A little preview

[Blowtorch]

Here's a little preview of a dio story I'm working on.

http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p278/Blowtorch_album/preview3.jpg

http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p278/Blowtorch_album/preview4-1.jpg

[Blowtorch]

Here's a few more shots. Haven't go them on "page" yet, but I'll get there.

http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p278/Blowtorch_album/PreviewA.jpg

http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p278/Blowtorch_album/PreviewC.jpg

http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p278/Blowtorch_album/PreviewB.jpg

[G.I.Eddie]

that is so flip'n awesome!...love the last CG head shot...BAAAAD AAAA$$!!

[delta]

I Really like this kind of stuff. Do you ever do stop motion?

[statesofeuphoria]

Nice angles. They look very cinematic.

[wildbill73]

cool shots love how they are a bit graphic

[Elite Force Cobra]

that is sick with it job great work!

[vadersquest]

Man that rocks! I can not wait to see the rest!

[G.I. Smurf]

wow man, thats looks awesome.

[MAJOR WOLF]

Great Job! You got some Real Skills with Photoshop!

[Blowtorch]

Thanks guys I hope the rest of the story is going to be just as good

[Blowtorch]

Here a couple more previews of that dio story I'm working on. I thought I'd kill several birds with one stone by just putting my other stuff in one thread.

Not related to the story. I put Copperhead in this pose and thought it looked cool.

http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p278/Blowtorch_album/Copperhead.jpg

Now the two preview pages.

http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p278/Blowtorch_album/preview5.jpg

http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p278/Blowtorch_album/preview6.jpg

[Blowtorch]

Now here's some shots of my custom Chuckles who I had to make for this Dio Story

http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p278/Blowtorch_album/DSCF7192.jpg

http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p278/Blowtorch_album/DSCF7201.jpg

http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p278/Blowtorch_album/DSCF7205.jpg

http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p278/Blowtorch_album/DSCF7224.jpg

[Unclassified]

dude thats bad bro. damn im all jel . thats some sick shit. awesome work bro.

[G.I.Eddie]

the lighting is so good...it seriously almost looks real

[Flame Viper]

Great job, look forward to seeing more.

[Monkeywrench]

Awesome job. I can't wait to see more.

[COBRACOLLECTOR]

niceeeee work

[darthZartan]

Holy smokes thats cool stuff!

[Renegade]

Nice work! post at joedios if you havent already!

[Blowtorch]

Nice work! post at joedios if you havent already!

Thanks. As far as posting at JD that's not going to happen.

[Renegade]

yeah why?

[Blowtorch]

yeah why?


Out of respect for Hiss Tank and not to bring any drama to the site I replied to you via PM

[Monkeywrench]

I hope you post the entire dio here on the tank when your finished.

[Blowtorch]

I plan on it, but only if the mods are ok with it. I may post the first 4 pages here then a link to the rest.

[Monkeywrench]

I plan on it, but only if the mds are ok with it. I may post the first 4 pages here then a link to the rest.


how many pages will it be? Also can you give a preview of the story other than Scarlett getting shot, what is the main plot?

[Blowtorch]

how many pages will it be? Also can you give a preview of the story other than Scarlett getting shot, what is the main plot?

Right now I'm sitting at 28 pages, as for the plot I want it to be a surprise...more fun that way.

[Renegade]

sweet keep it up

[Monkeywrench]

Right now I'm sitting at 28 pages, as for the plot I want it to be a surprise...more fun that way.


right on. I can't wait

[Cobra88]

job well done!

[Viper6]

whack whack whack?

ever shot....anything?

and emts? i dont think joe has emts on station probably medivac regardles of location im sure theres a dedicated joe airmed asset.

great work, and i mean that as graphic designer myself, pre military, but man...put some military into it.

[Sonny Crockett]

Nice photoshop work.

Is it necessary to have the tails of the speech bubbles go right up to their mouths, though?

