Graphic Novel Viz Devs
Hey everybody, I’ve been gearing up to write a full length graphic novel and thought it’d be fun to show some of the early sketches. Obviously, I can’t give away the story or the really fun visual stuff, but these should at least give you an idea of what kind of story it might be and who the main characters are.
The Three Main Characters.
Color Sample. Going for a 2D animated feature look, with cell characters on top of rendered backgrounds.
Sample background. Still playing with approaches. It needs to be fast since I’ll be doing so many of them, but also look relatively finished (without overpowering the story or characters).
I’m very excited about the story since it combines a lot of ideas I’ve been toying around with for a couple years but didn’t have the know-how on putting it all together. I’ll try to update the progress whenever possible!
August 28th, 2009 at 4:30 pm
This looks great, Mike. Can’t wait to see more. Love the designs.
August 28th, 2009 at 4:42 pm
Beautiful stuff, dude! I like the top sketch of the girl.
I’m excited to see more!
August 28th, 2009 at 5:46 pm
Thanks a lot guys! Jason, you know it’s all you guys at Bolt City Productions that lit a fire under my butt to get this thing going.
August 28th, 2009 at 7:08 pm
Wow. Just a sneak peek is enough for me. Where do I pre- order?
Great work and quite inspirational. Thanks for sharing Mike.
August 29th, 2009 at 12:22 am
Yo Mike,
I saw you zoom by the Trieste in Berkeley last Wed? Looked like a man on a mission. We should talk about character sculpts.
DW
August 29th, 2009 at 1:04 am
Haha, hey Dick. Yeah, I was either coming or going to the gym. My wife took the bike and the car keys to work that day… so I had to foot it. Definitely would love to talk about some sculpts!
August 29th, 2009 at 9:14 am
I am PUMPED you are doing a graphic novel. These sketches get me more pumped! Awesome Mike- glad you are keeping the ball rolling with your own stories.
August 29th, 2009 at 4:25 pm
Good! I dug up what I did for a friend who had designed characters for a game a while ago. 3 stages and the drawings I worked from. I’m leaving town next Thurs for 10 days. Let’s try and meet up before that.
DW
August 31st, 2009 at 8:39 am
…airships?
August 31st, 2009 at 2:57 pm
hey mike, amazing as always. just saw the new post of the shack in rock..very intriguing. anxious to see more!