Azure Knight

Thanks, for the longest time I just wasn't comfortable with lines and everything was sketchy. Towards the end, at least before I started animating I was inking and at that point lines were getting better. But yeah, the one thing about vector and Flash that is nice is the smoothness. It's not that Flash is hard to use, it's annoying at first that much is a given. And umm, thanks? Yeah, well you again forget, that these are respresentative of masterful art. The animation is done in Flash, and color wise it's simplified. So I'm keeping in hand with the style of the animation, simple, etc. Also, I'm using a backup computer where all the colors are dulled out a lot by the display. Until my laptop is returned fixed, alot of the color palletes vary from how I see them and how I see them/they're shown on displays with high resolutions. The "neons" as you put it, are very dull when I did them. More than likely before the artbook is put together and released, I'll be going through them all to clean up, adjust, etc. Though this project has taken away from the actual animation, I should probably getting on track with that again sometime next week.

Not done in Photoshop. No photomanipulating or adjusting. So saturation isn't really relevant here. Any scene with an orange like tint is lighting during the time of day. I said this was done in the style of the animation so it's all done in Flash. Simple colors, etc.

How much? It'll be on my site in an page flip format for online viewing, and I'll probably have a full pdf version with some extra stuff for download. Not going to charge for it. Not good enough in my opinion to be worth anything. It's mainly for fun.

The Shattered Heaven Artbook is a 120 page book featuring art based on the animation, done in the flash style of the actual animation. 100 pages of new art, plus 20 pages of extras, concept sketches as well as data and background data on the various technologies and organizations. Currently the artbook is about 50%. Here is a preview. http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y8/nikedrummer33/Shattered%20Heaven%20Art%20of%20the%20Animation/fireworks-1.png http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y8/nikedrummer33/Shattered%20Heaven%20Art%20of%20the%20Animation/summer_artbook7.jpg http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y8/nikedrummer33/Shattered%20Heaven%20Art%20of%20the%20Animation/summer_artbook19.jpg http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y8/nikedrummer33/Shattered%20Heaven%20Art%20of%20the%20Animation/summer_artbook22.jpg http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y8/nikedrummer33/Shattered%20Heaven%20Art%20of%20the%20Animation/conflict_artbook.jpg http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y8/nikedrummer33/Shattered%20Heaven%20Art%20of%20the%20Animation/fall_artbook2.jpg http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y8/nikedrummer33/Shattered%20Heaven%20Art%20of%20the%20Animation/conflict_artbook4.jpg http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y8/nikedrummer33/Shattered%20Heaven%20Art%20of%20the%20Animation/redemption_artbook4.jpg http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y8/nikedrummer33/Shattered%20Heaven%20Art%20of%20the%20Animation/conflict_artbook3.jpg http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y8/nikedrummer33/Shattered%20Heaven%20Art%20of%20the%20Animation/summer_artbook16.jpg

TM and I have the same tablet. The Intuos 3 is pretty good. Really, for any professional job, any Intous tablet would probably work fine. But I would invest in the Intous 4, I'm actually planning on getting one. I've abused the hell out of my Intous 3..I need a new toy.

I'll be using this thread for both my traditional art and the Flash animation for the series. In short, Shattered Heaven is a novel series I started years ago. A 6 book series, in which 4 are done and I'm in the midst of the 5th. In 2007 I decided that I wanted to do an animated special of the series but figuring that it would take too long to release one full special I split it into an episodic series. It is a mech series, not Armored Core based. This is strictly an original series. The mech designs were influenced from both AC and Gundam and I used various mech series including Gundam to help me with animating the fight scenes. But, the writing came first, the art and designs after, so in no way was this influenced from Gundam. On Newgrounds I get tons of people just going on about how I "ripped off Seed Destiny's plot" when it's complete BS, and you can't even compare the two, but most do because there's mechs fighting like Gundam, so naturally the story is exactly the same since they involve mechs. Animated freely in Flash using voice actors, both amateur and some of which who have begun a professional career the series has released 2 full episodes and the first 2 scenes and a preview of the 3rd. Episodes can be found here: Home Page

Thanks, I appreciate it. I went through so many layouts before I got to this. I'm adjusting the roating news section today. That's what I was doing last night and my eyes just failed so I kinda just stopped haha. It'll be slower and it'll have buttons to skip to a certain story. The ost is all from random animes. I had gotten someone to compose original music but that feel through. I have music software and when I find time I may try and develop it myself but that's highly unlikely.

Shameless self promotion, don't mind me. Basically in short Azure-Productions is my production company, it started off as a site for my novel and animated series Shattered Heaven, but after dealing with and joining the world of amateur voice acting it grew. There aren't many yet, but there's some audio productions as well as the Shattered Heaven animated series. There's some other visual series as well, and there's a plan to get a one shot Armored Core original fan fic/animated story going. It was attempted about a year and a half ago but didn't work due to too many egos basically. Also, I offer web, graphic and flash services. I'm working on getting that services page up, hopefully this weekend. But for the most part this is just a place for entertainment. My goal for it was to accumulate a variety of artists or even producers and have a good amount of original productions with various tastes. But currently all the projects on the site are run by me. Some are collaborations with other production companies I've met over the yeah www.azure-productions.com