tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-87038858676503905002024-03-24T06:04:13.547-07:00Mike Mitchell OnlineComics, 3D art, Clip Studio Paint, Midjourney, Tech Tips and other cool stuff from Mike Mitchell's geek-o-sphere!Mike Mitchellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03668344135138054617noreply@blogger.comBlogger276125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8703885867650390500.post-22446810082943463602024-03-24T05:53:00.000-07:002024-03-24T06:03:41.829-07:00Archie Comics - Key Issues & Controversial Covers<p>There are a handful of covers published over the years that have become famous for innuendo or highly suggestive text (the most famous being Betty and Me #16 where Archie said he had to "beat off" three other guys). </p><p>First of all, even though these are often reference as having a "Controversial Cover," I must wonder if that is the correct label for these. Perhaps "Innuendo Cover" would be better.?</p><p>Here's a few of the KEY COMICS:</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Archie #271 (June 1978)<br /></b>Major Key: Controversial "Pearl Necklace" Cover<br />Even a low-grade copy of this book goes for $50-$70, and high grades go for more.<br />This is probably the second-most infamous cover from Archie comics (the first being the above-mentioned Betty and Me #16).<br />Link: <a href="https://www.comics.org/issue/105852/">https://www.comics.org/issue/105852/</a></p><p><br /></p><p><b>Archie #511 (Aug 2001)<br /></b>Major Key" Controversial "In the pink" cover<br />Probably the 3rd most-famous innuendo cover.<br />Link: <a href="https://www.comics.org/issue/238442/">https://www.comics.org/issue/238442/</a></p><p><br /></p><p><b>Archie Comics #48 (Jan-Feb 1951)<br /></b>Minor Key: Controversial Cover<br />"Betty do you wanna spoon?"<br />Link: <a href="https://www.comics.org/issue/8645/">https://www.comics.org/issue/8645/</a></p><p><br /></p><p><b>Archie Comics #55 (March-April 1952)<br /></b>Minor Key: Controversial Cover<br />Mr. Lodge asks an innuendo question: "Did Archie get there yet?"<br />Link: <a href="https://www.comics.org/issue/105636/">https://www.comics.org/issue/105636/</a></p><p><br /></p><p><b>Archie Comics #78 (Jan-Feb 1956)<br /></b>Minor Key: Controversial Cover<br />Archie is talking to betty and says he wants to "feel the clutch."<br />Not as famous as the others, but it still gets higher prices than surrounding issues.<br />Link: <a href="https://www.comics.org/issue/105659/">https://www.comics.org/issue/105659/</a></p><p><br /></p><p><b>Archie... Archie Andrews Where Are You? Comics Digest Magazine #111 (Sept 1997)<br /></b>Minor Key: Controversial Cover<br />Betty tells Archie to "Watch out for a big hole around here."<br />Link: <a href="https://www.comics.org/issue/293921/">https://www.comics.org/issue/293921/</a></p><p><br /></p><p><b>Betty #8 (Sept1993)<br /></b>Major Key: Famous Bikini Cover<br />Not as famous as some of the other covers, but this one brings a premium price in the hundreds of dollars.<br />Link: <a href="https://www.comics.org/issue/213444/">https://www.comics.org/issue/213444/</a></p><p><br /></p><p><b>Betty and Me #37 (Sept 1971)<br /></b>Minor Key: Controversial Cover<br />Betty says, "Yes, Archie -- You're rubbing me the right way."<br />Link: <a href="https://www.comics.org/issue/221897/">https://www.comics.org/issue/221897/</a></p><p><br /></p><p><b>Betty and Me #40 (Feb 1971)<br /></b>Major Key: Controversial Story<br />In this issue, Archie and Betty fall in a lake and are forced to rent a cabin together; they are soaking wet so Archie orders Betty to "Take your clothes off!" They spend the night innocently wrapped in towels, but their parents are naturally furious. FAMOUS story and has only been reprinted once.