Missing Seasons Dev Blog

The official development blog for everything related to missing seasons. Currently working on a chapter by chapter novel 'Missing Seasons: Equinox'

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Announcement

The Missing Seasons: Equinox novel is getting back on track.

A co-writer has been found and the outline for chapter 2 has been completed. A draft is currently in the works.

Sorry for the delay and please wait a little longer for the next chapter to come out.

Hopefully, with the addition of a co-writer, a more stable writing process, and timeline can be achieved.

To make up for that delay here's a wallpaper you can use with artwork made by the lovely Reysha featuring Kāvya Haniel and Alex Sutherland.

See her works here: http://reyshaboo.blogspot.com/

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Link to read chapter 1

A friend pointed out that I didn’t put up the link for chapter 1 on this blog. Woops. Sorry. I put it under the Youtube trailers that was posted here. Didn’t think to put the link up on its’ own. Here it is if you want to read chapter one of my novel!

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Uhhh...

I do this a lot more often than I'm comfortable with. SORRY, I PROMISE I ACTUALLY AM WORKING ON THE NOVEL.

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Missing Seasons

Presenting the Missing Seasons: Equinox art contest! Want to win a copy of Clip Studio Paint Pro? All the details you need are on this poster! Submissions can be made digitally or traditionally!...

Hi, art friends! I’m hosting a small art contest with a copy of Clip Studio Paint Pro as the prize! This post will link you directly to the Facebook post where you can submit your entries! Be sure to fulfill the submission requirements in the rules if you want to enter! Share it with your friends?  If this gets good participation, I can try to fork up the money for better prizes in the future! <3 Let love guide you.

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Chapter 1 of the Missing Seasons: Equinox light-novel is finally here! Watch the trailer on Youtube before you go read it for the full experience! Here’s the chapter itself: http://missingseasons.com/index.php/2017/07/09/chapter-1-two-drifters/

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Alright, here we go!

Announcing the Missing Seasons: Equinox novel officially!

Have a trailer!

Mark your calendar for an 8th of July first chapter release!

Share the word and welcome to the world of Missing Seasons.

Let love guide you.

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Also another WIP of Alex by https://www.facebook.com/pg/minlauren/about/?ref=page_internal This is part of a much larger piece, that’s going to be included in Chapter one of the novel! Sorry, I can’t show any spoilers but if you follow me or the artist on our personal social medias you may get a better glimpse!

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Have a WIP sketches by https://reyshalikesloves.tumblr.com/ These portraits going to be part of the promo material for the novel. Sidenote: The project officially launches tomorrow with an announcement trailer.  The release date for Chapter one is set for July 8th! 

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Sketch of a character who will probably only appear in name throughout the novel. She’s actually from a different story, but I may consider giving her a bigger role within the universe. Not sure yet. 

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Just a bit more work to be done before this releases.

Keep a watchful eye out for two upcoming video trailers leading up to the release in the near future!

<3

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Oh, just so you know the novel will also have external material that adds to the story such as audio trailers.  I’m editing the audio trailer for chapter one which takes place a bit before the events of the first chapter. Decided to give Adobe Audition a try since it came with my Adobe Creative Cloud subscription, really nice UI and tools right at the front. Made my work so much easier. 

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Model sheet update! Presenting Kāvya Haniel! Now I should add a disclaimer to the model sheets I’ve been posting here on Tumblr.  These sheets are just a reference guide, the artist who is actually doing the illustration isn’t the same one as the person who made this reference sheet.  And it is very likely that I’ll be switching artists from chapter to chapter since commission based artists tend to be booked months in advance.  PS: If you know or are an artist who does an anime/manga style fitting off a light-novel please contact me. I could use you!

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Sorry for the silence friends! But things are back on track now! The novel now has its’ own logo! It took quite a while to modify the project logo to have it fit with the themes of the novel but here it is! I hope you like it! In other news; we’re shooting a trailer for the novel soon within the coming week and the main illustration for the first chapter is underway. Everything seems to be coming up slowly but surely!

However, in regards to the illustration, there may only be one illustration as a lot of the cost for the project had to be spread out among so many other things like designing the characters and the logo.  However, I’m sure once the first chapter is out of the way, they’ll be a bigger budget to dedicate towards the art. 

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Commission open :3

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In talks with this artist regarding the illustrations for the novel at the moment.  <3

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Progress on the design for Kāvya Haniel is underway.  Once her character reference model sheet is done I’ll be using these to an illustrator work on the real art for chapter 1. 

Trying to budget this project properly. I want it to be pretty. 

Anyway, these images are from me and the artist trying to adjust her skin tone.

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Hey loves! Sorry for the lack of updates recently. I just got out of my final exams and I can finally focus on working on this novel again.  Some quick updates; 1. The first chapter of the novel has come to its’ fifth draft now and is about 70% complete. I just need to expand some scenes further and find the artists to commission for the artwork in the chapter.

2. In regards to commissioning an artist. If you’re an artist who does a sort of anime/manga style thing. Please contact me via Tumblr Message or email me with your details at [email protected] REBLOG THIS IF YOU WANT TO HELP ME FIND AN ARTIST QUICKLY

3. I’m working with my graphic designer to update the Missing Seasons logo for the novel; so that the subtitle can be included. In this post are four of the suggested designs. We’re working on finalizing one of them, it needs some alterations but these designs will give you a basic idea of what the final design will look like. 

4. I’m also working on the announcement trailer for the first chapter of the novel. Simple Music Video style thing. Hopefully, that turns out well!

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IMPORTANT UPDATE

I have acquired the rights to the song that will be used as the Missing Seasons: Equinox theme song and will soon be working with some film students on producing the trailer for the project! Also; I need to finalize chapter 1 and clean up the website a bit more.  But we’re getting progress!