Starting out this module, I had two ideas as to where I could take this project.
My first idea was of a digital comic/ visual novel and the second was an animatic to a song, both of which would be based on my original characters.
After some consideration of these two ideas, I decided I wanted to pursue the animatic since it would challenge my skills more than the comic. I was already very familiar with drawing characters and such which would be needed for the comic, however, I didn't have much experience in animation and it is an area I'd like to improve in.
I run a small community of roleplayers on Discord, and so altogether we have many worlds and characters that I could use for the animation. I often take inspiration from songs for my characters, which is perfect for this project, so this led to me looking through the many playlists of songs I have for characters.
This is the first notes I made as I looked through my playlists:
(Spotify links are attached to each song.)
Mary by The Happy Fits for Venus and Harry De Luca
Progression of a love story
Vampire vs human hunters universe, Blood Honour
Story of a vampire spying on hunters, pretending to be human. The vampire hunter and vampire spy fall in love, then the vampire turns the hunter into a vampire also
Gemini by Sam Williams for Renan Serra
Same vampire universe (Blood Honour) but focused around a vampiric magic scholar
Torn between using magic for selfish and sometimes cruel reasons or for good
A character that holds a lot of secrets, he previous worked beside royalty and is secretly in a relationship with the vampiric crown prince
Trial by Fire by Not Blood Paint for Remi Kadar
Mystical/ psychic universe
A spirit medium with a mission to find their dead lover’s spirit and be reunited, since spirits can attach to people
This medium is also essentially part of a cult- a group of people that uses psychic powers
The French Song by Not Blood Paint for Augustin Hardy and Marceline Lyon
Normal human universe, focused around crime, these two are con artists and assassins.
They’re a boyfriend and girlfriend duo from France
This song is what inspired me to make them in the first place and the lyrics tell a story of one of their exploits together using someone for money
Up in Smoke by Tigercub for Norah Cordova
Sci-fi/ cyberpunk world (The Eos Fleet)
A character with a dark past that’s currently in a somewhat extreme rebel group that fights the current tyrannical government
Would be a convoluted retelling of her story as she’s a very secretive character
Honour for All by Daniel Licht for The Cain Family
Blood Honour universe
A group of violent rebels against the vampiric royalty
Retelling their story of their previous fall from grace and introducing each character of the family
Previous advisors within the royal court, but with extreme opposing opinions and violent desires they were exiled
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