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Aand, it’s time for another update on the little VN of ours! First of all, I’d like to introduce myself. I am Mnyonywaji, writer for this little project. As Abbie mentioned last week, I was on holiday so I couldn’t properly help her with previous update (Last week update can be find here, on our lemma soft topic, since it was rather short we didn’t upload it here ! sorry ~Abbie) This week we managed a few things. We are currently working on the characters’ sprites and backgrounds. Since we have a cheerful mermaids theme twisted with horror story, our characters have a wide variety of expressions planned. From smiles and laughs to fear and terror… poor visual artists! (← says the one who planned all the expressions in the first place ;> ) What would be of a story about professional mermaids if we didn’t show you….

…their swimming suits! I know, I know, you probably wanted the mermaid attire, didn’t you? But professional mermaid shows are soo much about preparations, trainings, creating routines and choreography. The swimming suit is a vital part of daily life of a mermaid. Only after lots of hard work the mermaid can finally wear her scales and create the magical atmosphere at the show. Oh, and don’t be sad. I’ll talk someone into wearing their mermaid suit for the update next week   As for the backgrounds, one of them is what we want to boast about today - Loreen finished men’s bedroom this time. Obviously, since these are in the same building, it looks awfully familiar with women’s, right? But the little details are what make the difference! Can you try to guess who are the two guys living there?

As for writing, I resumed working on the scenario after my break. I am currently working on the not-so-horror part, where all the characters meet, develop likes and dislikes for each other etc. And it is hard, I tell you I am probably too aware that it is the part which translates to player’s attachment to characters in the next part of novel, when things start going WRONG (whatever that means, I am not spoiling you now, not yet at least )

Speaking of which, you probably wondered, how come we came up with this twisted idea of cute mermaids in horror story? It started in June, last year, when Loreen and Abbie stayed at my place for a few days. Lots of chatting, laughing, playing board games. One of the talks ended up in pondering about mermaids as real life performing professionals (hmm, no, I don’t really remember HOW we did reach that theme, we totally jumped from topic to topic in some wickedly brainstorming). We agreed it sounds like a nice background for VN idea, which we have thought of making for a long time already. But as we considered obviously heartwarming idea of people performing as mermaids, we strongly declared it sounds too positive to realize it simply as it is. And so the dark theme appeared, introducing hopefully interesting twist to the mermaiding idea. We keep our fingers crossed that you like the final outcome! See you next week! - Waji Thank you for following our development. If you have any remarks, comments or advice please don’t hesitate to share. Feedback is extremely appreciated.

Vaarsuvius

Look, it’s V, my favourite OotS character! I reworked an old sketch… and Blackwing still looks tiny, hah!

1. Ah Fai was a chief animator for McDull’s animated features. He’s super cool. Ultimate senpai. 

2. Previous post on breakdowns right here 

Some thoughts on acceleration and force

I presented this in the order of how I slowly understood the trick of delivering force - first an abstract concept of impact taught by Ah Fai, then a more complicated discovery on the acceleration pattern, last back to a more abstract concept of breakdowns. 

Like I’ve previously stressed, 2D animation is everything but one single approach. There’s no one rule that rules them all, but interchangeable ideas with math, or physics, or music, etc. There’s no “perfect” animation either, but what is perceived as organic and dynamic. E.g., using the Fibonacci numbers to animate didn’t bring me a perfect animation! On the other hand, a tiny change in the pattern could already make the feeling of force so much more powerful. 

I wish i watch this SO MUCH earlier!!!

“Is This Healthy” is a comic that I made for an independent study in which I looked deeper into the idea of health, mental, physical, and emotional as it relates to myself.

I was fuckin around in CS2 and swapped everyone’s eye and hair colors around and boy they sure are something

“Um, what are you waiting for?”

“Lazy Snow Leopard” comic book preorders!

https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/lazy-snow-leopard/x/13627493#/

Hi! I’m doing a campaign at IndieGoGo to print my comic, “Lazy Snow Leopard”.

Size: A5 Pages: 111+ Colour: Black and white Paper: white, 80g/m2 Cover: Paperback

On this occassion I also have a special give away for you.

For sharing this post you have a chance to win:

- 1 copy of my freshly printed “Lazy Snow Leopard” comic book - 5 postcards - 2 posters - 1 sketch commission from me

And then there’s me

On 19/4, a water park in  Hanoi, Vietnam called ‘Ho Tay’ opened for free admission from 8AM-10AM (GMT+7). The chaos was terrifying, when the staff decided to close the gate due to overcrowded. Many people tried to climb over the fences to get in.

However, that was the least of the problem.

