Comments For Page 312

Ah, so Toi has fine mess armor. Strong enough to stop a blade from cutting her, and light weight too. Too bad Horese stopped the fight, it was just getting started.

I wonder what news Horese has brought back with her? Something that will send the girls on another wild adventure, I'm sure. It's time to shake the story up again. Who knows what weirdness will happen next.

I haven't gotten any response to my last post. Does this mean you're all fine with the comic the way it is or that you don't really care one way or the other. After getting one strong reaction to my comic, I would think I would get some reaction from the rest of my readers.

Hello, is there anyone out there?

Comments For Page 311

Toi finally reveals what's under her dress. Quite the skimpy outfit, I'd say. I wonder how she can avoid injury while wearing so little? Does she have a force field like racheal had or something even weirder. Find out on Wednesday.

I find it easier to draw these simple poses then trying to draw characters interacting with one another. I guess everyone has trouble with fight scenes, but I need to push myself to get better.

If I though I could actually make money doing this, I would spend more time perfecting my drawings. I feel like I'm spending a lot of time on this comic and not getting anything else done. It's kind of a catch 22, in that I need to do more work to get people's attention so that the comic will be a success but I don't want to waste my time if no one is interested.

Which brings me to this series of posts. I assume these were all written by the same person, even though the "name" is different in the first post. Notice that they were all posted at the same time.

Yes, I am over 35, although I don't know what that has to do with my weirdness. I was actually thinking that my comic wasn't weird enough, but a strong reaction like this suggests that people (well, at least one person) find it very weird. That's good. I was going for a very weird story design and it's nice to see at least one person understands that.

It's nice to get some comments from some one, even if they are extreme like this one. It lets me know that my comic is having some effect on people. The reason I allow anonymous comments is because I want people to be free to criticize me without fear of reprisal. I also wanted to make this post to let people know that I don't mind negative criticism. Please let me know what you don't like or what's not working for you. Do you think the comic is too weird or not weird enough? Should I add some muscular men to counter-balance the beautiful women? What are your feelings about where the story is going. Please let me know what you think. I only ask that you explain what you have a problem with and why. The above poster says I'm weird but doesn't say what they found weird. Page 309 (which would have been on the main page when this post was made) just shows Toi and Terra arguing. Is there anything weird about that? I didn't think so when I created it.

Please post your comments in this post or in the shout box at the bottom of the main page. I'd like to know what people think.

Comments For Page 310

The battle between Slara and Racheal is finally over and Slare won, with a little motivation from her mother. I think Slara was really hoping to drag the fight out but the message from her father forced her to speed things up. Racheal doesn't really have much combat experience, so the fight was really in Slara's control all along.

Monday will start the fight between Terra and Toi, and we'll finally get to see Toi in full battle garb including whip in hand. These two are both experienced warriors and neither of them has any reason to hold back, so expect to see an all-out brutal battle starting next week.

Nothing to report. I'm still not getting much work done outside the regular pages. Please show some support so I can get motivated to do something special for you.

ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Archive

ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Archive: Meta: It's Time To Support The Archive

I've been going to the ASIFA website for over a year now and continue to go there every day. Why? Because it's one of the best places to see art work and animation that hasn't been seen in decades. There is some great stuff here that you can't get anywhere else. By that I don't mean it's difficult to find anywhere else, I mean a lot of this stuff comes from private collections, so unless you know the collectors personally, you are not going to see many of the images or animations anywhere else.

Some of the best stuff requires you to actually go to Hollywood and visit the Archive in person, but several times a week you can find a post with some real gems in it.

Just recently the Archive posted several episodes from an early Hanna Barbara cartoon called "Ruff and Reddy." The catch was that you needed to visit the Blog every day to see each episode. You can still see the post, but the links to the videos are gone. I'm not sure time limited content is necessarily a good think, but it certainly encourages you to check the site every day in case a new gem makes a time limited appearance on the site.

I encourage everyone to check this blog out. You won't be disappointed. Note that the link above leads to a post that explains more about what the archive has to offer.

Comments For Page 309

Looks like Toi and Terra are at it again. I suppose Toi is still upset that she's only about half her size after Terra "fixed" her.

