Online graphic novels.
- November 30th, 2009
- Posted in Graphic Novels . Online Entertainment
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Below are selection of interesting online graphic novels, click on the images to go to the sites.
There are a number of interesting things about this collection. Teddy Grant is by a well-respected comic artist called Tommy Lee Edwards and it is interesting that he is moving into the online form. The others are from largely young artists trying to break into the business.
The various projects show a wide variety of graphic styles. I like the use of light and colour exhibited in Tanatos, although I am not all that impressed with the character artwork. The monochrome of NYC2123 is very strong, but I think colour works better on todays high resolution screens. The Requiem work is interesting in that it uses a computer generated process (it looks like it may have been produced using an application like FrameForge). I am not overly impressed with the result, but that may have something to do with the process rather than execution. Of particular interest is Meanwhile because it has both a very naive style, and also uses multiple storylines that can be followed depending on the viewer’s choices.
It is interesting to note that many of the online graphic novels continue to use the environments, conventions and story worlds that have been popular in graphic fiction for a long time; such as horror, sci-fi, and crime.
I’d never even heard of Frameforge before.
Requiem was done, graphically with Bryce 5, and was admittedly, quite primitive. Comic layout was done with Macromedia Fireworks (for page layout, and the like.)
Of course, that was over five years ago now, and in no way reflects what things look like now. For that, I would like to direct you to
http://requiem.spiderforest.com/?p=5410 or
http://requiem.spiderforest.com/?p=3549 and
http://requiem.spiderforest.com/?p=3704
Now we’re doing everything with 3dS Max, Cinema4d and Eovia’s Carrara, though we are using Firewoks still for page layouts (the Adobe version now)
Hi James,
I took a quick look at the more recent editions you linked to, and you’re quite right the images are a great deal more sophisticated. I will probably post an update to my original entry soon to reflect that. Thanks for commenting – kind of a surprise as I had only just transferred the entry half-an-hour before from a page of another blog to this new, dissertation related, one.
Regards,
Nick.
@Nick
YOu’re quite welcome. I was lucky enough to see this blog show up on a pingback through WordPress (which runs the backend of the Requiem site )