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visual myriad · Posted: Mon Nov 19, 2001 3:33 am

As per my last post about characters called The F.U.T's, this is another six page sample that was recently printed (over two issues of an Aussie mag) called Mania*.

It's called The Adventures of Cog & Turbine and here's a preview I thought you may (or may not) enjoy:

The story begins with two kids, ZAG and FLEM who just bought the latest video game, Cog & Turbine. In real life, the kids are the controllers of Cog and Turbine, who in the game are cyborg body guards for the King of Bezukstan. Everybody with me? So the main concept is that each of the kids are transported into the game via control of the robots...

Here's the original thumbnails for the six-page sample:

Here's page one (sans bubbles) as they load up the game:

We choose a different style so there would be a contrast between their world and the world of the game. As the kids are transported into the game, we see the King's palace (page 2- panel 1):

Bursting through the door, Cog and Turbine make their first appearance (page 2 - panel4):

OK kids, can you guess who is who?

Like in all these stories, the bad guys are after the King's beautiful daughter (yet is somehow is still a virgin!), and whom is blissfully unaware of the danger she's in (page 3 - panel 1):

In the ensuing melee, Cog and Turbine unleash their weapons (crop from page 4):

The battle rages on (but no one seems to get hurt!)...

Oh Jesus...the baddies tank crashes through the palace wall!

It's very short, but we used the pages to experiment with a concept that we've been developing for a while. Hope you enjoyed!

*Mania is an A5 pop culture mag aimed at kids between 7 - 14, which has a monthly print run of about 60,000 or so.

Painted Melody · Posted: Mon Nov 19, 2001 8:49 am

These are all incredible, the last four really ignite

Jeremy

balistic · Posted: Mon Nov 19, 2001 8:57 am

The palace panorama kicks my skinny white ass.

Great work.

Quasar · member Member # Joined: 01 Oct 2001 Posts: 355

Man you have a way with colors!!! Good work!!

Anthony J · Posted: Mon Nov 19, 2001 2:32 pm

i really like your use of colours in these pieces
especially like the palace landscape

i just wish that your use of camera angles was more dynamic. instead of having cog and turbine right beside the baddies, blasting at eachother with no cover from enemy fire.
its sort of basic. Maybe you should lay that out in a 3 to 5 box segment with a fire fight. perhaps have a walk around your house, and look at how rooms are layed out...
you could use that as reference for a simple battle. your characters could be ducking underneath metal scraps and stuff like that...
i dunno just an idea.

also i really love your picture of the beautiful maiden. but it looks so disney coloured in comparison to the dark and gritty cog and turbine layouts. I know thats the idea, because you want to make her look beautiful and good, and thats why you layed out bright colours, but maybe the background is missing something, a link of somesort to the characters and where they are at.

then again, maybe im dead wrong, because they are just concept images, so just stuff a cog in my pipe and smoke it

Bob the Newt · Posted: Mon Nov 19, 2001 5:27 pm

holy crap amazing colors

FireFry · Posted: Mon Nov 19, 2001 5:42 pm

I really like the colors you used in your comic. The palace piece kicks ass

visual myriad · Posted: Thu Nov 22, 2001 4:25 am

Geez, posts really disappear quickly around here nowadays!

Thanks to all for your comments and appreciate you taking the time to reply, especially Anthony J. This whole exercise is a bit of an experiment, and we're lucky to be able to do this, get paid for it, be able to see our concepts in print, but not get stuck with the printers bill.

The whole storytelling aspect is a whole other beast, but I seem to be improving w/ each page. Anthony, your suggestions are spot on. The whole approach to this is rather tongue and check, hence the stereotypes like Turbines one glowing eye (all good cyborgs should have one!), and the nidicolous close range of the melee. But your points are very valid.

Here's the layout for page 5/6 as it looked going to the printers:

lazydead · Posted: Thu Nov 22, 2001 8:19 am

I thought it was frickin hilarious how you did the battle! Just like Naked Gun.
Two people in the background kicking it just feet away from the gunfight! lol
I love how the little guy is firing strait forward instead of up, taking out their shins!

Gandalf- · Posted: Thu Nov 22, 2001 8:56 am

I love you.

Shiro_tengu · Posted: Thu Nov 22, 2001 6:44 pm

visual myriad - hella cool stuff mate. I've been looking forward to seeing more of your stuff since you painted the action girl for me. Great stuff and lovely use of colour.

soilborn · Posted: Thu Nov 22, 2001 7:56 pm

i agree the colors are great, the artwork is too. very artistic, the style reminds me loosely of grim fandango....and that's ment to be a good thing.

vegeta�ONAC · Posted: Thu Nov 22, 2001 10:15 pm

hey im a comic book artist too i color and letter a brand new comic called Bzzz Bee Cafe. you got some really amazing work. nice colors and the storytelling is comical heh. only gripe i have is the actual final piece in the comic itself! the layouts of the panels seems hard to follow, and the design of the elements within those panels are in the dead center...id rather just buy yur seperate artworks cuz they alone are great pieces