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Re: Animorphs:The Graphic Novel
« Reply #240 on: January 02, 2009, 09:12:22 AM »
Let's do it!!!

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Re: Animorphs:The Graphic Novel
« Reply #241 on: February 03, 2009, 11:30:25 PM »
I'm still a total n00b, and rather hesitant to post in this thread but... well... I've been playing with the idea of drawing up a comic for animorphs for years now.  Even drew some pages way back when until I discovered in middleschool guns and spaceships were HARD to draw.

I'm in college now, and wanting to be a professional illustrator, and I'm currently putting together a porfolio to submit to various art schools I want to attend, so I'm looking for various projects to work on for my porfolio, as well as just something in general to keep me constantly drawing.

So... I'd be willing to help out on this.  Sounds like a fun project.  Warning though,  I'm a slow worker with school and everything else, and it could take me up to a week sometimes to get a page done, but I'd love to help out.

Anyway, it's not much, but here's a sample of a fancomic I worked on a couple years back (2005, omg I'm getting OLD).  I like to think I've gotten better, but I haven't tried a comic style in years.

http://madteaparty.deviantart.com/art/Fangirls-R-Scary-first-page-20164853
http://madteaparty.deviantart.com/art/Vasquez-style-MCR-comic-page01-20281607
http://madteaparty.deviantart.com/art/Think-Happy-Thoughts-Issue-00-20005277
http://madteaparty.deviantart.com/art/Issue-4-Fangirls-Part-B-47022686

Random art pieces:
http://madteaparty.deviantart.com/art/Escape-From-Wonderland-47111190
http://madteaparty.deviantart.com/art/Helena-Cover-Draft-37561554
http://madteaparty.deviantart.com/art/Helena-18222718
http://madteaparty.deviantart.com/art/Demolition-Lovers-Inked-20940697
http://madteaparty.deviantart.com/art/Issue-4-The-Patient-47022561
http://madteaparty.deviantart.com/art/Demolition-Lover-Girl-Art-N-48697671
http://madteaparty.deviantart.com/art/Fear-and-Regret-Art-N-Draft-48697241

I'm heavily manga influenced, but I like trying different things, and different styles.  Still trying to come up with my own style in fact.  I prefer to work in black and white, but I'm learning slowly with color since I got a graphics tablet for Christmas.  I can do everything from pencil drawings, inking, and attempt at coloring at the moment.

As you can tell, I'm a My Chemical Romance fangirl, but I'm just posting that because that's pretty much all I have uploaded online.  It gives you an idea of the various things I can do.

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Re: Animorphs:The Graphic Novel
« Reply #242 on: February 03, 2009, 11:48:24 PM »
i've seen that before, actually.
weird, i'm already subscribed to you (before you posted crayak).. and i didn't even know you were on RAF.
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Re: Animorphs:The Graphic Novel
« Reply #243 on: February 03, 2009, 11:51:53 PM »
Lol, I just joined like... the day before yesterday.  I'm rarely on deviantart anymore.

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Re: Animorphs:The Graphic Novel
« Reply #244 on: February 04, 2009, 04:02:34 AM »
You're a very good drawer ^^
Gafrash, don't you think she can help you?
I'm already imagining how she would draw creepy Controllers and show the paranoia in the Animorphs comic book!  >:D
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Re: Animorphs:The Graphic Novel
« Reply #245 on: February 04, 2009, 04:47:29 AM »
Welcome to RAF Aila. I simply have to devwatch you :D. Very nice gallery indeed.

So, is this project still active?

I've been thinking about the Animorphs graphic novels and I must say that adapting all 54 books is quite a heavy work. I suggest you guys use some of the ideas from the Animorphs Movie topic? There are some good ways to compress the whole series into a trilogy or quardilogy.

I'm quite busy right now with schoolwork and my own projects to work on, but if there is anything I can do to help, just pm (covers or promo perhaps?). Tomorrow I will scan some Animorphs fan art. I haven't draw anything Ani related since the series ended.

