Getting back into Comics again-

I am planning to get into web comics in 2014 and I am thinking about a cool girl- heroine series. I call it Fx Mulrooney's G-Girl6- In my head, it will be a mix of web comic and social media communication... I am always trying to find a sweet spot- got a lot to do in 2014- including helping other get their comic project done- well here is a quick selfie of the main character Jamie- the upcoming G-Girl6...

title images from hard-drive

I pulled off these from my hard-drive- I created these blender/photoshop images while helping with Bright Futures program At the Ypsilanti High School in 2011.   I really enjoyed working with the high school kids and i did these title spots for  a couple of groups that were running during my time at the school.  I did not want to loose them to time and old hard-drives so up to the blog they go....

oh0 sorry- explanations needed- The Ypsilanti Soul Steppers were a talented High School Step team coordinated by Rev Sanders- a coordinator and teacher. They did some great performances during special school functions.

And Rice records was the operations of young would be rappers cutting tracks with the Bright futures built in sound booth- coordinated by Mr Pierre Rice- a counselor in the program

another blender sculpt

okay I want to do another sculpt so i can move on to the next stages in modeling- retopology- I am practicing trying to keep forms clean and surface smooth- I experimented with cycles node base rendered materials with this one- using a mix shader to mate up a glossy and diffuse render. I also made sure my base model had smooth turned on before rendering and render sampling was on 75 for a smooth look.. After watching a couple of Kent Trammel videos with blender cookie- I am starting to figure out size of brush and scene magnification to smooth out a sculpt more efficiently- I know I can only go so far until the system slows for saving file frequently is useful- For one offs and images it is okay to keep the high res - but I know retopology is needed  before mapping and rigging- those are my next steps after sculping- so here is another image

random- image pics- with branding

Just trying something new for branding purposes- drawing characters on forms with the i below ground productions llc and the Detroit Tradecraft logos- to be used online... One of the big issues with the Detroit Tradecraft group is that there is no branding of the group and no one knows who we are or what we do- so putting out some images in 2014 with Detroit Tradecraft logos that could be used for prints at conventions may be a great idea... or not!- Anyway here is one pic with the branding on it- enjoy