Did you know Toi has a whip? I've been meaning to reveal this fact for a while now, but the story just got ahead of me and the opportunity just never came up. It's hidden under her dress along with her new battle outfit. Both will be revealed soon.

Still haven't put up a counter. No one has given me any money anyway. Of course, I haven't given anyone a reason to. I really must do something about that soon.

Comments for Page 308

Oh that Rachael. Bringing a force field to a sword fight. Of course, she looks a lot sexier in the glowing armor then in the samurai armor but she needs to fight fair.

I got the glow effect by layering several colors at different transparencies. First a solid color (Rachael's skin color), then a blurred color (light yellow) and finally a gradient from yellow to clear to give the glow. You can always add more layers of different sizes and transparencies to really bring out the glow.

Sorry, I didn't get much accomplished again this weekend. I'm really going to have to crack the whip if I want to survive. At least I got this page up early, so I have some time to work on things today. I'll let you know how that goes on Wednesday.

Comments For Page 307

Rachael's looking sexier all the time, but can she really fight in that outfit? Find out next time as the battle continues.

I got the page done by lunch time, so I'll be able to work on some of the projects I need to get done. First up is a Donation Meter and some incentives. You may notice I added some Google ads to the site to try to make some money as well.

I'll let you know Monday how things are going. Hopefully, there will actual be some incentives up and people will actually donate a few dollars. I can only hope.

Comments For Page 306

Oh, that Racheal. More worried about her coat then her life. As anyone following the story so far should realize, it's not that easy to kill a Token girl. In fact, they get stronger the more they get hurt. Slara better be careful since she doesn't have the same invulnerability. Then again, Slara has been fighting along side Angel for a long time and may know a thing or two about her weaknesses.

Of course, the two girls aren't actually trying to kill each other. Slara's just letting off a little steam and Racheal is just playing along until she can figure out that's going on. It will be interesting to see what happens next.

A friend of mine has been moving this past week and I've been helping. I really should be trying to get some work done. I'm falling way behind what I wanted to have accomplished by the first of May. Sorry if anyone has been expecting those big announcements I planned. Hopefully, I can get some work done in the next few days and have an announcement by Monday. Sorry I haven't gotten anything done sooner but it's been one distraction after another around here and I really need to get my priorities straight if I want to survive in this business.

Comments For Page 305

Sorry for the delay. I did get the page drawn on time, but I slept in (first time I've done that in a long time) and had to go out for lunch.

Looks like Racheal lost her ring. What will she do with her weapon now? I guess she's have to lug it around like she used to.

Slara's armor is based on actual Samurai armor worn by female warriors during the Kamakura period. You can see the image I used below. The Naginata (a long pole with a sword blade on the end) is the weapon of choice for women. They usually carry a wakisahi (short sword) as a backup weapon.

This image also shows the woman carrying a bunch of bamboo javelins or arrows on her back.

3D Racheal

Here is another random post. yeah for time to actually explore the internet. Photobucket.com (where I store my Avatar and other random pictures) has combined with Meez.com and offered me the chance to check it out. Using what options they had (there are quite a few), I made as close an image of Racheal as I could. The only weapon was a sword, but it looks good on her. You can't change the hair color, so I went with a style that was close. There were no cat ear accessories, which was dissapointing. If there were any they probably wouldn't have looked right anyway. Racheal's ears are special.

Someday soon, I'll have to install 3D studio Max (I won the program in a 3D animation skills compatition) and build my own 3D model of Racheal. Until then, enjoy this image.

Titian style "oil" painting

Shepherd and Maiden

I don't normally post on the weekend, but I put this painting up on DeviantART and I thought you might like to see it. As usual, click on the image to see the full size version.

This painting was done in the style of Titian, a sixteenth centure Italian painter. I used several backgrounds from his paintings and added the girl and boy, who are wearing clothing from Titian's paintings as well.

The painting was done using ArtRage2, an art program that mimics really painting. There are no fills or gradents used. Just brushes and a paint scraper to mix the colors. The ability to zoom in as far as you want really helped in getting all the details right.

Comments For Page 304

Look at the panel in the bottom left corner. It's been a while since I drew Racheal in her full armor. She got rid of the armor because it was heavy and out of place in the arena where everyone else was wearing beach wear.

