How the...

[Rocket Raider]

Hey, Rich, I was wondering how you make your comics. I mean, the characters look pieced together from different pics, and that's cool. Do you has some fancy graphics program or something?<P>------------------
Damn yo' cold, evil black hearts, Neos

[Richard Cobbett]

Yeah, loads of them. The faces are mixed together from assorted pics over the net with Paint Shop Pro, the bodies and heads are 3D models (Devereaux, Crichton, Trina and Big Brother are all the same model, with different heads and extra chest extrusion for C and T). These are posed against a white background and overlaid onto a 3D rendered image (such as the briefing room) and composited with Paint Shop Pro on seperate layers (also used to add the special effects such as lasers, explosions and so forth). The 2D characters such as Chet, Borpney and Nausicaa's henchman are drawn in Flash and a bit of 3D added in PSP. Cassandra is a photo of a woman surrounded by special effects (the face on its own was seen in the psionics strip recently as the fortune teller. Nausicaa is an Asian woman who I made a 3D face of using bump maps and polygonal modelling and layered with circuit boards (the image has about thirty layers and is 1024x800 in size). Background are mostly rendered in Bryce, and any photos are grabbed from the 'net. I drew all of the textures in PSP.<P>Um, I think that's it <P><P>------------------

<B>Richard Cobbett</B>
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