3D Comic Book Poster: FUSED!: Think Like a Machine

[Plays_4_Pants]

:thumbsup: Jawesome pic. Love the style. The only thing I would say is that you could have been more "fun" with the outline. It's too crisp i think

[PJC]

Yeah, usually my inking style is loose, but I thought this image lost something when I inked it loose...

This one is looser...

http://www.ccpots.com/PJCdemo/AMTESTS/Clonk_NightStareINKEDSM.jpg

and my spawn stuff is really loose!

- pjc

[octopus77]

Yeaaa!!!!!:buttrock: :airguitar

This is great, like the style very much, and i think the inking its just fine the way it is, BTW i don´t know how you guys can ink like that in PS, because i have a tablet but just can do lines straight, would you mind telling me whats your secret?

[PJC]

When I first started with a tablet, I couldn't follow the line I wanted. The darn tablet was waaay over there and what I was drawing was on the screen....all those years of drawing with my hand in the way on paper were hard to overcome.

practice, practice, practice....

- pjc

[wedge]

simply brilliant!

f-ing great stuff, mate!

[stephen2002]

it looks good. The shaper lines give it more of a defined power and gives the robot a more intense and monumental look. nice work!

[malcolmvexxed]

your style kicks assss

[PJC]

Thank you for the kind words! I've been working on this style for awhile now (I started with Spawn) in comics and am really enjoying creating these images...

here is pin-up I did for FUSED issue #4. It's one of my favorites.

It was done totally in Hash's Animation:Master v9 with inks in Photoshop.

http://www.ccpots.com/PJCdemo/pjccomic/Fused/FUSED_CYDOWNmed.jpg

- pjc

[cutepixie]

i like it alot....how it looks real yet comicy...its great style

Great Job :thumbsup:

[PoPpiN]

Great images....I like your style

As mentioned before.... I might find the images a little to linear (outline should vary in brightness and thickness and shouldn't follow the "mesh" so perfect) to really have a handdrawed comic sense, but hey that is just my opinion...

Keep it up..... Looking good

[PJC]

I like that it still has comic book "grounding", if that's a term :P

I also feel with robots and even in my Iron Man work I tend to keep the line more consistant and not so loose. When I've inked loose on these kinds of pieces they seem to lose something, at least for me.

But when I was doing some Spawn work, the loose line work was perfect:

http://www.ccpots.com/Spawn/heaveninkedmed.jpg


and a closeup detail of the final piece:

http://www.ccpots.com/Spawn/SpawnHinkedCROP.jpg

In Spawn, the looseness really ads some chaos to the image. Here's the original Spawn image:
http://www.ccpots.com/Spawn/SpawnHeaven.jpg

It was too sterile and computery. I totally agree that for certain things my work needs the loose line (which is how I inked comics traditionally). I just didn't think it worked as well with the FUSED! work.

Thanks for the comments!!!

- pjc

[alexbox]

Realy nice

[xzevlin]

Great stuff, as usual. Are you ever going to do sequentials?

[dobermunk]

Love it!

Do you just do photoshop inking? or is there more to it than that?
Looks incredibly illustrative...

[D.Q]

I really enjoy your work!

[PJC]

Thank you again for the comments!

My inking process is now totally done in Photoshop, but i've been experimenting with painter lately. But it used to be different.

I used to render out the 3D at the final resolution, then print out a color laser version. I would then use a product called "Dura-Lar" which is like acetate. I would lay this over my print out and hand ink onto the Dura-Lar. I would then scan the Dura-Lar into the computer and composite it back to the original 3D digital image. It's much easier to do it in Photoshop, but I do miss the "naturalness" of traditional inking. The all digital process is infinitely quicker tho :applause: ...oh yeah, and there's an undo :D

SEQUENTIALS???? Yes, yes, yes...working on some now. :beer:

I originally didn't think about doing sequentials, I was more for the cover/pin-up thing, but it's a natural progression to take it to this next level. I was a bit hesitant because of the quality of most other 3D sequential comics I've seen in the past.

I have about four pages layed out in sketches that I want to try out, and I have a little experimental 1 page that I'm gonna try first, working on a technique that may quell my fears and concerns of 3D in comics.

...but I can't tell you about it just yet :D

- pjc

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