Remember: TEMS Test Run

A recent screenshot of the visual novel in progress.

Remember: The Ember McLain Story Visual Novel

Possibly one of the largest project I may ever undertake is about to get underway. caferreri11 of DeviantArt and myself have been teaming up for over a year now to work on his story, Remember: The Ember McLain Story (R:TEMS). Ember's song "Remember" from the series has been rumored to give away a lot of her background information. He turned it into a multiple chapter long novel essentially, while incorporating original ideas into a backstory of Ember.

 We thought about converting the story into a flash series at the end of summer '11. But while we both were psyched about the idea, it was really just something to get shelved until life calmed down. It's a lot of work, and something I'm not up to doing in the near future. So I suggested a different idea...a visual novel of the story..

Long story short, my one friend introduced me to visual novels. A visual novel is a story, accompanied with changing backgrounds, characters, sound effects, and music to make the story realistic. You download it, run it, and click through it. It's also a way to see it the way the author did (caferrer11 approves all my character designs).

A site has been made to host the novel:

http://remembertems.webs.com/

I hope you all will enjoy the final product.

-Spin

Johnny 13 and Kitty human forms

Based on a scene from caferreri11's story on deviantArt (Remember: The Ember McLain Story), this is the couple in a hospital scene. Kitty's comforting Johnny after some unsettling news. I don't want to ruin it for anyone, so if your interested I think it was in chapter 4 or 5. This was done back in like April '11. Maybe May...unsure. It's on deviantart for a date.

Also updated my blog with a new banner. I'm digging it :)

-Spin

Ember McLain human form

The first of my DP art, Ember McLain's form from her past life. While I love my new work like her Rockstar ad and some other WIPs I haven't released details on, this is a personal favorite of mine. A lot of her past life fan fics exist, mainly because she is the only character that was given a backstory to work with.

#13 Blood Energy Potion OWR Car

Just a little something I threw together for fun. Blood splatters aren't always an easy concept to work with, but this pulled it off nicely. Blood Energy Potion is an actual drink.

Jack Daniel's Lynchburg Lemonade Logo

A recent request on HRR was for this logo. So I made it for them. A question raised was how did I get the font when it's licensed to Jack Daniel's....it's simple, I made each letter by hand.

Check either HRR or URD for a download to the .psd of it. That file is about a 1000x2000 resolution, I minimized it for previews.

Heavy's Racing Replica's Forum Sig

This was a design for my friend Steve (aka Heavy) of Heavy's Racing Replicas (HRR for short). HRR is an affiliate of United Racing Designs. He's currently using the sig on his site, which is nice to see one of my creations used by the owner of another NR2k3 paint site.

Getting a chance to draw the Fright Knight in a fire suit was actually kinda fun.

Production time: 6 hours