Bios
I began my computing life on a commodore vic20 and I started playing with 3d ray tracing programs in 1984 on an Amiga 500. In these days I run on Windows7 64-bit with an i7 and 12 gigs of ram and 1.7 gig 295 GPU video card. My programs of choice for 3D is Poser7 Pro, Carrara 7 Pro, Vue6.5 infinite, Lightwave 8.5, Modo 401, Z-Brush 4, 3D Coat3.5 . For the 2D stuff CS2, Painter 10, Particle illusions, Apophysis206_3Dhack . So as you can see I have a huge arsenal of programs to get the job done. One thing I do believe in is being able to model and customise your own stuff, and creating your own textures, if you can't then you are at the mercy of other people’s thoughts. I never stand on the one spot for long I’m constantly developing different technique and styles from 2D to 3D I want to learn it all, and my best advice to people is knowledge is you best weapon, in being a better artist. If you have to pay for good tutorials do it, live on the forums this is the best free source you can get, and never give up.
Screen Name
Where did the name Midnight_stories come from? Well I grew up reading comics like eerie and creepy I love the darker things, and evil fascinates me. I wanted to produce comic like those, ones that made you think. So I named myself Midnight_stories.
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Devil Dog Studios
I was member of Devil Dog Studios, it all started with Christopher Haigood (AKA) mestophales , contacting me about doing morphs for the Manitou and one thing led to another. They needed someone who could do morphs and rigging, I may have stretched the truth a bit about the rigging, but don’t tell Brent.  They gave me the Creech to rig from scratch, and it was sink or swim stuff for me. It was a 2-3 week deadline and I had to learn quick there was no help out there, I quit a few times but the guys kept telling me you can do it. We got there in the end and the Creech ended up being one of the best  figures in Poser 8, well I guess that a matter of opinion. We’ve all moved on from those days but still stay in contact and continue to work on projects together. I have a lot to thank DevilDogStudios for and they helped me to become what I am today.
These Days
These days I have my own store and do this full time, I’ve streamlined character development from a month into a week ,sometimes days. I have a big base mesh library thanks to mestophales and Vlk. I’ve been doing more modelling than rigging lately so I hope the quality is lifting. So that’s about it. If anyone wants to throw ideas at me feel free to contact me here or at my web site.
Well thanks for looking and I'll see you on the edge, when the time comes.
All the best !!!!
From the mind on the other side
Midnight.
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Comments (13)
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Very striking. A well spent two years. By the way, you have great talent! It's not just about drawing - even in Poser you have to get the poses and the lighting right or you look like a bad drawer just the same. Your work proves otherwise. So sleep peacefully!
RocksLady
Beautiful conversion also the floats of the figures is really super!! The expression find really well made I!!! Also the Background the lighting and the atmosphere!! In everything class a Render which you with much love and work and time made there! Love greeting Rocksy
markon
Excellent work, I applaud your dedication to achieve this milestone. Poser is a difficult application to master, I am still very much a novice in that department. Great comic image. Keep up the great work.
ldgilman
A long 2 years...a very short 2 years. I like watching kids grow.
misha_d
It has a hand-drawn feel, which as I know is very difficult to achieve, great result!
fuegofeeton2
zero talent? that's BS dude. lol great image but I think the matrix picture you made before blows this one away.
chsmo
Congrats Midnight. That is a difficult achievement. You have much more patience than me. I loved your comment about "someone with no drawing skills, can produce a comic, and in about a quarter of the time a traditional comic can be done. So there’s hope for zero talent guys like me." I've been thankful I discovered programs like Poser & Carrara to allow me a chance to delve into the comic world. Otherwise, I would have to stick to drawing stick men and happy faces.
RBlue
Actually, I can draw and paint images far faster than CGI rendering when you consider making all the meshes and building entire scenes from scratch. I just can't rerender them over and over or rearrange things as easily when I paint them. I get the biggest thrill when an image comes out as I expected, painted or CGI. Much like what you just did here.
Conniekat8
Sweet looking. I like the inked look.
McAfee2000
very cool - nice graphic novel look - not my favorite look but nice
Elcet
Wow this is really excellent! I would be much pleased if you post a step-by-step tut in the Renderosity tutorial section. I have bought Elementalism-Material Things Ink II at ContentParadise last week, and also bought AdamWright Comic Style scripts (which have the serious advantage to work OUTSIDE Poser in Photoshop), but both solutions seem not very simple to use. I have also used Illustrator CS3 as a color vector solution, not perfect but sometimes in well-prepared images can works great! Any solution will be interesting, anyway what you have done here is extremely beautiful! 5+++!
MajinBoo
No talent? Come on just you may not be able to hand draw as good as you can in cgi but you trust me you have plenty of artistic talent. It's not just about the execution it's also about the heart and the ideas behind your work.
9841007
I like this one too!!!