[Blowtorch]

Nice photoshop work.

Is it necessary to have the tails of the speech bubbles go right up to their mouths, though?

I wasn't aware that there were rules to putting in speech bubbles. However I'm happy with, so that's way I'm leaving it....so to answer your question yes.

[Sonny Crockett]

OK, that's fine. I just thought the really long tails looked awkward, not something you see in professionally done comics.

[Blowtorch]

OK, that's fine. I just thought the really long tails looked awkward, not something you see in professionally done comics.

Never claimed to be a professional comic writter. I do it because I enjoy it. Do you do anything like this? If so show us I'd like to see some of your profession comic writting.

[Blowtorch]

whack whack whack?

ever shot....anything?

and emts? i dont think joe has emts on station probably medivac regardles of location im sure theres a dedicated joe airmed asset.

great work, and i mean that as graphic designer myself, pre military, but man...put some military into it.

First question
Yes

Second question
These are previews and you don't know the whole story because I'm still working on it.

Congrats your a graphic designer same here, also former military.....sorry if this isn't military enough for you.

On a side note I didn't ask to be critiqued I'm posting what I enjoy doing it

[Sonny Crockett]

Ok, here you go:

www.sundang.x-realms.net

It's a couple years old, and never got finished because it became too much like work, and I too was doing it just because I enjoyed it.

Looking forward to seeing more from you.

[Blowtorch]

Ok, here you go:

www.sundang.x-realms.net

It's a couple years old, and never got finished because it became too much like work, and I too was doing it just because I enjoyed it.

Looking forward to seeing more from you.

Checked out your site, Mitch and read the last issue you did.

[Sonny Crockett]

Cool, thanks!

(prolly the only one to look at it in a year, btw ;D )

[Blowtorch]

The more I sit here and think about the more pissed I get so I'm going to say it. I think it takes a lot of ball for both Sonny Crockett and Viper6 to ridicule the photos I've posted in this tread. I'm all for everyone having an opinion, but this IMHO was nothing more than poking fun at my expense. If you feel the need to say hey this sucks then have the balls to say what or where I can improve.
However given the fact that (if you two read the title) it CLEARLY STATES "A little preview" which means it's not done. So you don't know is what the story is about, or who's in it or how it's even going to end. Also the pages that are posted are not what's going to be in the final version, you all saw a different version that I edited because I wanted it to be a surprise when posted. So Viper6 thanks for slamming the little preview you saw, sorry it's not up to your standards. Sonny Crockett sorry if the speech bubbles are too close to the mouth, I guess it's not up to your standards either. My opinion if you two have found these flaws then when it's finished don't bother reading it.

[Viper6]

The more I sit here and think about the more pissed I get so I'm going to say it. I think it takes a lot of ball for both Sonny Crockett and Viper6 to ridicule the photos I've posted in this tread. I'm all for everyone having an opinion, but this IMHO was nothing more than poking fun at my expense. If you feel the need to say hey this sucks then have the balls to say what or where I can improve.
However given the fact that (if you two read the title) it CLEARLY STATES "A little preview" which means it's not done. So you don't know is what the story is about, or who's in it or how it's even going to end. Also the pages that are posted are not what's going to be in the final version, you all saw a different version that I edited because I wanted it to be a surprise when posted. So Viper6 thanks for slamming the little preview you saw, sorry it's not up to your standards. Sonny Crockett sorry if the speech bubbles are too close to the mouth, I guess t's not up to your standards either. My opinion if you two have found these flaws then when it's finished don't bother reading it.

dude, relax, one if your a former GI anything then damn have some thicker skin.....you waaaaay over reacted, i was- i thought implying what to correct, more military jargon and more realistic weapons shredding flesh sounds. im not critiquing your efforts, i did say great job, literate much? just thought you could tweek it since it is so almost totaly awesome and about the best graphic dio ive seen so sit on that and dont let it detonate;) now draw fire you got more good work to do.

