Finally figured out the look for my comic, I wanted to get away from 3d but not so away that I could not use some of the rendering information rather then draw over poser print outs. Because the renderings now lok comic like I can also dra things into the scenes withouthaving to make a 3d model of everything. Well,I had to think, are the Aliens evil or good? If they are Evil, then I have no story, because that would make the Government the good guys. If the Alien are good then the government must be bad guys then, Then again I could always introduce another alen species that are just nasty.

too confusing as a image, the rendering and technic is good but u can do better....

Unfortunately, Mesh, I gotta agree with him. I realize this is more or less a test, but its still a little too grainy and forced.

ummm, i don't know, graphicnovel and virtualsite, i like the look of it. it's more the composition that bothers me. the alien guys (girls?) aren't sticking out from the background of the man's body, and that cup... i don't know what is it doing there. i also don't know why is he naked, some garment la DNA-stuff would suit him well, but on the other side i don't know the story. apropos story: you're doing fiction, ok? so make the govs good guys! ;o)

I have been trying several different techniques to acheive a comic book look. I think this is great. I would agree, it is a little grainy. As for the composition of the image, I got the impression that Mesh was just showing us the look of his comic, not an actual image. (That is to say, he just threw togther a bunch of images that were made to look in his style). Like I said, I like it. :) Jay

Hey I like it. The aliens look too cute to be "the bad guys" and I disagree with aleks. Perhaps you could leave the Good/Bad Black/White idea and make it a more grey area... like real life where actions are not driven by good and evil, but by more subtle motives. The mug's being levitated by the bird... I've seen your previous posts... hence it is relevant, aleks! The bloke with the hairy chest... ...OH MY GHOD IT'S PRINCE CHARLES!!!!! Good luck!:)

"...OH MY GHOD IT'S PRINCE CHARLES!!!!!" lol! a bird? what bird? i see no birds there...

