Sunday, 2 November 2014

Alien MMA Fighter Strip

Rather than going for a character design then taking it into a final painting it was suggested that I put them into situations and depict them through comic book pages.
This was the strip produced for the Alien MMA fighter. 
While creating the page I wanted to keep it traditional, working within conventional page dimensions and layout A). to see how restrictive it can be and B). so I could focus on composing the art within the panels as I feel that composition isn't one of my stronger areas.


One thing I have been curious about with modern comic/graphic novel production is utilizing 3D as a tool to aid in production so for the 3rd, 4th and 5th panel a small block out of the arena was made. This aided in speeding up the process of painting each panel as well as keeping the perspective in each shot correct. This type of process is used by environmental artists like Baron Tieri in the games industry as well as a few comic book artists such as Stjepan Sejic. This is a method that I will explore further as I produce future designs and strips this semester.


For this strip a my classmate Juan Carlos De Abreu was kind enough to donate his weekly character design to take on the green meanie.

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