So I did a little Google-ing.
And I found this.
I present you something totally random !
*stares at title*
What is Oddsey 4 ?
Well, it's a little animation project I worked on 2 years ago.
Me, Crys and Char were working on it, to be specific.
We were suppose to use free softwares like Banned Story.
So that would make it a Maple Animation Series.
Sad to say, we never made it past production.
Haha.
It's ironic.
We used to brainstorm for HOURS deciding on the most trivial things.
Example ? Character Names !
I remember we were actually rolling dices to decide which character gets what name.
And all of this happened in our mock exam period !
We were that bored...
(Needless to say, I failed. But that's not the point.)
We would write all our info relating to the project in a mini Garfield notebook.
Which we called "The Sacred Handbook Of Oddsey" or something along those lines.
Unfortunately, I didn't bring the Handbook over with me.
It's probably rotting in my room now.
I was on story (which caused the most controversy).
Char was on design.
And Crys was on animation.
And you can clearly see how this division of roles was completely biased.
I had the fun job.
Char had the boring job.
And Crys had the hard job.
But we eventually pitched in a little for each of the segments.
I let them make crazy alterations to the story.
I did some approving for the character designs.
Me and Char TRIED to learn a little animating.
Sad to say, after a year of disbanding the project,
I forgot most of the characters name.
The only character that I could remember was the main character.
We decided that his name would be Zack Sanbon.
Remember how we threw dice to decide how we name our characters ?
Well, Zack was Char's choice.
Inspired by Zack Fair from Crisis Core.Sanbon was my choice.
Since I felt like giving him that Asian feeling.
Inspired by Cookie Sanbon from Codename: Kids Next Door.
(Race of the character was never discussed)
Actually since I'm the writer of the story.
I can still remember the plot pretty well.
However, I had to use names from Katekyo Hitman Reborn
for the characters so the Char could get used to them more easily.
Don't worry, the story is still FULL of loopholes.
As many of you can guess, we stopped at the animation part of production.
It's kinda farfetched actually, now that I think about it.
3 seventeen year olds trying to animate a "TV Show".
Crys had very little animating experience.
And we barely had the appropriate software to animate.
Most of the time, we'd spend our free time looking for free software online.
And when we finally got it, she doesn't really know how to utilize it.
But, we did manage to release a 5-second teaser of the series.
It was the beginning of the opening theme song.
The song we used was Again by Yui.
Since Crys was ADDICTED to Full Metal Alchemist Brotherhood at that time.
And she slowly dragged Char into it.
And then she got addicted too.
Sadly, the song was under copyright on YouTube.
So we had to change themes.
And that's where we stopped.
Haha.
After we graduated,
I had PLKN.
Crys went to college earlier than expected.
Char got a scholarship to study in Semenanjung.
I moved to Aussie.
But we had loads of fun working on it.
It was seriously some really interesting experience to be able to work on a project of this scale.
Working as a team in this kind of unprepared situation was really thought-provoking.
I wonder will we ever be able to work together on this project again ?
SPECIAL SHOUT-OUT TO CRYS AND CHAR.
LET'S RELEASE EPISODE 1 ONE DAY...
Listening to Viva la Gloria - GreenDay
Insomnia-infected,
TK
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