good night, morning or whatever it is

new week and also first week of the month and thats means...something I think

I'm gonna do a thread about the character design of my story now @Chron_ft_Beyond , and how it changed from sometime in 2017 to what it looks like today

The first ideas started after taking part in roleplay shit post session in a discord server I was and still am in
I was first thinking of this as a show and it was super duper vague and did 3 character drawings too third one is in the next tweet ooooooh so interesting lol

I as the naive 17 year old I was shot a DM to @tonygoldmark a youtuber I really liked and admired and asked him if he wanted to do the voice of a character, he told me to come back to him with a final script draft to see what he thought-continued in next tweet

and I worked on a script before this was reworking it, but saw it wasnt up to a standard I'd liked and wasnt even fully aware how the hell to do a show so I put that part on hold for a bit

did do some drawings lol

UNTIL

well not really until I got to school for Gamedevelopment but that is where it fully sparked up again

where for our second project we had to make a text based adventure game on our own, and I proceeded into making mine using these characters I thought off before-cont

for this I also had to do some art so I took this to redesign the characters somewhat and I traced some Kylo Ren, Doctor Strange, two concept art stormtroopers and a lizard man, and a spaceship for this

after this I started to work more on these characters and one of the most apparent changes I made was changing the captain from a man to a woman.

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after this the months passes and we arrived at project number 3 at school, and we had to make an arcade game and this where we arrive at Phantom Rhythm Runner, project didn't go so well but got a good grade anyways lol

but here I translated the drawings into an pixel style-cont

before and during this I was interested into telling a prequel story to my text game,Rise of the Phantom I called it
(cant wait to redo this teaser for the show thing) and I wanted to explore the backstory of the Phantom, an soldier from a revolution that failed-continued

in march 2019 I also was experimenting with sculpting and tried to make the Phantom helmet and uses this as a new redesign
same time I was also still thinking bout that prequel in a game form and also did some assets for it (the pixel ones)
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two months later
I was at the tail end of another project and was also redesigning again

I was trying to distance myself from the Kylo trace I did.

I also had the sculpting of the Phantom head from before finished too
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4 months later and I did another redesign using the sculpt and figure custom I did as reference

I also wanted to make a higher detailed pixel art asset but I didnt ever end up finishing it
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the following month after alot of brainstorming I had come up with a name of the "franchise" and just in time too cause I was using it for a smaller project that very same month

jump another month and I was thinking with the skills I had acquired over the past year and some change that I could remake my textgame and that I did try

I cant completly remember when but in the time between the Rise of the Phantom and doing a remake I had decided to take the Captain character and split her into two characters I also did ANOTHER REDESIGN

Next month means more progress right? yup. I was really into 3d modelling after the mini project and I did alot of models including one of the Phantom's helmet
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so during this and the last redesign I had come up with some story stuff

Phantom being a title that went back generations like the mask (got that from a friend) and I also made the split Captain now Ahna and Lyra a story about one person having a crush on the other
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with Lyra not being able to tell Ahna and the fact Ahna defects to something with the Phantom from the baddies makes Lyra so confused and doesnt know what to do, I know this sounds like the new She-Ra but I hadnt seen it by this point, but

nontheless, when the mini project came up, I made it a story set after Ahna's defection with Lyra as the main character

yes those are FO stormies I used as placeholders

cause of this I really got big into the writing and I wrote a bunch in a note book I got at Disneyland Paris lol

And wrote and doodled a bunch in it -continued

was real busy with this to the point where I really really really burnt myself out on it some time later bu I'm getting ahead of myself-continued

so some more modelling this month? hell yeah, finished up Phantom which now has the main design elements that will be retained from now, also finished Lyra whose design was not so set in stone as the Phantom
Also remember those red FO standins, got a replacement made

so we're finally getting to a new month, feb, now new project and making and improving assets for that aswell as the game good thing these designs and assets are not for waste and I can reuse in future if need be
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so did some asset making and coding for that month untill I hit a point of needing a break and thats where we arrive in march with me picking up the ol drawing thing after getting a new tablet and doing this

an almost final version of the Phantom
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ooh boy looks like I hit the limit for this thread and it got a lot longer than I thought it would so guess imma send this and continue it that way lol