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This
22 x 28" poster is a concept art piece for my
retro science fiction comics project "Empire
State Patrol". The project is a very large one,
and involves building many, many 3D models before
I'm even ready to start. Sometimes, though I've been
working on it since January 2006, I wonder when the
heck it really will get started. There's just so much
to build.
So
when I get a chance to take some of those things I've
been building and put them together into an actual
picture it's partly proof-of-concept, and partly a
reminder to myself that in spite of everything, it's
making the pictures that's the ultimate goal. Along
with being much more interesting than it is to build
those individual pieces themselves.
This
picture is my official blowing-off-of-steam as I gear
up to continue pre-production at the beginning of
2007. Here we get to see two of our heroes, Clay Hooper
and Swede Peterson, along with Swede's rocket and
a backdrop of a location somewhere in New England
in the story's retro future. This isn't actually a
scene from the story (well, yet, anyway); it's more
an exploration of what the project's meant to look
like. And, you know, that whole blowing off of steam
thing.
It's
a 22x28" image at 300 DPI, including a colored
margin that serves as a matte; the picture was created
with a combination of 3DS Max and Adobe Photoshop.
Alot of compositing was done in Photoshop, because
the single image includes a whole bunch of separate
renderings that I've combined together and overpainted
in 2D.
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