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2short2care

By 2short2care,
Posted on: 2010-04-28 16:53 in Multi-Media Fan Creations

 

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Originally Posted by VexXxa View Post
WOW!!! I totally love your new additions, CH!! Especially Sorah's! I have always loved her work! Gratzzz!!
Thanks VexXxa! Simon Gough has been busy coloring the Comrade Hero and Graviton Girl Triptych. These are the completed flats. Final colors with background to follow.





 

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June update on my Comrade Hero Project.

Back in late March Buto Productions here in New Zealand approached Maori Television about a bilingual (English and Maori) Comrade Hero animated series. The Maori Television network gave their broadcast commitment and Buto Productions made application to New Zealand on Air in April for funding under the Digital Content Partnership Fund.

Alas, the funding was not granted, and I was notified last week. (which is why I can now talk about this!)

While disappointing, I take comfort that the decision was based on funding constraints of New Zealand on Air rather the Project itself. There were fourteen million dollars’ worth of applications made to New Zealand on Air for the Digital Content Partnership Fund and only one million dollars allocated.

Buto Productions will be pitching and making application to Te Mangai Paho (the Maori Broadcasting Funding Agency) for funding in the next round later on this year.

In the meantime I'll keep going down the more familiar path of applying to Creative New Zealand in July/August for contestable arts literature funding of my Comrade Hero Project.

I'm slowly reediting, rewriting and updating Project material.

There's design work being done in animated, comic book, and 'realist' styled concept art that is slowly being completed, as well as other concept and reference pieces.

If you want to see some of what I've been doing you can download Comrade Hero Project PDF Files from Google Docs at: http://bit.ly/mNipnF - no registration or login require.

Thanks to everyone for your support, encouragement, and feedback. If I've been a quiet little mouse, it's because of having my head down the past few months.

James.




 

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Really sowrry to hear that, CH! When one door is closed, a window is always opened. You just need to hang on a tad longer until you find that opened window.

~*~VexXxa~*~
The City Scoop Art Correspondent/Writer "ART IS IN THE EYE OF THE BEHOLDER"//"Don't hate because VexXxa is HOT and you're NOT." - JOHNNYKAT


 

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Thanks for updating us on the processes CH, it looks like two steps forward and one step back, but your perseverance should ultimately pay off. Meanwhile, you're doing something you love doing

I may someday be chasing one of my own projects through a related system over here, so it's great to get an inside view of the process, and also a reality check. Your odds of 1 in 14 are still better than for authors submitting unsolicited manuscripts... (0.5%?)

Cheers, air'd


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Originally Posted by Ironik View Post
I'll tell you the one secret to success at this: perseverance. Keep at it and you'll achieve it.
Agreed. Like the shampoo commercial is so fond of saying - it won't happen overnight, but it will happen.

Keep chipping away at it slowly and building both the contacts and experience.

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Originally Posted by VexXxa View Post
Really sowrry to hear that, CH! When one door is closed, a window is always opened. You just need to hang on a tad longer until you find that opened window.

Heh. Thanks. Landing an animated show is a longshot, but definitely an interesting one. So long as the production company wants to keep pitching it, I'm happy for them to do so as it's free publicity and exposure.

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Originally Posted by airhead View Post
Thanks for updating us on the processes CH, it looks like two steps forward and one step back, but your perseverance should ultimately pay off. Meanwhile, you're doing something you love doing

I may someday be chasing one of my own projects through a related system over here, so it's great to get an inside view of the process, and also a reality check. Your odds of 1 in 14 are still better than for authors submitting unsolicited manuscripts... (0.5%?)

Cheers, air'd
I look at it as similar to the job application process. Submitting your resume and/or attending an interview. For each job that you don't get you figure out what worked, what didn't, and what could be improved upon.

Sometime it's not always be a matter of what you could have done better though. It may be a simple case that someone else was better suited for the job, or factors beyond you or the potential employers control - like the economy.

Stay motivated, roll with the highs and lows, and keep writing/drawing on a regular basis. A lot easier to say than do.




