Art Book 3 (Cringy-er Than Ever)

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AAAAAAAAAAGGGHHH, my back hurts.

Get ready for a long chapter, I imported the images a while ago, all of the images in the chapters until we're caught up has been imported before writing anything.

I wrote everything except for the importing of my Word script and notes while hella exhausted at 1am last night because I'm a dummy.

Y'all ever do your normal work of the day and then go to the grocery store then feel f**king more tired than running halfway to Greenland? Exactly, that doesn't even make sense, it's across the damn ocean, but that's how it feels.

Obviously there was more, but there's enough stupid brain dead content which I info dump upon you in this chapter as is, I do not want to be responsible for a cranial collapse of overwhelming information 😂.

So. Here we go, my dudes...

For my first semester, we had to create a 2.5D animatic for our final for two of our classes.

I sort of struggled, but I knew that I wanted to do something relating to the CyberBoiz so that I could develop them more.

The biggest idea that I had was a big plot point which I wanted to convey, which was the fact that both factions aren't just "good or bad", there are bad and good things that both sides have done. It just depends on where you grew up and what caste you had really in this world.

Getting off track— the idea is that Vanguard and Blitz needed to interact. Vanguard is gonna have a big boi character development and the first steps to get there is via meeting this little blue, anxiety child with rollerblades.

The idea that spawned this is one of my favourite character scenarios: which is when two enemies have NO choice but to work together.

Vanguard and Blitz are opposites when it comes to their physical bodies. Vanguard is almost twice Blitz's size, is strong, experienced in combat and powerful, which Blitz is quick, stealthy and precise. But their personalities have some crossovers, along with their ideas for how they want to make positive change. Not that you can really discuss that with, you know, them being sworn enemies.

Vanguard is literally the leader of the opposing side, and Blitz is just a rookie scout. Vanguard is someone on the "good" side is supposed to die bringing him down, while the "bad" side is just supposed to kill someone like Blitz on sight without thought.

So they need to get into a situation where the environment is foreign, none of their allies are not nearby, and any method of communication is cut off. Which limits what could have caused this to be the case, since there is no way they would run into each other in a normal situation, and their tech is pretty advanced, so... how?

Falling down into a giant chasm that cracked open, that's what I think of.

The planet gets really f**ked up as the war goes on, plus they're fighting in a sort of badlands so the terrain could be unpredictable. Down there, the pit seals up, or at least shifts so allies can't get to them, the deep levels of the earth and metallic interferences mess up the comms, and there's the threat that is something is. alive down in those caves.

This brought up an earlier concept:

Blitz loved reading animals books and information about the environment outside her city. She has never been outside of that zone so she found a the idea that there were all these big things out there intriguing. (Point, special interest!) Specifically, her knowledge of creatures of the planet is a skill she has. Because she remembers everything about them because she has a special Aspie interest in them. This can also be used as a way to explain the world.