So after listening to Shelter and the Pure 100% remix for literally over a week, I decided that Rin is indeed way cute enough for my 3ds. Of course that means once again spending a derp level amount of time on another 3ds theme. As always, the works are planned, so full custom everything based off of what I can find.
The main issue with Shelter is the lack of other resources that I can use. Fan-art is great but inconsistent if I blend too many of them together, the music doesn't exactly lend itself to being looped with words. And there really isn't any extra media to steal sound effects from beyond the song itself.
So the first pressing issue is the song. At 3-4 minutes long, the quality would definitely be shit trying to stuff all of it into a small enough size. I could either mangle the song into something that can no longer be accurate to sing to OR I could drop the words. Thankfully there are some 8-bit remixes that I can utilize on that end (at least 5 different ones). Surprisingly enough one of them was a shortened "Arcade" sort of version that really only had the first verse, which wouldn't be a bad idea to loop and drops the 3-4 minutes down to only 40-50 seconds. Unfortunately it's rather...lacking in comparison. So the current plan is to revise one of the other 8-bit songs to align more with the "arcade" version.
Images are also pretty lacking in terms of scrolling images, though that is pretty normal. There is a couple rather fancy images though that could be stitched together with a little bit of work....though it's more along the lines of visuals and broken transitions rather than a completely seamless background. My main plan is to have a render of both older and younger Rin, though whether to put them between changing worlds or in their respective realities or swap them is still up in the air. There is enough background to cover both the top and bottom screens if I wanted, otherwise I still have enough leeway to shrink down the entire thing a little and use that as a single top screen. Then the bottom screen is open for something like the tablet interface shown in the video with a little bit of animation or something.
Pretty much, nothing really set in stone at the moment and partly just resource gathering to see how feasible this theme might be (in particular sound effects might be a little worrisome without maybe supplementing them with some generic chiptune sfx). Nothing much beyond grabbing resources, listening to different versions, and initial melding of images.
The main issue with Shelter is the lack of other resources that I can use. Fan-art is great but inconsistent if I blend too many of them together, the music doesn't exactly lend itself to being looped with words. And there really isn't any extra media to steal sound effects from beyond the song itself.
So the first pressing issue is the song. At 3-4 minutes long, the quality would definitely be shit trying to stuff all of it into a small enough size. I could either mangle the song into something that can no longer be accurate to sing to OR I could drop the words. Thankfully there are some 8-bit remixes that I can utilize on that end (at least 5 different ones). Surprisingly enough one of them was a shortened "Arcade" sort of version that really only had the first verse, which wouldn't be a bad idea to loop and drops the 3-4 minutes down to only 40-50 seconds. Unfortunately it's rather...lacking in comparison. So the current plan is to revise one of the other 8-bit songs to align more with the "arcade" version.
Images are also pretty lacking in terms of scrolling images, though that is pretty normal. There is a couple rather fancy images though that could be stitched together with a little bit of work....though it's more along the lines of visuals and broken transitions rather than a completely seamless background. My main plan is to have a render of both older and younger Rin, though whether to put them between changing worlds or in their respective realities or swap them is still up in the air. There is enough background to cover both the top and bottom screens if I wanted, otherwise I still have enough leeway to shrink down the entire thing a little and use that as a single top screen. Then the bottom screen is open for something like the tablet interface shown in the video with a little bit of animation or something.
Pretty much, nothing really set in stone at the moment and partly just resource gathering to see how feasible this theme might be (in particular sound effects might be a little worrisome without maybe supplementing them with some generic chiptune sfx). Nothing much beyond grabbing resources, listening to different versions, and initial melding of images.
