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[DLSGorm]

Flight of the Mighty Ironbolt
Production Blog
http://flightofmighty.blogspot.com/
http://dlsgorm.deviantart.com/

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I'm real exited to come around today and introduce to you, my own web-comic project which officially has started development. Over the course of 162 days, I hope to take it from a couple of loose sketches and a pretty solid idea of the script to a full-fledged, actual web-comic (as in - I will hopefully within said 6 months be able to publish the first page).

I've been a longtime follower of "Lackadaisy Cats", by Tracy J. Butler and "Sequential Art", property of Philip M. Jackson, and those two in particular have inspired me to consider starting my own.

If you want to follow the development of "Flight of the Mighty Ironbolt", head on over to the above link and have a look!

Please, don't hesitate to write comments and constructive critique both here and on the blog :3

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Update: 07/02-2012



I've now uploaded the first glance of the Ironbolt character-cast - this will be Dominique Dejarnette, our shrewd, stubborn and perceptive protagonist. The coloring technique used seems a bit too extensive for me, so for the next full body turn-around, I'll consider something more simple.

Pop on by! Leave a comment there or here, it's all good!

[DLSGorm]

Flight of the Mighty Ironbolt
Production Blog
http://flightofmighty.blogspot.com/
http://dlsgorm.deviantart.com/

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Update: 16/02-2012



Dominique Dejarnette, second drawing - a full body posture of her to give a better idea of who and what she is.

I took some inspiration from - among others - Chel hailing from the Dreamworks production "Road to Eldurado", with her wide hips and slightly more bell-shaped body. Ideally, I also wanted to give vague allusions to one of my other all-time favorite female protagonists, Alyx Vance, whom DIDN'T have to wear an absurdly skimpy attire to portray femininity (from my point of view atleast).

Generally, I aim to have an air of practicality around Dominique in contrast to many contemporary sci-fi women.. one just have to look at Miranda Lawson from Mass Effect 2, who in my personal opinion, experiences more exposition towards her curvy backside than to just about anything else on her (Link is.. somewhat SFW - as it can ever get with that woman):



And, -what gives- with the high-heels? This's something that's boggled me to no end: If you're off into a dangerous, perilous and dirty adventure, how come you have to do so in positively impractical high-heel pradas?

[smbhax.com]

Six months? :o Are you working on building up a huge buffer of finished pages?
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[raines80]

smbhax.com wrote:

Six months? Are you working on building up a huge buffer of finished pages?

wish I would have-

@OP
I really like the art. I will be sure to check out the site once you get it going.
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[DLSGorm]

smbhax.com wrote:

Six months? Are you working on building up a huge buffer of finished pages?

Hey there, SMBHax.com.

Whether I'll be having a full buffer of pages? Well, I hope so!

But the reason I've put aside such ludicrous amounts of times comes down to the simple fact that I want to do this "right", in the most liberal sense of the term.

I'll get a clear, no-nonsense idea of who my characters are, what they look like, how they act, what particular items of interest are connected to them, etc. etc. etc.

I'll also decide on a lot of other creative choices: How will my literary language be, what themes my (finite) webcomic will touch, how the general art style of the comic will be, how I'll go about writing the script from a technical stand-point..

..hell, I'll be learning how to use either some basic flash/HTML to set up a website for the comic. And I'll have to make some choices on how I'm going to present the comic as well.

My personal background, that of being a recent graduate from the Animation Workshop in Denmark (I have a bachelor graduation movie! I'll provide the link in the bottom of this reply), has taught me that you can't rush this "preperation" phase (preproduction phase).

For example, the protagonist has already gone through many changes (originally blond, then brunette, then redhead, originally french, then irish, then south-african, then back to french-chinese again)

I've given myself this lenient deadline so I'm certain I won't rush through any of these processes so I can make a comic that's consistent, of good quality and presented "professionally".

Hope that answers your question

Oh, and before you go: Here's the graduation movie I made with eight other wonderful people:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFP72LC3bN0

[smbhax.com]

Impressive movie!

Enjoy the preparation time. :) Don't be surprised though if as soon as you actually go live and start uploading comics and getting feedback, you suddenly want to change a lot of stuff--that's pretty normal I think.
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[DLSGorm]

Flight of the Mighty Ironbolt
Production Blog
http://flightofmighty.blogspot.com/
http://dlsgorm.deviantart.com/

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Update: 22/02-2012

Putting aside work on the comic for a bit to showcase my updated show-reel which can be found on:

http://dukeofmonkeysshowreel.blogspot.com/

Happy oogling!

[Gual-kun]

Nice character sheets. Dominique's looking nice
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[jazylh]

Whao! That looks Sweet! I look forward to it. Already faved your blog. Hope i remember.

[ronin3567]

Cool stuff man. Be true to your vision, nobody can take that from you!

[DLSGorm]

Flight of the Mighty Ironbolt
Production Blog
http://flightofmighty.blogspot.com/
http://dlsgorm.deviantart.com/

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Update: 29/02-2012

Time for a new addition! While I'm scouring like crazy for a job to allow me to stay alive, here's a new character showcase.



My second main protagonist, Baron Ironmutt! Inspired by "Dog" from Half-Life 2, this twiddling, personality-cursed robotic construct has a few screws loose but enough weight to discourage any for pointing out his flaws.

Besides the fact that I really need to learn to render metal, I'm having some issues imbedding perspective into this drawing. I'll have to try harder with the next. Comments and critique is, as always, not only welcome, but -encouraged-.

Link to his "sheet" found here:

http://fc05.deviantart.net/fs70/i/2012/060/d/1/ironbolt___baron_ironmutt_sheet_by_dlsgorm-d4rcx5k.jpg

Happy oogling!

NOTE: Remember to follow and favorite me on DeviantArt and my BlogSpot: The newest entries about the comic hit there!

[DLSGorm]

Flight of the Mighty Ironbolt
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Update: 23/08-2012

So yeah, 160 days plus wasn't enough, but there's some pretty good reasons for my massive delay.

You see, I'm pleased to announce that "Slug Invasion" actually went to the prestigious Cannes Film Festival, gunnin' for first place in the Cinéfoundation short-film competition. In short, it's only fifteen movies were selected from an application pool of 1.700 entries.

We didn't win, naturally, as "Slug Invasion" ain't exactly Cannes material (A lot of very serious real-film movies against one Derpy YouTube ready slug-invasion action explosion short?), but the four very hectic and crazy days spent there were beyond awesome.

All major danish news agencies descended on our poor, unprepared group, along with some international ones - I had to do some interviews on live nation news as well! Pretty slick.

Below, you'll find a sh*t-ton of links putting some proof behind my tall tales - check it out for yourself:

Official Selection Information:

Official Selection List:

Cinefoundation Trailer:

Interview with the Director, Morten Helgeland - 3DWorldMag:

Danish News-highlight:

I'll update with some photographs when I manage to draw them out of my camera.


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FLIGHT OF THE MIGHTY IRONBOLT UPDATES:

But we're not done! While my summer has been very busy, I've managed to get some new concepts down (while having my deadline extended to somewhere in December). I've also done some tweaks to the presentation:

Custo

Captain Barakka

A bit of trivia about these new characters can be found on my DeviantArt profile linked above.

Beyond that, I welcome and encourage any constructive advice and points of critique y'awl might have. Let it rip!

Happy oogling!

NOTE: Remember to follow and favorite me on DeviantArt and my BlogSpot: The newest entries about the comic hit there!