[Illustration] IronBird - promo poster 01

This is Animia from "IronBird" illustrated in the army school suit. Although there is a new design of the suit, anyway I would like to let it be the first promo poster for my animaiton piece which will be done this October ^^

To learn more about the story of IronBird (my self-directed, animated narrative) and watch the animatic of the intro animation, please refer to the previous post.

Cheers!!

[Animation] IronBird - Intro animation (animatic)

IronBird is the story that I wrote as an animation series program for TV with about 50 episode.

Plot of the story:

This story took place in a world which magic and science co-exists with each other. The magic in this world is the ability of people to sense the flow of the air particles (AF -air factors) and control them to do many kinds of things , such as light up fire in the air and fly!!!

And IronBird is the flying machine invented according to this magical power by a prince and a princess from two nations which are next to each other.

IronBird helped to imrpove two nations' economy and people's lives. It one of the triggers of the war.

The war lasted for 30 years. Our story starts 20 years after the wars ended. Animia, our protagonist was a 15-year-old girl whose dream is to be the top IB pilot of the world. She trained herself hard on flying skills and finally got the entry to the Nation Army school and trained as a pilot solider.

There she would meet her three teammates. From strangers, to friends and from friends, they became the most-trusted- partners after missions, adventures and challenges.

However, after the light of happiness, Animia didn't know that she was already put into the centre of a trape!

"A wounded swan will transform into a crow."

The finish OP animation will be released in October this year, see you then ^^

[Animation] IronBird - Animia test animation

This is the test animation of Animia, the protagonist of IronBird, showing her fighting action.

This test is done frame by frame in pencil drawing then timing time in AffterEffects.
As same as I said before in old posts, frame by frame animation is just sooooo fun!!!!

[Animation] Sk8er Boi animated mtv (PV)

After showing all the characters in illustration, I would like to present you the animation piece.

H.M.Remi's Animated Sk8er Boi MTV (PV) is a self direction project of one of my subjects. Avril Lavigne's Sk8er Boi has been my beloved song since I was in junior high. Yet, back then I didn't wholely understand the lyrics (English is not my first language) and the meaning behind the story (was too young~~~). However, I like the rhythm and the story I hardly understood in the song. Therefore, I have been hoping to visulize this story story through animation for a long long time!!! The thing was that I didn't have the skill......

But now, I have the skill and I can do it!! Yeah!!! I am really a dream executant XD!!!!! I researched on youtube and discovered that there have been already many people animated the story which made me feel a bit frustrated for a moment (I wanted to be originally and the first one to do that!!) But I understood that if I let this chance go, I may not have another to make this dream which last for 7 years come true. So, in order to make it more original, I decided to apply the traditional Chinese painting style as the style of my piece and give the characters new personalities which would be more Asian (I target this MTV to be broadcasted in Asia, e.g. Hong Kong, Japan, Korea, China and South-east Asia).

To understand the Sk8er Boi's characters more, please refer to the former posts. Hope you enjoy it ^^

[Illustration] Sk8er Boi animated mtv - Rock n Roll Girl

Wooo! This is the time for the first-person of the story, Rock n Roll Girl!!

I cannot say this character is the protagonist becuase Sk8er Boi is actually depicting more the past of Skater Boy and Ballet Girl. Rock Girl (shorten her name ^^) acts like a narrator of the story, yet a subjective one ^^

In my imagination, she is a confident girl and the singer of the band with Skater Boi. She always do her best for getting the things that she wants, therefore sometime, she seems a little bit aggressive.

Um~~~ really want to animate the whole story !!!

[Illustration] Sk8er Boi animated mtv - 3 Naughty Friends

These are the "naughty" friends of Ballet Girl. As the song depicted, they are the people who laughed at Skater Boy's baggy clothes and "persuade" Ballet Girl not to fall in love with him....

So the villains of the story...?? I am not sure about this. It was bad for them set value of a person by his clothes, however, perhaps they were just doing so for Ballet Girl as her friend, getting away the person that is not good for her....

Anyway, people's personalities and actions are complicated. For my version of the Sk8er Boi story, I hope to make this group of friends to be more humane, not just pure villains.

So I name them as "Naughty friends", but not "Evil friends" ^^

[Illustration] Sk8er Boi animated mtv - Ballet Girl

The second character of Sk8er Boi animation MTV~~ Ballet Girl.
She is a character with a arrogant yet not confident enough personality, she could be affected by peers and acted opposite to her true heart... poor character actually....

Anyway, to express her character, a beatibul and arrogant ballet dancer, I came out with this finally ^^

Just love her ballet dress!!!!!

The graphics was sketched by hands on paper then painted in Painter.

[Illustration] Sk8er Boi animated mtv - Skater Boy

The popular boy in this musical story, Skater Boy.
A boy with baggy clothes who loved playing skating board and guitar, became a famous Rock star at the end.
His clothes are no more baggy now, but you have already been late, Ballet Girl~~~
I used bamboo as the background to imply that the Skater Boy in my animated version has a sincere personality ^^

[Illustration] Sk8er Boi animated mtv - More than friends

"We are more than just friends!!"

If you know this song, "Sk8er Boi", you will uderstand this illustration ^^

More than friends - the heart shape formed by the plants implying that they are actually lovers~~~

[Illustration] Sk8er Boi animated mtv - Guitar player

This is one of the scene in the animated Sk8er Boi MTV.

Do you think that the ink-drops background looks like a face of a character from a Japanese comic XD!!! Hints: an annoying 5-year-old boy~~~

Haaaaahaaaaa!!!!