Sapphire Dragon Studios Art Blog

Hello!  My name is Dana Corrigan and this is my blog of original art, fan art, commissions, inspiration and reblogs from other artists I enjoy.  I am an adjunct 2D animation/digital art professor and freelance animator.  Thank you for stopping by and I hope you like it!

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Live footage of me pitching Fate Saga at Tampa Bay Comic Con, at Exhibitor Hall B11! #tbcc #tampabaycomiccon #comiccon #indie #indieanimation #2d #2danimation #fatesagaanimation #fatesaga (at Tampa Convention Center) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cgrv2XxLr3t/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Some of my former students and production teammates came to see us at our Fate Saga booth at Tampa Bay Comic Con yesterday!! It was so great to see them! (at Tampa Convention Center) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cgri973uo0B/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Fate Saga is at Tampa Bay Comic Con, Exhibitor Hall B11!! Come check us out!! #tampabaycomiccon #tbcc #fatesagaanimation #fatesaga #2d #2danimation #indie #indieanimation https://www.instagram.com/p/CgpEFPzO40x/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Fate Saga is at Tampa Bay Comic Con, Exhibitor Hall B11! If you're at the event come check us out!! #fatesagaanimation #fatesaga #tbcc #tampabaycomiccon #convention #indie #indieanimation #2danimation #2d https://www.instagram.com/p/Cgmj_Ews7yo/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Fate Saga will be hosting two panels this weekend at Metrocon 2022! If you're attending the convention, come stop by! The panels we'll be hosting are below:

Friday, 7/15 2-3pm How to Animate in 2D (Panel 119)

In this panel we'll walk through the process of animating an action in 2D, talk about the principles of animation and industry standard software and techniques.

Saturday, 7/16 How to Pitch/Create an Animated Series (Rooms 5-6: Misc Panel Room)

In this panel we'll walk through the process of taking a story idea, developing it into a pitch and the process of creating an original animated series.

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Fate Saga's nearing the last 24 hours of the Kickstarter! We have 4 more slots available for Cameos - 3 non-speaking and 1 speaking role! If you'd like to see your likeness or your original character in the first episode of Fate Saga, check out our Kickstarter campaign!

Background 3D underlay by Amber Newman

Background Layouts by Kennedi Perez

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Fate Saga

A fantasy, action animated pilot about a young healer who, while trying to save her town from earthquakes, meets a strange knight.

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Fate Saga

A fantasy, action animated pilot about a young healer who, while trying to save her town from earthquakes, meets a strange knight.

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Fate Saga

A fantasy, action animated pilot about a young healer who, while trying to save her town from earthquakes, meets a strange knight.

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https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1603395204/fate-saga?ref=user_menu

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https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1603395204/fate-saga?ref=user_menu

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https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1603395204/fate-saga?ref=user_menu

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https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1603395204/fate-saga?ref=user_menu

I am excited to announce that we are already 50% towards our goal with the Kickstarter fundraiser!  That is fantastic, especially given that we're less than a week past our launch.  Thank you so much for your support!

So this is a sequence of shots from the first scene that were used as a first 'in scene' test of Larkspur's healing powers.  What I mean by that is I've done some tests in Photoshop, Clip Studio and After Effects on what her powers could look like in theory, but this was the first time we tried to do it in the context of her animation.  

While animating her powers was tested in After Effects and Harmony, we've ultimately gone with Harmony for the FX partially because it's a lot easier to implement with the Line Art and Colour layers (which lets us apply specific effects to her lines and colors independently, in a way that would be much harder to do if we had to export the animation to another software.  Thus, in general we're trying to keep most of the effects in Harmony itself. 

We'll be her powers further to the test in later shots, but I hope you like this one!

If there's anything else you'd like to see in a future update - demos, information about animation production or the industry in general, questions about the story or characters (if I can answer them without spoilers) - let me know and I'll keep them in mind for future updates!

Thanks so much!

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Kickstarter Day 3 Progress!

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We're on the second day of Fate Saga's Kickstarter campaign and we're already nearly 45% to our goal!! That's so exciting! Thank you all so much! <3

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We are on day 2 of the Kickstarter campaign and are already over 35% to our goal! That is fantastic! A huge thank you for your pledges and for sharing the project!

With such a great start we are on our way to meeting our goal! Every pledge on this campaign goes directly into the production of the first episode, and this will be such a tremendous help in expediting the process!

If you'd like to watch some of our tutorials, animation progress and concept development, you can follow us at www.fatesaga.com or check out our campaign at https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1603395204/fate-saga... !