 

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Comrade Hero by Reginaldo Salvador Vicente. The last of my main characters form City of Heroes done by Reginaldo, who previously did all the superwomen.





 

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Some Comrade Hero Project Model Sheets by the talented Erwin Ropa. Based on the design work of Yamandú Daniel Orce.

COMRADE HERO 1



COMRADE HERO 2



FOUR FIVE TWO


OPERATIONS


ANDERSON




 

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Love the model sheets...

I just hope we don't turn EuRopa into a "model sheet" only artist...

 

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Great model sheets!

 

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Love the model sheets...

I just hope we don't turn EuRopa into a "model sheet" only artist...
Errr.... I blame you for promoting Erwin in the first place.

I've asked Erwin to do more model sheets once Yamandú Daniel Orce completes the first set (civilian Comrade Hero) and I start work on the other secondary characters.

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Great model sheets!
Thanks. Operations was the tricky one as she's a character who can manipulates 'virtual' reality in the real world. It was hard to describe that, thankfully I came across some good reference material.




 

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Some hammer.
An improvised club.

The original drawing had Comrade Hero holding a metal pipe.

I asked Benjamin if he could add something like a steel and concrete girder.

He did and it looked kind of funny (caveman-ish).

I said make it a whacking great piece of the steel and concrete.

And voilà, you have a Comrade Hero 'caveman' lugging around an improvised club in a futuristic environment...




 

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And here's what Comrade Hero looked like before he was a hero. Second Design Sheet by Yamandú Daniel Orce.

Stylized Russian Test Pilot uniform. Chest emblem is that of the Sukhoi Design Bureau.





 

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Nice new additions, CH! And those model sheets are some of the best that I have seen here!

~*~VexXxa~*~
The City Scoop Art Correspondent/Writer "ART IS IN THE EYE OF THE BEHOLDER"//"Don't hate because VexXxa is HOT and you're NOT." - JOHNNYKAT


 

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Originally Posted by VexXxa View Post
Nice new additions, CH! And those model sheets are some of the best that I have seen here!
I've really been fortunate in that respect.


I noticed Yamandú Daniel Orce work before on deviantART, and Caemgen put out the good word about Erwin Ropa.

There's a two month and a half month window between contestable arts funding applications her in New Zealand so I'm updating and reediting project material and documents, and getting more visual reference images and concept work done.

I'm currently talking with Dimitris Moore and Rodney White about less comic book styled and more animated style character sheets, and Michael Penick and Jeff Chapman about action and photo-realistic pieces
respectively.




 

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Artist Jeff Chapman created a set of 'Live Action' Comrade Hero pieces for use as promotional images and visual references. Here's the Default, Russian Federation, and Soviet Union styles Comrade Hero.









 

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Um, all I can say is "WHOAH!"

You mean these pictures didn't instantly sell the project?

Be Well!
Fireheart

 

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Um, all I can say is "WHOAH!"

You mean these pictures didn't instantly sell the project?

Be Well!
Fireheart
Heh, I only received these a couple of hours ago, but yeah I had the same reaction.

And an update...

And here's what Comrade Hero looked like before he was a hero. Second Design Sheet by Yamandú Daniel Orce and Model Sheet by the talented Erwin Ropa. That's the first Character Set complete.

Stylized Russian Test Pilot uniform. Chest emblem is that of the Sukhoi Design Bureau.







 

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CH!!! Jeff Chapman's version is so realistic!! I am in total AWE!!!

~*~VexXxa~*~
The City Scoop Art Correspondent/Writer "ART IS IN THE EYE OF THE BEHOLDER"//"Don't hate because VexXxa is HOT and you're NOT." - JOHNNYKAT


 

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CH!!! Jeff Chapman's version is so realistic!! I am in total AWE!!!
I was the same way when I saw the work Jeff did on Wonder Woman characters. It was a case of wow, now I need a live-action Comrade Hero.




 

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Comrade Hero Model Rig by Jason Quinlan (aka Battlewraith). This small image doesn't quite do justice to the fantastic work Jason did creating a working Comrade Hero 3D Model Rig.