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May 17th, 2008 at 2:16 am
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August 6th, 2006 at 11:01 pm
I’d say I’ve used photo backgrounds a little less than 50% of the time. Sometimes it’s easier to create 3d backgrounds to tell my stories, but sometimes it’s easier to use photographs.
Unless you own your own helicopter, you’re limited in the camera angles you can use with photographs. Also, with models, you have more control over the lighting.
You could do a comic strip completely with photographs of course, but then you would need to put together a cast. I imagine finding and paying the large group of people I would need to tell my stories would be far more trouble than it is worth — I’d rather work with 3d people.
I’m NOT making money with this, but I’m very interested in possible profit models for webcomics and may blog about this in the future.
I’ve given some thought to joining an existing collective, but it isn’t clear that that would help me much. I’m already getting plenty of traffic over to this story.
I’m not going to stress myself out to make money with this right away. I’m content with the basic approach I’m taking to promote this story and will not be making drastic changes.
I’ll be blogging more about these kinds of issues in the future.
Thanks for the compliments.
July 31st, 2006 at 9:13 am
WOW! … I guess I’m a graphic wimp … (photoshop only) How often do you biuld from a photo? The 3D render stuff is fab … my thought, would re-touching photos be less work intense? (it’s what I’m leaning towards)
Even though this is near-perfect visuals … do find the story takes more work?
Lastly, are you making money … printing? … interested in a ‘co-op’ type web site with multiple comics and subscription based?
Really great work,
Dale
March 28th, 2006 at 1:24 pm
Thanks to everyone for the compliments! I see there’s a question waiting for me that I haven’t yet answered, sooooo ….
Mike was wondering about the software I use to create the story. All the figures are created in Poser 6. The majority of the scenes were lit and rendered in Poser 6 too, but I’ve made occasional use of both Carrara and Bryce (mainly for backgrounds). I also use some photographs created with my digital camera, a Nikon Coolpix 4300. I mainly use PhotoImpact — similar to Photoshop — to composite the various renders I do into the final scenes and pages. (I also have and use Corel Photo-Paint and The Gimp.) The lettering is put on in CorelDRAW.
Before I start creating the 3d art, I design the pages by hand — sometimes using my Wacom tablet and sometimes in a sketchbook. I sometimes tweak the page designs after I start doing the 3d work needed.
Renderosity is a great online resource site with loads of information on creating 3d art.