Topic: Old Wizard: Contest - Need votes
Subject: Yes, its slow
The site is excessively slow, I might add. Luckily, You've all seen Book 2 here 
Posted on 2011-01-13 at 01:04:59.
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Topic: Old Wizard: Contest - Need votes
Subject: Old Wizard: Contest - Need votes
We've entered Old Wizard into a comic competition. Here is the link
Link text
We'd appreciate any support we can get. If you want to help us win, please vote on our comic
Contest ends this Saturday I believe.
Posted on 2011-01-13 at 01:04:16.
Edited on 2011-01-13 at 01:10:09 by morikahn
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Topic: Chapter 3, Page 2
Subject: Chapter 3, Page 2
Its up. Whatcha think?
Posted on 2011-01-10 at 21:57:33.
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Topic: Chapter 3, Page 1
Subject: Chapter 3, Page 1
Its up. Comments here.
Posted on 2011-01-07 at 00:04:33.
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Topic: Chapter 2, Page 4 & 5
Subject: thanks
Thanks. I redid the color of that bottom panel twice before the current one. Something about it just threw me off.
I'm still not happy with it, but its much better than before... and the next page makes up for any deficiencies.
Posted on 2010-12-07 at 05:12:55.
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Topic: Chapter 2, Page 4 & 5
Subject: Book 2 updates finished
Alright, page 13 has been updated, and some small adjustments you probably won't notice were made to page 24.
Book 2 is officially done.
We'll keep you updated on when the first Book 3 pages will be online.
Posted on 2010-12-07 at 03:52:58.
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Topic: Chapter 2, Page 4 & 5
Subject: Chapter 2, Page 4 & 5
We are updating a couple of the chapter 2 pages with new color. Pages 4 and 5 and the bottom panel of page 13.
Page 5 is already updates. Page 4 will be updated Saturday morning. 13 sometime this weekend.
I never liked the bottom panel of 13. Worst panel in the whole damn book.
As we mentioned before, this is to prepare our comic for the upcoming TheFabler.com webcomic competition.
In other news, we ARE going to go with less frequent updates but with more pages. Test it out, see how it feels. If it doesn't work, we'll go back to bi-weekly updates. I'm hoping it does, and allows for us to actually produce more pages in a given time span.
Posted on 2010-12-04 at 07:49:42.
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Topic: Loaded Dice #65: the Final Battle (Part Five)
Subject: Ooops
HAH!
I misread your caption on your last page. I thought you were saying there was going to be no more Loaded Dice comics. I see I missed a part - no more FIRE in Loaded Dice.
I thought you were gonna quit cause it was taking too long for you to color. Silly me.
Posted on 2010-12-01 at 22:07:32.
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Topic: Chapter 2, Cover
Subject: line art before colored
Posted on 2010-12-01 at 21:50:50.
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Topic: Loaded Dice #65: the Final Battle (Part Five)
Subject: I'll color your comic for you
I'll color it for you.
Posted on 2010-12-01 at 02:30:21.
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Topic: Chapter 2, Cover
Subject: Chapter 2, Cover
Art for our cover of book 2 is up. This is the first page I've colored where Laz has actually said he liked the page, so I'm pretty stoked.
For those that are bored, and like to hear my brag, I'll explain a some art tricks I did with the page. If you don't like to hear me brag, stop right here.
* I used different temperatures of color to differentiate the sky, golem, and apprentice. The sky is a warm yellowish color, the golem neutral, and the apprentice a cool cyan color.
* I placed the clouds at eye level to help the viewer understand how high the camera was, and the scope of the scene.
* Even though the sun is behind the golem and to its left, I have a secondary light source coming from his forward right. Rarely does a light source just illuminate one side of an object, as the light will usually bounce off some object and return towards the subject. Probably some big fluffy white cloud behind the apprentice reflecting the sun on his back.
* The highlights on the clouds are not as bright as the highlights on the golem. This is to help make them look further away with more atmosphere between them and the viewer.
* Tried to always change the level of light on a surface when it changed direction (something extremely difficult and time consuming with so many bricks involved).
Posted on 2010-11-27 at 17:43:44.
Edited on 2010-11-27 at 17:48:14 by morikahn
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Topic: Chapter 2, Page 24 - End of book 2
Subject: Chapter 2, Page 24 - End of book 2
New page is up. This is also the end of book 2.
