DDO HCL NEWS

Today, Standing Stone Games released that the next HCL (3)
will start next Wed. but more interesting is that the VIP
pay wall comes down and it will be open to all.

6-13-2020

We will be starting a stream by 3PM EST or EARLIER
got a lot to do and a couple of renders took longer than expected
 See you then

6-12-2020 Doing MUCH better

We are back on a regular art schedule
I will be streaming at 3PM EST -ish
well will be revisiting our rough draft and come out
with a list of shots we need to move forward

1. Rough draft
2. Daz model assets
3. pick assets for comic and adjust with PS as needed
4. take final assets and make line and comic versions via software
5. take all of that + hand inking, coloring, masking and you get finished scenes
6. draft out conversations, sound FX, comic FX - place text balloons
7. construct pages
8. Q&A
9. done
10 Start issue 2  (issue 1 will only be published when I am finalizing the next issue)

We publish one issue once the next issue is completed so we are always
1 issue ahead.

reminder, we have set a goal to be bi-monthly --- if we have to will go
quarterly but prefer bi-monthly

Quality > quantity

ok, see you on the stream

not doing so good

ok, I have either strained my right shoulder
Bad
or have torn a rotatory cup in my shoulder (has happened once before)
Worse

either way
not doing any art like this so work is TEMP suspended

will post when things change

UPDATE 2

Due to delivery issues, today's stream has been canceled, we will continue tomorrow.
thank you.

UPDATE

the 3PM show will be moved to 4PM due to a delivery
thank you for your understanding

6/4/2020 Hi all, today I will TRY to have another art stream at 3PM EST

Hopefully we can finish the basic asset for the cover page... at least the model part.
After I render that a copy of the Daz file and render will be saved for future reference.
ALWAYS keep copies
Then a copy will go to PScc (Photoshop cc) for further adjustments, FX and so on
Backdrops are always a PS thing. DAZ can do them but PS does them MUCH better.
after that we have inking ... however, due to the nature of that particular shot...there will
be very little inking on it.
Text and title is much later...so we will skip that for now.
see you at 3PM EST

Welcome to my art streams 6/3/2020

Hi all

I have had a few streams where I was 'roughing' out a story
for issue 1. (when I say story, I mean episode) ok the roughs are
done and I will not be roughing issue 2 until issue 1 is fair well along.

so the next stream is scheduled for >>> APPROX<<<<  3PM EST
and will cover creating assets for certain pages in issue one.

Keep in mind a lot of these terms only apply to how I do things
and are not generally industry standard. and sometime they are..lol
welcome to my world.

Assets for me come in a couple of flavors

Direct asset - some rendered picture that more or less will be directly
in the comic. Usually high tech gadgets. or tech for short. Things that are just so
cool I don't want to mess up by trying to redrawn them.

Guide assets - Pictures that will definitely be redrawn and greatly altered before it is
put in the comic. Like most characters.

FX assets - explosions !!! hahaha and visual psi FX and that kinda stuff

Comic FX -  B O O M ! in fancy colorful letters ...standard comic stuff

Text - well, folks do talk in my story

so at approx 3PM will start working on the first 2 categories for the first page
or 2

See you then