The End Begins is an animated series I've been developing for many, many years. It's been a screenplay, a novel, TV series, going back-and-forth between different iterations over the last few years. Most recently, as of three years ago, it became a novel that I released for free online.I made no money, but that wasn't the point. It was a trying time and I needed a creative outlet and it always seems I go back to this story, these characters, this universe, when I need to work or something familiar. 

I've been sitting on the series for about a year and a half, trying to develop the project to pitch series. But lack of funds as well as time up till now have let me to hold off those plans. But I've been learning Cinema 4D for last few weeks and of course the first thing I try to replicate with it is the series. So I have written up a 2 to 2 1/2 minute trailer based on the series and will be doing just about every aspect of character and environment design down to characters environment and so on. I plan to do motion capture for the actual animation, to help speed things up when we are able to do so. Also to give more lifelike movement.

Today, I'm going to be sharing with you the progress pictures of one of the main characters, James Kesumare (Ke-Sue-Mare). He's one of those characters that's stuck with me for a long long time. I know him so well, I don't really have to do a lot of guessing as to what he looks like.

In fact, I even have a reference image I had commissioned last year to base my work off of.