Argh! I hate to do this, but today’s real strip is only about halfway done. Sorry, folks.
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30. Next Horizons
11 comics.
Yep. Still working on a single track – and it’s not DtC. Sorry folks! Stand by; the end is in sight…
In case anyone is still out there… I’m back. Limited engagement only, though. Bigger things are in the works, and dropping soon. 🙂
Oh! And… I figured out how to properly do depth-of-field in renderings! I wish I’d known THAT ten years ago.
Sorry it had to come to this. Well, sorry-not-sorry; you know how it is.
We all knew there was a shark here waiting to be jumped.
He only just looks like Nixon. And as a side note, it turns out to be really tricky to apply decent textures to 3D models that you built 10+ years ago and never bothered to properly UV map as you built them.
Ominous foreboding free of charge.
So, yeah, about that lack of a good UV map… Ashe’s motley gray hair? Courtesy of 3 models of different colors superimposed on each other, so the colors “peek” through. Not my best day as a 3D modeler. But if he kinda looks like a homeless old guy no one would care about – then it worked.
The books really are nothing like Drop the Cow. I just found enough ironic similarities between the characters (and not just Ashe/Nixon – but more on that next week) that I thought it’s be funny to describe them this way. More on the book concept next strip.
Nixon was always kind of a one-note kinda guy. He’s old, he’s grumpy, he hates everyone. That was the schtick. Ashe is similar, but different. He also has a basic tenet as a character, but the long-term development of that tenet is what makes him (hopefully) interesting. There are a lot more deeper psychological questions to explore with him.
As I mentioned, there’s a lot to unpack with a character like Ashe. Sorry to get so wordy.