Location Rosswell New Mexico, Wednesday, July 2.1947 Dan Wilson is sitting on his front porch, Looking out at the summer storm clouds that have been brewing for most of the evening. Mrs. Wilson steps out onto the porch carrying a tray of Lemonade and some drinking glasses, She smiles and says, " I made some lemonade would you like some dear?" He grins "My that looks refreshing, I would love some of that." She pours him some lemonade and hands him the glass. She looks out at the storm and sees the dark clouds rolling across the horizon, Oh dear, Looks like were going to have a big storm tonight. He sips his lemonade "Just in the nick of time too, The temperature was over 100 today, It should help cools thing off." A flash of lightening fractures the skyline followed by the sound of thunder. "Hey looks like were in for one hell of a light show tonight." A tiny little girl peeks out of the screen door being careful not to step out onto the porch for fear she will be struck by lightening on the spot. But she caught her fathers eye, Hey Little Scary cat, Come on out here and watch the light show with us." Another flash of lightening streaks across the sky followed by a thundering boom. The little 5 year old pulls her head back into the screen door. "Come honey it OK Ill protect you from the big bad thunder." She looks over through the screen door at her father and says "You promise?". Mrs. Wilson opens the door to go back in to wash the dishes from dinner, "It's OK honey daddy will keep you safe." Samantha opens the door and hurries over to her father. He pulls her u p onto his lap and she lays her head on his shoulder and looks out at the storm. He looks down at her. "Did you know the lightening has a secret?". "What secret is that?" Well, pumpkin, If you watch the lightening when it flashes start counting until you hear the thunder, whatever number you hear the thunder on tells you how far away the lightening is." "When you see the next flash count with me OK?" "OK." Lightening flashes, "1 2 3 4 5 Thunder chases the lightening. Sam covers her ears. "that was loud!". "How far away was it pumpkin" "5 miles?" "Yep, See Pumpkin when you know the lightening secret you will always know how far away it is, Still scared?" "Nope, IM not scared anymore now." Mrs. Wilson comes back out onto the porch. Dear, You have time for one more then it's your bedtime honey. "Ahh Im having so much fun, Daddy is showing me how to tell how far away the lightening is." A streak of lightening streaks across the sky, A bright glowing Object crossing the lightening path is struck and then falls from the sky over the horizon. Dan looks at his wife, "Hey did you see that!" She responds wondering" Could that have been an airplane? It looked strange." Sam pipes up. " That was a flying saucer I have seen them on TV!" Dan looks over at his Wife, You know, I thought it looked like a flying saucer too." His wife Jean still looking at the horizon, "Could it have been something they sent into space like one of those satellites like the Russians sent up?" He rubs his chin, "I guess it could have been something like that, Ill call the Airfield and see if they know anything about this, If it was a plane someone could be hurt." "Daddy are spacemen bad?" "He kneels down to her and looks into her eyes, Pumpkin there is no such thing as Spacemen, Now you go on to bed Ill be up in a little bit to tuck you in and tell you a story, But first I have to move the horses into the barn, That storm looks like it will be headed this way." Dan is moving the horses out of the carrel when something catches his eye, a flashing light just over the Horizon, He Saddles one of his horses and moves in the direction of the light to go investigate. He travels down into the ravine a few miles where he sees the object, The object is glowing and reminds him of glowing metal with blue light coming from it. "I be damned if it don't look like a flying saucer." His horse start to get spooked as they move closer to the object, "Whoa Boy, It, OK boy" The Horse starts to freak out and refuses to go any closer. "What's wrong with you Boy, OK, you stay here then, Ill go take a look It's probably just satellite." He sees debris thrown off from the craft and picks it up, He notices strange writing on the metal fragment, He also notices the metal fragment is glowing and feels weightless. He puts the fragment into his pocket and walks over to the craft that is sitting in an impact crater, He starts feeling scared the hairs raise on the back of his neck and his skin starts to crawl, He touches the craft the metal ripples like water and returns to it's original shape. " Well Horse, I think your right, I don't think this is a satellite." He kneels down and looks into what looks like port hole on the craft. He gets really close trying to see into the craft, Suddenly a creatures face pops up looking right back at him through the porthole, A face like nothing he has ever seen," HOLY SHIT, SHIT, SHIT! He leaps out of the crater and runs over to his horse and rides the horse as fast as the animal can run back to the Ranch house, He reaches the Ranch house his wife is standing on the porch waiting, "What did you see out there honey?" He glances at her. "Get in the house Now!" She watches him Lock all the