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Thanks Rook3 :) I am glad you like what you are seeing.

I doubt any of this will ever end up in 3d. I am terrible with 3d programs and just don't have the patience for them lol! But expect plenty more drawn art to come

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I live the ship concepts there .. and the project look to great fun

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Besides, I was just thinking recently about how much of a pain in the ass it would be to do a comic or graphic novel totally in 3D. I think animating a movie would be easier. With a both, you have to build everything, but with a comic, you have to position each piece for each panel precisely and render them separately. Plus, since it's a still image, you have to do everything higher quality than you do for animation. And then there's the post processing, trimming and resizing the panels, repositioning them, which could take a long time if it's a really huge comic. And all of that is before you even add the speech bubbles and story boxes. It would probably take less time to draw, ink and color a comic by hand.

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Yeah, trying to do a comic in a 3d program would be a total pain in the backside, wouldn't it? :P More fun to just draw it hehe

Anyways! Working on designing the cover for issue 1 now. Did this sketch up tonight and decided to throw in a splash of color :P

http://fc79.deviantart.com/fs44/f/20...by_jrl3001.jpg

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Interesting cover design. It tells you very little about the comic, but I guess that's what the inside is for. ;)

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Well I wouldn't want to give too much away huh? :P

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That's true. My comment certainly wasn't meant as a criticism. I think there are a couple schools of thought in comic covers. Some are almost (or even are) a panel in themselves and give you an idea of what's inside. Others are just a simple image or two to get you intrigued by what might be inside. Yours is definitely the 2nd.

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Never took it as a criticism man :) And yes the plan was for this cover, and probably the ones to follow, to be more eye candy than hints at the plot. I want to leave the interior art for the interior for now. though later I may change plans on cover design *shruggs* will see how things go hehe

working on the pencils for the final cover drawing. Note that this is on much larger paper now, so the top and bottom are chopped off...my scanner is smaller than the paper LOL!

http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b3...g?t=1236421543

in the process of sketching in cool details and such before I get down to inking it

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Nice. I already see a lot of details that weren't on the first one. :)

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hehe update! Inking is done. In the process of cleaning the line work up :)

http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b3...U_Cover_0a.jpg

also, the comic now has a title graphic for its site and the cover pages

http://www.webcomicsnation.com/membe...tle_copy30.jpg

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Nice work. I'd suggest cleaning up the edges on the lettering (they're kinda like sawblade edges right now) but other than that both the image and title graphic look great. :D

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that was intended actually. I had it smooth originally, but liked this better :P call me crazy but it reminds me of the title graphics on some of the old console games from the late 80's

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In that case, nevermind. :)

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:P

Well, we now have technicolor! Working on putting in shadows and highlights now. And the backgrounds not there yet either.

http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b3...ver-0_work.jpg

Going to also add a bit of a 'hair light'...yes photographic term here... to the left side, After getting into the coloring, I noticed that the main characters arm vanishes into the others hair with the shadows and dark hair :P

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More updates! 3 new page layouts hot off the scanner :)

Really had fun drawing these ones today. Getting to some of the fun ship action, which is just a blast to draw :)

http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b3...Comic/pg12.jpg
http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b3...Comic/pg13.jpg
http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b3...Comic/pg14.jpg

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That's some great stuff. :D

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Alrighty! the cover is FINISHED and has the tentative start month for the comic! I scrapped the original color work in favor of a different style, which I am liking a lot more and able to output a lot faster :P So here it is, the cover for Shattered Universe Volume 0

http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b3...SU_Cover_0.jpg

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That looks awesome, dude. Great artwork and color work. :D The way you did the colors really gives it that great comic feel, IMO.

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Thanks! :) I'm glad you like how it came out too. I just cannot explain how happy I am at how this came out, and how excited I am. I have been working on this for a long time (very slowly) and having this cover image done just makes me feel like I have cleared some massive hurdle :P

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Yeah, that's a big step. You're doing great work on this. That cover looks pretty damn professional, IMO. :)