Comic 318 - Hologram-Cars!
24th May 2018, 12:00 AM in Parabellum
Hologram-Cars!
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Microraptor edit delete
Microraptor
Well, who is the owner of this strange shop...?
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The Doodler edit delete reply
The Doodler
Now this is very strange...
Microraptor edit delete reply
Microraptor
"If there's something strange in you neighborhood, who you gonna call?"

(No, this chapter won't be about ghosts.)
Chippewa Ghost edit delete reply
Chippewa Ghost
HOLY SNOT

How did you get the hologram effect?!
Microraptor edit delete reply
Microraptor
What looks like a polygon mesh was actually hand-drawn by me over the picture of the car! (With the aid of the "curve snap" tool, which I am almost always using though.)
For completely non-webcomic related stuff I have been creating actual polygon meshes for last few months, so I guess I developed an eye for how it should look like...

Then I got it to glow by putting this, plus another layer with a bit of airbrush applied in the same color, on top of the layer that darkens the rest of the picture.

And for the distortion in the last panel, I used the "Mesh Transform" tool (in FireAlpaca).
JammyTheBirb edit delete reply
JammyTheBirb
Just wanna say it looks great!
Microraptor edit delete reply
Microraptor
Thank you! :-D
Taily edit delete reply
Taily
I don't think I've ever seen "ahoy" posed as a question!
Microraptor edit delete reply
Microraptor
Camilla uses "ahoy" whenever other people would say "hello" - resulting in this word's odd usage here.
Taily edit delete reply
Taily
Oh I know - it's just cute!
Microraptor edit delete reply
Microraptor
:-D

But now I wonder how Camilla might react if someone told her that something she does is "cute"... ;-)
Stilldown edit delete reply
Stilldown
Sad... A 1951 Opel Kapitän and it only survived as hologram.
Microraptor edit delete reply
Microraptor
Ah, you recognized what car I used here! (Which by now doesn't surprise me at all! ;-) )
AmeliaP edit delete reply
AmeliaP
A hologram with a 100% all quad retopo looping! That's a dedicated VR 3D modeler ^^ (okay, I see a tri here and there, but it still can be considered all quad)
Microraptor edit delete reply
Microraptor
Around the time it drew this, I actually attended a course in 3D-modellling myself! Thus I was able to recreate in 2D how such a mesh is more or less supposed to look like...