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BACKGROUND ANNOUNCED 1:
Gonna focus fully on editing the upcoming parts. Beleive me, the work goes slowly...really...it does... especially this time when each part has over 2000+ words. Sorry for big delays (not date confirmed) but I'm worried that I won't make it in this year. Currently finished ONLY ONE PART that will be released in the sequence...what disappointed me a lot. I'm active now and back in stage! Will work hard and focus on grammar mistakes I had before. Also, deeper story explanation and staff like that. Hope you understand and big excuse for these occurrences. I hope it won't repeat once again. As far as I can see it now (from the current closed schedule I've made) there will be 12 (part 6 to part 8) book BRAND NEW parts coming, but I'm still struggling with the date - a lot. Afterwards - as these parts are done published - book 1 finale will be in our reach (with long, long last). See you at the end! Thanks! Regardless, TheSnowWall
Part 1 finished
Beware of sticky news. As the title said already, we made it to finish six parts of the first book - the whole part 1. Thanks for everyone who supported the advantages of this story! Part 2 with chapters 7 - 15 will air later in this winter. Better performance is in the air! Regardless, TheSnowWall
Brand new WS are here
Their flags will be echoed across our lands. They'll make history in world. They're coming, from underworld. And that's all because of one person. So guys, enjoy the book series...and remembered: new part every Sunday. Additional teaser can appear on Saturday. Thanks! Regardless, TheSnowWall.
Chapter 3 today!
Hello everyone, just in case of a small reminder, I will try to post a small teaser before each part. One day bedroom the release, meaning that Sunday will be teaser day and Sunday is release. This time, we have here a test teaser to see if it will catch. Enjoy! xoxo _________ I immediately freezed at that point. "Hey pall." Someone said...someone. It is David, I have recognized that deep voice. "How are you being Trevor?" He asked. The lamp has nicely covered his face, no longer with tears. "How should I? Listen, David. Go home. I don't want him to spot you as long he said you are evil..." "I don't care of him! I don't care of you. I know everything about him and I will seek for him, later, when I will grow up." He said. "No. David, you know nothing. Please go. It's not safe." I said. "You're sending me away?" He asked. "Yes. I'm." I strictly pointed on the other side of the rode. I don't wanted him to be spotted and killed (you never know what reaction can you expect from that man). "Here I go, now. But I will be back!" He said and walked away. I was so angry on myself that I acted so stupidly. I wasn't able to call him back. I was happy that he's leaving by himself.
"Three heroes. Two destinies. One survivor."
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Two Years Anniversary !
Wow ! Time flies ! I can’t believe it’s already been two long years since we opened this tumblr ! Let’s celebrate LoliRockers !
Thank you Galou, for this fantastic drawing, once again !
Happy anniversary to the team.
Oh, what's that?
Awaking in a mind you don’t know to a world you can’t remember. Surrounded by things that can’t be real, haunted by experiences long forgotten. Questions racing through your mind. Is this a waking nightmare or a half-forgotten dream? Who are you? Where are you? How long have you been here and how do you escape? The answers are somewhere, but where? In the world you have found yourself trapped in or simply your own mind? You have to move on, you have to discover the truth. You have to escape!
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Lyna & Carissa’s Developpment
Hi LoliRockers !
Here’s a big post, about Lyna and Carissa’s development. When season 1 was nearly completely written, we had a request from our producers : “Add two new princesses for season 2, and have a 5-princesses gang from now on”.
Initially, the team was very reluctant : we knew we already had too many characters, therefore adding two more seemed a bad idea for the stories. Jean-Louis Vandestoc suggested that instead of a “5 princesses gang”, the two new princesses should be supportive characters : outside the main gang but always ready and willing to help when needed. That way, it would be easier to add them without upsetting the balance we created between Iris, Talia and Auriana.
That’s why Lyna and Carissa were created as part of a second team : Izira’s Resistance Princesses, and why they’re not part of all the episodes of season 2 or live with the other princesses. Jean-Louis’ inspiration for them was Sailor Uranus and Sailor Neptune : he wanted Lyna and Carissa to be strong and independant, like Izira was. We had however to keep them both around the same age as our three main princesses, so we made them younger, and more like “princesses in training” rather than “mature veteran princesses” (much to JL’s disappointment)
Now, the question remained : what would they look like ? We wanted Carissa to be a “ fiery and tomboy warrior princess”, and Lyna to be a “snooty and delicate mage princess”. We also wanted an Asian princess, but didn’t know which one it would be… And so we started to draw…
All along your reading of this post and its designs, I let you appreciate all the little details and differences here and there. You can see what made its way up to the end, what was rejected. Just be aware that it wasn’t a straight path. It never is.
