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Daz Based Comic / Graphic Novel

Jay Jay_1264499Jay Jay_1264499 Posts: 298
edited November 2016 in Art Studio

Afternoon and apologies if this is in the wrong forum.!

I love Daz, I also love comics, so about 3 years ago a writer who was familiar with my work suggested that I should combine the style of art I was working on with comics to create something a bit different. We stayed in contact and he wrote out a story that we both thought could be a real showcase for the style. After a few weeks we both decided to collaborate for the duration of the project.

The idea in part came about because we were using tablets more for reading comic books and thought that a digital art based comic,when not rendered overly realistic, could look fantastic on today's tablets and mobile phones. 

We started work on an original series of characters who would later interact with real historical people and characters of myth and legends. After my colleague wrote the first three issues we realised the immensity of this project so we decided to scale down a little and concentrate on one character to set the foundation for the story and roll it out in phases.

I'm happy to say that after months of re-writes, rendering, re‑rendering and even re-re-rendering we finally compiled the first issue of the mini-series "Twilight of the Gods - Medusa".  We launched (very quietly) on Amazon last month and over the past few weeks have been toiling away creating our social media platforms and some promotional material.  We also have been working on further issues and also have a Kickstarter due to release in the next few days.

We've used Daz Studio extensively along with Vue to create the 360 panoramic skies and composited in Photoshop and/or Hitfilm (when additional special effects were needed)

We're delighted to be able to finally tell people about this and also show artwork from it, especially here, a community I have really enjoyed interacting with over the years.

I've included some artwork here so you can get a feel of the style we're going for and also a couple of links to our Amazon and Facebook pages for you to have a look at if you're interested! Any help we can get through our social networking channels is hugely appreciated.

If you are PA and have created any of the sets, clothing or figures that we've used to make the cast, then on behalf of us at Digital Mythica we thank you immensely, and also plan at the end of the Medusa series to have a credits page where we would like to thank anyone who has contributed to this undertaking.

Thank you

Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/Digital-Mythica-1774077679543837/

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Twilight-Gods-Medusa-Issue-1-ebook/dp/B01MAWJRWG/ref=sr_1_6?ie=UTF8&qid=1479473954&sr=8-6&keywords=twilight+of+the+gods

https://www.amazon.com/Twilight-Gods-Medusa-Issue-1-ebook/dp/B01MAWJRWG/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1479474010&sr=8-1&keywords=twilight+of+the+gods+-+medusa

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  • NovicaNovica Posts: 23,887
    edited November 2016

    Quite lovely Jay! The lighting and the expressions are very, very nice. Sultry on the second one.

    One thing about the first one- are the woman's hands supposed to be chained? I don't see the chains.

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  • Jay Jay_1264499Jay Jay_1264499 Posts: 298

    Thank you Novica. I was hoping noone would notice the lack of chains..!  I must remember that the Daz forum notices everything.! 

     

    Thanks for taking the time to read the post. 

  • LinwellyLinwelly Posts: 5,948
    Jay Jay said:

    Thank you Novica. I was hoping noone would notice the lack of chains..!  I must remember that the Daz forum notices everything.! 

     

    Thanks for taking the time to read the post. 

    that is the culprit of working with this, you train yourself to notice those little bugging details. Nice work, though!

  • algovincianalgovincian Posts: 2,618

    Dy-no-mite, Jay Jay!

    - Greg

  • mmitchell_houstonmmitchell_houston Posts: 2,484
    edited November 2016

    Very nice work. I think 3D tools have really opened the door for a lot of creativity, and it's nice to see someone take it to the end result. Best of luck with your project.

     

    It was just $3. So I bought it. I'll let you know what I think later.

     

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  • thenotoriousjedthenotoriousjed Posts: 397

    I downloaded and read with my KU plan. Awesome work. You can tell you put a ton of time into it. Just as the story got real good and interesting I hit that to be continued page. frown I will be back so hurry up and release a new issue. Will leave you a review a little later.

  • Jay Jay_1264499Jay Jay_1264499 Posts: 298

    Thank you Linwelly and Algovincian!

    Thank you very much for purchasing a copy mmitchell_houston and thenotoriousjed! Great you got hooked til the end! I'm very happy to say that Amazon approved Part 2 late last night and can be found here!

    Thank you again for all your support and kind words!

    https://www.amazon.co.uk/Twilight-Gods-Medusa-Issue-2-ebook/dp/B01MQKP0IB/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1479549121&sr=8-2&keywords=twilight+of+the+gods+medusa

    https://www.amazon.com/Twilight-Gods-Medusa-Issue-2-ebook/dp/B01MQKP0IB/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1479549210&sr=8-1&keywords=twilight+of+the+gods+medusa

     

     

  • LlynaraLlynara Posts: 4,770

    How exciting! I grabbed both copies through Kindle Unlimited. More than happy to read and review. I'm a writer that got into DAZ for promo and cover art. I'm looking at doing graphic novels some day for my superhero series, but certainly not ready to at the moment. Great to see someone doing this, and the previews look very good. Congratulations!

