My guild mates and I decided to have a go at playing on an RP-PVP server in World of Warcraft. We rolled characters on Ravenholdt. Since we're avid role players, we like to tell little stories with our characters.

We're trying a small project revolving around our guild Cabal. Using screenshots and something called model-viewer - a program that allows you to view and animate all models of the game against a blue screen - we're going to try making some short story comics to share our adventures and help promote RP on the server.



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Doing all the panelling reminded me of how much I missed doing hand-drawn comics. The model-viewer comics were remarkably quick to create, and I like that a lot. When I would draw, ink, and color a page by hand, I would end up spending 3-6 hours on a single page. With the model-viewer warcraft comic, I can now be cheap and simply use pre-made models :-D. These pages clock in at about 20-30 minutes each. They're very fun as a guild side project, and the relatively instant gratification was nice.

But... not my own creation, and not my own art.

I need really need to pick up my personal comic project Butterfly again, get those character sheets nailed out, further refine the outline, and attempt to script out the first couple scenes to get a feel for the dialogue of each character. ...Of course, after I finish reformatting and updating NDA... get my business work finished... get Flight Rising off the ground... and make some new t-shirts for the store...

*rips hair out*

Stolen from mariecannabis: Herding Cats

Still debating the 4 legs/2 wings 2 legs/2 wings structure of my butterfly dragons. I think I'm leaning toward the 2/2 but even if I go 4/2, the front limbs will be t-rex small. This looks best in the air, which is where they'd be doing most of their fighting, hunting, general awesomeness from. However on ground is kinda awkward. For now I'm going with a gorilla sort of approach, with the creature walking on the knuckles of it's wings since they're pretty muscular limbs and could probably support it on the ground if it can support it in the air.

Yeah... I've thought about this way to much, lol.


I forgot it's antennae :-(

Music Share
Roll Tide (Hans Zimmer) - A very epical (I love my made up words!), score piece from the film Crimson Tide. The first half of it just keeps building and building in a very Zimmer mannner, but it's more melodic then some of his later stuff.