm up to!

Don't forget you can keep tabs of both sides of the work for Operation SpyRat: Word 4 Word on MousePaw's website, www.mousepawgames.com.

Vocaloid - Lily

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Not long ago I posted a fan-art I made of Luka Megurine, a Vocaloid made by Crypton Future Media who has been out for over a year now.
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This time, here is a Vocaloid who has not even been released at all yet. Lily, Internet Co's lastest vocal synthesizer application, is due to be released August 25 of this year. However, her character design (drawn by KEI, the same artist who designed Miku, Rin, Len, and Luka) is already out and fan-artists are already trying their hand at capturing her.
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I took a little different take on Lily than most drawings I've seen before. Since she is intended to be a punk, most draw her looking tough and grinning...but hey, everyone has a soft side, right?
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Needless to say, I love KEI's character designs; I think he is fantastic. However, when I first saw Lily, I was not all so impressed. Her design is starting to grow on me, though. I do like the prominent use of cords in her outfit - it goes along with the theme of making the Vocaloids appear both as technology and human.
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But drawing so much fan art makes me really miss designing characters of my own. Maybe I can still find some time when I'm not working on MousePaw stuff to do more of that myself. :3

What I'm Working On

I know, I haven't posted a lot lately. That's because I've hit a few more long-term-ish projects. The majority of my focus is going into animating the opening sequence for Word 4 Word. The picture above is a screenshot from that. Alicia the mouse is preparing for the daily newscast when a mysterious caller gives her a tip about some breaking news... But will she and Rebekah be able to get the message out in time?
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I'll probably get the sequence done by August sometime. In the meantime, I might show some more screenshots or maybe even short clips :)
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I may be doing more Vocaloid fan art too. Because I love Vocaloid. TwT <3