Okay so I was watching some stargate, when I suddenly decided to create a scene that just popped into my head. About 2 hours later I ended up with a small animation.

Here is a single picture for those who don't want to watch the video


and here is the small youtube video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1lObPrIBuk

Cheers,

Swifty.

Well, here is page 5...

If you're just starting out here is the link to the first comic page:
http://64digits.com/users/index.php?userid=Swifty&cmd=comments&id=265906




Now time to watch some Sonic X....

Thanks for reading,

-Swifty

Page 04 is here... yes over 6months later... I've had up to page 7 done for ages now, but I never got around to uploading, hehe. We'll I've been working on it again and I'm onto page 10 now. Enjoy page 4.

If you're just starting out here is the link to the first comic page:
http://64digits.com/users/index.php?userid=Swifty&cmd=comments&id=265906




[EDIT: Link to page 05: http://64digits.com/users/index.php?userid=Swifty&cmd=comments&id=267295 ]

Thanks for reading

-Swifty

Okay so I'm a little late on uploading page 03, I already had it done I just didn't get around to doing it.

If you're just starting out here is the link to the first comic page:
http://64digits.com/users/index.php?userid=Swifty&cmd=comments&id=265906


[EDIT: Link to page 04: http://64digits.com/users/index.php?userid=Swifty&cmd=comments&id=267237 ]

Alright well, time for a quick blog...

So first of all, today was my 20th birthday and only my second bithday in which I had to go into school, or in this years case, uni/college. I've been pretty lucky as the holidays always seem to fall around my birthday (June 30th).

I guess I'm getting too old to get anything from my parents, as they just call up and say happy birthday. Although I managed to score a $50(aus) gift voucher for Games Workshop. Now for those who don't know what that is, it's a company that makes tabletop minature games! I personally play Warhammer 40k and collect both Tau and Tyranids. I'm leaning towards getting two battlesuits with the money which will help me convert my static tau force into a more mobile army.

Today was working in our final project team, and I had to do up some time sheets for what the animation guys had done.. which was pretty lame. Apart from that I just continued modeling a modular gothic architectural set which is coming along quite nicely, I might post some images up in the next blog!

Anyway it's getting late so that's all from me this week.


Swifty

Alright, time for page 2!

If you're just starting out here is the link to the first page:
http://64digits.com/users/index.php?userid=Swifty&cmd=comments&id=265906




[EDIT: Link to page 03: http://64digits.com/users/index.php?userid=Swifty&cmd=comments&id=265976 ]

Once again all sprites were done by me using paint+photoshop.

My general work breakdown on making a comic usually goes like this:
Monday-Thursday: will be casually thinking of dialogue to keep the story interesting.
Friday: I'll sit down and finish off any script/dialogue I didn't get done.
Saturday: I'll figure out what new poses I'll have to make for the comic, as well as new backgrounds. And start getting rough idea out on each panel to see if it flows well.
Sunday: I'll finish making the backgrounds, and tidy up the text and page, run it by a few friends to catch anything I missed. Then I'll add it to the finished pages folder.

All up I probably spend about 2 hours thinking casually about proper dialogue (over the course of Monday to Thursday) and a good 1 hour thinking properly on friday if I need it. As for the backgrounds, if there are new ones needed it probably takes two hours to get them done to what I'd like. Finally It's making all the speachbubbles fit into the frames well without taking up too much space; this is the most boring part which can take up to an hour if there is a lot of dialogue.

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Now for college! So I'm doing a bachelor in Animation and I'm in my second year. So-far it's been great the college environment has been really good and I've managed to pick my lazy a-- up and get my work done.

We've started our final projects this trimester; our group is making a game. We consist of 2 Programmers, 4 Animators and 2 Designers. I am taking the position of Animation Lead in the group. It's been pretty cruisy and not a whole lot of extra work compared to the general animators. I basically get the job of going around and checking on the animators to see how they're going and make sure the art style stays reasonably consistent throughout the game.

Today I was working on the environment I've been assigned (A sort-of Gothic Castle) and I've been making assets for it which I've enjoyed a lot more then the concept stage the last few weeks. I've designed my assets to be based on a 64x64 modular grid in which I can mix and patch different assets to build an entire level. Designing the level this way helps considerably in getting levels made after the asset tiles have been made (and it is very easy to make more if the need be) As well as being able to split the level into sections for the programmers so we can load only seeable sections of the level at a time to reduce lag and high poly count.

I guess that's about all I've got to say today. Thanks for reading.

[side note: this is my first real blog; guess I should have ran it through a spellchecker; oh well maybe next time.]


-Swifty

Okay so I've been working on a sprite comic the past few months. Just finished page 07 last night and figured I'd start posting it up for people to read.

So without further ado here is page01, Chapter 1.



[EDIT: Link to page 02 of the comic: http://64digits.com/users/index.php?userid=Swifty&cmd=comments&id=265912 ]

Okay well this was my first one, I guess after making the characters I didn't want to spend a lot of time on the backgrounds, which shows in this first page. However from page02 onwards the backgrounds get much better.

This page was made in MS Paint, and the glow effect was done in photoshop.

FYI: Left guy is Brodie, and the right one is Nathan

I'll post up page02 tomorrow or the next day.

Cheers.

Swifty