Post by Jeff on Aug 18, 2007 1:17:02 GMT -5
Ep 20: Born Again (Kinda')
At this point, my fan base was still mostly made up of friends and fellow posters at various Transformers discussion forums, so I was becoming concerned that ACT was straying too far from the Transformers foundation it was based upon. Though I was pleased that ACT was beginning to take on its own direction, I wanted to throw Transformers fans a few bones to draw them in and keep them reading.
In this case, Episode 20 is a direct parody of the big moment in Transformers: The Movie where Unicron recruits Megatron into his army, resurrecting him as Galvatron. I thought I'd give Phil one final platform for his effeminate personality (responding very differently than Megatron did) before taking him in a new direction.
In making this episode, I recruited the help of a friend to finally help me learn the basics of Photoshop. This was a particularly special-effect filled moment in the cartoon movie, and I wanted to try to echo that here. The effect is crude, but I think it was generally effective. From here on in, I start using a lot more Photoshop in the comic, and I like to think that my skills improve noticeably over time.
The final gag in this episode was supposed to be that Phil's "new and improved" body is a tiny Transformers Micromaster toy, but I quickly learned that not all of my readers were Transformers fans when a reader asked me if Galvaphil was now as big as the NECTBA Unicron Wanna Be. Of course, the next episode clarifies the size relationship between the two, but it was published a week after this one.
I've got to say that I love the goblins in this episode (heck, I love the goblins in every episode), but I've only recently noticed that all that blood magically disappears when Phil floats away in the second panel. Oops.
"Yummy in my tummy". How can you be angry at goblins devouring your living body if they're being cute and innocent while they do it?
I'm happy to say that this is the final episode set in that damn cave, even though my cutting and pasting abilities had improved greatly by this time. You can definitely see the difference doing it with Photoshop (where edges can be more easily blurred) as opposed to MS Paint.
At this point, my fan base was still mostly made up of friends and fellow posters at various Transformers discussion forums, so I was becoming concerned that ACT was straying too far from the Transformers foundation it was based upon. Though I was pleased that ACT was beginning to take on its own direction, I wanted to throw Transformers fans a few bones to draw them in and keep them reading.
In this case, Episode 20 is a direct parody of the big moment in Transformers: The Movie where Unicron recruits Megatron into his army, resurrecting him as Galvatron. I thought I'd give Phil one final platform for his effeminate personality (responding very differently than Megatron did) before taking him in a new direction.
In making this episode, I recruited the help of a friend to finally help me learn the basics of Photoshop. This was a particularly special-effect filled moment in the cartoon movie, and I wanted to try to echo that here. The effect is crude, but I think it was generally effective. From here on in, I start using a lot more Photoshop in the comic, and I like to think that my skills improve noticeably over time.
The final gag in this episode was supposed to be that Phil's "new and improved" body is a tiny Transformers Micromaster toy, but I quickly learned that not all of my readers were Transformers fans when a reader asked me if Galvaphil was now as big as the NECTBA Unicron Wanna Be. Of course, the next episode clarifies the size relationship between the two, but it was published a week after this one.
I've got to say that I love the goblins in this episode (heck, I love the goblins in every episode), but I've only recently noticed that all that blood magically disappears when Phil floats away in the second panel. Oops.
"Yummy in my tummy". How can you be angry at goblins devouring your living body if they're being cute and innocent while they do it?
I'm happy to say that this is the final episode set in that damn cave, even though my cutting and pasting abilities had improved greatly by this time. You can definitely see the difference doing it with Photoshop (where edges can be more easily blurred) as opposed to MS Paint.