doors and then grabs his shotgun and roots through the closet for shells, She tries to ask him again, "Dear why are you upset what did you see out there!" He answers her. "That thing we saw, really is a flying saucer with Aliens inside it, One looked at me, Scared the hell out of me, You go on up to Sam's room, Im calling the sheriff to report trespassers." "Trespassers?" "Yeah if I tell him over the phone what I saw out there he will think Im drunker then hell or lost my damn daggon mind." "Sheriff's Office, Yeah, ah hem, Trespassers? OK Mr. Wilson we'll send someone right on out there. He hangs up the phone and grabs his Shotgun waiting for the Sheriff' to arrive which then begins to seem like hours, Suddenly the lights go out, He moves over to the electrical fuse box, None of the fuses seem bad, He then wonders if lightening struck some power lines. He moves back to the living room and sees something flash out of the corner of his eye, He peers out the window at an angle trying to see what it was. A pear shaped head pops up and it's large black eyes look at him through the window. He instinctively points his gun and fires at the window blowing the out the glass pain, Shattering it into a cloud of glass. He starts feeling a strong sense of fear that threatens to over power his sense his hands are shaking and his feet don't want to move. He hears something around the back of the house in the direction of the kitchen, He moves slowly pointing his gun hoping his target will pop into view, The alien pops it head up looking into the door and starts making a scratching noise on the door. Dan fires his gun right into the Aliens Chest, The Alien makes a high pitched squealing sound and runs away, Dan moves over to the back door, Glass cracking under his weight, He looks out the back door window for a few minutes listening for any possible sound, Suddenly the lights come back on. He steps out the backdoor and sneaks around the house to the front, The Aliens are gone but then he notices his horse is laying on the ground on it's side. He walks over and notices the horse is dead and it's head is gone missing all it's internal organs, with not so much as a drop of blood. "YOU LITTLE GRAY BASTARDS, You just bought yourselves a one way ticket at the end of my shotgun! Dan is enraged by this, He jumps into his truck and fires up the engine racing his truck in the direction of the Alien Craft with his shotgun laying across the dash. Then he notices that the creatures moved a few miles in a very short period of time, " Damn, You little gray bastards are fast sons of bitches" He mutters to himself wondering how the hell they could have traveled so far carrying a horses head. "JUST YOU LITTLE GRAY BASTARDS WAIT, IM GOING TO BLOW YOU LITTLE BASTARDS A NEW GRAY LITTLE ASSHOLE!" The craft comes into view of his truck, He sees an Alien helping the one he shot, And throws the Truck into neutral jumps pout and starts taking shots at them, One of the Aliens bolts into craft, The wounded one takes another shot in the chest and falls onto the ground. Dan walks over to the Alien puts the barrow of his shotgun onto the Aliens head, He is shocked to notice the alien is still alive gasping for and clutching it's chest. "Well, damn, I shot your little gray ass twice and your still alive?" The Alien begins to make a strange sobbing sound, It's large black almond shaped eyes appear to fill up with fear. Dan puts his boot onto the Aliens bleeding chest, Glowing Green Blood flowing from the Aliens wounds and mouth ." Now im going to blow your ugly brains out all over ground here for what you did to my horse you ugly son of o bitch." Suddenly Sam is in front of him on the ground bleeding from her mouth and chest, "Daddy please don't shoot me again, Ill be good I promise!" Dan looks at her in utter shock, He drops his aim, She starts to scoot toward the Alien ship. "No honey, I...daddy did not shoot you, I couldn't have ..How..." Suddenly a flash of lightening, Sam looks up toward the lightening her face is bathed in the bright flash and changes to a creatures with larger almond shaped eyes for just a second. Dan levels his gun realizing the Creature was trying to trick him using the image of his daughter. "Daddy, Daddy please...., Please don't shoot me, I don't want to die!" He fires his gun His daughter falls over laying dead, then another flash of light bathes her and she no longer is his little pumpkin anymore, The alien was dead. He turns and fires his gun in anger at the craft but the bullets have no effect. He hears a strange sound the craft door open and something robotic moves out of the hatch, It fires some kind of ray gun at him, It hits his arm, He howls in pain, and runs for his truck, He throws it into gear and races back to the ranch, The sheriff is just pulling up the driveway. "Geez!, What the hell happened to you!" There are 2 sets of aliens in my story he grays are thegood guys and the dark species are the bad guys. Im not sure what you ment by grainy ifyou men te edges f the figuresthat because I paisted a bunch of images together to show the comic style, that is not an actual panel from the comic , I have not got that far into the sory to start writing it yet, I want to finish a few chapters before start the rendering and stuff.