1 - The First Researches
Finding new symbols became like a game for the whole production team, not only the artists. We all tried to suggest new cool symbols, and of course suggested a lot of very stupid and irrelevant ones. It was a good time. :)
As for the haircuts, we tried a lot as you can see. It’s probably one of the most important and distinctive feature of a magical princess, so we had to make a lot of tests.
Once we had these drawings, we made a few proposals to our producers & broadcasters, with combinations of magical and casual, and trying Lyna or Carissa as “the Asian princess”, one after each other.
2 - First Proposal
For each of the proposal below, we tried different outfits each time. We knew that none of our proposal would be accepted entirely as they were anyway : you always end up with a patchwork of a little of each, that you have to put together somehow. Like it or not, it’s part of the process it seems.
As for the color palettes, well… “Pink”, “Orange”, “Blue”, “Red”, “Green”, “Black” were already taken. There wasn’t much left for the main colors that could fit : “Purple” and “Teal” were chosen for Carissa and Lyna. Yellow was rejected, as we tested it earlier with Auriana and… well, it really didn’t worked for the main gang. Maybe for an outsider princess ? But not for Lyna nor Carissa.
With Carissa as Asian, Lyna was Caucasian and we felt too close of Iris, and not young enough. With Lyna as Asian we could put Carissa as an Irish type, and this combination was much more appealing for us ! Everyone agreed, up to a point : we were asked at this time that Carissa should not be a redhead, as Auriana was supposed to be the group’s “redhead”, and another one was… “not needed”. Carissa’s hair color would go from red/orange to brown at this time.
Much work was yet to be done though… We had a basic direction approved, but we needed to explore it more thoroughly and it was time for more advanced color test too.
As for “Lyna-Caucasian” type, we kept the design and used it as a base for a character of season 2 : Debra, from episode S02E15 “The Ruby of the Orient”. ;)
3 - Color Researches
Choosing the exact outfit was a very complicated task, perhaps more for the casual outfit than the magical one. Below are a lot of our tests…
4 - Selected
In the end, here is the combination that was selected :
… But it wasn’t still over.
In fact, it never is until some production manager forcefully takes your model sheet, put the final approval seal, and flee with it before you can stop him/her. In our case, it didn’t happen, so, here we go for the final adjustments :
For the princess form, we were good and convinced they were what we needed. But for the casual outfits and colors ? Not so much.
5 - Final Adjustments
In this first model sheet, we tried different colors on both our characters to make sure the 5-Girl line up would work. We tried again color we previously rejected. We even tried to make Carissa black again. Well, it helped us confirm a few things, but we still weren’t there. For Lyna especially, we felt her top needed to be reworked : the knit, with or without sleeves, etc. (Note : we tried a lighter color for her eyes while we were at it). And of course there is always, all along the process, the question “how hard will it be to animate ?”. I confess this wasn’t a priority for a lot of people, but we tried to never forget it nevertheless.
Ok, at this stage, we had found the final shape for Lyna. We only needed to confirm our colors… We tried to put Carissa as the Irish redhead we originally wanted… and surprise ! This time it worked ! And everyone was convinced we had found her too !
And finaly, after a few months of work and back and forth, we could go clean and color the final model :
6 - Final Model
It’s fun to note that, even on the final color test we had, none of them was “the good one” : it was a bit of one, and a bit of another, in order to have the final model. As it always is. ;)
Ok folks, this was the last post of the season. :)
I need my beauty-summer-vacation-sleep ! I’ll have a lot to prepare for September if I want to continue feeding you with model-sheets, development, backgrounds and stories of course… and I’m crazy late regarding the animatics and I want to fix this.
Have a nice summer everyone, and see you back in September !
Make one about Lev, please.
