So my buddy Paul is in Japan right now, hanging out with some exchange students, meeting their friends and stuff.
He was looking at the updates on the site, and some of them were asking him about the movie.
Shit Yes. Getting the over-seas audience rolling early is sweet. I want to get the site translated into a bunch of other languages, but this is good. This is exposure.
Yeah...heh...yeah..
Well see, he told them the story as best he could. That there are 3 hot girls, in Panda Mechs, who keep order in the universe, and have to fight the spirits of the dead sometimes.
That's pretty straight forward, it's missing some of our nuances, but an alright explanation.
Normally yes, but...Paul's japanese isn't so hot, and a little was lost in the translation...
What he said was that there's 3 crazy sluts, who kill Panda's and then wear their skins as they desecrate the graves of everyone's ancestors.
So...the site's banned in japan now.
Why does everyone you know HATE you, and our movie?
It's been 6 months but I'm back working on the Panda Girls anime / manga pretty much full-time now. I was helping out a friend of mine, Dave Royer, with his business called SAGE Creatives, and we may see more developments with Dave and Panda Girls in the near future.
Jumping back into the Panda Girls project was a little odd and exciting. Odd in the way that I felt distanced visually, (Crom and I have maintained story meetings consistently during my hiatus), and exciting in that sense where you know time away always brings with it a new perspective. For my first post, I didn't want to make a splash. More just easing into it again, and giving myself time to find my stride.
Here's a couple of thumbnails, (in no particular order), to help me feel out the 10 page teaser. Jumping around to events/moments that inspired, and tried to catch them with the simplest shapes.