  • Jay Jay_1264499Jay Jay_1264499 Posts: 298
    Llynara said:

    How exciting! I grabbed both copies through Kindle Unlimited. More than happy to read and review. I'm a writer that got into DAZ for promo and cover art. I'm looking at doing graphic novels some day for my superhero series, but certainly not ready to at the moment. Great to see someone doing this, and the previews look very good. Congratulations!

    Hi Llynara! WOW thank you very much for buying both issues. We really appreciate it along with any review! Really wish you all the best with your comic series, (it's really hard work isn't it!) And let us know when its released
    Thank you again!

  • LlynaraLlynara Posts: 4,770
    edited November 2016

    You're welcome, Jay. It'll be a couple of years before I am able to do it, probably once I get most of the Black Kat books published (working on the second one right now.) In the meantime, I want to study and support anyone out there who is doing this. It looks like a tremendous amount of work, but very rewarding too.

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  • Jay Jay_1264499Jay Jay_1264499 Posts: 298
    Llynara said:

    You're welcome, Jay. It'll be a couple of years before I am able to do it, probably once I get most of the Black Kat books published (working on the second one right now.) In the meantime, I want to study and support anyone out there who is doing this. It looks like a tremendous amount of work, but very rewarding too.

    It really has been. There were times this year after we rewrote several scenes where we thought we'd never get it released, but there was a massive sense of relief once the first part hit the Amazon shelves. Uploading via Kindle was a fairly pain free experience (we were originally going to release through comixology but decided against it in the end). 

  • algovincianalgovincian Posts: 2,618
    Jay Jay said:

    we were originally going to release through comixology but decided against it in the end  

    If you don't mind me asking, what were your reasons? I'm involved in a project and Comixology is on the table as a possible option.

    - Greg

  • Jay Jay_1264499Jay Jay_1264499 Posts: 298
    algovincian said:
    Jay Jay said:

    we were originally going to release through comixology but decided against it in the end  

    If you don't mind me asking, what were your reasons? I'm involved in a project and Comixology is on the table as a possible option.

    - Greg

    Hi Greg. Only a couple of reasons really. From what I remember I think every image needed to be 3k on its longest side which would have meant crazy render times especially for Vue and they also don't give you a statement to say how many copies you sell. Granted this was about a year and a half ago so they may have changed their processes now. We also thought we'd have better visibility on amazon and as we decided against pane navigation which to be fair comixology is great for, we plumped with Amazon. Hope that helps Cheers Jay
  • LlynaraLlynara Posts: 4,770

    Jay,

     I really enjoyed both books. Just left ratings and reviews. You'll find them as "Hugh Harrison." He's a major character in my superhero series that loves to read. He leaves all the Amazon reviews and answers questions on reviews for the Black Kat series. wink

    Great job! I can't imagine the amount of work that went into that!

  • Jay Jay_1264499Jay Jay_1264499 Posts: 298
    Llynara said:

    Jay,

     I really enjoyed both books. Just left ratings and reviews. You'll find them as "Hugh Harrison." He's a major character in my superhero series that loves to read. He leaves all the Amazon reviews and answers questions on reviews for the Black Kat series. wink

    Great job! I can't imagine the amount of work that went into that!

    Absolutely thrilled that you like it Llynara and can't thank you enough for the great review. Thank you A lot of work went into it but all worthwhile now it's out and that people are liking it is a massive bonus. Curently rendering pics for issue 3 so while it's doing that I'm off to hunt down you Black Kat series. Thank you again
  • mindsongmindsong Posts: 1,701

    I didn't get word that this was updated. I'm glad you made progress!

    I found my source via:

       http://www.daz3d.com/forums/viewreply/173539/  (has basic instructions)

       http://www.eurus.dti.ne.jp/~masasi/DOWNLOAD/other/index.htm

    While looking for the article, I found this thread with another tool so take a look at this too! :

      http://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/18989/

    good luck!

    --ms

     

     

      

  • Jay Jay_1264499Jay Jay_1264499 Posts: 298

    Firstly, I hope everyone is well and enjoying some well deserved rest at the end of this mental year.  And a massive thank you to everyone who has taken the time to read our first two issues of our comic book and taken the time to kindly comment as well.  You've no idea how much this has meant for us at Digital Mythica!

    I'm delighted to announce that Issue 3 of 'Twilight of the gods - Medusa' was approved for release on Amazon over the weekend.  It's available in all territories but have included a UK and US link below.  If you are a Kindle Unlimited subscriber you will find that you can read this FREE!

    "Despite the best efforts of Poseidon, the voyage of Alexios and his crew continues towards the Island of Medusa.
    But Alexios may find that the wrath of an Olympian is a storm he cannot navigate alone".

    https://www.amazon.co.uk/Twilight-Gods-Medusa-Issue-3-ebook/dp/B01N7LKDC6/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1483024173&sr=8-2&keywords=twilight+of+the+gods+medusa

    https://www.amazon.com/Twilight-Gods-Medusa-Issue-3-ebook/dp/B01N7LKDC6/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1483024746&sr=8-1&keywords=twilight+of+the+gods+medusa

    Again, thank you to everyone who has been reading thus far

    Jay

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