Wow! Thank you for the comment Lord il!
As I've said so many times before, I'm also loving the chibi characters! It's funny, because it started out as a copy of those shots from episode 18, but it's evolved drastically in such a short time! I agree about the eyes, too. In fact, I was showing my friend (who I recently finished showing the anime too) the designs and he said Hyatt looked dead. I laughed and said that was perfect, since that's how she actually looks a lot of the time anyways :Epleased: In fact, just about the only thing that has really remained from the original conception is the scribbled hand-drawn backgrounds.
As for the font, it is something I found online called "Web Letterer" that I got for free from a site called BlamBot. This is another thing that has evolved. Originally, when I was going with the whole hand-drawn scribble effect, I was just going to hand write all the text (with a mouse, that is). I later decided it would be nice if people could actually READ what it said on screen, so I decided to switch to using that ubiquitous font that is used in every single webcomic/manga ever. I don't know if this is the exact one, and I think the real font is called "Wild words", but that one costs $130, so that was out of the question. :Econfused:
As for the sound effects, there are only going to be written sound effects. This movie is going to be something along the lines of AMV Hell, except with all Excel Saga (my friend showed me the first one a while ago, and I recently watched a youtube video of all the Azumanga Daioh clips from the third). So it is a series of short music videos covering scenes/ideas from the manga with music that fits the scene in whatever way. Since this is the case, I don't want to have actual sound effects in there since I feel they will clutter or overpower the music. In all, there are 11 segments and the final flash will clock in at around 5 minutes or so in length.
This is my fifth flash, but my first flash working entirely with non-sprite objects. As such, this one is a sort of "testing-the-waters" experiment. It's only going to have some simple animations and run at 12 fps. It's actually really part of the style of the flash. But I'm planning on doing a sequel (Excel Saga!!) that will run at 24 fps with much smoother animations, actual lip-syncing, all of the characters, and lots of other improvements. In fact, I've already started a little text file where I keep adding ideas in for the sequel. Some of them I'm super excited about!
But yeah, I'm glad HA1L pointed the Elgala thing out to me. That's why I've been posting these pics for everyone! I love getting feedback and sharing my progress! In fact, I have to stop myself from posting more screenshots as I want to keep the rest of the movie a surprise!
Thanks again for the comments!