<br />Link: <a href="https://www.comics.org/issue/221900/">https://www.comics.org/issue/221900/</a></p><p><br /></p><p><b>Betty and Me #136 (Nov 1983)<br /></b>Minor Key: Controversial Cover<br />Has some notoriety because Betty is in her underwear standing on scale. Some readers were ticked off because it was body shaming her, others thought it was risque for showing her in her underwear on the cover.<br />Link: <a href="https://www.comics.org/issue/221996/">https://www.comics.org/issue/221996/</a></p><p><br /></p><p><b>Everything's Archie #22 (Oct 1972)<br /></b>Minor Key: Controversial Cover<br />Joke about "swinging."<br />Link: <a href="https://www.comics.org/issue/221897/">https://www.comics.org/issue/221897/</a></p><p><br /></p><p>There are more, but I'll submit them at another time.</p>Mike Mitchellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03668344135138054617noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8703885867650390500.post-24297751557470911122023-08-28T06:00:00.008-07:002024-01-10T14:42:31.740-08:00Graveyard Shift 01<p> I've started work on adapting a short story into comic format. The exercise is really just so I can take a stab at doing something that I have not written myself. I also think it would be fun to go back and do some public domain horror stories and try to nail down the style of the old Warren Magazines like <i style="font-weight: bold;">EERIE, CREEPY</i> or <b><i>VAMPIRELLA.</i></b></p><p>I am starting with a short story titled<span style="color: red;"> "Graveyard Shift"</span> by Rex Munsee. He's a member of the <b>Snicker Snack</b> Amateur Press Association (APA), which is a type of fanzine. Rex wrote the story a few issues ago, I read it and decided it would be fun to adapt it. So I wrote to him and he agreed to let me do his story, and the results will be printed in <b>Snicker Snack</b> and the <b>Collectors' Club Newsletter.</b></p><p>The story has simple modeling and set requirements, which is a major criteria for my selection process:</p><p></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>Few character designs (there are 4)</li><li>Limited locations / sets:</li><ul><li>Exterior:</li><ul><li>Country road a night with a small car driving on it</li><li>Country road leads to a nice house in the woods</li><li>Front of the house as she enters</li></ul><li>Interior:</li><ul><li>Living room</li><li>Bedroom</li><li>Possibly another part of the house, like a hallway or kitchen area</li></ul><li>Props (key items):</li><ul><li>Hospital-type bed</li><li>Hypodermic & medical equipment</li><li>Set dressings (pictures, furniture, etc.)</li><li>Video camera</li><li>Video monitor</li><li>Antique mirror</li></ul></ul></ul><div>If you're familiar with my workflow, then you know I start out in Poser (a 3D app) and then render line art which is composited and cleaned up in Clip Studio Paint. This makes the first step is to collect the 3D assets I need, and fortunately I already had most of the items above. The exterior of the country road has proved to be the most problematic because I didn't have exactly the sort of hilly environment I imagined when I started to block out the story and make thumbnails.</div><div><br /></div><div>As for the character design, we'll cover that next time!</div><div><br /></div><h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: red; font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Other Posts in this Series</span></h2><div><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><a href="https://mikemitchellonline.blogspot.com/2023/08/graveyard-shift-01.html">Graveyard Shift 01</a> - Project Overview (you are here)</li><li>Graveyard Shift 02 - Character Design Lauren Normal</li><li>Graveyard Shift 02 - Character Design Lauren Transformed</li><li>Graveyard Shift 03 - Character Design Victor</li><li>Graveyard Shift 04 - Character Design Vincent</li><li>Graveyard Shift 05 - Exterior Night</li></ul></div><p></p>Mike Mitchellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03668344135138054617noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8703885867650390500.post-12051239056150194582023-01-20T11:04:00.001-08:002023-02-19T14:07:53.744-08:00Retro Coloring 06: Skin Color<p>As noted previously, coloring comics was a two-step process performed by two different people.. The colorist indicated which colors should be used, but the separator did the actual, physical task of stripping the color separations. This is why there were often errors in the colors printed in old comics; either the colorist made an error, or (more likely) the person doing the separations made an error do to being in a hurry or simple inexperience.</p><div>Experience is also something that mattered, a lot. There was a lot of repetition in coloring comics, and as such both colorist and separator tended to skip over common things that were done over and over again. This becomes apparent when looking at old color guides: <b><i><span style="color: #cc0000;">One thing that is often skipped is the code for Caucasian skin tones. </span></i></b>This was a very standard code so the colorist really didn't need to specify it since the separators already knew what it was.</div><div><br /></div><div>That's all good and fine, except for poor ole me living in the 21 Century! </div><div><br /></div><div>I actually had a little trouble confirming that these are the standard skin tones used by Marvel, DC, Archie and Harvey. Okay, it wasn't like I had to delve into books of forgotten lore, but it did take a few days to find and confirm through multiple sources that these are, in fact, the correct codes for standard skin tones from the 1940s - 80s:</div><div><br /></div><div><ul><li>White People: Y2R2</li><li>Conan's Skin (redder skin): Y3R3</li><li>Black People: YR3B2</li><li>Hulk's Green Skin: YB2</li></ul><div><br /></div></div>Mike Mitchellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03668344135138054617noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8703885867650390500.post-590461638422160972022-12-13T23:00:00.025-08:002022-12-31T00:20:41.011-08:00Retro Coloring 05: Champions #4<p> Anyone who knows me is aware that I have a big soft spot in my heart for Archie comics, so it shouldn't be a surprise that the first color guides I bought were for Archie Comics. I think I have 6 so far, and 5 of those are for Archie titles – some old and two from the late 1990s, and those use the "expanded color palette" that has more variations of the CMY colors, and brings in screens of black, as well. At some point in the future I'll talk more about those colors, but for now I'm going to stick to the classic look of 64-colors (if you don't know what I'm talking about, go back to part one of this series, or read the article in Marvel Age #13: <span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 13.2px;">"<a href="https://viewcomics.me/marvel-age/issue-13/22">How to Color Comics the Marvel Way</a>").</span></p><h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: red; font-family: arial;"><b>Editorial Input on Color Guides</b></span></h2><p>But back to Archie. I love the company's work and I find their simple color guides as a PERFECT starting point for my own efforts (you'll see my own that in an upcoming article when I actually use new digital tools to attempt recreating the original colors of an Archie comic from the 1960s). But, the colors are simple.</p><p>Superhero and horror comics had much more sophisticated coloring, and therefore more editorial input. As I said last time, superhero comic color guides are more expensive, typically running about $50 - $100 per page (that's not to say you can't find a few bargains out there, but they are more infrequent). A little hunting got me an interesting find: an 8-page back-up story in the Marvel Comic, <span><b style="color: red; font-style: italic;">The Champions #4 (March 1976), colored by Janice Cohen </b>for about $83.