Supporting the front!

Here is some news regarding the Animated shorts for Project: Valkyria.

as many fans are aware of, SEGA is not planning to release Valkyria Chronicles 3 outside of japan, something that have upset alot of fans in the west and europe. I myself are one of many who supports The Gallian Liberation Front, a group of fans who work for convncing SEGA west to localize the 3rd game in our beloved franchise!. So i felt the need of annauncing this here, aswell as doing something myself for the cause.

please visit the Lieration Front's Facebook page and sign their Petition!

As for my plans, we all know each character will star in one animated short each, but before i do any of these i will make a special one starring our three nameless. Riela, Gisele and Kurt. this short will be related to our cause, and be themed around the localization.

the more who joins in the better our chances are, and Project: Valkyria now gives the cause it's full support!. Unrecorded Gisele detachment, Moving Out!

Some new pics and Project information!

 First of, the squad in a group shot!, i call it the Unrecorded Gisele detachment!.

Right, what will be the next step in this project now? weapons!. The next thing i will do is indeed weapons for all the characters. Rifles for Alicia and Riela. Machine guns for Edy, Anisette and Gisele. and of course, lance and shield for Aliasse. i will not do those for Alicia and Riela just yet, i might do that later but i'm unsure if i do so in this first project run.

 After the weapons are done i will work on the sets, nothing too complex but a few trenches and sandbags etc, some kind of battlefield area such as naggiar fields. a  interior room for briefing scenes or whatever, somewhere inside the base at least. also a few miniature background sets to screen in to make the feel that the field is big.

Plans for animation is as such: I will make a animated short (about a min or two long) per character, both serious ones and funny ones where the jokes or plot is based around each characters habits or the like. there will also be shorts with mixed characters and purpose. I will also most importantly make clips for testing effects and stuff, this is the most important bit of this project.

When all this is done, is it the end?, well it might not be. Since i got the inspiration and motivation to do this when i played through Valkyria Chronicles (i had already played vc2 at that time), there is no saying i won't get a new motivation to expand this once vc3 is finaly localized (if it is, but i have my hopes up). there are still characters left that i feel i would have wanted to make, those are for example Isara, Cosette and Shin (and my friend Mario over at the imperial front who are making Kurt and Selvaria is also interested in doing Imca). But i feel that for now i need to move on and continue the project. but "Project: Valkyria EXTEND" might be a go later next year or so. EXTEND will, if done, include new shorts for the new characters aswell as new clips. and might feature Alicia and Riela valkyrur transformation scenes if i'm not making those extra heads and weapons for them in the current project run.

 Here are a full Cosplay sheet for all the characters, using each head with all bodies.

Number 26 ready for battle! - Gisele Fleming Finished!

Alright, gisele Fleming, the 6th and for now last puppet for Project: Valkyria is done!. i will write about the continued plans for the project in my next post, i will not steal this post from Gisele ;)

 Here she is, the pyromaniac girl from the 3rd game. it's the character out of my six puppets that i know least about, so it will be interesting to know more about her. the uniform itself was similar to Edy's. the new stuff was her different bag design and all her belt straps. she was really fun to do as she was similar yet different from the other uniforms, and i have found that i really enjoy working with the nameless outfits. Gisele have ended up as one of my fave puppets.

Here is a simple progress pics of each step she went through.

"I'll show you what a star can do!" - Anisette Nelson puppet finished!

Nelson detachment, move out!. here we go, Anisette Nelson is finally done and ready for battle....well, not until i give them all some weapons haha.

I said about everything about the Lanseal uniform in my last post about Anisette so there is not much to add about that. The hair was similar to Edy's so that's another reason why it was good to make them the same day. The uniform and armour are based on the in-game Veteran shocktrooper look as oposed to the regular un-upgraded version.

 Both Nelsons together!

Uniform change!. Edy in the Lanseal uniform is indeed how she look in VC2 when unlocked!

"A few bullets for my fans!" - Edy Nelson puppet Finished!

The star of squad 7 is finally done!, and her sister is on the way too!. there is not too much to add except that i'm happy to finally have her head finished and added to her body instead of the Gisele Fleming head that used her body while waiting. The process have been pretty much similar to Alicia but with a few differences, but i have already explained these details in earlier posts. So for now, enjoy Edy and I'm soon back with Anisette!

The girl who befriended fire - Gisele Fleming joins the squad!

 That's right folks, Gisele Fleming will be my 6th and final puppet (for now). I have actually already made her Armature. the reason i made her armature was that she, aswell as both nelsons was exactly the same height so i made them beside eachother to get exact dimensions. And also the fact that she is similar to Edy in many aspects (shocktrooper, similar uniform, twintails) and that made me give her the nickname "The black Edy". and this is probably one of my reasons to like her alot due to her likeness to Edy and my taste for twintails. Now, she was a hard nut to crack though as there was very little reference pics but i menaged to find her in full view on the squad 422 picture, and through a gameplay video i saw how she looked from rear view, but finding that clips wasn't easy. "project Gisele research" have been ongoing almost since i worked on Riela.

 Not much to add here, the usual in-scale scetch.

 The knee pads, identical to Edy's but with the nameless colours.

I did in fact even make her head already, due to the lack of hair for Edy and Anisette, i was tempted to pre-make Gisele's head because i did have black hair that is also to be used for Mario's Kurt Irving puppet. So currently Gisele's head is displayed on Edy's body until her own body is done.

Cosplay body tests for fun. Riela's colours are right, but Edy's body have more similar uniform.

 

Anisette Nelson - Uniform finished!

Alright, Anisette's body is all done!. All that's left is her hair and ribbon. I should get the Grey hair i need for both the Nelson sisters in a few days!, so I'm not sure yet if i will reveal the next character before then or if the finishing of the Nelsons goes first, we'll see!.

 A little rough process pic. There is not much new when it comes to methods compared to the other uniformed characters. The Lanseal uniform was a nice little change from the militia uniforms though!, and it being different made it nice and fresh to do.

 Here is everything done except hair and ribbon. Everything is done with the same methods of folding fabric and using hot glue. the lines on the top part and collar aswell as the Shocktrooper insignia was painted on using a fine brush and acrylic paints. the lanseal badge on her tie and collar was printed on white fabric just as i did with the squad 7 and squad 422 badges.