The Merry Melony Production Blog

This is a blog following the production of "Merry Melony", an interactive graphic novel about a girl in a surreal dream-like world.

I'm Eric Drobile, Lead Animator at Reel FX Studios and cocreator of the worlds most fattening webcomic, Hatefarm. Hope you found this blog helpful and/or entertaining! If you have any comments, questions or crits, don't hesitate to use the "Ask Me Anything" link below.

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Quick environment sketch. It’s still too early in the story development stage to be locking down environments, this is more of a look experiment. This particular environment may or may not appear in the final story. Just playing with ideas visually because that’s what keeps me going inbetween doing research. The idea here is that this is Melony and her sister’s safe haven, in a (very) tiny abandoned observatory. One of the central visual themes of this story is technology. Nature plays a very important role that we don’t see towards the second half of the story. In the beginning, Melony’s world is almost scrapyard-esque filled with wires, tubes, electric parts, and other manmade structures. It should feel very dead, cold, and old. It all plays very important roles in symbolism that I hope to explore more thoroughly in the coming months.

Quick environment sketch. It’s still too early in the story development stage to be locking down environments, this is more of a look experiment. This particular environment may or may not appear in the final story. Just playing with ideas visually because that’s what keeps me going inbetween doing research.

The idea here is that this is Melony and her sister’s safe haven, in a (very) tiny abandoned observatory. One of the central visual themes of this story is technology. Nature plays a very important role that we don’t see towards the second half of the story. In the beginning, Melony’s world is almost scrapyard-esque filled with wires, tubes, electric parts, and other manmade structures. It should feel very dead, cold, and old. It all plays very important roles in symbolism that I hope to explore more thoroughly in the coming months.

  1. thecodecrimson reblogged this from merrymelony and added:
    can’t recommend it enough. Gorgeous art, and lots of great insights into what it takes
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