Distrar Subcat Fusion Puns

Starfire was not shamed for being emotional. Her powers come from her emotions.

Raven was not shamed for suppressing her emotions. Her power requires amazing control.

They both. Work. They are both different kinds of strength, and they are both heroic and powerful and good. And they each learned from the other, and helped each other out by seeing from each others’ perspective, and finding the value in their differing approaches! Wow!

It’s a problem you see most often in anime derived from manga or light novels, but it’s also present in movies based on YA novels, and you gotta know what I’m talking about, start on black, opening narration, fade in as the main character explains the world and environment. This works in a book since the reader can’t see anything, they need the specifics of the world explained, but it feels like the movies are just like “well it worked for the book, it’ll work for us right?

I’d say it’s worse in anime, where characters will go on long internal soliloquies trying to explain their thought processes and complex emotions, which again, works for the manga, in a manga movement is very expensive, every single motion requires it’s own panel, which takes up the artist’s time, printed space, and a moment in the narrative, so it’s important to only show what absolutely needs to be shown. But animation is different, it’s all movement and the details are what sells it more than the dialogue.

The reason I wanted to make this post is because of one scene in One Punch Man that perfectly exemplifies how to translate a written thought process into visual storytelling. After getting punched to the moon (err, spoilers), Saitama has this thought process

and it’d be easy to translate that entirely literally in the anime, Saitama crouches, has an internal monologue as he tries to figure out how much force he needs to put into his jump, and then he launches. Instead though, the scene is done completely silently, to sell the fact that he’s in space, but the thought process isn’t removed, it’s just show visually.

He throws a bit of moon rock to gauge the moon’s gravity, then launches, it’s a much more thoughtful approach to the scene and the audience’s ability to interpret visual information.

1) Unlearn what was taught to you

2) Learn what was never taught to you

I broke it down simply…

“Bitch was a term used by men against women… If you call your female friend ‘my bitch’, theres nothing wrong with that… but if a guy did the same thing to his female friend, that wouldnt not look too good…”

Some people genuinely dont know what they do/say was wrong. Some ask questions to learn and educate themselves. Relax…

I wanted to take a crack at @freshproducewolf ’s produce transformation stuff! I went ahead and made it weird cos that’s what I do.

tldr; The game is coming along nicely but slowly. Currently working on character art, the next step is working more with code. No estimate for when a demo will be ready.

“Hey! It’s me. The snake. I’m gonna help the developer deliver some news. So that they don’t turn out long-winded and boring like him.”

Thanks, Bale, you’re a doll!

“A doll that could break every bone in your body if it wants to.”

Yeah, Chucky on steroids. But you do give some good cuddles!

“They’re called a bear hugs. They’re for suffocating people and breaking their ribs. My favorite kind of cuddlin’.”

Oh… right. Well, let’s tell people what’s up in wrestling visual novel land?

“Yep. And the answer is nothing, right?”

Umm, no. There’s plenty going on. I’m laying a solid foundation for the work to come in the future.

“It’s a nice way of saying you’re slacking off, right?”

Shut up. I just finished preparing your own character art for the game, for instance. Now you’ve got a total of 40 different faces, and they’re all cataloged and labelled so that I can easily choose between them when the time comes to write you into the game. Moreover, they can all be modified with blushes, bruises, tears, and other effects for infinite variation.

"I don’t blush, I don’t bruise, and I sure as hell don’t cry, so you could have saved yourself the trouble.”

Oh, we’ll see about that. Anyway, I now have a whooping total of 17 characters commissioned and delivered, and more are in the pipeline. They’ll be spread around the different visual novel routes, so some you may only meet on one particular route. Even so, all of these characters need the same art preparation that Bale has had. Right now, I’m done with 5, and have 12 to go. Some are quickly done, and some are more work, but I intend to finish them all before moving on.

*yawns*

My next step will be to dabble with the game engine and prepare the code I need to make the game. Then, I will start coding the game, making a demo first, and expanding the game from there. When will I have a demo ready? No idea, I really can’t tell!

"Boring! Nobody’s gonna read this. Where are the pictures?”

Eh, we could show them a little piece of your coach, right? He hasn’t been properly introduced yet, and his art is just finished!

“Don’t. Old Frankenbear’s goin’ ta scare the kids.”

Kids aren’t allowed here. And I think he’s ruggedly handsome. Take a look!

"A mug doesn’t get uglier than that. And stop combing your fingers through his beard, he looks uncomfortable.”

…what?

*rolls eyes*

Oh. Oh! Right. Fine, let’s wrap it up for now, then and be back with more news at a later time. Enjoy your weekend, people!