I’m pleased to welcome our new character modeling expert, Bela Szabo (a.k.a. “contmike” in some circles). This puts us back on track for a crowd-funding campaign launching late in this month, if everything goes as I expect.
We put out a call for a new character designer in my last post, and I got a few contacts. After some consideration, I’ve decided that Bela Szabo is a really good fit for the project. He has all the necessary skills and is working really well with Daniel Fu’s model sheet artwork (we decided, since we’re changing anyway, to move to a design closer to Daniel’s original drawings, as you can see — I think this is going to make it easier to keep an overall consistent design for the characters).
We’ve already come to terms on pay and budget considerations, so I have what I need to finish up the proposal for our Kickstart. This is going to be smaller than what we attempted last Summer, because more of the work is already done, although we’ll also set “stretch goals” to try to get further along (and produce additional episodes). I think we now have a strong team, and I’m feeling very positive about our chances.
The main issue for me now is doing my part of the preparations, so I’m going to be busy with that for awhile.
In the meantime, here’s a sneak preview of Bela’s excellent “Georgiana” model. More is coming soon!