Preview number 2
AND HERE IT IS. PREVIEW NUMBER 2 HAS BEEN SHARD TO TAKE YOU INTO THE TIMES, WHERE IT ALL BEGAN FOR OUR EVIL LORD EPOS. _____ His majesty Epos has finally walked the steppes of Earth, once again after that long ages. He was pleased to see that his plans are going well and has been happy to see his army reuniting once again. "Where's the book?" He asked while passing through the portal. After these talkings, he was angry and returned to his usual anguish mood when he found out that the book is somewhere and he don't have access to it. "Find it!" He shouted. "Check every single hideout on Earth until the book won't be in my hands!" He roared and walked away of the portal room followed with his restless dead. All my workers has been scared of him. They have awaited something another? I said them that he's evil, so what could they awaited?! No matter, I followed him. He walked without paying me some of his major attention and was thinking on something more important. "So....how was there?" I asked. I was pointing on that place he was trapped in. Hell. "It was horrible. What do you think?" He shouted and turned on me. "How could it have been?! Being imprisoned there for centuries. People has been happy for their disquisitions and evil acts they did, but they didn't stopped me. Out hero has forgot that I have got my men up here and they will save me. But I forgot that they are total idiots and will revive me only after pass of centuries!" "We're pleased to even open the portal. It wasn't an easy quest." I said. His skeletons looked on me. I wasn't feeling safe, but that's always when you are near of this man. "Whatever, get the book. I need the tree. And hurry." "It's pleasure to serve you, my evilness." I said and walked away. In far I can hear his dark footsteps, heading right into his fortress. The legendary Valenthia. I will now take men and do my best to search the book. Me, Lord Anderry won't do the mistake this time. ______ Hello everyone, please forgive me for my lack of inactivity, but here at TheSnowWall, I'm really must with creating the new backgrounds and profile pictures to fit your needs. Thanks for exception from you. Hope you enjoyed the story.
An official story is finished and to prove it I share an small part from random chapter you will be able to find in the book. Enjoy the teaser and have fun! remember, this July!
It has been a long journey for him and now it's all gonna end. This is the day where his plans are finished and Lord Epos can return to his throne and achieve his real evelness. "Turn it on." One worker said to one another and he pulled the massive and big lever down from the position beta to the position release. The massive Shockwave has passed around and few workers has even droped on the ground. "It's working!" Anderry shouted and stood right in front of the round circle placed in the middle of the room. Jason was standing right behind of him, holding of some wall to don't let the massive wind coming from the portal blow him away, as most of workers. "Maximum power!" Anderry shouted so workers can hear him. Even he sometimes seemed like a jester in behind, he has got big courage to stand in front of this round. As workers turned it on maximum power, the light coming from portal has been even more shining and if someone would look inside there, he would definitely get blind, at least for a few minutes. That's why everyone has either turned his head around or hid their faces in hands. An dark sound - voice of screaming - has been coming from the inside. Maybe it won't work, but it was a good try. General again looked inside this as the light has been muted a bit and again saw that. The voices and screams from hell has been shouting at whole underground and it was so painful to even hear a bit of them. But it was a symphony for Anderry. Someone inside....there was someone inside the portal! It worked. Anderry nearly cried. All that years! All that centuries! The person inside has had a dark cloth covering all his face, and as it passed inside the room from the portal even light has not let people to see His. Anderry knew why. He has got a mask. Thus, even if there would be tons of light, they won't be able to see his face. The portal has been turned off and the voices has also left with it. Anderry don't have an idea why his brother is free. He was prisoned by an special oracle in Tomb of Heavens. It gives him no sense. It just seems like that someone has set him free, but that just don't fit inside his theory. Out on the surface, has been caused a big blast. All the sky has been covered with red and dark matter, showing others the arrival of evil lord. This scene has shown for around 3 minutes. Then the person inside the cloth, this called Lord Epos, has spoke. With dark and evil voice, your worst nightmare. "My revenge has began!" #War #Book1 #LordEpos #Arrival #Preview
Book 1
Hello everyone. I'm so sorry for my lack of activity last days, but it's not the life (yes, this time it's an big exception). The current priority is getting my book 1 ready to get out. I have already finished it (as announced) more than a week ago, but the fixing and correction progress is still active. These days I'm very busy with getting the book ready to be published for community. As far I can tell, the release date remains the same. All remains the same for now, but I can give you some background info now. xoxo xoxo So, here's a few basics to know about the story that will hit out this July: 1. It took me nearly half on an year. 2. It is one book in series. 3. Book 2 has already it's own cover. 4. Yes, it has got pretty looooong parts. Many have got over 3000 words (I have also added number of words into each part so you can find out in numbers). 5. Many book parts have got links inside (either for music video, or trailers). 6. Each part has got it's own picture. 7. There are over 20 parts, and then there is 'prologue with epilogue'. 8. Many characters take part in the story, and every single of them has got his own secret, so read carefully to don't miss many important secrets and Easter eggs. 9. Yes, we will be killing! Enjoy, see you there!!! TheSnowWall