The very first post. Joy.
Hopefully the first of many posts to come.
Ello Studios consists of me, Liz, and my sister Elicia. We both love storytelling in all its forms, and we feel that manga, with its combination of the visual and the written, is the best medium in which to tell our own stories. We also dabble in video production, the traditional arts, Elicia in cosplay/costume design and I in merchandise/graphic design. We would love it If our studio actually took off like we hope and gave us a career in the world of manga, but that remains to be seen.
Until then, this blog is designed to be a record of our progress to that end, large or small. We (or, well, at least I) see this blog as a place in which to do the following: vent on anything and everything, happy or no; chart our progress of each endeavor; and update any person who cares in the slightest about what's going on with us and hear from them in return.
Frankly, this post is somewhat anticlimatic; I'd be more excited if I felt there was more to talk about. We are working on our Four Fairy Tales (but we are always working on that, so nothing new to report.) We were going to get Wild Swans scripted and begin storyboarding before the winter break ended, which didn't happen. But we did get the story plotted out, so yay! Now I just need to start working on potential character designs, now that we know who all the main characters are, and re-research the correct time period, of course. =) But I love researching so that should be fun.
We also finally bought Final Cut Pro! So we can begin prepping our AMV ideas now and not just pretend we are going to do them. We'll need to get the raws of the animes, of course, and script out our song, though we have already envisioned it in our heads so it would just be a matter of finalizing our initial ideas. We know which idea we want to do first, and we are both so in sync about it! I love it when that happens.
If we get it done relatively soon, Elicia wants us to show it at a con somewhere, maybe one in August we could drive to. Personally I think the Otakon in Baltimore is a more feasible idea, since if we visit our dad this summer it is a short drive away from his house. But that is such a large con and I don't know if I'm ready for something like that, to be honest. I can't believe I'm thinking about cons; while I went to a small one before with Elicia and our friends and enjoyed myself, it did put certain parts of my brain into massive overload. Like how obsessive a fan person can actually get. (Case in point: "Gaara! I love you! I want to have your babies!" shouted to our unsuspecting friend, and then a glomping from the fan in question. Scaaary.) And this was apparently a small con; what would a large con be like? Does the obsessiveness and scariness grow exponentially depending on place and size of attendance? =) Plus I'm still somewhat of a closet anime/manga fan, and going would push me much more out of the door; am I ready for that? We'll see. Knowing our work habits, however, the AMV will not be anywhere near completed by August, and all my stressing will be a moot point.
I'm hoping Elicia will get a blogger account so she can chime in here as well, and it is not just me yakking all the time. Any discussions of art/design will take place at my art blog, Converging to a Center. Any chatting with Elicia or reading her work can take place at her blogs, if she chooses to give out that information. Any art work or stuff of a similar nature will be on a website we don't yet have, whose address I will give out later. Yeah, we are so in the early stages. I have nothing more to say, so TTFN.
Ello Studios consists of me, Liz, and my sister Elicia. We both love storytelling in all its forms, and we feel that manga, with its combination of the visual and the written, is the best medium in which to tell our own stories. We also dabble in video production, the traditional arts, Elicia in cosplay/costume design and I in merchandise/graphic design. We would love it If our studio actually took off like we hope and gave us a career in the world of manga, but that remains to be seen.
Until then, this blog is designed to be a record of our progress to that end, large or small. We (or, well, at least I) see this blog as a place in which to do the following: vent on anything and everything, happy or no; chart our progress of each endeavor; and update any person who cares in the slightest about what's going on with us and hear from them in return.
Frankly, this post is somewhat anticlimatic; I'd be more excited if I felt there was more to talk about. We are working on our Four Fairy Tales (but we are always working on that, so nothing new to report.) We were going to get Wild Swans scripted and begin storyboarding before the winter break ended, which didn't happen. But we did get the story plotted out, so yay! Now I just need to start working on potential character designs, now that we know who all the main characters are, and re-research the correct time period, of course. =) But I love researching so that should be fun.
We also finally bought Final Cut Pro! So we can begin prepping our AMV ideas now and not just pretend we are going to do them. We'll need to get the raws of the animes, of course, and script out our song, though we have already envisioned it in our heads so it would just be a matter of finalizing our initial ideas. We know which idea we want to do first, and we are both so in sync about it! I love it when that happens.
If we get it done relatively soon, Elicia wants us to show it at a con somewhere, maybe one in August we could drive to. Personally I think the Otakon in Baltimore is a more feasible idea, since if we visit our dad this summer it is a short drive away from his house. But that is such a large con and I don't know if I'm ready for something like that, to be honest. I can't believe I'm thinking about cons; while I went to a small one before with Elicia and our friends and enjoyed myself, it did put certain parts of my brain into massive overload. Like how obsessive a fan person can actually get. (Case in point: "Gaara! I love you! I want to have your babies!" shouted to our unsuspecting friend, and then a glomping from the fan in question. Scaaary.) And this was apparently a small con; what would a large con be like? Does the obsessiveness and scariness grow exponentially depending on place and size of attendance? =) Plus I'm still somewhat of a closet anime/manga fan, and going would push me much more out of the door; am I ready for that? We'll see. Knowing our work habits, however, the AMV will not be anywhere near completed by August, and all my stressing will be a moot point.
I'm hoping Elicia will get a blogger account so she can chime in here as well, and it is not just me yakking all the time. Any discussions of art/design will take place at my art blog, Converging to a Center. Any chatting with Elicia or reading her work can take place at her blogs, if she chooses to give out that information. Any art work or stuff of a similar nature will be on a website we don't yet have, whose address I will give out later. Yeah, we are so in the early stages. I have nothing more to say, so TTFN.
posted by Lizzabell at 6:54 PM
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