by =MikeLuckas
Hey! So it looks like there absolutely no conventions for me this summer. Bummer.
So, in place of cons, I’m opening a character commission sale! Because I need some extra money. Character commissions will be of one or two characters, with a simple graphic background.
Examples: http://i.imgur.com/cu0yV.jpg
No limits on how many I’ll take as of right now, but lets see how many I get!
Get one while they last!!
Spread the word!
Buy his shit, DO IT.
screen grabs of Cerebella character sheets from ‘Animating with Skullgirls’ did these mainly for my own reference but if it’s a help to others I would be glad.
DJ Christmas from 91.8 The Fan is doing a playthrough of MegaMan Battle Network 3. I did a bunch of stupid voices over a segment of it.
Anonymous asked you:
Ok. So how did you and Alpha meet?
-Funny story! So Mike Luckas, the guy Alpha is originally based on (although the TOME character is vastly different from how he was even as a teen) and I have known each other since Elementary school. In Middle School, he moved away for a couple of years and we kept in touch online, particularly over the (now defunct) TvTome forums. It was there that we met a lot of the users that the TOME characters are all based on (loosely, in some cases). Since there were no images on that forum, Mike and I did an experiment where we drew character designs based on peoples’ screennames. I was really into “cyber” stuff like MegaMan Battle Network and .hack// at the time…the rest is history. Also I guess the two main characters are based after us because I’m just SO FULL’A MYSELF.
smrtguy93 asked you:
Is Nylocke the star of TOME? He’s been in every episode so far.
-No, but I’ve included him in all of the episodes released so far because I view Nylocke as this unbridled force of good that sort of “exists” in the world of the show. No matter what, he’s always there for you. By “you”, I mean the other characters, his friends, AND the literal you, the audience!
yntsire asked you:
First off, fantastic job with TOME. I love it so much, although it’s probably bad I’ve memorized the dialogue from each episode so far. Anyway, will Kirb and Alpha’s friendship dynamic grow in a positive way as they both become “special”, or will Kirb begin to express jealousy of Alpha’s “gift”? Does Kirb even know about said “gift”?
-Kirb’s view with Alpha is akin to when you meet someone who does the same thing as you, and they could be really, REALLY good at it if they had a little extra pushing. Even though they’re kind of “friendly rivals”, it’s more that Kirb sees lots of potential in Alpha as a fellow player…his bad attitude is just his way of dealing with it. :P
Anonymous asked you:
Do you plan to make TOME merchandise? I’d love to get a Nylocke t-shirt!
-I’d love to, but I don’t think the series is big enough to warrant getting any real merch just yet. Even if we produced t-shirts and buttons and things like that, I don’t think the audience is big enough to make a decent amount of money off of sales. That’s not to say the people dedicated to the show wouldn’t buy it, I just think the show hasn’t reached that level yet.
thedailycrow asked you:
Most content creators are usually adamant on not returning to their unfinished work, yourself included. What made you decide to return and rework the characters?
-I had been thinking about rebooting it for a while now and had been developing the concept on and off for a few years. Last summer, after watching all 73 episodes of TvTome Adventures again, Liz gave me the push I needed to go through with it, so I just dove right in and started writing scripts and doing character animation. For a long time, I thought with some retooling, it could still be made into an original concept. With as much knowledge as I have on animation and storytelling now, all these years later, I thought I could make something really solid.
thatnerdychef asked you:
First, I just want to say that I love your work on TOME and how popular it’s become. Fanboying aside, I’m curious to know how far you see TOME going. Like, do you see it going multiple :seasons” or is TOME as we know it now just going to be a one-shot deal?
-At this stage, I have 9 episode scripts written and 20 planned. I might split certain parts into “seasons” but I’m not really thinking about that right now so much as just continuing to do the show in general.
Anonymous asked you:
Do you consider yourself most like Kirbopher, or more like another character from TOME?
