This is more like an announcement than a idea since I've already started. Although this is a concept portrait, this was all done through blender; none of it hand-drawn.



*Design is barebones and not final. Not the actual color scheme.

I've decided on the first character I will make in the HD Mugen project. An original character named Ai, a half-American schoolgirl who fights in her school attire. Her moveset will consist of moves inspired from other fighting game characters. Her control scheme scheme will be made to be intuitive for easy play. Her personality is that of the "cool older sister" type while still being feminine.

More details soon (hopefully later this week).

Also, I've been reading a bit through the idea of having more anime in Mugen. I would love to do that through this (it would also get me back into anime). Ai will pretty much serve as a test bed for further development in the HD project.

I would also like to share assets between this and EF-12 (although of course they wouldn't be pre-rendered sprites in EF-12 it would be the actual model).