FSM #7 Credits Discussion.

Hello. Kuro-chan here again to chat about the work behind the flash movie: Four Swords Misadventures #7. It certainly has been a very long time since my last major flash movie contribution. (I did not have a lot of people asking me, I suppose. >_>)

The project picked up right after FSM #6 became available on Newgrounds and Kuro-RPG. Hadouken_Dude and I both liked the idea of doing something with the end credits (Though the taste in what I selected might have been a bit questionable, I did put a decent amount of effort to try and make it work). Therefore, it was a given we would do this again. We set our goals for something more complicated.

For those who are not familiar with what I did, a quick link to the image can be found below:
Episode #6 Image

For the #7 ending, I planned to do a parody on the Claymore series ending (Using the Danzai no Hana closing version music in the BG), but as I started working on it, I found I was making insufficient progress, so Hadouken and I discussed it and we moved over to Slayers. He wanted to do the 1st season ending and I wanted to do the 2nd season. We compromised and did the 3rd season ending instead.

The first sketches went quite well. To see my first sketches, you can click below. It links to a basic html page which shows off the 8 images:
Sample #1

Once approved by him, he posted the work on his website and forum and I went to work on getting them coloured and revised so they looked like more than a mere sketch. We did run into a bit of an issue with one of the scene which involved all five of them staring off at the sky. The original scene calls for 5 drawn characters animated by the wind effect. I was unsure with how I wanted to draw the scene, so I proposed to Hadouken that we do it as sprite instead, since the characters are so small. This gave me a chance to do some heavy editing in the kind of work I am better at doing anyway, allowing me to animate Zelda and greatly alter the background images used.

The whole thing was taking longer than expected and got to a certain point where Hadouken_Dude was waiting for just myself and Osuka to finish doing my work before he could submit the movie. I did not want to hold up Hadouken's project any longer, so I hurried it up and got all my artwork done by around the end of Januray just before my birthday.

To see the graphics I actually contributed to the end credits of FSM #7, you can click below. It links to a basic html page which shows off the various images. You may want to not the sizes of the images do not correspond to what was used in the final take.
Sample #2

Feel free to leave comments or ask questions. I may be inclined to take ideas on what to do for the end credits to #8, though I currently have a few ideas in mind as it is, some of them rather intense. >_>

Current ideas for the next end credits include:
- Claymore, Danzai no Hana
- One Piece, Ending #4
- Dragon Ball Z, ending (Unsure which one, Hadouken gave me the link a long time ago).