When I went over the old images of Racheal, I noticed that her ears were a lot smaller in the beginning. I think she is becoming more cat like as time progresses. Of course, when she learns to transform she'll be much more cat like, but that won't be for a while yet.

Not much to report here. All is quiet as I head into the weekend. You'll get to see Slara in full armor on Monday, and I hope to have some other changes in place as well. Stay tooned.

Comments For Page 302 and 303

Sorry for not posting. As usual, coming home has messed up my schedule and it's taking me a while to get organized again. Hopefully, I'll be back on track from now on.

Page 302 has Slara confronting Racheal about her fight with Slara's brother. At the end it seems that Slara is going to fight Racheal herself.



Page 303 shows that not only is Slara going to fight Racheal, she is going to do it in full armor.

Racheal isn't too concerned since she has her own weapon. Long time readers will recognice the battle axe she carries although it hasn't yet been explained where she got that ring. That will finially be reveiled in Friday's page, as the judge is going to want to know that as well.

As I said, I'm home now. I'll be looking for ways to support myself in the coming months, so I plan to spend the weekend overhalling the site and putting in an animated counter to keep track of any money that comes my way. I'll be putting incentives in place to encourage support and I'll be posting on other websites in order to gain support. If anyone has any ideas, please let me know. I really want to make a go of this.

Sorry for the delay

Hello everyone, sorry for not posting the last few days. Things have been crazy with getting all my work done and doing our make-up presentation at the last minute; then packing and the long trip home. I'm going to spend the weekend recovering and start fresh Monday. Wheither Monday's page is delayed or not will depend on how much I've recovered by Sunday evening. There will definately be a new page by the end of the day Monday, as I will be working full time on the webpage from now on. I'm doing some freelance work to help make ends meet, but I shouldn't have any more problems posting the page regularly. That is, assuming I don't have any more account problems or computer failures like I've had in the past.

Just so it's not a complete loss, here is the final animation project me and six other students worked on. I still laugh at it and I must have watched it at least a hundred times. You're luckly you get to watch the finished version with fresh eyes. I envy you.

Comments For Page 300 and Page 301

I must be tired. I completely forgot to put page 300 up on the blog. I had the page on my website early, but had so much work to do, I forgot all about puting it on the blog as well. Hopefully most people check the main website (Dungeonwarden.com) over this one. This site is more stable, so if my main site comes down, here's where you can come to find out why.

I made a nice big image for page 300, but no more content. When I have more time (hopefully starting next week), I'll put more effort into making each page look good and have lots of content. I need to practice drawing lots of different things.

Page 301 comtinues the story a bit more. Looks like Slara isn't too happy about the fight. It is an official battle, so there's not much she can do about it, or is there? Come back Friday and see what Slara does next.

Comments For Page 299

A little late, but still got it done on time. I like the colors on that painting in panel 1, it really lightens up the room. The sunlight through the window is a nice touch as well.

Monday is the big number 300. Expect an extra large picture like page 200 was. I have a lot of work to do before the end of term, but I hope to be able to get it much of it done this weekend. Knowing me, I supect that won't happen. Page 300 might be late if that's the case, but it will be up on Monday sometime.

Comments For April 11, 2007

Here is a nice picture I did in Life Drawing class to use as a filler since I'm way to busy getting projects done to even think of working on my web comic. The rider is a model wearing home-made armor (it is made with iron chainmail and inpact plastic plates). The horse is my own design. The model was actually sitting on wooden boxes.

The good news is that starting next week, I should be working on my comic full time. That means better art work and more of it. I may even start animating some of my stories. I also plan to redo the begining of the story and print it so you can buy a hard-copy version with a new full-color glossy cover. I have other plans in the work as well, so stay tooned.

Of course, working on the comic full-time means I need to find a way to make money. If anyone has any ideas, let me know. I've be checking other web comics to see how they make money and I will likely use some of their ideas here as well. Starting May first, I'll show a monthly total of how much money I've made along with an animation of one or more of the characters.

