Been wanting to do something like this for ages...
A SJ e-comic/graphic novel!
SPELLJAMMER IS BACK, WITH A VENGEANCE! ;)
:bounce: :Dhttp://www.silverblades-suitcase.com/wildspace/silverblade.htm
or here' it is for ya
Adventures in WIldspace #3...continuing on from "Aftermath of a Battle"
Blood and Gore! (not sure on moderation regarding violence, to me, it's tame, comic book stuff, but fair warning just in case)
Character 3
This is the lady who's lying dead in adventure #3
This is the lady who's lying dead in adventure #3
he's a hadozee, I don't like the rules for them so I altered 'em! ;)
-They're supposed to be noted for being "solid muscle" but get no strength bonus, duh?
-Wing flaps should make armour mostly impossible to wear.
-So I gave 'em +2 Str, +4 Natural AC, can't wear armour.
Also I preffer the more monkey look of original 2nd ed hadozee.
the character sheets are not the comic itself, they're more like just extra information... it's handing you some background information so that you can make a little bit of sense out of the comic, i would say.
Will do renders/diagrams detailing ship internal lay out at some point too
The Mindful Cutlass
Cartoonified version, different style than other cartooning though.
And a straight 3D render with some post work
Cartoonified version, different style than other cartooning though.
And a straight 3D render with some post work
I'm refining the cartooning style, any opionons on it?
Not too happy with Decurion Martilus but alas, I can only get banded mail armour to fit a mdoel that looks too skinny in uppe rarms, meh.
And I'm using earthy language, sorry, but hard bitten adventurers and evil scum would NOT say "oh la la I hurt my toe!"...jeesh ;) I am writing it though to avoid the more unpleasant words, as I realize open forum, not everyone is as broad minded as me etc ;)
(no big deal, it's not like i can't go to the website directly or anything =S )
[edit] woah... i would seriously recommend either picking a different armor type for him, or ripping the shoulder pads out of that armor and separating them or something, because that picture looks disturbingly wrong... just... wrong...
(also, i think the helmet looks a little weird, and is the crest on it supposed to be sideways? i mean, if it's supposed to be like an actual roman helmet, the crest should be front to back, shouldn't it? whereas that appears to be side-to-side... [/edit]
That IS what banded armour looks like, fyi, or to be precise, ROMAN banded armour: lorica segmentata. The shoulder plates are not custom formed like plate armour, so when you move your arm back or forward, they move like that, as they are attached to two leather straps, they aren't custom plate fitted to the upper arm.
http://blog.arlt.co.uk/blog/ErmineStreetGuard/_archives/2004/7/20/108790.html
have alook through that stuff, Ermine Street Guard, UK based Roman re-enactment group
Their main site seems down unfortnately, fantastic stuff.
The crest is also the correct way. In the actual Roman legions, a decurion was either an officer in charge of a cavalry squad, or, the equivalent of a corporal in charge of an 8 man infantry squad. In my game world, he is a "decurion", which is the equivalent of a centurion, but, the title is reserved for the use of centurions in charge of special units, be they cavalry, artillery or other. So, he has a centurion's helm, which has the crest going transverse, as a sign of rank. In fact his equipment is standard issue for the legions of my setting: adamantine banded armour weapon, magical though as he's an NCO. charisma helm, force shield ring and anti-disease necklace, again, items for centurions and higher officers. Very old, very powerful nation, who've built up such gear over 3 millenia for their legions...folk condemend to death toil in their adamantine mines, which is a slow death sentence, providing the material for the arms and armour which is part of why the legions are so feared.
K?
Also alternate version of Decurion Martilus, not sure which is best...in renders though alternate version's breastplate would be darker, to resemble adamantine
Also alternate version fo part #5 I'm not sure whether "large checkering + more cartoon look" or smaller checkering less cartoon look" is best...also the checkring often darkens an image too much, and isn't eesily fixed, even with photoshoping.
Adventures in Wildspace! Part 10
Note: What Silverblade actually saw with his Detect Magic spell, was a special spell fire off, when the cleric got struck his death blow, which prevented his actual death, and allowed the Ring of Regeneration to start repairing his injuries. The cleric had obviously cast this before battle, in case of being killed. Just because he is evil, doesn't mean he's stupid!
