Bronksson

What is going on everyone!?

Here's a huge update on everything that I'm doing, and the reason that I'm not active on finishing the discord, or redoing my website, and even completing the God of War animation! So let's start with that; I have to work a full time job (while also taking care of my 2 year old daughter; technically two full time jobs and thankfully I work from home or this would be impossible,) to provide for my beautiful family! But that means a lot of my time goes into creating work for other people;

Actually getting somewhere (Animation WIP)

This animation is coming along now, having fun and trying to get it done asap without rushing too much. But maybe you can guess who's in this one a little easier now.

Top secret project!

Here's some concept sketches for a little side project I've been writing. Just a one shot manga that I think everyone will like! 

You can see my first attempt at drawing this trio and it didn't go too well, but I'm more or less happy with the second attempt (first image).

What do you think?

KEFLA!?

The first of many, these premium sticker designs will be up on my store soon. Large, high quality stickers, and I might even put this one up for pre-order? I'll think about it.

Next short animation?

Putting this next little animation together, what do think this one's gonna be?

Here it is!

The White Lies opening. Music by;

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCD1JFeGMKYHKDp4-HwaYAZA

Definitely go and check out more of his music, it's incredible! Anyway, this was a really fun piece to work on and made me feel like things were on the way, when in actuality they weren't at all haha. But I learned from this, that I needed to document, track and schedule everything, every aspect ...

New stickers!?

Yes, new stickers. These aren't up yet, but they should be coming in next week and then they'll be up on the shop! What you think? Any other characters you wanna see added to the chomp series collection?

BIG PATREON UPDATE

Hey everyone, I've gone and changed the rewards for all the tiers! Probably thinking, 'hold on a sec, what going on here?' well simply put, all of the content here is available to all patrons now, no matter the tier; the tiers will function more as a way for you to choose how much you want to pay to support my work. Because you have access to the same things from the "Bronks Bronze tier" (£1 tier) through to the "Platinum B tier" (£18 tier), the only tier with additional benefits is the "BK...

I'd worked on an opening animation...

Or at least the storyboard for White Lies opening animation at one point and I decided to fix it up a little and add these shots. This just fixed some of the story adjustments and made the whole things just play out a little more smoothly. In fact we can watch the full storyboard next week. And next week, will be the final instalment of the 'Learning through failure' series. So keep an eye out for it!

Most recent animation

This was an animation test, that I used reference for and wanted to practice how to use reference; while also creating a marketing piece. As you can see this followed the last Sotiria character design so it wasn't too old but still I've learned a lot since then, and I'd change the direction and momentum of the last shot because it's an awkward transition or adjust the camera movement to make it fit better, either way, there's A LOT I'd change even though I still like bits of this. What do you...

The Prince in the making...

That doesn't quite make sense but here is the process of the Vegeta training video. I had some fun and wasted like an hour in blender making the background but any chance I get I'ma jump in there and 3D it up! (Plan on doing a lot more but I'm gonna keep my mouth shut for now and keep it moving!) Enjoy!

Let's just get it done!

Or so I thought. I went into this one with the intention of just animating the series myself, or at least just animating a episode and using that as a pitch. Either way, this was a lot of fun and honestly if I'd have committed to this, who knows where I'd be with it now... not a regret though because I'm much happier with the direction of the project now than if this version had become fully formed. So I'm just looking forward to the future of it! Also, here are the storyboards for this scene...

God of War update!

I know you've been waiting a long time for this, and let me be honest. I've had no spare time at all to work on it, only this past couple days (since my last update) have I been able to do anything. So! Here's a little snap shot from the animation to let you know, we are on our way!

This is going to be my highest priority outside of my day job, so that doesn't mean I'm gonna be working on this all the time, but I'm really gonna try devote more time to it rather than letting it go untouc...

The shot was continued....

But unfortunately it was never finished, although a lot of fun. This is the section that I learned more about the workflow and what I wanted to change about the way I used to work. And seeing as this scene no longer features in any project, it was scrapped. So much I'd change about this scene now; I'd love to redo it or create an homage to it in a project one day.