Comments For Page 298

Racheal's impusiveness has gotten her in trouble again. She really should have waited to see how everyone else responded before accepting a challenge like that. Oh well, maybe she'll know better next time - but don't bet on it.

I wanted to get a lot of work done this weekend, but I didn't get much done at all. Hopefully, I'll do better tomorrow. It doesn't look good for getting a new page up Wednesday, so expect a filler. I should have a new page on Friday, though it might be late.

One more stressful week and then I can take a break. Soon I'll have to make some money if I want to survive. You'll help me out right?

Comments For Page 297

Today's page has a touch of traditional Japanese garb mixed into the fantasy elements. I'm actually guite amazed that it actually works. I hope you like the style.

The Fox girl (Kitsune) referee looks pretty good considering I only spend an hour or so working the image. I some times am amazed at my own art work. Of course, there are things I don't like, but I really can't spend a lot of time worrying about small details. The overall look is nice and that's all that matters.

Expect a little craziness for a while has Racheal gets mixed up with a culture she doesn't understand. It will all lead up to the spectactual 300th page, which I'll do after the school term ends.

Keep on reading.

Bardsworth's fan art

Here is the fan art I did for the Bardsworth web comic. The characters are (from left to right): Keira, Mike, Fawn, and Francis.

In case it's not clear, Keira was about to give Mike one of her famous iron-grip hugs when Francis came in with a plate of cookies. Mike (who was siting on his knees) leap forward to get the cookies and thus avoided the hug. Fawn, who is the jealous type, is both happy Keira missed and amused at Mike's obvious cookie obsession. Francis is just happy to be of service and doesn't really understand what's going on (or at least doesn't act like he does).

I planned to do a filler today and next Wednesday in order to make more time for school work. However, this picture took as long to create as a normal page of my comic does, so I didn't really save much time at all. Depending on what's going on next Wednesday, I might do a quick (non-color) filler or just do a regular page.

In the future (after I graduate), I want to do some more fan art for the many (check the links) web comics I read regularly.

Comments For Page 296

Here is a nice pastoral scene with the ARW woman. Too bad those hippomen had to come and spoil it.

Find out what happens Friday (hopefully I'll be able to post Friday even though it's a holiday). On Wednesday, I'll have a filler of Bardsworth (see last post). This will be full-color fan art so I think you'll enjoy it.

If anyone has any suggestions for other fillers I can do, let me know. I want to do another filler for next Wednesday as well.

I didn't get much done this weekend beyond this page so I'm going to have to work hard this week to keep up. Expect to see some good stuff soon.

Comments For Page 295

Sorry to be posting late again. Things just aren't going as planned. There isn't enough time in the day to get everything done and somethings got to give. Unfortunately that means I need to post poorer quality pages or put in a few fillers so I have more time for my school work. The term will be over in three weeks - not much time to do everything I need to get done.

In order to make the fillers meaningful, I'm thinking of doing a page of other people's characters and sending it to them. With luck they'll put the picture up on their site and people will come check me out. I really need to get more traffic on my site and this is one way that might work. At least it will give me practice drawing other people's characters, which is a great way to develop your own style.

If I don't do fillers, Page 300 will hit right when many of my projects are due. By doing a few fillers, I can push the page into the next week where I'll have more time to do a good job on it. It's a win-win for me that way. If anyone has a character they want me to draw, then I can give a few of my loyal readers a gift as well. Everyone wins!

The way it looks now, Monday will be a regular page. Wednesday will be a filler (It owe Bardsworth a picture for taking his mini-posting window idea and putting it on my own site). Friday is a holiday (Good Friday) So we'll see what happens there. Easter Monday should be a regular page. The following Wednesday will be a filler and that Friday will probably be a filler as well. After that, I should be able to post regularly again.

Comments For Page 294

Yeah, another late entry. Wednesdays are just not good days to get anything done. I really should have started this sooner, but well, I do have school work that needs to get done as too.

How do you like the girl on girl action in the second panel? Okay, so maybe it's not really that erotic, it's still kind of neat to draw.

Note that Racheal's not in the pile because she knows better then to stand under the portal. Ann has wings. So that only leaves Toi. Were is Toi? You don't suppose she's under Bunny, do you? Find out on Friday.

