So after weeks of contemplating, planning, searching, trying, and retrying, I've finally gotten to the last stretch of the SOSDan 3DS themes. Haruhi, Nagato, Mikuru, Kyon, Koizumi, Tsuruya, and Asakura all have "completed" themes leaving only Imouto left out of the original list that I came up with. As it stands though, I'm going to drop the imouto theme for maybe another time as an extra release. There are still parts that need a final look over and possibly a lot of remaking (particularly the top screens), but otherwise all of the sound effects are done, the music is done, icons are done, bottom screens are done, and most of the primary colors are done.
The pressing things that need to be looked over again:
- File colors within the folder
- Backgrounds inside of the "H"s
By themselves, the file colors actually aren't particularly bad, but yesterday I had a fantastic idea while looking over the currently completed themes and realized that I could do something like a color inversion pairing that I coincidentally did with my Haruhi and Kyon themes. The main color of Haruhi was red with minor blue, and the Kyon theme was reversed with a main blue color and minor red. And so I paired up the rest of them according to my own random pairings and ended up with:
Haruhi - Kyon
Nagato - Koizumi
Mikuru - Tsuruya
Asakura - Imouto
So after a little color rearranging, the only colors left to deal with are the file colors which I want to be the same for each pairing. This means that Haruhi and Kyon would have the same file colors, and so on for the rest of the cast. I haven't made imouto theme yet though, so currently Asakura's theme isn't colored correctly for the pairing (it would probably need to be a light reddish pink).
On the matter of the background H's, those are more along the lines of a re-evaluation if the images used are good enough and feel like they weren't just dumped in (which some of them were, hence the recheck). Some of them might require me to move around parts within the actual picture, which is something I started doing on some of the later themes.
In summary, after rewatching all of The Melancholy of Suzumiya Haruhi, listening to hours of the Suzumiya Haruhi OSTs, various Japanese voice clips (relying primarily on my anime watching skills to get the gist of what was said), and amassing 500+ MiBs of images, I'm almost done with my SOSDan series 3ds themes.
The pressing things that need to be looked over again:
- File colors within the folder
- Backgrounds inside of the "H"s
By themselves, the file colors actually aren't particularly bad, but yesterday I had a fantastic idea while looking over the currently completed themes and realized that I could do something like a color inversion pairing that I coincidentally did with my Haruhi and Kyon themes. The main color of Haruhi was red with minor blue, and the Kyon theme was reversed with a main blue color and minor red. And so I paired up the rest of them according to my own random pairings and ended up with:
Haruhi - Kyon
Nagato - Koizumi
Mikuru - Tsuruya
Asakura - Imouto
So after a little color rearranging, the only colors left to deal with are the file colors which I want to be the same for each pairing. This means that Haruhi and Kyon would have the same file colors, and so on for the rest of the cast. I haven't made imouto theme yet though, so currently Asakura's theme isn't colored correctly for the pairing (it would probably need to be a light reddish pink).
On the matter of the background H's, those are more along the lines of a re-evaluation if the images used are good enough and feel like they weren't just dumped in (which some of them were, hence the recheck). Some of them might require me to move around parts within the actual picture, which is something I started doing on some of the later themes.
In summary, after rewatching all of The Melancholy of Suzumiya Haruhi, listening to hours of the Suzumiya Haruhi OSTs, various Japanese voice clips (relying primarily on my anime watching skills to get the gist of what was said), and amassing 500+ MiBs of images, I'm almost done with my SOSDan series 3ds themes.