-Kirb is based on me, but the way I portray him is more like other people’s “impression” of me as this grumpy, obnoxious punk. Sometimes, thinking about it now, Alpha shares a lot of similarities with when I don’t know what to say around people. That doesn’t often happen, but I think I understood where he comes from at one point in my life.
Anonymous asked you:
Hey, Kirb. In Episode 3, how come Alpha, Flamey, Nylocke, Whity and Saturndiva could fight against RavenFreak and DemonKing without a battlegrid? Wasn’t the Battlegrid a necessity for battles in ;Mechcity? Are the main characters hackers too, or is the game simply removing that rule when people fight hackers?
-This is explained in the Traveler’s Guide, but I’ll go into a bit more detail: Ravenfreak hacked his character to be able to initiate battles without an official match being setup in ;Mechcity. When in that region, your abilities are locked until a grid is officially set up, but Ravenfreak and Demonking lifted the locks on those restrictions.
enker asked you:
How feasible do you think it is that a game like TOME could possibly be created? How far ahead timewise do you think we’d have to be to have a game that works more or less the same as TOME?
-I’d love to do just a game in general with the show’s characters, but as far as a game LIKE the actual game? We’re years off, purely from the standpoint of there’s no interface even close to resembling how easy it is to make a character that looks like virtually ANYTHING you want. I think it’s definitely possible to be done in the future, maybe even BY the year 2020.
Anonymous asked you:
While I realize a lot of what is being made is based off the original TV TOME Adventures series, there’s a lot of new dialogue as well, plus updated character designs. What sort of process do you go through when you decide what to retain from the original material and what new stuff to add?
-A lot of this is explained for each individual character in their breakdown, but overall: I took the bare bones of the character as they were originally, keep what I found interesting (whether it was within their design or their personality), add, change or extrapolate something that was already good about the character in the first place, then apply my overall stronger drawing and writing skills into the execution of their first appearance in the show.
Keep in mind too, that while I’m keeping elements of TvTome Adventures because I think they could be adapted into something interesting for the story, I’m also looking at TOME as if it were an entirely new show. By that, I mean I’m not going into it like “you’d have to have seen the original TTA series to have any idea what’s going on right now”. I wrote the episode scripts that are done so far with a new audience in mind. They might be an audience with similar interests and taste in story to fans of the original show, but I’m NOT making it for people who’ve been watching my cartoons since 2004.
Anonymous asked you:
I know you’ve probably gotten this question many times already, but recently you posted a comment on the TOME Facebook about how the future of the series is a bit foggy. I was wondering if you could clarify what you meant. Does this mean that the series will go into a hiatus and then be resumed later on? Or does it mean you’ll be discontinuing the series since you’re getting busy in real life? I know its kind of a blunt question, but I hope you can answer without being too secretive.
-Unfortunately I can’t give a clear answer yet, because even -I- don’t know what’s going to happen with the future of the show. At the end of the day, I DO want to continue making the series. I’m really proud of the story I’ve written, even with just the scripts that are done so far. I’m also excited about the prospects of future characters appearing. Everyone who’s been so supportive of the series so far means a lot to me; the fact that people even care about this stupid cartoon is incredible. I wish I could say anything beyond this…I can’t comment any further on what’s going to happen after Episode 04 at this time, but I promise I will once I know something, ANYTHING, for sure.
Bunnie’s fuckin’ FUNNY.
Written by Kyle Kinane
Edited by Tony Christopherson
Animated by Greg Franklin, Marius Alecse and Mac Whiting
Directed by Greg Franklin
Audio recorded at the UCB Theatre, Los Angeles
HEY SO Kirb was working on helping me redesign Rahleigh to be a little less sonicified tonight; we drew these around the same time period with him watching me through shared windows on skype
you already saw his version
this is mine!
scrapped the tan muzzle, widened her eyes a bit, made her ponytail smaller, narrowed her face, gave her kamina sunglasses to offset the lack of tan muzzle, moved (the remnants of) her wings to under her arms, gave her pants and fixed the bandages around her arms and chest to look more tied on/worn out and not superglued on
did i mention how great kirb is because jesus fuck