I got my rough 3D animation done, so now I just need to put in a few walk cycles and some lip sync and it will be good to go. Well, there are some other movements that need to be smoothed out and the lighting fixed and, well you can mess with the animation for hours if you wanted to. There is only a few weeks left of classes so I really need to get moving on the project.

See you on Friday.

Comments For Page 293

I got both the new page and a new card up today. I'm doing pretty good so far. We'll see what happens Wednesday. I hope to keep ahead of my work so I can get stuff done, but who knows what will happen.

I seem to spend a lot of time drawing these nice looking static pictures. I really should spend more time animating. Being a good artist is a good thing, but animating drawings is a whole new ball game.

Give me a vote this week and get a nice Obitckert picture and some stats about him. Next week I'll do the elf. Lots of new information about him to find out.

Comments For Page 292

Here's page 292 - soon to be 291 since technically this page should come before the last one. I'll wait until I post on Monday to switch the pages so that everyone will get a change to view the current page before I switch them around.

Anyone following the story will recognise the scenes shown in panels 2 and three. I'd link to the pages, but I don't know if it's worth sending people to the old pages. If you're really interested, it happens pretty early in the archives, so take a look.

Aaaaaaaaagh! I hate my server

Recently my web server put in a new computer to take care of the heavy traffic load, which in itself is great. The problem is that the new computer locks out any ISP address the it doesn't like - and it only takes one little mistake for it to hate you. When I went home I couldn't get on the site at all because the computer hates my home address due due to the many problems trying to log in. Now I just messed up my school account and I can't post from school either. This is so frustrating. Who ever heard of a system totally locking out an entire ISP account because on ONE error. Three errors maybe, but one? I mean if it just closed you out for an hour or even a day, okay. But locking you out forever because of one little mistake? That's just insane.

I can contact them and get it fixed, but for some reason I can never log in from home now. The only reason I could post at all is that I can get in the back door by logging into the control panel. However, at school the control panel has always been locked out by the schools computers. I'm sure it's some firewall issue, since I can't use control panels from any other server either (I edit a site for someone else as well).

* update*

I got an email this afternoon stating that they have changed the FTP site it make it easier to log on, so hopefully this problem will not occur again. If it does, they say they will replace the firewall with one that is a little less temperamental. I can upload to my site now, so that problem was taken care of at least. I hope this won't occur again, but we'll see....

Comments for Page 290

Sorry for the delay putting this page up here. It's been on my main site since Sunday night but I forgot to post it here because of all the work I need to do to make up for the lack of production over the break.

I tried messing around with the design of the wall to make it stand out more without distracting from the main images. Slara looks ready for action in the last panel. That took a bit of work to do.

I'm not sure how long Slara's dress is supposed to be. It looks above the knee in panel 4, but below the knee in panel 5. I'll split the difference and make it knee length in the future. That's the problem with drawing without a reference, things can change sizes and lengths on you if you're not careful.



Comments For Page 291

I know I said that 292 would be the next cover page - and it would be if I followed the story, but I'm just so busy right now, I figured it would make more sense to do the cover now and post a full page in Friday when I'd have more time to work on it.

I'm working on a Renaissance-like painting for life drawing class and used some of the elements from the design work here. This picture actually didn't take that long to put together despite the detail. I like the way the shadows turned out.

Comments For Page 289

Now why is Slara so uptight, I wonder. Find out on Monday when it's finally revealed why the group is in such a hurry to get to Slara's home.

Like the subway train in panel one? See I can do nice backgrounds if I put my mind to it. I suppose I could have reused the train in the other panels instead of leaving them blank, but most of the panels are pretty full as it is and I think it would have been distracting.

Since I'm headed back to school Monday, I'm going to have to find a way to speed up the process of making each page which means I won't be doing too many more backgrounds for a while. Either that, or the whole page will be a background with a few characters and nothing else (similar to what I did on Page 278 - Mega Mall (this is basically the cover for the chapter about the mall, which is just finishing up). Page 292 on Friday will likely be a full page cover showing Slara's homeworld. I need to plan for page 300 to be something special as well. Maybe I'll do a double-page spread like page 200. It will likely depend on how busy I am at the time.