[sgtapon]

nice freaking work!!! i've tried to do things like that but alas "I" suck at photo shopping. But I really want to see more............in the words of the great serpentor "this i command" (sorry i couldn't help myself there awesome work though look forward to seeing more)

[Blowtorch]

dude, relax, one if your a former GI anything then damn have some thicker skin.....you waaaaay over reacted, i was- i thought implying what to correct, more military jargon and more realistic weapons shredding flesh sounds. im not critiquing your efforts, i did say great job, literate much? just thought you could tweek it since it is so almost totaly awesome and about the best graphic dio ive seen so sit on that and dont let it detonate;) now draw fire you got more good work to do.

Ok first I'm done having "thicker skin" I've pretty much been letting crap roll off me for the past year and not saying anything about it. Both on the net and in real life. All that has done is build up a lot of hostilities.
As far as finding a better way to put a sound to weapons shredding flesh....let's see I've looked at every comic I own, plus listening to those sounds over and over in movies. That was what I thought to be closest to it. I do research stuff before and during any writing so I may come across something.

[Monkeywrench]

yo, don't let some critiquing and suggestions anger you. Just keep doing what your doing and if you like it, that's all that matters. No matter what it is, your always going to find people who might like it done a different way. I for one really enjoy the preview. I hope Firefly makes an appearance.

[DJ CRUSH]

I'm not military or a graphic designer or anything, and while I think it looks awesome, the very first thing that jumped out at me in a negative way was how far the tails on the voice bubbles extend. I mean do your thing, but there is a reason 100% of comics all have them only go so far and not extend all the way to the mouths- it works and it doesn't cover the character in any way.

Just lettin' you know from a reader's perspective. great images though.

[Blowtorch]

I'm not military or a graphic designer or anything, and while I think it looks awesome, the very first thing that jumped out at me in a negative way was how far the tails on the voice bubbles extend. I mean do your thing, but there is a reason 100% of comics all have them only go so far and not extend all the way to the mouths- it works and it doesn't cover the character in any way.

Just lettin' you know from a reader's perspective. great images though.

Personally I think the word balloon length is just a nick pick thing. I use comic book creator which has it's flaws, but still a great program. One flaw is when using the word balloons you have to re size to get all of the dialog in. This sometimes blocks the picture. So it's kinda of a judgement call leave a big word balloon over my image or move it then put in a "long tail" to the character. So I'm trying to do two things when writing these (BTW this is not my first dio story) One is getting the plot out using dialog, the other is putting out excellent pics that can speak for themselves. So when I've got a sweet pic I don't want to have a word balloon in the center of it, but I also don't want the reader trying to figure out who's saying what. So I do try to look at it from a readers perspective. Honestly this isn't as easy as it looks. Sometimes I'm taking up to 50 pics just to get one good one. Then there's photoshopping, I think the longest amount of time I spent on one picture was 4 hours (if that). So there's a lot of trail and error that goes into this.

I will also say this...I'm sorry if I seemed short tempered in last nights posts. There have been a lot of real life issues that have come up unexpectly over the past couple weeks and I haven't sleeping well since then. But I won't bore anyone with that, plus side is there seems to be a light at the end of the dark tunnel. So I've been working on my dio story to help take my mind off of them, I'll post it somewhere when it's done.

[Sonny Crockett]

The more I sit here and think about the more pissed I get so I'm going to say it. I think it takes a lot of ball for both Sonny Crockett and Viper6 to ridicule the photos I've posted in this tread. I'm all for everyone having an opinion, but this IMHO was nothing more than poking fun at my expense. If you feel the need to say hey this sucks then have the balls to say what or where I can improve.
However given the fact that (if you two read the title) it CLEARLY STATES "A little preview" which means it's not done. So you don't know is what the story is about, or who's in it or how it's even going to end. Also the pages that are posted are not what's going to be in the final version, you all saw a different version that I edited because I wanted it to be a surprise when posted. So Viper6 thanks for slamming the little preview you saw, sorry it's not up to your standards. Sonny Crockett sorry if the speech bubbles are too close to the mouth, I guess it's not up to your standards either. My opinion if you two have found these flaws then when it's finished don't bother reading it.

