April 15th, 2010
I finally have the new pic of Tyris Flare, the amazon from Sega’s 1989 classic hit Golden Axe, in full color. This is probably one of the better coloring jobs I’ve done in a while mostly because I tried a few new tricks that didn’t turn out like crap. I also took my time with this one instead of rushing it to be the new thing of the week. Yes, I worked on it bit-by-bit even as I was working on the Blacktron pic from last week and the big CSS/style upgrade for ScrollBoss for the past month. I decided to post it now instead of waiting until Sunday so I can just get the update out of the way.
Next week’s update will be something that I’ve wanted to do for a while: backgrounds. I’m going back to some of my favorite pics from the last few years and making backgrounds for them. Which pictures? I’m going to make you wait until next week because, well, I’m not sure yet. You’ll see next week, though.
Categories: Illmosis updates by James Beaver
Tags: golden axe
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April 11th, 2010
I didn’t plan to finish the Blacktron pic so soon but I decided to go ahead and do that. This gets Blacktron off the Redemption List because I’m happy with the way it turned out. I’m not sure when I’ll have Tyris Flare’s art fully colored in but here’s a preview of how she looked late last week.
Categories: Illmosis updates by James Beaver
Tags: golden axe, Lego, Redemption List, Sega
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April 4th, 2010
There isn’t much to show in this update. The last few weeks have been pretty Lego-fied for me with finally getting the Toy Story Army Men pack (for custom purposes) and some Space Police sets and some other stuff I’ll talk about later. All of this made me return to the redemption list and draw another pic of the Blacktron minifig. Accessories will be added later.
Besides my usual way of disappointing you (behind-the-scenes coding work on ScrollBoss), I also got a small start on Nutroll: the Illness page 2. Yes, really. As much as I planned to have a “crazy art” theme month again, I really need to work on some art for the upcoming All Americon (learn more about it at the link). You may have to wait a bit longer for more Nutroll pages but it won’t be long. I was also going to try and rush the Illmosis Scrapbook 1 for the convention but I’m not sure if I will. But here’s the Logo without the number attached:
This is slightly different than the version I posted on the weblog last week and may change some more before it’s done. The next thing to work on is the character profile template for the book while I sketch out cover layout ideas. I also need to make some fixes on the Nutroll and Twofold teaser pages that will be in there, too. Sorry (again) for the low output but I really am working on more things that you know about right now. Hopefully, you’ll like how they turn out.
Categories: Illmosis updates by James Beaver
Tags: illmosis scrapbook, Lego
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March 31st, 2010
I’m trying to get some things set up for the Illmosis Scrapbook, a black-and-white sketchbook that I’ve been threatening to do for a few years now. Here’s an early version of the logo.
The colors in SCRAPBOOK still need work but everything fits together just the way I wanted it to. I don’t know if I’ll be able to get this finished in time for the All AmeriCon convention in May but I at least want this done by the summer. I still need to mess with the colors on the “Scrapbook” part. I’ll be posting more previews of this as I get things together.
Categories: The Lab by James Beaver
Tags: illmosis scrapbook
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March 28th, 2010
Nothing much here this week. I spent most of last few days working on a big update of ScrollBoss sprite gallery structure along with being a bit worn out. One thing that I’m able to throw on the site is a few of the color scheme ideas I have for that new PowerKore design I posted a while ago. I’m keeping this short so I can get to work on the weird things you’ll see here this April.
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March 21st, 2010
Tyris is in base color mode along with having a bit of her linework cleaned up. I still don’t know when the full color version will be finished. Sorry for the late posting but I’m putting the finishing touches on the new ScrollBoss sprite gallery. I want to get that out of the way A.S.A.P. so I can start working on all the crazy stuff you’ll see here next month.
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March 7th, 2010
Sadly, this is one of those low-content updates I was talking about. I decided to scrap the idea I had for that group-shot I was stuck on in the “Universe Intro” story and started drawing a different layout. I also made a nice amount of progress on the Final Fight thug sprite set and today’s update is made from that. A new animation of Bred can be found in the Alternate Versions section of that gallery page linked to in the thumbnail over there. Those of you who have never played Final Fight should watch this video of the game’s car-bashing Bonus Round before seeing the animation.
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Tags: final fight, pixelart
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February 28th, 2010
Last week’s announcement that weekly updates weren’t guaranteed anymore didn’t mean that I wasn’t going to try. In fact, ScrollBoss will get an update later on tonight in an unannounced content crossover weekend. It’s really a coincidence that all of today’s content is beat-em-up video game related. Douglas Bild (Rival Turf, Brawl Brothers) is finally in full color and looking mean. I also have something that I posted a teaser of a few weeks back with new sprites of Bred and Dug from Final Fight as they may have looked in a Street Fighter Alpha game. The posted sprites are part of an upcoming full sprite set for ScrollBoss. I also went back to the old Guy: Bushin Senpu Kyaku pic and fixed the character tags for Dug and Axl.
Categories: Illmosis updates by James Beaver
Tags: final fight, Rushing Beat, sprites, video games
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February 21st, 2010
Trick finally joins Treat in having full-color artwork. I also updated the character profiles for Trick, Treat, Negator and Hostyle. The first three were updated to have the full color artwork, while Trick, Treat and Hostyle have sketches from the year 2000 added to their profile. I also fixed the right fist of theDouglas Bild pic but I’m not sure when I’ll get to fully color it.
Bad news/Good news time: The Bad News is that this will be the last Illmosis update where I’ll definitely be updating every week. I’m not saying that I’ll only update once every two weeks but I can’t guarantee that it will always updates will hit every Sunday. The Good News is that I’m doing it to give myself more time to work on comics. Instead of having to do something just to have new material for the site, that time will go into things like that Universal Intro, Nutroll: the Illness and a minibook that will have slightly different versions of those stories and more. I’m also redesigning chunks of ScrollBoss including a hefty reworking of the graphics galleries there. Even if I don’t have a new thing ready for every update, there will be a main post on the site with previews, teasers or sketches. I’ll be back to a definite weekly schedule after I get some of these bigger projects out of the way but I really need a few months of freestyle mode to get this stuff done. There is also another comic I need to start that I can’t tell you the name of because it’d spoil something. All I’ll tell you is that I’ve been planning it for a long time and some teasers I’ve posted that seem to make no sense at all are connected to it. 2010 is going to be wild and I hope you keep coming back to see what happens.
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