I'll be done school at the end of next month, so if I don't have a job by then you can expect to see a lot more effort put into these pages. Keep reading and I'll keep posting.

Comments For Page 288

Here is the newest page. Racheal is one sly woman, or maybe she's just a little crazy. Either way she had Suzy confused long enough for Ann to come to the rescue.

These high quality comic pages are really taking a lot of my valuable time. Once I get the new outfits drawn a few times, I should be faster at this, but it's really taking a long time to get the look just right. I suppose that's why a lot of artists never change they characters look. Although, I heard that the real reason is that most artists only have one male face and one female face, so the only way to tell characters apart is with their clothes and hair styles.

I suppose it's true that I don't have a set face for each girl, but they are so different in other ways, you can still tell then apart. Ann's one eye is bigger then anyone else's as well, so she'd look different even without the horns. Horese, Bunny, Toi, and Racheal all have noses that reflex what animal they are. The only two that look similar are Angel and Terra, since they both have human features. Terra does look younger then Angel, so I try to keep that in mind when drawing the two of them. Terra is however much older then Angel (older then all the characters except Horese) and has some control of her appearance as well.

I'm really going to try to get some voting incentives done up this week, so I can start putting them up next week. This is your last chance to get the current incentive, though I'm sure anyone who cares has it already. Keep those votes coming.

Comments For Page 287

Look! A new bigger thumbnail image. Now you can see more detail without having to open the web page with the full size image on it.

I was really late putting the page up today. I could blame my service provider for putting new security on their servers so that I need to register any ISP's I use. Since I'm home for March Break, I need to set up my home computer. When I get a job and move somewhere else, I'll have to register that ISP as well. It is a bit annoying.

However, the truth is I was taking it easy this weekend and didn't even look at my webcomic until Sunday night. It took most of the evening just to set Manga Studio up in the new format, so I really didn't start drawing the comic until today. It was just my luck that it would take most of the day to draw and color everything while making adjustments as I went, so it was after supper before the page was finished.

Wednesday's page will be on time, since I'm going to start it early tomorrow. Hopefully, I've gotten most of the bugs out and I won't have any problems getting the page done. I have other work that I need to do and I can't spend all day working on my web comic.

Comments For Page 286

Sorry for the delay. Hopefully it will be the last one for a while. I'm off on March Break now, so hopefully I can get my act together and do some of the things I promised. You'll know by Monday one way of the other.

Not much else to say, except to remind you that Monday will see the girls in their final outfits (Actually I may save some for Wednesday since the page will be pretty crowded with everyone on it. I'll see what happens when the time comes, but expect some final outfits to appear on Monday.

Comments For Page 285

Sorry I'm late posting again. With everything going on, it's hard for me to find the time to get my comic done.

I hope you like the fur coat. I'm not really getting politically correct or anything. It's just the idea of someone who is all ready half animal wearing another animal's skin is a little weird to think about. She does look cute in that coat, though.

Friday is the last day for outfit changes. On Monday, I'll have Manga Studio back into operation which will lead to a new look for the page and a new story for the gang. You'll also see their final outfits as they will be forced to make a decision pretty quickly (Find out why on Monday).

I also plan to start putting some new voting incentives up on TWC and Buzz Comics. There is only a little over a month until School ends for me and I'm going to need to either get a job or start finding ways to entice my readers to support me. That means offering my services as an artist and animator to whomever needs them. I have a new idea for a company to make money on the side, which I'll talk more about as I finalize it and I hope to start offering animated shorts of my web comic to people willing to pay extra for them. I have lots of ideas, I just need to focus my time on getting them done. Voting incentives will be first. After that we'll see what happens.

Comments For Page 284

Sorry for the poor text and other changes to the page. I know I promised some changes, but this isn't what I meant. The problem is that my portable hard drive - the one I keep all my ARW stuff on - crashed and I lost everything I've done in the last three months. That's not too much of a problem since the more important stuff is already up on the website. The real problem is that my copy of Manga Studio was on that hard Drive as well along with all my format settings.

I suppose it won't be too hard to redo all the changes I've done to the settings. I was planing on making a few more anyway. The problem is that my backup copy is at home - 150 miles from here. Fortunately March break is next weekend, which means I can get my backups and have time to work on the formating as well. The problem is what to do until then.

