Comic 443 - Orbital One
4th Aug 2019, 12:00 AM
in Cryptids in Space!
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Author Notes:
Chapel Enterprises International, Horizon Dynamic Systems and Orbital One are from ProfEtheric's and SarahSophia's Autumn Bay.
There will be a few more Autumn Bay references very soon.
Also, for this chapter I tried out something new:
I built a crude 3D model of this space station in Blender, which I now can trace from any angle that I want!
And yes, I shamelessly cannibalized the narrations of three very different science fiction works here...
User comments:
Props for using a custom 3D model!
And I am already eager to read what you say to the next page... ;-)
One year ago, I learned how to use 3Ds Max, and currently, I am dabbling in Blender. (I like to compare that to trying to get by in Italy after having taken a Spanish course.)
I thought it's time to see if I can use those newly acquired skills for the comic.
(Does it have singing Martians? And how the heck does one portray the tripods on stage??)
It's a really great musical, if you'd like to hear the original, it's here on youtube.
This seems to be the kind of story that you can only really adapt to stage if you have a sufficient amount of budget, but not if you are just a small amateur theatre...
See, I once had the idea for a gag in which a theatre group* over-ambitiously tries to bring friggin' Lord of the Rings on stage. A thought that I found to be just utterly hilarious - but then I found out that something like that actually exists!
* Like say, this one. May even have been my thought behind introducing this into the comic in the first place... ;-)
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