I like to think this book came out much better than book 1. A stronger story and I think my color improved greatly.
We plan on submitting book 2 to a comic competition site called the TheFabler.com. Book 1 came in 5th place last competition they held, maybe we can take first this time.
We'll have to touch up a couple of pages and create a cover.
I've talked to Laz about maybe changing how we update pages for book 3. Our page layout was originally designed for print. We decided to host it online as an after thought, and kept the same format.
While this is good for us if we can ever sell print versions of our comic, its not the best format for single page updates, as you have less story and panel crammed into a page.
I came across an online comic called FreakAngels that is also produced for print. The writer updates around 6 pages at a time. This allows for large panel art, and still gives the reader a large chunk of story to read.
Would you guys rather we did that? The rate of updates would be much slower, probably every 2 to 3 weeks, but with a much larger chunk of story to read.
Posted on 2010-11-22 at 22:35:43.
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Topic: Chapter 2, Page 23
Subject: silly story
There was a bit of miscommunication on the color, and I thought the top 3 panels were sort of a ghostly flashback, not ghost images imposed on the current scene.
Original color was all blue on top 3 panels.
http://img254.imageshack.us/img254/9826/wiz223.jpg
Posted on 2010-11-19 at 00:20:39.
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Topic: Rollkran is ill
Subject: Old Wiz back in business
Laz is back up and running. We will have a new update Thursday. He's sent me a really good page too.
Posted on 2010-11-16 at 13:43:27.
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Topic: Rollkran is ill
Subject: Rollkran is ill
Laz has been feeling under the weather lately. Last I spoke to him was Wednesday. It may be a bit before he draws the next page.
Wish him well.
Posted on 2010-11-12 at 11:24:13.
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Topic: Chapter 2, Page 22
Subject: Chapter 2, Page 22
Its up.
Took me a little longer to get the coloring on this done. Laz sent me the artwork Wednesday night, but I was just too pooped from the work week and the Halloween image to start it until Friday night. Didn't finish until Saturday.
I'd also like to note I was happy with how Laz (Rollkran) decided to resolve the situation: brute strength (which the apprentice as capable of and I'm sure surprised you all) wasn't the answer.
Not every antagonist is necessarily evil.
Posted on 2010-11-07 at 09:30:23.
Edited on 2010-11-09 at 03:51:45 by morikahn
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Topic: Halloween art I made for work
Subject: Halloween art I made for work
As a recap of what happened during Halloween, I made this illustration/digital painting/photo composite. The jack o lanterns are real, just reduced in detail and altered lightwise to make them all look like they are on the tree. Originally, they were just jack o lanterns - some unlit - in front of peoples' homes.
529 kb file
Posted on 2010-11-03 at 19:49:41.
Edited on 2010-11-03 at 19:51:22 by morikahn
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Topic: Chapter 2, Page 21
Subject: Chapter 2, Page 21
It is up.
And, I think those are the best clouds I've made yet.
Posted on 2010-11-01 at 11:03:34.
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Topic: Chapter 2, Page 20
Subject: Chapter 2, Page 20
Up, belatedly.
Posted on 2010-10-29 at 02:18:36.
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Topic: Chapter 2, page 19
Subject: Messages in Chapter 2, page 19
its up
Posted on 2010-10-21 at 21:48:56.
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Topic: Chapter 2, page 18
Subject: No update till thursday, sorry
My work week is extremely busy monday through wednesdays. Even if laz got me the page today, very little chance I'd have time to color it.
On the plus side, he's told me I won't have to color bricks...
bricks... bricks... bricks....
Hehe.. bricks
*snaps out of it*
... so the page should go faster and be ready by Wednesday night / Thursday morning.
Posted on 2010-10-19 at 20:21:50.
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Topic: Chapter 2, page 18
Subject: Chapter 2, page 18
Its up.
And you guys thought the last page was a show stopper...
Posted on 2010-10-19 at 10:19:32.
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Topic: Chapter 2, page 17
Subject: Level
I believe he is level 1 billion, but I may be underestimating.
Posted on 2010-10-19 at 03:28:27.
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Topic: Chapter 2, page 17
Subject: whew
oh, I'm glad you guys liked it. I spent hours and hours on that lightning.
Posted on 2010-10-15 at 13:47:10.
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Topic: Chapter 2, page 17
Subject: Chapter 2, page 17
kame.. hame.. ha
Posted on 2010-10-15 at 10:44:48.
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