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For those of your who haven't already seen it, this is the trailer video for DevaShard:At First Light , the first book in our comic book series.
Showing posts with label manga. Show all posts
Showing posts with label manga. Show all posts
Tuesday, August 19, 2008
Sunday, August 17, 2008
San Diego Comic Con
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My apologies this has taken me so long to get up, as everything has been really hectic in the last 2 weeks since I got back, but I thought I would finally put up something about my trip to exhibit at San Diego Comic Con.
Comic Con is kind of an insane experience! People call it the geek convention of the world, but in reality it goes far beyond that. No doubt it holds more than it's fair share of lifelong comic fans (often referred to by misunderstanding non-believers as geeks), however nowadays Comic Con goes way beyond the small and focussed fair to promote comics and artists and bring hardcore fans together that it was years ago. These days it is the premiere international bridge between the comic, games, movie and merchandise industries. An incredibly vibrant event, it is full to bursting with everyone from your neighbourhood kid, to the world's most famous stars, producers, directors and of course the ever amazing Stan Lee.
Walking around the booths you are quietly amazed at the unbelievable range and extent of creativity which is showcased across these 4 industries, with more and more often the original inspiration and creativity coming primarily from the comics field. Gone are the days when comics where adults only read in the hidden quiet of their spare rooms while their wives slept, guilt and enjoyment hanging equally over them, now comics are the driving force behind the most original creativity to hit films, games and merchandise in years and it's all there at the SD Comic Con!!!
Now enough blathering, time for some photos!
A glimpse of a typical corridor of the event. Now imagine 13 halls full of this:
Yours truly working hard:
Homer:
Star Wars is always HUGE at these events:
My apologies this has taken me so long to get up, as everything has been really hectic in the last 2 weeks since I got back, but I thought I would finally put up something about my trip to exhibit at San Diego Comic Con.
Comic Con is kind of an insane experience! People call it the geek convention of the world, but in reality it goes far beyond that. No doubt it holds more than it's fair share of lifelong comic fans (often referred to by misunderstanding non-believers as geeks), however nowadays Comic Con goes way beyond the small and focussed fair to promote comics and artists and bring hardcore fans together that it was years ago. These days it is the premiere international bridge between the comic, games, movie and merchandise industries. An incredibly vibrant event, it is full to bursting with everyone from your neighbourhood kid, to the world's most famous stars, producers, directors and of course the ever amazing Stan Lee.
Walking around the booths you are quietly amazed at the unbelievable range and extent of creativity which is showcased across these 4 industries, with more and more often the original inspiration and creativity coming primarily from the comics field. Gone are the days when comics where adults only read in the hidden quiet of their spare rooms while their wives slept, guilt and enjoyment hanging equally over them, now comics are the driving force behind the most original creativity to hit films, games and merchandise in years and it's all there at the SD Comic Con!!!
Now enough blathering, time for some photos!
A glimpse of a typical corridor of the event. Now imagine 13 halls full of this:
Yours truly working hard:
Homer:
Star Wars is always HUGE at these events:
Monday, June 23, 2008
Viilal - the life stealer
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The assassins from the spine of the world instil deep fear into the hearts of men throughout the lands of Bhumi. Not truly alive, they exist only to take the lives of those they have been hired to. Unwavering focus and unshakeable resolve leads them relentlessly towards their assigned targets. Only the sun god has the power to strike fear into the life stealers.
Viilal is a member of this ageless clan from the land of Shyatha and his target runs fearfully in front of him...
The appearance, movements, clothing, weaponry and expressions of Viilal were developed over sometime. Here is a breakdown of some of the stages:
Firstly our penciller Keith Burns builds the basic stature and movement style of the character through rough sketches known just as "roughs"
Then we develop some of his more advanced and unusual movements in roughs
After that, we produce more detailed pencil sketches of his face. Pencils are usually done intitially in blue, as it is easier to remove the lines later if they are in blue.
Then we produce pencils of his upper torso
And eventually his entire body
Then we move on to the inking stage, where our inker Ken Cheung paints black ink onto the pencilled drawings in order to add in shadow and light, bring out important aspects of definition that have been created by the penciller and in some cases, outline the strongest lines.
In this case we also experimented with adding in a little red colour to create an unusual effect
This last inked image of Viilal that we used for our Character Design Competition is both sinister and somehow amusing at the same time
Finally we scan the inked images into the computer and our colourist Johnny Tam paints the colours in using a WaCom touch screen. In our office we call him the Wizard.
The assassins from the spine of the world instil deep fear into the hearts of men throughout the lands of Bhumi. Not truly alive, they exist only to take the lives of those they have been hired to. Unwavering focus and unshakeable resolve leads them relentlessly towards their assigned targets. Only the sun god has the power to strike fear into the life stealers.
Viilal is a member of this ageless clan from the land of Shyatha and his target runs fearfully in front of him...
The appearance, movements, clothing, weaponry and expressions of Viilal were developed over sometime. Here is a breakdown of some of the stages:
Firstly our penciller Keith Burns builds the basic stature and movement style of the character through rough sketches known just as "roughs"
Then we develop some of his more advanced and unusual movements in roughs
After that, we produce more detailed pencil sketches of his face. Pencils are usually done intitially in blue, as it is easier to remove the lines later if they are in blue.
Then we produce pencils of his upper torso
And eventually his entire body
Then we move on to the inking stage, where our inker Ken Cheung paints black ink onto the pencilled drawings in order to add in shadow and light, bring out important aspects of definition that have been created by the penciller and in some cases, outline the strongest lines.
In this case we also experimented with adding in a little red colour to create an unusual effect
This last inked image of Viilal that we used for our Character Design Competition is both sinister and somehow amusing at the same time
Finally we scan the inked images into the computer and our colourist Johnny Tam paints the colours in using a WaCom touch screen. In our office we call him the Wizard.
Characters of DevaShard
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For the next few blog entries I will be going into detail about some of the major and minor characters that we have created for the DevaShard storyline.
As much as possible I will also be uploading artwork which showcases the development of these characters from the earliest rough pencilled sketches all the way to the finished people. In this way you will literally be able to see the individual characters of the graphic novel series coming to life from earliest concept to final realisation.
Please drop comments and give me your feedback!
For the next few blog entries I will be going into detail about some of the major and minor characters that we have created for the DevaShard storyline.
As much as possible I will also be uploading artwork which showcases the development of these characters from the earliest rough pencilled sketches all the way to the finished people. In this way you will literally be able to see the individual characters of the graphic novel series coming to life from earliest concept to final realisation.
Please drop comments and give me your feedback!
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