Saturday, February 4, 2012

The End?

It's been really a while since I posted on this blog.
The chatbox on the side has expired so all previous comments were gone.
If you are interested in my stuffs you can check out my personal blog which is more active - TBSN.

Back to the topic>
It seems more and more unlikely that there will be any new related works from this project.
All due to the lack of time and my pursuing of more original contents.
This project was first created with the intention to practice my animation skills, and the use of the superheroes was to attract more views, and also to be able to skip characters introduction and development and go straight to the plot and action. I did not plan it to be a series or a big project.
Hence, I was pretty surprised when people actually enjoyed it and requested more episodes to be made.
Thank you so much to everyone who watched and enjoyed SHS.

Back when I was working on episode 2-3, many plots and stories were thought out and planned, and many other characters were designed to be introduced later in the series.
So even though we might not get an ending to this series, I shall share some of the previous ideas and characters that were designed. 


CHARACTERS

 I had a sketchbook where I sketched many designs for SHS. These images below were drawn by me recently based on the designs from the sketchbook.


The Genbu VII
Although they weren't officially named in any of the episodes, and all we know that the main antagonist of this series are known as the 28 Mansions. But the ones that has appeared so far in the series belongs to a quarter of the organization, known as the Genbu VII.
Which means, there are a total of 7 main villains in this series.
The idea of  28 Mansions is from the Chinese astronomy. The 28 mansions are made up of 4 regions, and Genbu refers to the north region.
In this series, the 28 Mansions is an ancient organization that also consist of 4 regions, North Genbu(Black tortise), South Suzaku(Vermilion Bird), East Seiryuu(Azure Dragon) and West Byakko(White Tiger).
There are a total of 28 members, although we are just focusing on the 7 in Genbu.

Not all the members made their appearance yet, but we've introduced them in this blog already, especially in the previous post. The 7 members are:

Cazo (leader, sunglassed and masked)
Cazo is the leader of Genbu and the 2nd most powerful member in the 28 Mansions.
He always wears sunglasses, although it is a trend for the leaders to wear them.
Hembra's monsters, Timmy and Jimmy were both Cazo's favorite pets. But unfortunately for Cazo, both were killed.

Vaca (Tallest with tattoo head)

Vaca is the 2nd-in-charge, he is a quiet but powerful man.
In the original planned script, he will play a bigger role in the 2nd arc, where the leader of Byakko blames him for the death of his member. Remember the Green Lantern scene? A 28-Mansions member died there and Vaca was in the sewage as well.

Pared (blind-folded)
Pared only appearance was him talking to Lex Luthor. But in fact he is the most important character in the series as he is planned to be the main antagonist, who later turn against the 28 Mansions. A scene involving him with Ironman was scrapped from episode 3 and was replaced with the Green Lantern scene. The scene will be about Ironman overhearing a more in depth conversation between Pared and Lex which will further explain the origins of 28 Mansions and their plans. But we thought the scene might slow down the pacing and also give away too much information and makes them less mysterious.
Pared was one of the first members of the 28 Mansions, he lost his sight during an ancient war. He is able to manipulates time and space and has the ability to create his own dimensions as well.

Hembra (Purple hair)

Hembra is is my favorite character. Many people claimed that I created this character based on Gaara, a character from Naruto. This was in fact not totally untrue, although I actually based it on a real person from my school who has the same hairstyle and hair color. The Gaara inspiration is probably on the eyes. As for the seal making and summoning, it wasn't based on Naruto although I am a fan of the manga.
Seal Making and summoning is actually quite common in Asia and many films and comics does that as well. Hembra has a feminine look and feel to the character because of the mansion he represents, which means 'female'. The dinosaur Rimmy, on the top right was originally going to appear on episode 4, and he is the brother of Timmy and Jimmy. He was replaced by the more fierce looking unnamed monster that took on  Hulk. Hembra is also the most powerful summoner that ever exist, and his most powerful summoning is actually a rival summoner, who he defeated long ago and forced him to becomes his summoning.

Peligro (White hair)
Peligro likes to play with disguise, although he isn't that good with it as seen in the series so far. He is also the brother of Vacio, and the 2 of them are the youngest in the group. He was designed to be a little clumsy and stupid, but does alot of damage especially when he is agitated. His Mansion means 'Danger'.

Vacio (Masked guy)
Vacio is usually seen wearing a mask, like the picture in the previous post. But in this drawing, you can see him without his clothes and he spots the same kind of eyes with his brother Peligro. Although Vacio has yet to officially appear in the series, but he is in fact the one that is attacking the X-men. His ability is to multiply himself and also to morph into anyone, as seen in episode 4 where a fake cyclops and wolverine appeared.
Peligro is probably jealous about his brother's ability, hence he try to learn the art of disguise as well.

Sitio (sole female)
Sitio is the sole female in the group, and was the least developed character.
I always planned to have a female character in the group and she was originally supposed to be Hembra's character.



The Seiryuu Brothers

The 2 unnamed brothers were early designs and were planned to make their appearance later in the war. The Elder brother, the one wearing sunglass, is the leader of both the Seiryuu and the 28 Mansions. Hence, he is actually the most powerful character in the series.
Just like the Genbu, the Seiryuu is part of the 28 Mansions, and also consist of 7 members. The younger brother is the 2nd-in-charge of Seiryuu, and also widely regarded as the most powerful member outside the 4 leaders.
The 2 brothers has opposite personalities, the elder brother is more goofy and laid-back and often doesn't act like a true leader while the younger brother is more compose and serious.
Just like the other leaders, the elder brother often wear sunglasses, and he is also a very good friend of Cazo.
This 2 brothers resembles the Raikage brothers of Naruto, although I did thought of the idea and design way earlier.


The Bayakko
This 2 ain't brothers although they do share a relationship as close as real brothers. The one with glasses is Piernas, the leader of the Bayakko while the other one is Enlace, the 2nd-in-charge, and also the decease member found in the sewage by the Green Lantern. He was mysteriously killed and the 2 of them were originally going to have bigger roles in the 2nd arc. Piernas is a very fierce warrior and an unreasonable man while Enlace is well respected and popular among the other members of 28 Mansions. Due to Enlace's skills and power, Piernas feels that only another member of 28 Mansions can kill him, and believed that Vaca was the man who killed his lieutenant.

The Suzaku

They were designed to be a mysterious part of the 28 Mansions who all wears the same uniform and work mostly as a group.

Future Plot
The Superhero plot is supposed to be the first arc of the series while moving the series to more originality. Although there were plans to introduce more superheroes like Spiderman and Ironman.
The story will later move on to the Enlace's death arc where the focus will be solely on the ancient organization. Pared will later shows his true intention and possibly destroying the rest of the 28 Mansions.