Concepting Manga Short

This is some of the initial sketches for a manga short I've written / am writing. The names gonna be painfully obvious, you can probably guess it. I won't share too much about it now though, just remember you saw it here.

Comic related?

This was a scene from the comic strip some of you might remember from some time ago, where Sotiria was fleeing from some weird big naked guy and then about to be sandwiched between some mist skeleton creature and him... if you don't know what I'm talking about, I'm sorry that this sounds like complete madness... However! Go back and check it out, but this was meant to be what lead into the animation. So this is the process of the opening shot. And it was a lot of fun, I learned about clean up...

Vegeta steps into the gym!

This one was fun, and obviously long over due. But finally, the prince get's his time to shine.

And this.

This one you've probably seen, but it was what I had in mind for a specific scene in the story, where Skie is facing off against one of the main villains. And I learned a few good things from this, I learned specifically about weight in character movement or lessons I'd already been learning were solidified in this piece and reviewing this piece, And a thing or two about the quality of storyboarding (animatics). Either way, it was a lot of fun, and although being many years old, I still like ...

You've probably seen this...

I've posted this around before and it's included in my portfolio, but this was a exercise where I was trying to figure out how Skie would move in a fight, due to him being against harming people but actually being blessed with incredible strength and abilities and how he would handle this sort of situation. I don't think that it was executed well but it was fun.

As you may have seen this there's two instalments of LTF today, so that'll be going up soon.

Cinematic storyboards

This was a shot taken from an idea for the opening cinematic of White Lies, this would have been linked to the environment design that appeared the most detailed and had the game section included. 

Commissioned Loop

This is a loop, so it's a bit long but the song deserves it. What you think! 

Here's where the songs from and way more there;

GameChops – Video Game Record Label

Zelda is actually learning...

This'll be going up on YouTube later.

All the new shots

Here is a collection of the additional shots from the last storyboard video, and you can see how they're stuck together and how much clearer they are than the previous one's. Hopefully this is interesting and you can learn a little thing on how and why this might work. Let me know! :D

I know what you've been thinking...

"Bronks, stop messing around! Get it done!" And I promise you, I'm trying haha, life is just not cooperating, but here is a sliced up preview just giving you a little idea on where we're at (still a large chunk left of this part 1) BUT we are getting closer and closer to completion. 

And the audio is sliced up too, so don't worry about that.

Colour Wheel Challenge

Yeah, I decided to do one. I was going to do an animated one but I really don't have time right now; so here's just an illustrated one! Characters clock-wise from orange;

• Goku
• Zenitsu
• Jean grey / Pheonix
• Chun-li
• Vault dweller (Fallout)
• Gengar
• Princess Peach
• Hellboy

Now don't get the wrong idea...

This isn't going to be coming into fruition any time soon, but these are rough sketches for the GDD for the game. Very recent and solidifying the final design, now yes they're rough, yes they're a bit vague but this is enough to begin production. Along side the writing that comes with it in the GDD, but I thought you'd find it interesting and if not now, you might find it interesting when taken and compared to the final product in the future.

Another mish mash storyboard

I say mish mash because you can see I used clips from the previous storyboard but added new ones, and with the new ones this storyboard becomes a lot clearer and easier to understand! So it was heading in the right direction, although, the music choice doesn't fit the theme of the project anymore, the message does, so we were half way there. And this one doesn't have as much story spoilers in it either, although that specific story outline isn't being used anymore. 

Anyway, all in ...

A bunch of stills

Storyboard frames from the last storyboard and few extra I think. This all should help with understanding what's going on now that you can take your time to look through, but the fact that this is needed, show's that it wasn't a effective storyboard; and that doesn't mean the contents not good, that's for you to decide but an effective storyboard is clear and easily understandable and this is not that haha. Anyways! Let me know what you think about this. 

Game loading screen commission

Here's the final for the loading screen animation. This one was pretty fun, wish I could've spent a little more time on this one but it turned out alright. What do you think?

Very rough storyboarding...

This was an idea that never really panned out, but this storyboard show's a very basic outline of the entire White Lies story, of course missing out a lot of important beats but also hitting some equally important ones as well. 

I know that this is super hard to understand though because of how rough it is, so let me know if you can understand it or not.