First rough draft of page 1 of the comic. I of course need to plan better with the pixel sizes, and so far I haven't given the figures their final poses. Getting that broom into the hands of the guys took a good two hours. I may introduce radiosity later.


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Heard some cool techno music...

... at the Webjay site.

And I'm just going to see what happens when I put this link here that I got from the web page about the music plat list I liked.

The whole gang's here. Started taking a cartooning class and got inspired to finish a really great script in my head. And that inspired me to fix up the last few characters for the story....
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And then a slightly less handsome gent, who will play a significant role in my next anim (that is if I get it complete.) He'll start off as the janitor for the bad guys ...
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Pioneer Press breaks embargo 

Image made from my character and a scene file released by Gilles Tran under an "attribution" Creative Commons license. My purposes in creating this image were at least twofold: i) To tease Gilles for releasing the code such that any dork like me could make blasphemy with it. ;-) ii) To evaluate how my characters look in a serious scene developed by an accomplished artist. And towards that end, I think that if I squint, the character looks quite natural in the setting. I did notice however that the legs are a bit deformed-- the leg looks like it's about to fall off! I guess I have some serious work to do on the legs-- something my wife has been saying for years.
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Trying to add some scifi like settings. In case you can't tell, this is supposed to be an apartment complex.
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2005 meets 2002

2005 meets 2002. I was dusting off some of the early characters I'd made in November 2002 for possible use as "extras." I wondered how they'd fare in size against my latest work. Putting the files together gave this. Copyright Greg M. Johnson 2005.
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An occasion for backing up my HDD! I've now got about 12 distinct characters, most of them named, with personalities thunked up as well. I'm trying to decide how many will be villians and exactly how the concept of villiany should be played out in any future production. Yeah, I know the lighting is off and some of them have vampiric stares off into space, but I was just thrilled to get thim into the same image. I found that with povray, group lights can give amazingly fast renders. The five characters in the front have group lights.


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This is where I'm currently headed with an entry to the POV COMP competition. (Hope I don't invalidate my entry by sharing here.) Almost by accident, I inserted the current code for my character into an old file with radiosity in it. I love how it turned out. It has a very strong sense of depth, yet is lacking in surface normals in a way that evokes cel animation. Yes, the left foot is bent (a bug in my code) and the left hip is so improperly modelled it's almost falling off (first time it's ever been in that position)!
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