Soma Journal #3
Hi everyone, it’s another beautiful Friday morning for me today. It’s gonna start getting colder out soon which suits me just fine, I hate the summer heat.
There’s about 6 pages left in this chapter, the next chapter will probably be half the length and move along the story faster, which is good for you because it means you get to see things happen more, and it’s good for me because it means I can probably start other projects before I’m 30.
I’ve been toying around with programming and character design for modeling recently, which has been a refreshing experience. I’ve messed around with gamedev in the past so I have a vague understanding of how it all works, but I’m using Unity now instead of GMS2 so that’s kinda new. I don’t really have any plans to use this for a project (Nine Gates related or otherwise), I just like to try new things.
COOL GATE FACTS
Hadia did this immediately after today’s page. Don’t make bones in a hive full of custodial parasites.
-Soma
Egads, you’re making me feel old now. HA! Anyhow, 3D modeling is definitely challenging and rewarding in equal measures, at least from my limited past experience (we used Maya @ AiS), but I know of several comic authors who use 3D modeling for perspective and posing characters, even if they stick to a 2D format, so you’re in good company. The best all 3D comic I read though is definitely Datachasers on ComicFury. Centcomm is an impressive artist and her and Tokyo Rose are amazing writers. I should go name drop your comic, I bet some of the regulars there would appreciate your work.
Ah, so those parasites are quite small I take it? I didn’t notice anything crawling around, but maybe I need to look at the page again?
Happy Pre-Birthday II! 😀
I’ve never heard of Datachasers, but I’ve definitely seen a lot of other indie comics use 3D. It’s pretty interesting conceptually but I’d probably want to make my own models, and that shit is time consuming and draining. But yes, I would appreciate that, thank you!
The parasites are hidden under normal circumstances but they construct and live in porous structures useful to a Navigator. I’ll talk more about them in next week’s post.