I'm pretty sure I said I liked it, and I do have the balls to say where it needs improvement. If you think that my comment was meant as ridicule, then I'd almost have to think you must be about 16 years old, but I doubt that's true.

I'm completely capable of realizing all on my own that it's not done, because you titled the thread "a little preview", and the fact that there's not a complete story here. It's obvious.

I also think it's nicely done so far (aside from one little thing that in my opinion sticks out and distracts the viewer), and I'm looking forward to seeing the rest. Hopefully one or two people typing their opinions on the internet after taking the time to look at your fan art won't discourage you from finishing it, and maybe even doing more like it.

In the future, if you want to avoid critiques, maybe type that out in the thread somewhere, so we'll all know to give it blindly positive feedback.

[Sonny Crockett]

Personally I think the word balloon length is just a nick pick thing. I use comic book creator which has it's flaws, but still a great program. One flaw is when using the word balloons you have to re size to get all of the dialog in. This sometimes blocks the picture. So it's kinda of a judgement call leave a big word balloon over my image or move it then put in a "long tail" to the character. So I'm trying to do two things when writing these (BTW this is not my first dio story) One is getting the plot out using dialog, the other is putting out excellent pics that can speak for themselves. So when I've got a sweet pic I don't want to have a word balloon in the center of it, but I also don't want the reader trying to figure out who's saying what. So I do try to look at it from a readers perspective. Honestly this isn't as easy as it looks. Sometimes I'm taking up to 50 pics just to get one good one. Then there's photoshopping, I think the longest amount of time I spent on one picture was 4 hours (if that). So there's a lot of trail and error that goes into this.

I will also say this...I'm sorry if I seemed short tempered in last nights posts. There have been a lot of real life issues that have come up unexpectly over the past couple weeks and I haven't sleeping well since then. But I won't bore anyone with that, plus side is there seems to be a light at the end of the dark tunnel. So I've been working on my dio story to help take my mind off of them, I'll post it somewhere when it's done.

I completely understand about putting a ton of time into something only to have some random jackass nitpick some trivial detail.

Keep up the good work, 'cause I'll be checking out future chapters when you've got 'em ready.

[Viper6]

I completely understand about putting a ton of time into something only to have some random jackass nitpick some trivial detail.

Keep up the good work, 'cause I'll be checking out future chapters when you've got 'em ready.

dido, just hope the sound effects improve and the jargon picks up, like i said i think its great. and i get that your butt hurt about being critiqued but i think we all ment well. good luck with the rest i be checkn back

[G.I. Smurf]

i think its great. so what if its not realistic, mmm is G.I. Joe realistic??? heck no. this could be one of the best looking dios ever, and i have just about read them all. much better then my work.

[Blowtorch]

i think its great. so what if its not realistic, mmm is G.I. Joe realistic??? heck no. this could be one of the best looking dios ever, and i have just about read them all. much better then my work.

Well let's not get carried away.
It's going to be real interesting ;) to say the least. This has been a lot of fun to do so I hope you all enjoy it. I'm real close to being done.

[Monkeywrench]

Well let's not get carried away.
It's going to be real interesting ;) to say the least. This has been a lot of fun to do so I hope you all enjoy it. I'm real close to being done.

how's the dio coming? Are you going to post it here on the tank?

[Blowtorch]

how's the dio coming? Are you going to post it here on the tank?

It's coming along I just knocked out 3 pages last night about 6-8 in the past week. I'm hoping to be done soon. And yes I'll be posting this on the Tank, but only the first few pages then you'll have to go to my site. (I don't want to clog up the board with 40 plus pages.) I'll keep up posted.