Web Comic and Boeing And a happy song!

I have been working diligently on my web-comic. Which everyone really likes. Yey for me!
Here's the rough sketches of the pages, and the link to the site.

This page is going to be a special "Flash Interactive" page. Meaning, in the Mid left panel will have a button on it that the viewer can push and Galvatron will stomp in a 2 frame animate while Cyclonus is speaking. And the bottom panel will feature a sound byte embedded in the text. Where the reader can click the text like a button and hear the word.

Aaaand here is some artwork I have done for my position at Boeing - something different for a change.



And a happy little song - it's linked to a YouTube upload audio. :D

MINISTRY - TV II
Tell me something I don't know!
Show me something I can't use!
Push the button!
Connect the goddamned dots!
Live-in thief in my bedroom bathroom
Commodity, sodomy, glass autonomy
Promise everything, take it all away
Give it a rest!
You're lying through your teeth
You're lying through your teeth
Who what which why who
When did you say the earth would stop turning?
When did you say we would all start burning?
When should I make a pledge?
Should I listen to the voices in my head?!
Connect the goddamned dots!
Connect the goddamned dots!
......
Connect the goddamned dots!
Who am I trying to impress?!
Who could care less?!
Tell me something I don't know!

Sketches of more characters

Tiburon and Smite. Tiburon went thru many changes since I drew him last - a long while ago. I studied the actuall car more and fitted pieced on a human figure. So now he'll at least be somewhat closer to the real vehicle. I wish I had toys to base my work from like Floro Dery did.
Smite didn't change too much. Only in the fact that I made him less pointy. I remembered that less agressive characters need to be softer and more rounded, "pillowy".

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Legatus took a while to figure out. He took many incarnations until I finally decided on this one. He has a lengthy back story and he's featured in my Comic Book 4. Which isn't even drawn yet ^.^; I wanted his to be really creepy, but in some odd way - something the audience will grow to become sympathetic for.

OC Transformers for Comic book series

I've kinda taken a break from the WebWorld thing. I guess I bounce around a lot. Eh, it's a hobby - what can I say. I can always come back to it when I want to.

I've been trying to revive my Web-comic thing however. Continuing my OC's (original Transformer character) adventures from before. I do have a webspace and stuff, I should start actually loading stuff onto it.

Damn, if this stupid Blogger would play Flashs and not just video files. I've been working on re-hashing the profiles of my custom characters for my Transformers comic book. It was a good book, I need to make the last pages. I'll load them up - later. But here's the profile, and the sketches I'm currently jazzing up. It takes a while because I'm perfecting the profile artwork. Meaning from the sketch I am tracing over it in Vector/Flash because I want the perfect, straight lines. It takes FOREVER!! Very tedious ... but the result is a nice, crisp, refined piece that looks masterful.

I have always been more of an Illustrator than an Animator anyway. It took me a while to figure that out, but I finally did.

I also made these

I also created these. One was for the fun of it. These where made from screencaps of the cartoons and put together in Flash. One I used as a study of the animation because they had Galvatron doing a lot of things and action at once. And it wasn't just stock kung-fu fight poses like Anime sometimes resorts to. The other is from Beast Wars - the 3D cartoon, one of the 1st television 3D toons. it was from Mainframe. The same ppl who created "Reboot" which came a little before BW.

Quintesson Makeover 2.0 , Galvy CyberSedated

I made some mods to my quint makeover. From below, I made the brow more pushed down to make it more menacing. This is also a colored version of a updated sketch. A more detailed description can be found on ym DeviantArt page via this: LINK

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This is a new layout drawing for when Galvatron is cyber-sedated for his "therapy session".
A detailed description can be found at my DeviantArt page via this: LINK

So how do you make a sedated mechanoid ? They don't just take pills and konk out, they don't have stomachs - not like we do anyway.

I intend to make Galvy's optics less bright, and glow subtly on and off slowly as he is talking, till he snaps out of it. The bubbles are semi-transparent special FX that are for effect that will float around. The wires will kind of sit behind his head. As his head might move slightly to keep it from being statically still - and animation foepaw that is to be avoided as much as I can. You don't want to keep too much sitting still or it will look so limited it will be junky. Subtle movement is better than no movement.

Here is a piece of the project I'm working on. Like I stated before, I'm not in this to get a Nobel Prize for animation or anything. I'm doing it because it's fun!

This is Galvatron raving, in one of the early scenes. Like the illustration below - I think I put it on here, I made him turn his head at certain beats in the audio.

The Lip Syncing was the hardest part. I laid it out all piece by piece - I couldn't use a nifty lip sync generator.



Here is the LINK to the Flash file - it is resting on my DeviantArt Transformers Fan account.
That has more description of what I was doing.

I am probly going to be making this big thing in sections. At certain points I have it planned to work up to - then put them on the Interwebs for all to see. It's my favorite episode, needs new artwork. And it keeps me artistically busy. My day job is droney enough :P

Quintessons - getting an inpromptu makeover

These are a few more - I'm doing some remodels on a few things. The Quintessons, I want them to look more "The Matrix" style. Since they do seem more like those creepy tentacled robots in The Matrix, I think they would look more menacing in those designs.

This would have to be colored - but it's the same "Death Face" of the Quintesson judge, only with ym revision on the design. It will have the metallic greys, blacks and steels, with the blazing red optics and spots that Matrix style machines do. Below is a pic from Matrix Revolutions - a pic of a deaded Sentinel