Back story history

Thus, we have the beginning of the back story to the terrible creatures that our heros are facing.  Part one at least.

I was hoping to fit everything on this one page, but it looks like I'll have to finish up on the next one (ie, bonus page to script).

I admit, in my devious mind I modeled some of the Yig Sith off of the Aliens idea, coupled with some scraps from the H.P. Lovecraft mythos.

I am also working on some maps of the Arcane Compass.  I have decided to make some changes (yet again), so here hopefully before the end of the year, these new changes will be on-line and ready for you to look at.

I hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving (even those herbivores out there).

As the lesson continues ...

I know - I'm about 26 hours late, but I had equipment malfunction, coupled with the fact that replacement parts aren't manufactured anymore (except for the crappy over-seas that aren't even worth breaking).

I finally figured out why the last couple of pages didn't quite look right to me - I forgot to drop some shadows in.  duh ....

This page took some work, and some re-work, and some more re-work ... some of my texture ideas just didn't work (at least I couldn't get them to work).  And I figured out that the CGI model that I had made for the Romanova temple wasn't in the correct scale ... oops.

Anyways, here we witness the acolyte summon the earth elemental weird, with an allusion to what end she was summoned, ie - a brief history lesson of the Arcane Compass is to follow.

Meanwhile, back in Themiscrya...

A shift in story just as our heros entered round 3 with their new playmates.  A cut-scene for some background info.

Kinda happy with this one, kinda not.  Eh ... perhaps it's just were I've only had 5 hours of sleep in the past two days.

As a side note - experienced my first SCA event today.  Barring the cold weather and my daughter being under the weather herself, it was most excellent - we both enjoyed it.

Or is she?

Yeah, yeah - a couple of days late, but pre-generated excuse #144 - I (hopefully) corrected some coding errors of the comic pages, added an archive page (graphic to come later) and tried to spiff the over sleekness.

Pretty content with this one - I was ahead of schedule til I started my web-monkey tinkering.

Finally - rescuing the damsel in distress

So I'm a three days late.  Big deal.

I'm fairly happy with this one, although I probably should go back over this later on.  I need to work on the light / shadow in this one, and the two before it.  Enjoy.

Ok, so I'm a bit off schedule ...

I'll admit it - I got my weekends mixed up.  I was drawing this week instead of coloring.  I'll try to have the next page up tonight before I retire, but I wouldn't hold my breath for it - chances are, it'll be up sometime this week.

Oh well, back to the coloring board .....

EDIT - 23:00 - All the basic colors are done, so is the Hearts of Space music program, and so am I, I believe; 04:30 comes too early for me.

The Temple of Doom?

Ok, so I admit it - that's what inspired this location.

I'm not really pleased with this page.  I didn't have enough time to play with the lighting and shadows as much as I wanted.  That and I placed the second narrative block in the wrong place - blocks out all of the right side of the crevice ... *sigh* oh well, perhaps I'll get a change to fix this in the next few days.

*EDIT* - Ok, I fixed the narrative block position, but I think I'm just going to leave most everything else.