Project Memoria

Character Theme Music, Part 2

January 24, 2012 at 12:53 pm | Posted in Characters, Music | 2 Comments
Tags: anna, aurelia, julia, mikaela, music, tristina

Long time, no update! Finished working on the music themes for the five heroines.

Memoria Test 11 (Julia’s Theme) – The cymbals near the end were a new thing for me to try out.
Memoria Test 12 (Mikaela’s Theme) – Decided to go “off key” for a bit at 1:03-1:04, listen to the vibes carefully.
Memoria Test 13 (Anna’s Theme) – Because I was sort of “lazy” at the time, I took parts from Test 7 and added them to Anna’s theme; of course had to make it fit the key signature.
Memoria Test 14 (Tristina’s Theme) – To be honest, creating rock music is not my thing. But this turned out pretty well, I think.
Memoria Test 15 (Aurelia’s Theme) – Had to abuse the automation to get her theme to work out. Personally, my favorite heroine theme.

Hope you guys enjoy!

Updates on the story – Currently revising Aurelia’s route, and I’m hoping to get her done by the end of this month. Then it’s revising Julia’s route, which will prove to be a challenge.

Just in case some of you didn’t notice, you can follow me and my sister on twitter if you wish; there’s a follow button on the side menu of the blog.

-Ryne (project manager/writer/composer)

Late for costumes and casual wear progress

December 1, 2011 at 4:32 pm | Posted in Artwork, Characters | 2 Comments
Tags: art, julia, mikaela, tristina

It’s much too late for Halloween, I know. Sometimes other things in life arise in the agenda. But here are the rest of the Memoria girls in Madoka Magica Costume as I said I would post long ago.

Tristina

Mikaela

Which one is your favorite?

I’ve made time of course to focus on casual wear for the Memoria project. Mainly shading and cleaning up lines…

Tristina

and Julia

-Richelle (artist)

Character Music Themes

November 25, 2011 at 12:20 pm | Posted in Characters, Music | 1 Comment
Tags: anna, aurelia, julia, mikaela, music, tristina

Here are music themes for the five heroines. Remember Memoria Test 3? Because Memoria Tests 11-15 are more or less remixes of Test 3. Yeah, they’re incomplete for now, especially the notation, mastering, etc… but they’re complete enough to be listened to.

Memoria Test 11 – Julia’s theme – Not sure how to describe this one… romantic and hopeful?
Memoria Test 12 – Mikaela’s theme – Since Mikaela is quite an outgoing girl, brass instruments fit her well.
Memoria Test 13 – Anna’s theme – One of the few music I created that uses triad chords! (Test 10 uses them too; will post it later.)
Memoria Test 14 – Tristina’s theme – First time at creating something rock-ish.
Memoria Test 15 – Aurelia’s theme - Has the slowest tempo out of all the music I’ve created.

(for some reason, the gallery keeps messing with the filenames, when it comes to the ‘, (, and ) characters.)

If any of you guys played the VN “With Ribbon,” then you might notice I’ve taken elements from its music and appropriated it; most obvious in Aurelia’s music, and to an extent Julia’s.

Hope you guys enjoy!

-Ryne (project manager/writer/composer)

Memoria girls in Halloween costume

October 31, 2011 at 6:00 pm | Posted in Artwork, Characters | 1 Comment
Tags: anna, art, aurelia, julia

Here are a few of the girls dressed up in outfits seen from the anime, Madoka Magica.

Julia

Aurelia

Anna

Decided to cook this up last minute. I didn’t have time to shade them all in time for Halloween. I have two more characters that had outfits from this Anime. I’ll post them on here even if Halloween is over :p. The outfits were really detailed and took some time to do. Wish I knew how to draw such details like this off the top of my head.

-Richelle (Artist)

Shading Progress

October 17, 2011 at 7:55 pm | Posted in Artwork, Characters | 1 Comment
Tags: anna, aurelia

Here are some progress on shading work done for the characters’ casual clothing. You can see the previous post to compare Anna’s before and after.

Anna

Aurelia

I love how shading adds more depth and detail to the image. Now our characters are coming alive!

I hope to post more of the girl characters soon.

-Richelle

Character Clothing Progress

October 3, 2011 at 6:35 am | Posted in Artwork, Characters | 3 Comments
Tags: anna, art, tristina

Here are some progress of Anna and Tristina in their casual clothing.

-Richelle (Artist)

Story and Music Goodness

September 30, 2011 at 12:28 pm | Posted in Characters, Music, Story | 2 Comments
Tags: anna, aurelia, julia, mikaela, music, Story, tristina

Memoria’s story is going rather well. I’ve already started revising the first semester. As always, added, removed, and reworded details. The revising is with keeping Aurelia’s details in mind, and to an extent Julia’s. Those two needed the most revisions in the first semester, which will reflect in their respective routes. Hence why I haven’t started revising their routes yet, but revising the first semester first.

I’m already done revising Mikaela, Anna, and Tristina’s routes long ago, and they don’t need much revising in the first semester. Of course they might need further looking into, might have missed something.

Oh and as a bonus, I’ve improved on Memoria Test 7 a bit. Major changes include: a piano in the background, chorus effects (subtle), some mastering, and added more power to the drums (they sounded weak in the first version). Posted both versions for comparison. Enjoy!

Memoria Test 7 v2 (improved version)
Memoria Test 7 v1 (original version)

My younger sister should be posting new artworks soon, probably within the next week. Look forward to them because they’re in new outfits!

-Ryne (project manager)

Calm and Happy Memoria Music

August 26, 2011 at 12:51 pm | Posted in Music | 1 Comment
Tags: music

As promised, here’s more possible music for Memoria!

Memoria Test 5 (calm mood)
Memoria Test 7 (happy mood)

Both are still a work in progress, though. For 5 I haven’t completed the ending (from 1 minute on it’s just a clarinet), while 7 is mostly complete, just need to add some embellishments. Most of my inspiration for those themes were from the VN, With Ribbon‘s music.

Why do I name my music “Memoria Test 5″ and such? For the most part I’m experimenting. Also, I’m kind of lazy to come up with official names for them at the moment. =P I do have Memoria Tests 1, 2, 3, 4, and 6; might post them later (already posted #3). I’ve posted 3, 5, and 7 because they were worked on more than the others.

Reason (the music software) is awesome.

-Ryne (project manager/writer/composer)

Story Updates – Anna + Tristina + Others

August 19, 2011 at 1:05 pm | Posted in Characters, Story | Leave a comment
Tags: anna, mikaela, tristina

I apologize for the lack of updates from me (Ryne)! I did get a substantial amount of story and music done.

For the past months, been working on Anna and Tristina’s stories a bit, which required quite a bit of rewrites and restructuring. Reading them over and over again made me think – I must have been crazy to put that in there. Instead of making things blatantly obvious, I made things a bit more subtle. Intervals between days were condensed. Removed strange bits of story. And as always, made sure things made sense.

Reading over Tristina’s story, the last part seemed too extreme. I softened it to make it a bit more realistic. Also, added a day on her route as a day less is not going to work. I’m nearly done revising her (Anna is already done).

So far, out of all the girls I like Anna the most (story-wise).

The Characters page needs an update, to reflect the revisions (and among other things). Heck, parts of it don’t even make sense (at least for me)! For example, the page states that Glenn is overprotective of his daughter, Mikaela. But I made him more supportive of his daughter’s actions, considering his occasional screentime in the game.

One last thing – I will be posting more music next week!

-Ryne (project manager/writer)