Intro colour test revised

Works better like this.

Inking and colouring of all pages is underway. Storyboarding complete as of July, 09.
total pages in storyboards: 103
total pages estimated for final version after editing: ~75

Happy 60th Birthday Mom!

Something involving music was the request here.

Happy birthday mom. :)

World of Goo Appreciation

Back to more storyboarding this month. Just polishing up how the ending is going to go. In the mean time I'd like to take the opportunity to gush lovingly about one of the best indie games produced in the past decade.

It's a physics based sort of construction type puzzle kind of game of... i don't know. All I know is it is amazing. The soundtrack is fantastic, the story is bonkers and the gameplay itself is very satisfying. Watch the the trailer below, go to the website and buy it. Immediately.
You're missing out if you don't. The goo balls will be upset if you ignore them. You wouldn't want to hurt the goo balls feelings would you?

World of Goo Trailer 2 Director's Cut
Uploaded by 2dboy

Buy World of Goo Here!

Cross generational schoolgirl action

Quick contribution to a DrawingBoard.org thread.

You know, I'm really starting to dislike that intro to my book posted below. It needs more tweaking. There's no sense of speed and the lead up to the helipcopter crash on page three doesn't work. The rest of the book is coming together really smoothly, just this intro that doesn't want to cooperate for some reason.

Intro sequence colour test

Howard goes out with a bang. Or a "KA-BOOM" as the case may be. :p

This is pages 1-4 of the book. Same as the other colour tests, i'm leaving out most of the dialogue for now.

What I might do moving forward here is to release the story in chapters on my website as I finish them, rather than wait until the whole thing goes to print. Say, 4 chapters, 20-25 pages each, something like that.

Make sure to click on the images to see the full size versions.

Colour test pages

Plugging right along. These two pages are part of a flashback sequence that occurs about a third of the way through the story. The fellow in the glasses is my protagonist. His name is Howard H. Reynolds.

I'm working on the intro sequence right now. It was initially a 10 page car chase, then it was a 6 page car chase, and, as of RIGHT NOW, it is a totally redrawn four page car chase. I had to hack that thing to pieces and rebuild from scratch to get it to work. It works much better as a short flash of gun toting craziness, rather than the extended action movie thing I had going before. Fun times. Just fiddling with the colour on that part now.

Something

There ya go. This weeks Illustration Friday topic is "Island" so here's something island related to break the 8 month dry spell.

43 pages and counting....