Here is my gallery :) http://tta269.deviantart.com/

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Re: Animorphs:The Graphic Novel
« Reply #246 on: February 04, 2009, 11:03:49 AM »
Oh wow, gorgeous.  *kyaas over your Batman and Little Mermaid fanarts*  Ooo, I love your Evil Snow White.  And your cat is really cute!  The Thing-Santa cracked me up.

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Re: Animorphs:The Graphic Novel
« Reply #247 on: February 05, 2009, 04:58:37 AM »
Aw, thank you Aila. I must give you karma for this.

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Re: Animorphs:The Graphic Novel
« Reply #248 on: February 05, 2009, 10:27:10 PM »
Guys, I'm still on holis and away from my computer. So I haven't continued any roughs for scripting. I would have loved to bounce some stuff with wolfev, but while away, it's a bit difficult to show him what I mean.
Though I have been drawing still, I have not been colouring anything in. I've got some new stuff, but would really like to see someone else having a go at colouring them in. I've posted this up in my Deviant Journal, hoping to get the attention of some keen colourist, but there's been no reply so far.
 
Ignoring the fillers and editting the important vital material, the series can def be divided into major arcs and then into a series of issues. But I think it's too early to split it into 3 or 5 or whatevers. We just don't know in fact what we have. What we want to keep and scratch and so on.
I say forget all the questions for now, like 'how many pages', 'how many books', 'should this be a webcomic or a pg comic thing', IF WE DON'T HAVE A DECENT SCRIPT IT CAN'T WORK!!!
I REALLY WISH WE WERE PHYSICALLY AROUND EACH OTHERS so we could cook up this thing more effectivelly.


I need to check out this movie scripting thing. Are people discussing anything more than just splitting the series on that thread?!


You guys have real kewl stuff, Aila and tta269. Please have a go at drawing some Animorphs stuff and show us how you feel about making a contribution.
 



PS: Wolfev, where you at, mate?!

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Re: Animorphs:The Graphic Novel
« Reply #249 on: February 06, 2009, 03:18:27 AM »
Hey Gafrash, I was just looking at your map of what you think their town would look like, and it's actually almost exactly like the Santa Cruz/Capitola area in California. Go to google earth and type in "Capitola, CA," turn it so the west faces up and you'll see that it is extremely similar. It could very well be the city that KA was thinking of, since Santa Barbara and other Southern Californian cities are too densely populated and don't have enough forestry. Also, if you have any American/Californian culture questions you would like me to try to answer (since I live in California), feel free to ask!

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« Reply #250 on: February 06, 2009, 04:06:17 AM »
Holy! Awesome, dude! Very interesting, rossabo!!!
Googlemaps also gave me some pics and street view of the Santa Cruz area. WICKED!!!

And thanks for the offer, mate. You are now my Californian expert slash contact.  ;D Hehehehe ;D
The city seems to be average in size. There seems to be one main highway and a river cuts the city.  There's some valley's inland. Reckon some of that could be reserves of National forest.
What do you reckon!?!?!? Think we've found the Ani's town?!!!!
I can't spot any big malls though? Reckon you could find me a decent picture of a mega mall in the area?!

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« Reply #251 on: February 06, 2009, 05:15:13 AM »
There's a mall called the Capitola Mall. http://www.shopcapitolamall.com/map.asp

It's a decent mall- not a megamall, but it has quite a few shops with a food court and everything. Unfortunately, it is not two-stories or three stories. But whatever, that's not completely important.

I go to school at the University of California in Santa Cruz. You know what's extremely ironic? Our mascot is... are you ready?...

The banana slug! And no, that is not a joke. Our mascot was featured in Pulp Fiction, in that scene where they had to change their outfits after shooting the guy in the car. Anyways, the whole geography is scarily similar to what the town is like in Animorphs. You would think that the beach, farmland/plains and the forest all within a ten mile radius would be impossible or farfetched, but honestly it is exactly like that in Santa Cruz. The redwood forests are right behind the school, and the ocean is a couple of miles in front of the school.

