The Mind Hunter (comic) ----------------------- Created: June 2004 Created with: - Poser 4.03 - Bryce 5.01 - Photoshop ==================== About: ------ When I originally created this I had a bad flu and didn't feel like trying to sleep with it so I stayed up and had a playaround in POSER. I designed the scene in my mind to have only two characters, one is a man, the other is a kid. I wanted to play around with the really low-rez figures that comes supplied with POSER. - Biz Man P2 Lo - Casual Child P2 Lo I just did a quickie pose with the man, saved him out as a POSER file and also an .OBJ to import into BRYCE, and then did the same with the child figure. -- Really quick work. ;-) This was originally going to be just a study on lighting and shadows but it later evolved into something else.... In Photoshop I played around with the BRYCE rendered image. - As usual, I can't remember much what I did now as a lot of it was experimentation and an evolving progress....and I had the flu then. I worked the colour richness and shading to what I liked but I felt there was still something missing from the scene. - I also wanted to further hide the fact that I was using the same man figure (posed exactly the same because they were all duplicates) and so I began experimenting with distorting and manipulating the scene image. Finally, when all was done it was not. As usual, always looking for 'one more thing' to do to a 'final' version image, I hit upon turning it into a psuedo comic book page. If you go to www.blambot.com you can download for free some great comic fonts. - (Read the conditions section to see if you qualify for using them in your work without having to pay a license fee!) - There's also a page where you can download a ZIP file of .EPS balloon files that contain speech & thought balloons. - The site says that making your own baloons is easier but for some of us I'd say no way, especially with a flu! ;-) Am I going to do a "Mind Hunter" comic? - Not bloody likely! I just like experimenting with different artwork styles, quick projects, and so on because I know I'd get real bored very quickly doing an ongoing single project. So the Mind Hunter will just have to continually go on forever seeking vengeance. Z. ==================== FREEBIES credits: ----------------- * Sky = Blueworld by ocddoug http://www.geocities.com/bookjunkkee68/index.html - BRYCE - (one of my favourites :-) * comic book font (TTF) = "Digital Strip" from: www.blambot.com (many more free comic fonts to download) (Mac versions available as well - TTF & PS1) * thought balloon (only one of many available) from: www.blambot.com Available only as .EPS files. (PC and MAC compatible) * the flu (generously given to me in June 2004) by: some git who should have stayed at home from: breathing in the same room's air ====================