The govrnment guy are good guys, but there is a faction of the government that wants to use wht they aliensare offering t make themselves very powerful. the aliens are peacful, you have not sent the dark species yet,they are they ones who leave billions worlds turned into burned out blackened cinders in thier wake. I have decided to name my Comic DARK SPECIES

AND? AND? C'MON MAN!!!:))

Interview with an Alien Interviewer - Where do you come from? Gray we come from a fractured universe that is in a state of collapse How was our universe created? Gray your universe was created when two dimensions came into contact with each other and reacted with each others properties, A proto matter universe came into contact with a universe of space, space allowed the proto matter atoms to experience space and then formed the first atoms of your universe in a cataclysmic event you refer to as the big bang. These 2 universes came into contact with each other as a result of an attack from the dark matter species upon my species dimension, When they discovered that they had destroyed their universe they fled into ours, we pushed them out of our universe and they fled to another dimension and stayed there for billions of years and then returned to this universe, When they discovered life evolved here, They began destroying countless worlds, leaving nothing alive not even bacteria as they swept through the universe they left a trail of dead civalisations in thier wake, We investigated and discovered the dark species had returned, We then dicided that we would need to build a cooperation of worlds and share technologies to arm civilizations with tools that would help them fight against the dark species. Interviewer-why do grays abduct animals and mutilate them? Gray-Are technology has many biological components that must be nourished by biological means, we must feed are spacecraft because it is a living cybernetic construct. Interviewer - Why do you want humans to help you, why us? Gray-Because your species is preditorial and aggressive and has creative intelligence, you are also very adaptive to new technology. Interviewer-Why have you been abducting humans? Gray - Humans have a potential to be telepathic, We have abducted telepathic sensitive humans and conducted experiments to see if we could enhance this ability in your species, it could prove useful against the dark species. Interviewer - Did the experiment work? Gray-Yes they are developing telepathic ability far more advanced then we first expected. Interviewer-Would you tell us who you abducted? Gray - We are prepared to give you are information on these experimental subjects. Interviewer - Why do you abduct intelligent beings against their will? Gray - You have primates of your species on this world call apes? Interviewer -Yes, Gray-They are intelligent and capable of communication and have emotional responses like your own? Interviewer - Yes they do have emotions Gray-Do you conduct experiments on them against their will? Interviewer-Yes, But they are lower life forms Gray-Does your species disregard their feelings because of intelligence or because you believe they are lower life forms and do not deserve the rights that you have? Interviewer - We believe that what we do will save human lives. Gray-We believe what we do will save a universe and many other species including your own. Interviewer - Do you believe in GOD? Gray - We believe in a higher state of being. Interviewer - Do you have laws or rules that your species uses to govern it's society? Gray - Yes, we have a code of peaceful conduct and cooperation. Interviewer - Do you respect the laws of other species? Gray - If these laws obstruct are goals we may ignore them, We Do not harm other species when we come in contact with them, When we do make contact the subject does not recall the encounter. Interviewer - do you understand death? Gray - Yes, Most of my species has died. Interviewer - would you share your technology with us? Gray - We can give you technology but we cannot give you technology based on are own, it is hazardous to human life and far too advanced for your mind to comprehend. Interviewer - What makes you think we could defeat this Dark Species your at war with if they nearly defeated you? Gray - We were not prepared for such an attack on our species, We believe that many worlds could fall in this war including your own, But we are willing to try and prevent this, the Dark Species will detect your world and destroy it in a matter of time, The radio waves your species floods space with will give the location of your world away. Many species that have become aware of the dark species are silent, they do not want to give the location of their home worlds away to this predator. Interviewer - Do you have male and females among you? Gray-We are asexual, When my time comes I will form a cocoon and my form will break down into genetic material, the cells will divide and my counterpart and myself will emerge from the cocoon after both sets of genes reform. Interviewer - Is this a cloning process? Yes, my counterpart is a clone of me, and will inherit my knowledge by genetic memory similar to insects. Interviewer - How many clones can you make of yourself? Gray-3, We can do this only 3 times the 4th leaves the group and begins the process over. Are telepathic network functions best in sets of 3 that is why you see us travel in 3 Interviewer - What do you eat? We consume fluid nutrients and energy. Interviewer - How do you make your subjects forget their encounters with you? Gray-We telepathically suppress their memory of the event. Interviewer - Do you know what fun is? Gray - We have a telepathic Internet it provides to us all the distractions we need. You have offered us a new planetary system with to earth class planet in orbit of a gas giant, And you have offered us advanced technology, what will be the price for all of these gifts? Gray-We do this because your species is adaptive, we believe you have the potential to help in the war against the dark species, We will introduce you to other species once you have put the technology we have given you to use. Interviewer - You said we are flooding space with radio waves risking detection, Should we stop this? Gray - It's already too late those signals will travel through space until they are received. Interviewer - Does your species have a sense of humor? Gray - We noticed that your species is amused this way, It is alien to us however we can be amused but not in the way your asking. Interviewer - Do you have emotions like Ours? Gray - We think in different terms then your species we see the universe in a completely different way then your species. Gray - We have close relationships but not what you call love. Interviewer - What makes you think that cooperation between our species and yours will work being that we are so different? Gray - That is a good question, We believe both of are species wants to survive and this commonality will make the mission work.