10-29-2019, 01:13 PM
@Rotohail
Here is the additional info on Shunran that I promised you; I was too exhausted the other day to write more. The samples I posted are very haphazard, hence the confusion. The main character, Squirrel, is a biologically enhanced soldier sent in a disciplinary section on the only remaining space station, cleaning orbital junk and dreaming of going back to Earth. She is the girl in the orange combat suit - a nanotech suit that is very alive. I wasn't aware of Ghost in the Shell at the time but this kind of ideas goes back to the beginnings of science fiction. However, I had a character called the Puppeteer, and I discovered Ghost in the Shell had a very similar one with the same nickname, which spurred me to change things a bit.
The other main character, Harlequin, is an artibiotic being, an extremely smart, rogue AI that starts out socially inept and ends up teaming up with Squirrel for an evasion to Earth where life is even harder than in space. There are many characters in this story and they are not fully bad or good guys, they just try to survive in a harsh environment. Plus everybody was traumatized by the war which wiped out most of the humankind. Some, such as Squirrel, are also traumatized by their life before the war.
The main difficulty of this comic is that technology is nanotech and not bare metal, which requires an enormous concept research and difficult visual work. Also, society is nothing like what we usually see in science fiction and it makes for a hard to grasp atmosphere. I hope that helps explain a bit.
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Going back to the basics, exploring attitudes for a character of an old side project, Chloe the dryad:
And the obligatory dump of archives as I reconnect to my past. Below are sketches and layouts from around 2008. This project, just like Burung and Horchata's project, was initially a side project to work on something small, but when I began to imagine the lore of all the region and several episodes, I abandoned it to prevent my head from exploding.
Here is the additional info on Shunran that I promised you; I was too exhausted the other day to write more. The samples I posted are very haphazard, hence the confusion. The main character, Squirrel, is a biologically enhanced soldier sent in a disciplinary section on the only remaining space station, cleaning orbital junk and dreaming of going back to Earth. She is the girl in the orange combat suit - a nanotech suit that is very alive. I wasn't aware of Ghost in the Shell at the time but this kind of ideas goes back to the beginnings of science fiction. However, I had a character called the Puppeteer, and I discovered Ghost in the Shell had a very similar one with the same nickname, which spurred me to change things a bit.
The other main character, Harlequin, is an artibiotic being, an extremely smart, rogue AI that starts out socially inept and ends up teaming up with Squirrel for an evasion to Earth where life is even harder than in space. There are many characters in this story and they are not fully bad or good guys, they just try to survive in a harsh environment. Plus everybody was traumatized by the war which wiped out most of the humankind. Some, such as Squirrel, are also traumatized by their life before the war.
The main difficulty of this comic is that technology is nanotech and not bare metal, which requires an enormous concept research and difficult visual work. Also, society is nothing like what we usually see in science fiction and it makes for a hard to grasp atmosphere. I hope that helps explain a bit.
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Going back to the basics, exploring attitudes for a character of an old side project, Chloe the dryad:
And the obligatory dump of archives as I reconnect to my past. Below are sketches and layouts from around 2008. This project, just like Burung and Horchata's project, was initially a side project to work on something small, but when I began to imagine the lore of all the region and several episodes, I abandoned it to prevent my head from exploding.