Oh, Silverblade doesn't tell everyone, everything ;)
Anyway, here's part #11, also, I re-designed section of my site where I host these, so you may want to take a look ;)
(very graphic intensive)
http://www.silverblades-suitcase.com/wildspace/index.htm
thank ya!
)Part #12, and character "Randelly Luckpenny" the ship's purser
ADVENTURES IN WILDSPACE! #12
Original 3d render if you wish to see it here:
http://www.silverblades-suitcase.com/wildspace/wildspace_12original.jpg
Original 3d render if you wish to see it here:
http://www.silverblades-suitcase.com/wildspace/wildspace_12original.jpg
Parts #14 and #15!
PART 14
part 14
Part 14 original 3d render
part 14
Part 14 original 3d render
EDIT
ok altered it a bit
i made speech bubbles partially transparent, and took away scroll form banner
what ye think?
(refresh page)
though i'm a little confused why he wouldn't resurrect lady antilas and then she could help out the tortured person...
'Cause Lady Antilas can't cast Raise Dead, that's why ;)
http://www.silverblades-suitcase.com/wildspace/lady_antilas.htm
8th lvl cleric, lvl 1 fighter :D
(also, to clarify: lady antilas could presumably benefit from having the scroll used *on* her, not *by* her =P )
The victim is horribly tortured...she'd need a Heal and/or Regenerate type of effect.
One thing I've done for a long time in my games, it to show that CURE spells help heal damage, but often leave scars, as it's not a Heal or Regenerate. If you've been incinerated, slashed ot bits...i.e. taken massive amount of your hit points, and get "cured", way I always saw it was like mostly undoing or healing stuff, but greater the injury severity, more chance of scaring etc, and it only fills in minor losses, it won't help for lost digits, wrecked organs/eyes etc.
So, victim could be aided by Captain Kreg's wand of Cure Light WOunds, or the many potions folk carry, but it's NOT gonna undo being...well, your imagination can fill in what may have been done to her....
Same with earlier in story, where some injured crew member has gotten a bad injury, and it was cauterized..though folk have potions and Cure Light Wound wand...that's iffy versus losing a hand/fingers etc etc.
Plus, Lady Antilas died honourably in battle...she's a cleric of Odin...she died according to her faith, she probably would not want to come back as it would be "unfair".
get my rationale' ?
I do things for reasons, even if you don't see 'em ;)
interesting take on healing though, i kinda like it
(not sure raise dead makes sense as the choice compared to, say, a heal spell, which actually cures mental ailments, but i guess when your cleric has a terminal case of sword-in-the-face and you only have 1 specific scroll, you can't afford to be too picky =P )
it's not a question of "X spell level", folk wouldn't know/think like that, more rough limits and also, real fear of screwing a WIsh up, plus wasting it if Lady Antilas doens't want to come back.
Watch it, or I'll have Jaid as a kender character being neogi food! :p
Watch it, or I'll have Jaid as a kender character being neogi food! :p
[kender mode]
wow, i've never met a neoghi before! do they really walk on the walls just like real spiders? i bet it would be really fun to be able to go on the ceiling. and man, getting a pet umber hulk, that would be real neat. uncle trapspringer says...
[/kender mode]
nah, you'd have to rename the character =D (Jaid isn't a very good kender name, imo =P)
http://www.silverblades-suitcase.com/wildspace/sushlik.htm
Sush'lik
and since this is an on going story, somethings are of course, not revealed yet...
and since this is an on going story, somethings are of course, not revealed yet...
technically (if you're houseruling that's fine, just letting you know) a mindflayer who takes psion levels has to take telepath as their discipline. (or rather, their discipline is already chosen). if you're ignoring that just because you prefer otherwise that's fine too, but that's not how it works according to the almight RAW (which isn't really as important as making the game awesome, anyways, but just pointing that out so that at least you know if you're breaking the rules... i am of the opinion there's nothing inherently wrong with bending or even breaking the rules as long as you're aware of the fact that you're doing so ;) )
the other thing is that the psicrystal is actually 12 HD (Arguably 13). neither are particularly likely to have a huge effect on anything though =P
PART 16
AUTHOR'S NOTE:
Giff, like Sargeant Oakbrow love guns and explosives, hence, to them damp, useless Smoke Powder, is a horrible thing, so they use "Damp Smokepowder!" as a curse.
