Cupids_Bullet ( 2003 ) Thumbnail Version

[geargail]

This version doesn't have Dialog / Narration Boxes.

After getting the Wacom Tablet between The Sims Booster Packs... I just went with the idea of trying to do a comixbook. - Turned out to be much, much harder than I thought - redoing pieces at least 10X.

Then again, learning how to use the Wacom Tablet - was like having to learn how to draw again. (( Loved My Old Technical Pens and Brushes )) Doing black n' white artwork is different than doing it in color.

[geargail]

Everybody who takes on doing comics wants to grab the readers attention.

Alfread Hitchcock meets The Simpsons is the best way I could describe this. Experimented with particular influences such as Disney, Marvel, and Japan Anime... what came out of my fingers just wouldn't cling to any of these well known commercial styles.

[geargail]

Over the summer of 03' - I was in a fever pitch to develop some 30 second anime trailer with an Mp3 soundtrack attached to it. I had Cable Intenet and just wanted come across strong. spent 16 hours a day learning how to put all that animation into iMovie...

unfortunately - the software was on trial version mode... It made the stuff done on imovie to not open correctly. By the time I redid the trailer - My Signficant wanted to save a few bucks by dropping Cable Access to Regular Dial Up. (( finances got tight - but stuck getting paid as an intake care provider... trying to keep some of them Yahoo Groups afloat somehow.))

Loading anything in Dial-Up takes "forever" - and if your lucky, the internet browser won't time out.... but only if you ever found a low volume of users.

Getting Cable Internet Access by the End of This year.

Don't leave home without Broadband.

[FaeLuna]

I was confused my first time "reading" through your story here, I mistook the werewolves (or at least anthropomorphic wolves) in the alley as being the group of humans INSIDE the restaraunt, transforming to werewolves when the waiter came back to the table. :p I thought that's what happened till I got to the humans in the story again and had to go back to figure out what REALLY happened, haha! :rolleyes:

I really like your wolf heads. :D

One thing I didn't understand at the end was whether the two figures in the last panel are embracing/kissing or not? I'd like to see this story again with dialogue and find out what's happening!! ;) ;)

I just got a wacom tablet too, but I'm having troubles adjusting to drawing with it, I think I have the settings wrong, I can't trace or draw and have the stencil consistently be where I mean for it to be on the screen.... :rolleyes: Any advice on what settings are good for starting out?

[geargail]

The Cop had to tell the Waiter - to not look at his co-worker's corpse.

Storyline turned out to be much more "complex" than my abilities to render stuff last year. (( too many things to play with on Photoshop & Painter )). My plans were to call the story "Virtual Dog Collar" which a Police Dog gets to field test this Virtual Reality Equipment... and is able to chase the bad criminals who turned out to be Stray Pets...

There's a few elements in the storyline past the 14 pages that needed a bit more help. --- At first, I was all for creating a Gay Police Officer, who has befriended the Waiter at the Cafe.

- - - I've written enough material to take a chance on it.

Unfortunately, the script is brutal, violent, and it makes people question if technology has gone too far.

Might need to talk to a few Freelance Writers to Anchor it down for content.

Temathi

[geargail]

Photoshop is harder to use...

There's a way to zoom in and out of the artwork - by simply finding the magnifying glass, but your STUCK with the limited size of the canvas board.
That, and trying to do a "ghosting" from one piece to another is tough to learn for beginners.

Again - Photoshop has too many menu buttons than neccesary.

As for doing .gif anime, it will work if you use Internet Explorer. Still, for some reason, I.E. is planning to do away with .gif files. - EVEN WORSE is that you can't control the speed of the anime piece, be it using Dial up or Cable Internet Feed.

- - - I found Toon Boom Studio Express - ( 2D Anime ) helpful in terms of looking for a very cheap art program that lets you use "tracing" onion paper from one "cel" frame to the next. You can upload to a .swf file which is MACROMEDIA MX, or load the images up as a movie file. --- depending if you use a MAC or a P.C.

http://www.toonboom.com - if you have Cable Internet / DSL - check out the animation, and how the software works... It's really much, much more easier to use than even, Photoshop. (( They have trial version that last for a month.... but soon after that, your movies won't work - due to some bug in the program. ))

Temathi

[FaeLuna]

Thanks for the advice, I don't have corel though, and I've been working in Photoshop since I started in 1995... wow.... where did the time go.... yeep! :p There are STILL features in photoshop I don't know how to use, or how to use well, haha! :laugh:

I may go check out the toonboom animation software, not sure if I'm ready to try the trial yet, with everything else I'm trying to juggle working on at the same time :rolleyes:

I like the police dog testing VR equipment storyline idea! I think you should work out SOME version of this, even if you had to do a pared down version.