As promised, here's a brief tour of our design process, including tons of sketches and scrapped concepts! More below the cut!
Back in June of last year, Mr. Seto of Yamaha contacted me to ask if I would be interested in a collaboration project. The project goals were difficult for me to handle on top of my internship, but luckily, rice gladly offered to join forces and tackle the project together. And so, we set out to create some brand new ZOLAs!
The original design prompt we were provided was very open and offered a lot of flexibility, so rice and I began by experimenting with a lot of bold thematic designs. Here are just a few pages of the work we put together during this time (the volume and quality of rice's work during this stage was amazing w).
After 2 weeks of work, however, we realized the only ZOLA niche that hadn't been filled yet was "virtual singer," so we completely disregarded all of our proposed themes and went with that instead w.
Building the Virtual Singer
Of the designs we'd put together, we decided our "modern idol" set was the best candidate to combine with the V6 interface-inspired elements we'd happened upon in the "vintage tech" set. Taking what we liked from the set, we began playing with the shapes and design elements.
Rice and I passed the designs back and forth for a long while, building on what we liked and taking out what we decided was annoying and pointless to drawâafter all, what good would these designs be if not even we could be convinced to draw them again?
Once we had a rough idea of what we wanted, we began finalizing the designs, which took an almost painful amount of time, but was well worth it in the end. Here are three snapshots out of probably 50+ adjustments and iterations we made w. Quite literally, at one point we spent at least three days just deciding what color to make KYO's pants w.
But after much deliberation, we settled on the designs that now appear in the official art! All that was left was thumbnailing poses and drawing the actual artwork. If you look closely, you can almost spot the thumbnails we eventually chose w.
And that's about the whole of it ! ! ! Rice's input was invaluable practically every step of the way, and I'm incredibly thankful they agreed to be a part of this project w
Rice and I aren't finished yet, though!! We still have one more part left to this collaboration! Please look forward to a special upload this ZOLA anniversary! See you on June 20th!! đ
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