Original 3d Render
AUTHOR'S NOTE:
Giff, like Sargeant Oakbrow love guns and explosives, hence, to them damp, useless Smoke Powder, is a horrible thing, so they use "Damp Smokepowder!" as a curse.
Original 3d Render
Just curious though, what program(s) you're using to make these in.
thanks!
Ok, people are Poser, same for most of their gear (nearly all of the clothes, morphs etc are from DAZ3D). Some gear is made in RHino3D, and I make the ships and ship weapons in Rhino too.
Scenes are assembled and rendered in Vue6 Infinite.
The cartooning is done in postwork, most in Paint Shop Pro, some stuff in Photoshop. To get the cartoon effect I mostly use the "India Ink" plugin from Flaming Pear, but some times mix in some Photoshop actions
In RL, pal of mine is 300+lb,only 6'1" but absolutely massive, that's without doing weight trianing, jeesh. Seriously, the guy could be by a pro bodybuilder or powerlifter if he wanted. He has to turn sideways to get through most doors, so, giff would fair even worse ;)
part #17
Silverblade, concerned for the torture victim's state of mind, had previously asked Sargeant Oakbrow to leave (after initially asking him to come down), to spare her any fear, and has left himself, to let Aletta help her clean up and dress. They didn't recognize her under the dirt and blood etc. Bit hard to recognize a friendly aquaintance when they are, er, well...looking like a Post Mortem exam!
Silverblade, concerned for the torture victim's state of mind, had previously asked Sargeant Oakbrow to leave (after initially asking him to come down), to spare her any fear, and has left himself, to let Aletta help her clean up and dress. They didn't recognize her under the dirt and blood etc. Bit hard to recognize a friendly aquaintance when they are, er, well...looking like a Post Mortem exam!
part #21
AUTHOR'S NOTE:
In the heat of battle, folk do run or magically escape. On a planet, it's usually much easier to see them, and in Wildspace, mostly there's no where to run to (short of Teleporting).
However, in asteroid fields, folk can jump from one rock to another if they are some what close (you can jump very far in Wildspace, no air resistance, and gravity is often weird), or use magic. Thus fights in such areas can turn into complex three dimensional hunts and skirmishes.
AUTHOR'S NOTE:
In the heat of battle, folk do run or magically escape. On a planet, it's usually much easier to see them, and in Wildspace, mostly there's no where to run to (short of Teleporting).
However, in asteroid fields, folk can jump from one rock to another if they are some what close (you can jump very far in Wildspace, no air resistance, and gravity is often weird), or use magic. Thus fights in such areas can turn into complex three dimensional hunts and skirmishes.
PART #23
AUTHOR'S NOTE:
Ungallant has no love of orcs, in fact he plain hates them! But, he's capable of subduing his fury to prevent hasty actions, which is why he's much more than his orc father ever could be! It's also why Coulegard trusts him.
AUTHOR'S NOTE:
Ungallant has no love of orcs, in fact he plain hates them! But, he's capable of subduing his fury to prevent hasty actions, which is why he's much more than his orc father ever could be! It's also why Coulegard trusts him.
*bows* Cheers, mate!
Well, as they say, there's a every cloud has a silver lining ;)
I'll need to consoildate my Spelljammer and Dark Sun art posts, too, sigh.
Keryth,
thanks!
Ok, people are Poser, same for most of their gear (nearly all of the clothes, morphs etc are from DAZ3D). Some gear is made in RHino3D, and I make the ships and ship weapons in Rhino too.
Scenes are assembled and rendered in Vue6 Infinite.
The cartooning is done in postwork, most in Paint Shop Pro, some stuff in Photoshop. To get the cartoon effect I mostly use the "India Ink" plugin from Flaming Pear, but some times mix in some Photoshop actions
I'm pleasantly surprised with the look of the comic; I did wonder how you made it & Poser did come to mind - actually crafting each person and their gear though... great to see there's a source to short-cut that, it looks really good.
It might be worth reposting some of your comic-building tips in the general forums, I'm sure they'd be well received.
I'm pleasantly surprised with the look of the comic; I did wonder how you made it & Poser did come to mind - actually crafting each person and their gear though... great to see there's a source to short-cut that, it looks really good.
