OBSIDIAN SUN can be purchased through the following link:
http://www.lulu.com/content/2357822
Sep 23, 2008
Apr 27, 2008
Putting Down the Dog
So Mike finally got our test copy and is diligently spending precious summer hours ironing out all the minor kinks before we starting handing over the purchasing URL. Apparently it is quite a handsome volume. I've been meaning to post the cover image for quite some time now, but for some reason Blogger.com inverts the color every time I try to upload it, transforming its naturally luscious blue-green oceanic hues into a radioactive lime green abomination.
An omen? Perhaps.
Why do they live in a world where this happens?
An omen? Perhaps.
Why do they live in a world where this happens?
Apr 15, 2008
It's Been A Great Seven Months...
We. Are. Done.
Obsidian Sun
October 2007 - April 14 2008
RIP, comic. RIP. ... Until you rise from the dead to be properly promoted and sold next year, as well as sent to all the contacts we haven't talked to yet due to our fear of premature judgement. Next time, the word is ROBOTS. In colour, if all goes well. OS should be available on Lulu.com soon.
See you next year, space comic.
Obsidian Sun
October 2007 - April 14 2008
RIP, comic. RIP. ... Until you rise from the dead to be properly promoted and sold next year, as well as sent to all the contacts we haven't talked to yet due to our fear of premature judgement. Next time, the word is ROBOTS. In colour, if all goes well. OS should be available on Lulu.com soon.
See you next year, space comic.
Apr 9, 2008
Progress Report, SIR!
It's been almost a whole month since the last post and what have we got to show for it? Nothing we want to put on the blog, that's for sure, because it's all too awesome to contain here. Since we've been far too busy with the actual comic to update the blog, there's nothing to write here but our progress report:
-Currently finishing the inks on what we call "the fight scene" and "the ending"
-Finished dialogue balloons and filtering on the other 45 or so pages
-I thought there was more to add, but I pretty much summed it up, really.
We plan to wrap this up over the weekend. Where we go from there, nobody knows, but it's been a great experience and we'd like to do this again next year... Only shorter, and in colour.
Nobody says "to-mah-to".
-Currently finishing the inks on what we call "the fight scene" and "the ending"
-Finished dialogue balloons and filtering on the other 45 or so pages
-I thought there was more to add, but I pretty much summed it up, really.
We plan to wrap this up over the weekend. Where we go from there, nobody knows, but it's been a great experience and we'd like to do this again next year... Only shorter, and in colour.
Nobody says "to-mah-to".
Mar 11, 2008
Wheels Begin Turning
Recently, we've been showing the comic around to people in order to get some preliminary feedback (and also to prove that we were actually doing something and not just talking about it). It felt odd because we hadn't really shown anything until after Reading Week; we'd been creating in a vacuum the entire time, so it was very enlightening to see what people thought of our progress. Reactions on the whole have been impressed, and we got a lot of encouraging advice. People seem genuinely interested in the final product, which is good because it only gives us more of an incentive to finish the thing.
Aside from our friends, some of the people we showed were Mike's Illustration professor, Julia Breckenreid; a couple of fourth year animators of his acquaintance; and most of the leaders from the Sheridan Christian Fellowship who happened to be around at the time. Breckenreid is giving us some leads to follow in regards to our self-publishing plan, including talking to Kagan McLeod, creator of Infinite KungFu. We had a good discussion with the animators about comic books and the advantage of having two people working on the same project. Hopefully we'll get around to meeting with an Animation instructor, as well.
Ben Hu did a hilarious cold reading that I wished we had recorded; there's no text in the panels yet, so he was forced to make up the story as he went along (he was also good enough to point out some minor anatomical and transitional issues). To our surprise, his version followed our original script very closely. Obviously animators are going to be more well-versed in reading sequentially than others, but in fact most people don't seem to have trouble getting the gist of what's going on. We take that as a very positive indicator.
The original army of two.
Aside from our friends, some of the people we showed were Mike's Illustration professor, Julia Breckenreid; a couple of fourth year animators of his acquaintance; and most of the leaders from the Sheridan Christian Fellowship who happened to be around at the time. Breckenreid is giving us some leads to follow in regards to our self-publishing plan, including talking to Kagan McLeod, creator of Infinite KungFu. We had a good discussion with the animators about comic books and the advantage of having two people working on the same project. Hopefully we'll get around to meeting with an Animation instructor, as well.
Ben Hu did a hilarious cold reading that I wished we had recorded; there's no text in the panels yet, so he was forced to make up the story as he went along (he was also good enough to point out some minor anatomical and transitional issues). To our surprise, his version followed our original script very closely. Obviously animators are going to be more well-versed in reading sequentially than others, but in fact most people don't seem to have trouble getting the gist of what's going on. We take that as a very positive indicator.
The original army of two.
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