Well as you can see, I decided to keep making my comic without Manga Studio and am using Photoshop instead. Now I'm sure a lot of you use Photoshop and it is great for altering excisting images, but I'm not used to how it works. I spent much of the weekend figuring out how to get the look I wanted and you can see the result isn't pretty. I'll try to do better for Wednesday.

My hard drive was a least kind enough to crash on Friday so that I had time to work on an alternative. Otherwise, you would be looking at a filler comic now of me ranting about my broken hard drive. Did I mention my broken hard drive? my hard drive? hard drive? hard drive? (check out "Stuck in the Drive Through" by Wierd Al if you don't get the reference).

Comments For Page 283

I've really got to start work on these pages earier. I've got a lot of school work to do. Business plans to write, 3D models to build, paintings to design, and web comics to redesign.

That's right, I plan to re-design the webcomic page. I've been meaning to do this for a while, and I want to get it done now before everything gets too crazy. I've been playing around with what the program can do and there are several features that I really should use. If all goes well, there should be a new look to the page come Monday.

Bunny seems to have the right idea about what people should wear on a long hike, but really, would you want the girls wearing flanel shirts and jeans? Well, would you? Because you do get to vote on what the final designs look like. Expect more designs next week and the final designs the week after. Once the designs are done, the girls can begin their greatest adventure so far - the hunt for the twelve! Don't miss it.

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Sorry for the lateness of this post. It takes a lot longer to make these pages then it used to. The biggest problem is the new costume changes. First I have to design then, then I have to draw them on the characters. I also need to assign new colors as well. My line quality has gotten to a point that I fuss about every little mistake. What a change from last year.




Here's a picture I did near the end of Feburary of last year. I thought it was pretty good at the time. Ann looked pretty good jumping into the air and riding that monster. Too bad most of the other pages weren't as good.





I'm keeping up with my school work. Nothing to report yet. Maybe I'll have something new for the weekend. See you Friday.

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How do you like Ann's new outfit? It's not neccisarely her final outfit, but I though it was an interesting design.

Suzy an interesting character. I'd like to use her beyond this side story but she doesn't really fit anywhere else. Maybe the gang will visit her again some day.

My job interview went well today. I wasn't really prepaired but they seemed to like my work. I'll have to wait to see who gets the job, but I think I have a good chance at it.

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Sorry this is so late going up, but it took a long time to create this page for some reason. I think I'm a little out of practice after all the simpler styled pages I put up for the flashback. The other reason might be that I had to draw Suzy different every time she appears. The reason for this will be explained in Monday's page along with a few other things about Plymorps.

By the way, the name comes from Pliable Morpher. I would have spelt it Plimorp but that looks too much like plim-orp and I didn't want people to be confused about the pronunciation. FYI, Slimorp is short for Stimulate Morpher.

I have a job interview on Monday, so I don't know what quality Monday's page will be in. I was hoping to get some stuff done today but that's not going to happen now. I'll try to get a lot done Saturday so I'll have Sunday to work on the next page, but previous experience tells me that's not going to happen.

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Sorry that this page is Black and White. I'm experimenting with a new format and it takes a while to set everything up. I'll see what I can do for Friday. I may go back to the old format and then have a really good looking page starting Monday. I'll see how much work I can do on the page format between then and now.

I'm going to put more or my digital art on my Deviant art site (see side bar for the link). Most of them were done using Coral Painter 8, and are very nice looking if I say so myself. Painter doesn't have all the bells and whistles that Photoshop has, but the brushes are amazing. ArtRage 2 is another program I've seen that uses similar brushes and it's only $20 US! I think I'll do my next painting using ArtRage and see how that goes. I'll put those up on Deviant art as well.

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The girls have finally reached the mall. What will they find here? What new outfits will they try on? What new look with the girls have when this is all over? You get to deside. Send in your suggestings and design ideas. Post a message about that you like or don't like. All feedback is welcome.

My weekend was pretty quiet. I played this new Virtual Village game (BigFishGames.com) , which was kind of neat. You have to help a group of islanders to survive.

