So here's a new design for Wiki. I really like the lack of helmet and the bigger shoulderpads put against the jumpsuit.
Wednesday, April 22, 2009
Wiki 2.0
So here's a new design for Wiki. I really like the lack of helmet and the bigger shoulderpads put against the jumpsuit.
Friday, April 17, 2009
Action and Colors
Got this late last night from Melia, I can't get over how much the colors make Jay and Cassia pop. I also like how Jay looks like he's trying to throw a punch that won't take off someone's head. I had nothing to say about the color schemes. This is all Melia doing her thing, and I'm blown away.
Everything from the color schemes to their facial expressions sell these guys, to me at least. It's the rest of the internet we need to win over now.
Enjoy, all seven viewers.
As always: Melias' Deviantart page: http://sinspire.deviantart.com/
Everything from the color schemes to their facial expressions sell these guys, to me at least. It's the rest of the internet we need to win over now.
Enjoy, all seven viewers.
As always: Melias' Deviantart page: http://sinspire.deviantart.com/
Tuesday, April 14, 2009
Let's start off with ART!
I think I shall start this blog on an exciting note:
I've wanted to do a comic book for ages, but, being completely incompetent at drawing, things never came together until my wonderful girlfriend, Lindsay, introduced me to her highschool friend, Melia. Melia expressed interest in doing something like this and, liking my pitch did up some character designs for this project. Here they are below. Aren't they keen?
The plan is to kick these characters around for a few months until we maybe move to an ongoing online endeavor. But when I got these designs in my inbox, all I could do was gush.
Jay
Excerpt from pitch:
This is our hero in the most traditional sense. He's indestructible, more powerful than a locomotive, able to leap buildings in a single bound. All superheroes owe their existence to Superman, so there's no shame in any of this, but if anything, Jay is a tribute to the Golden Age Superman. That Superman wasn't omnipotent, didn't have X-Ray vision, couldn't fly, and existed in a harder, edgier world. That isn't to say Jay is going to be edgy. He's compassionate and smart and willing to help and empathetic to an absolute fault (but more on that later), but he doesn't have a Clark Kent personae like Superman does. The two entities aren't separate and while this means Jay never really finds himself elevated above the people he protects as a brightly colored hero (note: no flying) he never quite feels at home. He doesn't know where he came from. He doesn't know why bullets bounce off of his skin like raindrops or how gravity doesn't seem to work quite as well on him as the rest of the people he sees. All Jay knows is that he isn't from this brittle, cardboard world and he wishes that anything he has seen in the only three years he remembers (and he has seen some interesting sights) could explain who he is and where he came from. Jay can't feel pain. He has no one to love. No one can hurt him. The only way he can feel these things is by empathizing with people. If people around Jay hurt, Jay hurts too. He helps. He has to. It's all he has.
Wiki
Excerpt from pitch:
Wiki can invent anything, but CLASSIFIED. [...] his brain is wired into the internet, allowing him to call up data on any person, building, painting, body of water, fish, etc that he happens to see. His biggest secret is CLASSIFIED ironically, the science-hero of the comic will be CLASSIFIED Wiki is the kind of person who takes charge, only to find out that he is completely over his head. He spouts factoids almost as a reflex, as if he's afraid that anyone would think he isn't completely in control.
Cassia
Excerpt from pitch:
She's strong and a little scary. She knows things that make her a little more removed from the human dilemma (but minus Jay's empathy). this isn't to say she's sinister. She ascended, put herself through untold horrors to gain her level of knowledge and magical ability for a reason, but she comes back to find that CLASSIFIED. She's going to try to CLASSIFIED, and it will be intense, but ultimately futile. She's the only character with this extreme sense of tragedy at first and it makes her a bit disagreeable, but she becomes more and more integrated into the lives of Wiki and Jay and more and more attached to this brave new world she finds herself in.
So this is two days of preparation. I'm hugely optimistic about everything, but half of that could just enthusiasm. We'll have to see.
More of Melia's work can be found here: http://sinspire.deviantart.com/
I've wanted to do a comic book for ages, but, being completely incompetent at drawing, things never came together until my wonderful girlfriend, Lindsay, introduced me to her highschool friend, Melia. Melia expressed interest in doing something like this and, liking my pitch did up some character designs for this project. Here they are below. Aren't they keen?
The plan is to kick these characters around for a few months until we maybe move to an ongoing online endeavor. But when I got these designs in my inbox, all I could do was gush.
JayExcerpt from pitch:
This is our hero in the most traditional sense. He's indestructible, more powerful than a locomotive, able to leap buildings in a single bound. All superheroes owe their existence to Superman, so there's no shame in any of this, but if anything, Jay is a tribute to the Golden Age Superman. That Superman wasn't omnipotent, didn't have X-Ray vision, couldn't fly, and existed in a harder, edgier world. That isn't to say Jay is going to be edgy. He's compassionate and smart and willing to help and empathetic to an absolute fault (but more on that later), but he doesn't have a Clark Kent personae like Superman does. The two entities aren't separate and while this means Jay never really finds himself elevated above the people he protects as a brightly colored hero (note: no flying) he never quite feels at home. He doesn't know where he came from. He doesn't know why bullets bounce off of his skin like raindrops or how gravity doesn't seem to work quite as well on him as the rest of the people he sees. All Jay knows is that he isn't from this brittle, cardboard world and he wishes that anything he has seen in the only three years he remembers (and he has seen some interesting sights) could explain who he is and where he came from. Jay can't feel pain. He has no one to love. No one can hurt him. The only way he can feel these things is by empathizing with people. If people around Jay hurt, Jay hurts too. He helps. He has to. It's all he has.
WikiExcerpt from pitch:
Wiki can invent anything, but CLASSIFIED. [...] his brain is wired into the internet, allowing him to call up data on any person, building, painting, body of water, fish, etc that he happens to see. His biggest secret is CLASSIFIED ironically, the science-hero of the comic will be CLASSIFIED Wiki is the kind of person who takes charge, only to find out that he is completely over his head. He spouts factoids almost as a reflex, as if he's afraid that anyone would think he isn't completely in control.
CassiaExcerpt from pitch:
She's strong and a little scary. She knows things that make her a little more removed from the human dilemma (but minus Jay's empathy). this isn't to say she's sinister. She ascended, put herself through untold horrors to gain her level of knowledge and magical ability for a reason, but she comes back to find that CLASSIFIED. She's going to try to CLASSIFIED, and it will be intense, but ultimately futile. She's the only character with this extreme sense of tragedy at first and it makes her a bit disagreeable, but she becomes more and more integrated into the lives of Wiki and Jay and more and more attached to this brave new world she finds herself in.
So this is two days of preparation. I'm hugely optimistic about everything, but half of that could just enthusiasm. We'll have to see.
More of Melia's work can be found here: http://sinspire.deviantart.com/
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