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How Blades of Furry Started!
🕑 Added 2021-04-12 03:09:45 +0000 UTCIn honor of finally launching Blades of Furry’s Patreon, we’d thought we tell you how it all started :3
This project started as - believe it or not - my (Deya’s) Master’s thesis. My topic was suspension of disbelief and I had to do a written research component (which involved talking shit about the movie Frozen for a page and a half), and a visual component that proved my point. At the time I was trying to beef up my storyboard portfolio so I decided to make a storyboard/animatic instead of a comic.
The idea was to come up with a REALLY out there concept that still felt natural when you watched it. So I asked Emily to give me some concepts and she immediately said “Furries and Vampires.”
I added, “What if they were figure skaters?”
“YES but make it dangerous.”
So.
You know.
A Gay Furry Vampire competing in Figure Skating Battles is what I came up with.
The video above is the final animatic! I actually planned it to be twice as long as this, but I realized that would also be more than twice as much work as I needed to do to complete the thesis and gave the FUCK up lol.
Anyway, I was trying to pitch something else to WEBTOON and it wasn’t working out... and I thought... maybe.... maybe they would like gay furries..... So, with Emily, we pitched that. And the reply I from my editor was literally “Oh no, I love this.”
And the rest is history! BoF is now a Webtoon with you lovely fans that are so sweet and amazing! Thank you for helping make Blades of Furry something than we never could have imagined~ 💖
Comments
Orangeish12
WOW THIS LOOKS INCREDIBLE!! Makes me want to see a full animated bof series!! The moment, the angles, everything about this looks so good!!
Collum
Oh my god- THIS IS SO COOL!! I can practically see it animated it’s got Tim Burton vibes to it which is v cool 👌
Emi
Oh yay!!! I hope your partner likes it!! ^u^
I laughed SO fucking hard at "figure skating, but make it dangerous" that my partner demanded to know what was so funny, and now he's also gonna read BoF =D
Pretty much everything about BoF is fantastic. I never thought I'd love ice skating furries, but I do.
Emi
It did! Deya passed it! ☺️
Midori Switch Hound
I love this origin story so dang much.
Emi
I don’t think it’s classified! DataDave and ThatCMonster voice act some Webtoons! I believe they’re doing a stream tomorrow! (Don’t quote me on that) ^u^
OH THIS IS SO COOL!! It’s awesome to see the beginnings of BoF as an animatic!! I hope your thesis did well!! 🤩🤩
Would it be okay to share the names of the streamers if it's not classified info? I would love to check them out
My gosh, this is really good. And well, this might as well become my new obsession :eyes:
Emi
We are so glad it seems so many people went ‘oh no I love this’
NaiDarling
“Oh no I love this” are literally the famous last words I had right before my obsession full-on bloomed.
Scruffpuff
Ooo, color me intrigued. I don't necessarily have set VAs for any of them yet; and seeing that makes me think it'd be kind of neat to have the community audition to voice little clips/segments for fun.
Emi
I have a LOT of thoughts about potential voice actors! Two streamers have been reading through BoF and now I hella think of their voices. I am always curious as to what other ppl think. 👀
Scruffpuff
This is so cool to see! Also makes me wonder who you guys would pick to VA these characters. :o