I get the feeling that the city in Animorphs wasn't a major city. In the Visser book, she said that they decided against Hollywood because it was too big of a task or something along the lines of that. So I would think that it is smaller than big cities like Hollywood and Santa Monica, but big enough to host international events.

Holy! Awesome, dude! Very interesting, rossabo!!!
Googlemaps also gave me some pics and street view of the Santa Cruz area. WICKED!!!

And thanks for the offer, mate. You are now my Californian expert slash contact.  ;D Hehehehe ;D
The city seems to be average in size. There seems to be one main highway and a river cuts the city.  There's some valley's inland. Reckon some of that could be reserves of National forest.
What do you reckon!?!?!? Think we've found the Ani's town?!!!!
I can't spot any big malls though? Reckon you could find me a decent picture of a mega mall in the area?!


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Re: Animorphs:The Graphic Novel
« Reply #252 on: February 06, 2009, 10:27:52 AM »
Agreed!
Kewl! But I am not getting much imagery. Either way, we can MAKE it 3 stories and so on.
What about something referencial to The Gardens in the area? A fun park of some sort neighbouring a zoo...

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« Reply #253 on: February 06, 2009, 03:09:24 PM »
Well, if you need some reference pics, here's what I can find of the geography and the forestry. This could be the general idea of Cassie's farm (a farm on the outer edge of the forest):
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/224/462487501_d20cf9e688_o.jpg
http://www.campusexplorer.com/media/376x262/University-of-California-Santa-Cruz-E6E55C39.jpg
Her farm would be about 500 feet in elevation, with the forest and mountains behind it climbing to 1000-2000 feet in elevation

The forestry itself consists of mostly Sequoia trees, as well as pine trees.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sequoia

As far as a zoo and an amusement park goes, we do not have one up here. However, I am pretty certain that the zoo KA was referencing would be the Santa Barbara zoo.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Barbara_Zoo

Unfortunately, there aren't very many photos of the zoo that show it from an overhead view. But from the limited pictures I have seen of it (I haven't been there myself), it appears to have a very outdoors kind of atmosphere. It's about 30 acres big. I think it would be similar to the Taronga Zoo in Sydney, if you have ever been there. However, we do not have a zoo/amusement park hybrid here in California, or anywhere else I can think of, so I guess you'll have to make a hybrid for that.

I think for locations, your map is perfect. The city in Animorphs was roughly molded after some place like Santa Cruz, but some things were just thrown in, like the zoo/amusement park hybrid.

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Re: Animorphs:The Graphic Novel
« Reply #254 on: February 07, 2009, 01:21:28 AM »
Sure, I'm up for some Animorphs fanart.  *will get on that at work tomorrow*

My, being a Floridian, I always thought of Tampa, FL as being their city.  Ocean, but there's no serious cliffs though, and no mountains down here, but Florida does have plain/prairie land.  I always felt like it had the same major buildings, with a mall, convention center, major highway going through, major navy/air force base, international airport, the Hillsborough River, seaport, is a major concert stop with major league teams, lots of forestry areas, conservations, and farmland when you get out, as well as Bush Gardens, which is full of Roller coaster rides and serious animal research habitats.  And then Sea World isn't too far away.  And we also have plenty of those awful roadside attractions with gators and crap.  Well, not so bad anymore with PETA on the net now.

That, and after reading animorphs, I for the longest time expected slugs to come out of the water spout because I thought the yeerk pool was in the Florida Aquifer.

And oh yeah... Clear Water, home of the Scientology, is considered a part of Tampa.  If anyone is a Scientologist , please don't take offense.  Just when I read Animorphs, I sort of thought of the sharing as something like it with how they recruit people and stuff.  :-X

http://www.nationsonline.org/oneworld/map/google_map_Tampa.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tampa,_Florida
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Busch_Gardens_Africa

KA lived in Florida for a while, didn't she?  Anyway, I never really thought there was a specific city out there she based it on that really had all those land masses, and geographic details.  It seemed to me sometimes she'd just pick whatever setting and put it nearby for writing convenience.

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