Post by Jeff on Feb 2, 2004 13:29:41 GMT -5
Ep 13: Showdown
Following good guy/bad guy format once more, the inevitable final face off between good and evil just as the bad guys are about to win (if you call drinking Secret Sauce winning) is inevitable, but I messed with that format by putting most of our would-be heroes' priorities elsewhere. Yet another punchline that I find exceptionally humerous in hindsight.
I put a lot more attention to detail in this episode. I play with bubble intonation once again by putting Prime's "Autobots Attack!!" and "ARRGGHH!" in bright red to show the forcefullness and anger of the lines. I also put a lot more work into creating a more believable action sequence. After all, this was the big face off.
Posing panels three and four were was exceptionally tricky. In panel three, Prime is carefully balanced, and is actually leaning on Fred for support. I believe is toe has some silly putty under it for additional support and traction. The blurriness was a complete accident, but actually worked, making Prime look like he was moving fast enough to appear blurred to a bystander.
In panel four, Prime is actually standing straight up, with only his upper half bent backwards. Without looking closely, it appears that his whole body is falling backward. This was still very hard to balance, but his heavy legs managed to support the weight. I would have liked to have shown Fred leaning into the punch, but the toy has no posability at all, so an upturned fist had to be good enough.
All in all, I'm convinced this is one of the most believable looking action sequences in toy comic history, since most toy comics don't even try to show action in such detail.
Though barely noticable, I made sure to include a mound of putty by the counter, where the manager melted several episodes earlier.
The final panel was quite difficult to make, since I could not find an episode of Designing Women to download anywhere. I finally found one tiny image from an episode posted on CNN for a story about Delta Burke. Fortunately, the loss of quality that occurred when I enlarged the image something like 600% doesn't show much in this panel. Delta's eyes somehow disppeared though. I tried to paint them back on in MS Paint, but it didn't really work.
Following good guy/bad guy format once more, the inevitable final face off between good and evil just as the bad guys are about to win (if you call drinking Secret Sauce winning) is inevitable, but I messed with that format by putting most of our would-be heroes' priorities elsewhere. Yet another punchline that I find exceptionally humerous in hindsight.
I put a lot more attention to detail in this episode. I play with bubble intonation once again by putting Prime's "Autobots Attack!!" and "ARRGGHH!" in bright red to show the forcefullness and anger of the lines. I also put a lot more work into creating a more believable action sequence. After all, this was the big face off.
Posing panels three and four were was exceptionally tricky. In panel three, Prime is carefully balanced, and is actually leaning on Fred for support. I believe is toe has some silly putty under it for additional support and traction. The blurriness was a complete accident, but actually worked, making Prime look like he was moving fast enough to appear blurred to a bystander.
In panel four, Prime is actually standing straight up, with only his upper half bent backwards. Without looking closely, it appears that his whole body is falling backward. This was still very hard to balance, but his heavy legs managed to support the weight. I would have liked to have shown Fred leaning into the punch, but the toy has no posability at all, so an upturned fist had to be good enough.
All in all, I'm convinced this is one of the most believable looking action sequences in toy comic history, since most toy comics don't even try to show action in such detail.
Though barely noticable, I made sure to include a mound of putty by the counter, where the manager melted several episodes earlier.
The final panel was quite difficult to make, since I could not find an episode of Designing Women to download anywhere. I finally found one tiny image from an episode posted on CNN for a story about Delta Burke. Fortunately, the loss of quality that occurred when I enlarged the image something like 600% doesn't show much in this panel. Delta's eyes somehow disppeared though. I tried to paint them back on in MS Paint, but it didn't really work.