It might be worth reposting some of your comic-building tips in the general forums, I'm sure they'd be well received.
his art advice is found on his website, including a tutorial iirc.
in truth, the best advice is probably to download some free software and start messing around with it until you figure out how to make it do what you want anyways, i suspect =P
Thank you!
Well I don't "build" them completely! (the Poser people's grear )
lol good grief no, ack! that would drive you nuts and take years to do
I buy lots of stuff over the years from DAZ3D.com and a few other sites, building a library of suitable clothing, weapons, textures etc, and some bits I build myself.
Then I assemble the person with clothing, weapons I like, apply morphs to shape their face, tweak materials.
Then I import them into Vue, and this is the hard bit: I make libraries for each person, so ALL their materials will be the same, and converted to Vue materials rather than left as just plain Psoer import materials. SO throughout the comics their mateirals will be the same
I have done tutorials on my site explaining howI do this stuff, http://www.silverblades-suitcase.com/tutorials/htm/index.htm
but dunno if it should be posted on other forums as they are not art, Dark Sun or Spelljammer forums (which is what most of my stuff is) ?
I make libraries for each person, so ALL their materials will be the same, and converted to Vue materials rather than left as just plain Psoer import materials. SO throughout the comics their mateirals will be the same
Hmm. So does this mean that your characters will always wear the same clothes and have the same weapons or do you have alternatively equiped versions in your libraries too?
I have done tutorials on my site explaining howI do this stuff, http://www.silverblades-suitcase.com/tutorials/htm/index.htm
but dunno if it should be posted on other forums as they are not art, Dark Sun or Spelljammer forums (which is what most of my stuff is) ?
I'm not a moderator (at least not here) but I would think that a link in your forum signature would be a good way to get your message across to any people who like your work.
I can change the clothes and such, but it's important to keep coherence across it all.
I use Poser to build people, as the "generic start point" then pose them, save a snew version.
What's hard ot do is build the generic in Poser, make the materials look right in Vue (which final scene is rendered in), or take time to pose in Poser.
Once I've made a figure I'll save it, to re use later, same with materials. takes lot of effort to make 'em
Only as long as I want 'em too :p
I can change the clothes and such, but it's important to keep coherence across it all.
Consitency is important - I agree. In TV shows characters often have the same clothing for an entire series. But they do have the occasional special episode, where a character has to disguise themselves or has to dress up in a smart uniform.
For a D&D story, I could imagine a rogue that wears a mask when on "operations", but shows their face when they in a safe location with friends. I think the same sort of thing could be done with a fighter's helmet or shield and/or any character's weapons.
I suppose if you had a really serious fight in your comic, you could have Colour Sargent Oakbrow throw his shield at an enemy, pull out his aquebus and fire it, and then pick up a random weapon from a dead body and finish the fight with two weapons.
You could also do several longswords for Luin of Bral, so that the flames could be off or on and pointing in different directions. Other people could have magical items that glow or do other things when certain powers are activated.
I'm not saying you should do that, but I think those are the sorts of visual changes that might add to the plot of an individual story.
I use Poser to build people, as the "generic start point" then pose them, save a snew version.
What's hard ot do is build the generic in Poser, make the materials look right in Vue (which final scene is rendered in), or take time to pose in Poser.
Once I've made a figure I'll save it, to re use later, same with materials. takes lot of effort to make 'em
It does sound like a lot of work. So I think you would want to have a very good plot hook that would justify the extra work.
Most "Poser comic creators" are doing simple comic strips (to save them a great dela of hassle and for their own art style), I'm doing more graphic novel work, so it's more work.
anyway I'll get bakc to this comic and do more, have another epsiode done but, doing lot of other stuff at moment and RL is being a pain :D
Yup, lot of work
Most "Poser comic creators" are doing simple comic strips (to save them a great dela of hassle and for their own art style), I'm doing more graphic novel work, so it's more work.
Thanks for the info. I'll let you get back to it.
anyway I'll get bakc to this comic and do more, have another epsiode done but, doing lot of other stuff at moment and RL is being a pain :D
OK. Whenever you can get these out is good by me. I'm not going anywhere. RL is keeping me busy too.