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ENA: Dating Oblivion Concept Art, Rough Animation and Storyboard

ENA: Dating Oblivion - Teaser Trailer

Preview

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Steam Awards 2025

We're honored to be nominated for the 2025 Steam Awards! If you enjoyed what ENA: Dream BBQ's artists and programmers were able to bring to life, please vote for us for Outstanding Visual Style!

https://store.steampowered.com/steamawards/2025

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Here I want to share some little examples of the process from storyboard to animation. Animations by Yojh and storyboards by me!

Character design was made by Buchao!

I wish everyone a great week! I hope to share some awesome news in the next days!!

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Here’s another preview — this time it’s the character sheet I put together for the 3D artist to use as a reference and translate into 3D. The artist, Plushii3D, did an incredible job and genuinely elevated the design beyond what I originally had.

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Hi!! I’d like to share a preview animation for one of the cinematics, this time created by the animator Yojh.

I’ve been reaching out to some really talented 2D animators who’ve been helping me bring several of the game’s cinematics to life.

This time, I wanted to focus more on directing rather than animating myself. Although that decision makes me a little sad, I’m genuinely excited to collaborate with such amazing artists who can make my storyboards feel more alive than...

Animatic Sneak Peek

Here’s part of an animatic from a cinematic!

Hello, I wanted to share this here! One fun thing about working on character design is having the freedom to go from creating creepy, monster-like characters to the most ordinary-looking faces you can see, haha.

I’ve been really busy with the project lately, and I think that’s actually a good sign!

The song I used here is a placeholder and is called "UFo" from Kitune Akimoto.

Voices are from Aleks Le and Norie Suda

Storyboard Sneak Peek

Hi everyone, it’s been a while since my last post.
To be honest, over these past two months I’ve been learning a different approach to creating storyboards and organizing the project. This time, I feel like I want to focus more on directing, so I’ve been studying new methods for making storyboards. I’m really happy about this because, in the process, I’ve found inspiration again—and without realizing it, I was already drawing for the project once more. I’ve already finished a...

Sketch #1

Hi! Ever since the game came out, it’s been kinda hard for me to get back into drawing, but I feel like I’m slowly getting used to it again. I made these little sketches as practice.
Hope you’re all having a good week!

Update!!

Hello everyone!!
It’s been over a month since ENA: Dream BBQ was released, and these past weeks have been incredibly intense.
Making a video game was something I never imagined I’d do in my life, but I truly enjoyed the journey and learned a lot along the way. The warm reception the game has received has made the whole team very happy, and we’re all so grateful to see how much fun you've had playing it!

I know many of you are eagerly waiting for a s...

The collection of names for the first chapter of the game has been closed.

Hello everyone! I wanted to make this post to let you know that we are currently working on the credits for the first chapter of the game and I will be adding the names of those who have supported me in the ENA Tier.

From this moment on, people who support me by being in the ENA tier after this post will appear in the credits of the next project I work on and finish, which could be the game or an animated short.

Thank you all so much for your support, I couldn’t have done it wit...

ENA: Dream BBQ Chapter 1 - Release Date Trailer

Happy ENA day everyone!! and thank you so much for all your support

The wait is almost over

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Hello! I hope all of you had great holidays!!

Here I share the first rough storyboard I did for the first chapter trailer. Some shots may change in the final version.

The song will not be the final, this one is a placeholder and is called "Sakana Tsuri" from The Adventures of Chatran by Ryuichi Sakamoto

Last Update of 2024

Hello everyone!!

I hope you all are having a great weekend. Below is where we are with the first chapter of ENA: Dream BBQ.

First of all, I want to thank all of you for the patience you've had with us. I know it's frustrating to wait so long for something like this, but I want to let you know that we have been playtesting and refining the remaining parts of Chapter 1 Lonely Door within our circles and a little bit beyond.

The response has been really motivating, and has be...

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Music Preview.

"Main Menu" by Ippei Torii

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Music Preview.

The Hub by Ippei Torii

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I wanted to share this scene again, but this time inside the game so you can get a little glimpse of the music from the place too! I hope you like it.

The music from this place is made by Ippei Torii.

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Here's a scene from Kane's cinematic! Now with voice acting. Audio design is not done yet but I wanted to share the scene today.

3D Model by Vasili Igor

Animated by Adam Kalberg

Voice by Lucy ‘LucyNyuElf’ Kozitsyna

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Here's a scene from Suspicious man's cinematic! Now with voice acting. Audio design is not done yet but I wanted to share the scene today.

Voice by Steven 'BIBO' Rigsby

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Here's a scene from Shoryo's cinematic! Now with voice acting.

Shoryo design by Buchao

Animation by Ferci

Audio design by SleepCircle

Voice by Hanai Chihaya

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Step back!

Here's a scene from the Shaman's cinematic! Now with voice acting.

Audio design by SleepCircle

Voice by W. Blake Kimber

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More preview from the game! Everytime It feels closer and closer!

3D background and models by SleepCircle

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Coral Glasses cutscene preview!

Happy ENA day! + Development Update

We did this little animation to celebrate ENA day! and at the same time to make a little announcement about the current state of the game and the plans we have.

We're still working very hard to make Dream BBQ! We originally wrote the script of the game separated by several stories and we think now releasing each one as a distinct chapter would be good for the artists on the team and the fans! 

 "Lonely Door" will be the first chapter/episode for Dream BBQ. We don't have ...

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More progress!! Animating the Shaman has been challenging but very fun.

3D heads Model/2D Star animations by SleepCircle

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Hello everyone! This month have been really productive and we have done a lot of animation. We hope to share some exciting news about this project next month!

Here's a preview of one of the many cinematics from this game. 

Sound design made by SleepCircle.

Thank you

Sorry for the lack of content this month, I have been a little exhausted and couldn't work too much and that's why I decided to take a rest. The next month I promise to be back to work with all my energies!

I want to thank all of you for your support through this year and I decided to make this little animation for all of you. Have happy holidays!!