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Tuesday, May 21, 2013
Thursday, May 16, 2013
Alive, Staying Busy
I went into stasis for a couple of weeks after all that thesis hubbub. Alas! I'm back, posting things to this site that nobody uses anymore ~
anyways, I haven't put up anything about the comic I've been working on for the last few years or so. Mostly that's because I've wanted to make sure I can tell a good story before I go putting stuff out there.
I just finished a model of one of the main characters:
This wasn't for any real reason other than I had wanted to try this for a while. This also kind of got me excited to start working on the comic again. Basically it's about these 3 really cartoony looking robots and how they deal with some serious themes in this really kind of lush, fantasy setting. There are human characters, and I'm still working out the details of how they are introduced to the story.
The initial idea kind of happened when I was thinking of the word "spare" as both a mechanical term and a compassionate term. I had always loved the artwork of stuff like astroboy, cyborg 009, heck I think even sonic. old sonic.. the really cartoony one. But basically, what I was getting at was the ability to use really simple characters to portray and deal with really serious things like violence/nonviolence, death, weird family dysfunctions, all that stuff. Ah, I forgot about Ralph Bakshi's "Wizards". That was a big one too, albeit it has it's setbacks. Necron 99 will always be my favorite robot design.
Anyways, here was one of the first covers I tried to do for it. This was back when I didn't care about type, and all the robots were pretty much the same design but some using ~spare~ parts. (see what i did....?)
While the robots have changed, that villain is actually one I've used for a long time, part of a completely different story (warning: highschool art.....)
"Spare" Test Animation from Wesley Cathon on Vimeo.
anyways, I haven't put up anything about the comic I've been working on for the last few years or so. Mostly that's because I've wanted to make sure I can tell a good story before I go putting stuff out there.
I just finished a model of one of the main characters:
This wasn't for any real reason other than I had wanted to try this for a while. This also kind of got me excited to start working on the comic again. Basically it's about these 3 really cartoony looking robots and how they deal with some serious themes in this really kind of lush, fantasy setting. There are human characters, and I'm still working out the details of how they are introduced to the story.
The initial idea kind of happened when I was thinking of the word "spare" as both a mechanical term and a compassionate term. I had always loved the artwork of stuff like astroboy, cyborg 009, heck I think even sonic. old sonic.. the really cartoony one. But basically, what I was getting at was the ability to use really simple characters to portray and deal with really serious things like violence/nonviolence, death, weird family dysfunctions, all that stuff. Ah, I forgot about Ralph Bakshi's "Wizards". That was a big one too, albeit it has it's setbacks. Necron 99 will always be my favorite robot design.
Anyways, here was one of the first covers I tried to do for it. This was back when I didn't care about type, and all the robots were pretty much the same design but some using ~spare~ parts. (see what i did....?)
While the robots have changed, that villain is actually one I've used for a long time, part of a completely different story (warning: highschool art.....)
anyways, I don't have much else that's very solid to show. I took some quick pictures of the first real in-progress sequence with the characters I had settled on, though these are kind of bare-bones and I'm back into the writing phase for now. I want this to be gooood!
With a bit more time on my hands right now, I want to really hammer something out. Thanks for reading my crap, more updates soon!
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- QUICK ADDITION: I forgot about this one. I had gone as far as animating a scene I wanted to do really early on. This is when I was using the older characters, but I still like it! Enjoy :3 (hopefully?)
"Spare" Test Animation from Wesley Cathon on Vimeo.
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