Welcome to my new blog! This will be what I use as my main point of information for a while.
I'm finally getting things under way and it's truly making me feel joyous. ^^
I have realised that I will need several different names for my career once it starts though, and this is what I plan on doing.
Firstly, for my English stories that I produce, I will be going by my actual name.
For my work with the Japanese audience however, I will be using the name "光鈴" (Hikarin).
Now here's the tricky part. There will be a different overall company name I use for my visual novel developments (although each story will remain credited to whoever wrote it) and over time, perhaps not all stories will be 100% my own.
This "development group" name will be "Sólás" (ソラス).
I will also have a "music circle" name which will be "Beat (Music Circle)" (ビート).
The interesting part is that they all (all the names, that is) have a connection. =3 If you notice what it is and can explain each, that will make me very happy! XD
In the mean time, I will be doing all I can to make this possible and will create several websites: what I invision being most popular, the forum. I will also be doing "歌ってみた" on Youtube and possibly Nicovideo too. I'll supply notification and links to this when they are done.
Now for another opportunity and introduction....
Auditions
So here is an introduction to the new development group I am forming: Sólás.
Solas will be my own group where we will develop such things as music and visual novels, but mainly stories. Each member will have different roles, and some may even rotate over time or depending on the project. You may audition for this group if you wish (contact me on hikarin.mknd@gmail.com).
There are several projects that we will be working on as a group. The list of needed people here are only those for a visual novel I am working on, and so if you miss out, there will be other opportunities to become a member (for instance, Star-niichan may need some more people in the group when he decides to develop his story further). Read the descriptions carefully and the best of luck to all!
Background Artists
While I draw my own characters and so on, drawing a background on top of that is a bit too much to handle and will just make the process longer. So, if you are good at creating backgrounds (we need both landscape, towns and interior images), you may apply for this. We may need more than one artist.
Renderers
If you are good at editing images to add great effects, then you may apply to be an image renderer. We may need more than one.
Music Composers
This is my biggest problem for my visual novels and the thing I would love to find the most. If you can compose music very well; whether it's using actual musical instruments or by computer, please apply! Having a variety of different music would be good, so I will need several music composers.
Translators
When creating my visual novel, I would like to have the option of reading it in a different language. So, if you are fluent in both English and another language, you may apply for this position. I would prefer there to be two translators for each language so that they can check with each other on how something should be translated. A third "back up" translator would be even better in the case that someone gets caught up with the hurdles of their life. Unfortunately at the moment, I'll only accept people who are native to the foreign language in question. Really, any language is okay!
Other
If you happen to think that you can offer us some other kind of assistance, such as coding or the like, feel free to offer your assistance and we'll assess our need.
The Members
Here are a list if the members at this current point in time. Most can be found on either SakuraHana.com or AnimeForum.com/AnimeLyrics.com.
Hikarin (writer, artist, vocals)
Star-Sama (writer, graphics)
Translators -
Bulgarian: Joe [SH]
Chinese (Mandarin): animeyay [AL]
German: melancholichrose [SH]
Korean: timj89 [SH]
Portuguese: DarkSign [SH] [AT]
Spanish: Chark [AF]
Turkish: melancholichrose [SH]