I'll see you all Wednesday when the first new outfits arrive. I hope you like them.

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Horese's story is finally done and a new chapter of the story will begin Monday. I plan on changing the outfits of all the girls (and maybe the guys as well), so if anyone has any suggestions or design ideas let me know. I'll probably have the girls try on a few outfits before I finalize anything, so feel free to say what you like or don't like about any of the clothing. Remember the girls are going on a long trip into many different enviroments, so they need to dress appropriately.

Classes have been kind of sporatic lately, so there hasn't been much to do except work on our big animation project - which is good since the term is nearly half over and we've barely got the story finished. My model just needs some blend shapes for facial expressions and it will be ready for texturing. Next week we'll have to start modeling the backgrounds so we can start filming the actually animation. Using 3D to animate is easier once all the models and sets are designed, but the process of creating everything can really eat away at your time.

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Have a Happy Valentines Day, everyone. Personally, I'm not one to celerbrate Valentines Day since I don't have any significant other in my life, but I hope those that do are doing what they can to show how much they love their partner.

I had a really busy day yesterday and that's why this post is later then normal. Our class went down to Halifax to visit several of the animation studios there. We went to Collideascope (Flash), Copernicus (classical + Flash), Halifax Film (Maya 3D), and Electropolis (Stop motion). It was interesting to see the different approaches to animation as well as the work ethic of each studio. Collideascope just finished Johnny Test (WB network). Copernicus is working on a new George of the Jungle cartoon. Halifax Film was making Bo on the Go (an exercise show for 5-8 year olds). Electropolis was working on Lunar Jim (another kids show). It was all very interesting and well worth the visit.

I was suppost to have a major project due today, but no one was finished on time so we have it extended until Monday. I should go and try to finish it anyway. See you Friday for the conclusion of Horese's story.

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Oops! Horese has fallen over the cliff. Can she survive the fall? Well this is a flashback so you know she does, but what else will happen to her? Come back Wednesday and find out.

Took the weekend off and relaxed so I'm a little behind in my school work. Not much else to talk about.

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Horese has reached the waterfall, but now that is she going to do? Her master isn't coming back and Catrena can't help her. They both seemed to want her to come here though. Why? What secret does the waterfall hold? Come back Monday and find out.

The animatic isn't quite done. We want to do a few more changes to it to make it perfect. We spent most of the day fixing a lot of problems. We even cut an entire scene because it just wasn't working. We replaced it with a scene we feel works much better. We also altered some of the storyboards to make it clearer what is going on. Sound effects were added to enhance a few scenes as well. There is still a couple of scenes that need to be reworked, but it's looking pretty good so far. Hopefully it will be done next week and I can put it up for you to see.

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Now that both Catrena and her master are gone, Horese is all alone in the world. Cat was sane enough to give her a key but not strong enough to tell her what it's for. Something about escape and water. Come back Friday and see if Horese can figure it out before the guards get her.

People laughed at the right places when they saw our animatic, so that's a good sign. A few suggestions were made about how to make it funnier or clearer in spots but overall they loved it. On Thursday, we are going to gather all the suggestions together and make the final adjustments before starting to make the backgrounds. The characters are already being modeled.

Here is a sneek peak of the cyclops that will appear. This model is uncolored and missing hands and an eye, but you can still see the basic structure of the final character. Imagine a high-pitched nerds voice coming from this thing and you can start to understand the humor.

I'll post the animatic Friday.

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Both Horese and Catrena are running for their lives. Is Catrena sane enough to help Horese or is she more dangerious then the guards? Come back Wednesday to find out.

I didn't get a lot done this weekend. I did finish the animatic for our class 3D project, and it looks like it will be pretty funny when it's done. I'd put it up on the site but it's not really mine to show, and it's still in a pretty rough stage at this point anyway. I make sure to link to the final version when it's done.

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Horese is on the run, but for how long? The action builds as Horese's life is destroyed piece by piece. Come back next week to see what happens to her next.

Not much to add. Schools going well. Lots of work to do. Job offers coming left and right, this time from COGS (land surveyors). They need people to create realistic 3D landscapes based on actual terrain. Not a fun job but a respectable one.