Inside, at the lazy river area, around 70 to 80 guys (even men who already had wives and kids) went together in groups. Whenever they saw girls, they started attack them by splashing water and WORST part was, they pushed her head down, DROWNING her and at the same time, RIPPED OFF HER BIKINI and started MOLESTED her. Some girls fainted and despite all the crying and screaming for help from friends, the group of animals won’t stop. They even PULL girls standing near the river down and started doing all those nasty things. AT LEAST, 20 girls were being sexually assaulted.

 There was a girl with her bikini torn apart and all the guys surrounding her, cat calling: Link 

Below is some photos of the incident.

The victims after they went home had anonymously leave confessions. Here are some of the confessions:

#1: We were holding onto the swim ring at the lazy river for about 3 minutes. Then we heard a commotion at the back, as we turned around we saw hundreds of boys crowded the whole river, screaming and going towards the three of us. I was shock and choked on water, many arms pushed my head down. I felt my breast and my private area being grab and pull and scratch very painful, my butt was groped too. My bikini top was pull up to my neck and the bottom was pull till my knee. Even though i was choking, but i felt clearly someone was fingering me, my legs was spread apart. My head was still pressed down, I was out of breath and I thought I was going to drown. The water go up my nose to my brain, my throat. Those arms scratch and pull me up, my head hit the coping. Then there was people grab my hair, my arm to pull out of the swimming pool. I was coughing really hard so I didn’t even realize I was completely naked…

#2: I was swimming in the lazy river with my friends. Behind us, all the boys kept splashing water like crazy, we were so freak out that all of us decided to go out of the river. As we just got out, one of my friend, who were still near the river, were pulled down and dragged to the centre of the river and was being splashed water and her head was pressed down. We saw our friend being surrounded by bunches of guys, we kept crying and called out: please help my friend, someone please help my friend. Around us, people kept on using phone to record and laugh like they were at the circus.

#3: My sister went with her friends. When they came back, they were crying their eyes out. Their necks, shoulders and thighs are full of scratches and bruises.

#4: It was too crowded so my boyfriend and I just played near the swimming pool coping. Suddenly I saw on my boyfriend head some milky fluid, when I touched, it was slippery and a bit thick. I dragged my boyfriend out of the pool immediately and asked him to wash his hair and we went home right after. Those animals masturbated in the swimming pool.

The facebook of the guy who started all these nasty thing had been tracked down. (This is the link)

And many other guys went home and updated their facebook status about their “achievements" at the water park like how many boobs they had grabbed or how many girls they’d molested on that day.

However, the Vice Managing Director of the water park said that “There was NO such thing as sexually assaulted at the water park, it’s just their bikini quality" regarding about the girls who had their bikini ripped. (Source / please note that it’s in Vietnamese) despite all the evidences and feedback.

Those guys are currently trying to take down photos of themselves and facebook statuses that they’ve updated (click here for the photo of some of them). But luckily, all of those have been screencapped. Most of their identities are revealed and all over the internet.

Even worse, when all the news are up, the comments make me sick to my stomach, many of them said that it’s THE GIRLS FAULT for wearing bikini.

LIKE HOW ARE YOU SUPPOSED TO DRESS TO GO TO WATER PARK? ARMOR? 

THOSE ANIMALS THOUGHT THEY’RE GOING TO GET AWAY WITH IT AND APPARENTLY AT THIS RATE, THEY WILL.

SO I AM HERE TRANSLATING THIS INCIDENT TO YOU GUYS HOPING THIS WILL SPREAD AS FAR AS POSSIBLE.

PLEASE SHARE AND POST WHEREVER YOU WANT. YOU DON’T HAVE TO CREDIT ME OR ANYTHING. JUST SHARE AND HOPEFULLY IT WILL REACH BIG NEWS SITES OR ORGANISATIONS.

PLEASE HELP THE VICTIMS GAIN JUSTICE. I HOPE THIS WILL GO BIG ENOUGH TO PUT PRESSURE ON THE VIETNAMESE GOVERNMENT TO PUNISH THOSE GUYS. 

UPDATE: A professional psychologist with a Master’s Degree of Education said: “It’s THE GIRLS’ FAULT for not knowing how to protect themselves.”

He said “First thing first about this issue, the one who should be BLAMED THE MOST ARE THE GIRLS, in the environment where people are naked 80% or more, the action (referring to molestation and rape) is inevitable.”

He also mentioned that it’s the environment that can cause someone to lose their control over excitement and that’s why the girls should know how to protect themselves, like if you want to protect your valuables, for example, motorbike, then you should locked it carefully etc. (source)