Our major project: "Deadman's Curse" a little gothic horror story to be made into a graphic novel. The initial idea was started in September of 2005 with a few concept sketches for the main characters: a dead man named Hebe and his cheeky dead fox companion Jix. It will be done in 3D graphics using Lightwave to set up the scenes and the characters.



This image was a possible concept for the first panel and gave Hebe more of a definite look which was carried over to the 3D model.



The initial 3D shape of Jix was like this above. Textures for his fur made all the difference and made him cuter than ever.
Update currently:

Hebe is having his textures added to his form to bring him alive. His clothes are being done first with scanns and images used to create the different fabrics. Silk cravat, velvet hat, wool coat, floral vest and cotton shirt with lace cuffs.

His face has been remodelled slightly with a smaller mouth and thinner face to match his bony hands.

A new version of the street in the first few scenes of this Graphic Novel done in Lightwave9. A lot of texture work and modelling has been completed, as most of the objects in the scene are 3D poly models. This has taken up most of the time and effort at this stage. The first part of the story should be easy to set up from here once Jix and Hebe are finalized and things like lighting, atmosphere and camera angle have been worked out.

The first few scenes will be taking place in a graveyard and just outside the cemetary walls . . . .

Below are a few of the test images and an early test image for a street scene made in Bryce. More updates and images can be found at deviantArt.