</span></p><p>Unlike the Archie color guides I have shared with you, this color guide is on standard 8.5 x 11 inch letter size copies, which provides a nice big work area for notes and guidance. Unfortunately, I'm not sure who wrote them: Writer, Artist, Editor? If I ever find out I'll update this article.</p><p>Take a look at the editorial comments for a behind-the-scenes look at the production of this story (incidentally, I have not yet obtained this comic so I cannot provide you with a scan of it in its printed form; I'll also update that when I can).</p><h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: red; font-family: arial;">Color Guide for Champions #4 (March 1976)</span></h2><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjc5-iYp5QzfJpuCTKNqzLaKMF60xkAj0h1u9L61A0guDNgOhaeNnZvdhDzPeJWswgfq1H66gjw5mEaZXw874zNo_-32GdaHRvECzkGkqcSNZS6ymXQiy3dPX-3KRI6jYWGF6twzcgOs6OxKtJRs2vqRi-_mcY0KDRGDU9YWg5WFZqVZ12bioPCsP7m/s3300/Champions-04---Malice-22.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3300" data-original-width="2550" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjc5-iYp5QzfJpuCTKNqzLaKMF60xkAj0h1u9L61A0guDNgOhaeNnZvdhDzPeJWswgfq1H66gjw5mEaZXw874zNo_-32GdaHRvECzkGkqcSNZS6ymXQiy3dPX-3KRI6jYWGF6twzcgOs6OxKtJRs2vqRi-_mcY0KDRGDU9YWg5WFZqVZ12bioPCsP7m/s320/Champions-04---Malice-22.jpg" width="247" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEht7qcix28HY2MqzFFaHIAhXxu14WxDllTt9jzrGLaMxPVpit_zqDKXHdG_n5qowXpk-nUfmIJf6I7soIfZRZeX-scUnW-1VeSD_vQzXG4O7Zm0WGWXBZwu8XDJ7xKBUDq0FGGpDSSpBqnKpY97mSrDCM39cLlAMbB0r4HzvyKqUwWgc_TNvVgNCCVx/s3300/Champions-04---Malice-23.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3300" data-original-width="2550" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEht7qcix28HY2MqzFFaHIAhXxu14WxDllTt9jzrGLaMxPVpit_zqDKXHdG_n5qowXpk-nUfmIJf6I7soIfZRZeX-scUnW-1VeSD_vQzXG4O7Zm0WGWXBZwu8XDJ7xKBUDq0FGGpDSSpBqnKpY97mSrDCM39cLlAMbB0r4HzvyKqUwWgc_TNvVgNCCVx/s320/Champions-04---Malice-23.jpg" width="247" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">On this page, notice now her skin tones are marked as Y4R3B3.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The use of the number 4 is very surprising because that is part of the "expanded" color palette that (even without adding black (as I'll discuss in a future article) more than doubles the color options from 64 to 125. As noted in the previous article, the letter/number combo represents a specific dot intensity (i.e., fill percentage). In this formula, 4=70%, making her skin tone:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /><br /><table align="center" border="0"><tbody><tr><td>
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<tbody><tr><td>Y4</td><td>Yellow</td><td>70%</td></tr>
<tr><td>R3</td><td>Red [magenta]</td><td>50%</td></tr>
<tr><td>B3</td><td>Blue [cyan]</td><td>50%</td></tr>
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<td>This will print as:<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinR7cVeBRzm5I-7-fLEg6Z2QAxk2F0aULw4TO9eV3A84by2oWjM4FLlMEDQ-YlnhkLqFEIko06d3fNsiqvonF4guZplrGlMuHRuOO2yLUVuLQHu7v9m-OMH0hgeNjaNooTXe3h7l_mrQ4wb01Jnx93Y7PYqZkoBGHRIu75eoS4BqykHo_BAYOEi9VD/s600/Y4R3B3.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="600" height="68" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinR7cVeBRzm5I-7-fLEg6Z2QAxk2F0aULw4TO9eV3A84by2oWjM4FLlMEDQ-YlnhkLqFEIko06d3fNsiqvonF4guZplrGlMuHRuOO2yLUVuLQHu7v9m-OMH0hgeNjaNooTXe3h7l_mrQ4wb01Jnx93Y7PYqZkoBGHRIu75eoS4BqykHo_BAYOEi9VD/w81-h68/Y4R3B3.png" width="81" /></a></div></td></tr>
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The normal skin tone for a black character would be: YR3B2. I'm going to go into this a lot more next time, as I dive into the very important (and illusive) topic of Skin Color.<br />
<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDL4MNDqf1QGYiiFTeMLF1EJhedhovnHypwurvEK3dadofHSEiKLpWHgwiaLus2W1rmCm7EVBOisQJHJuuQKOg175DZC2rmR7FM2Cg-lUEunjfOS8tJgCric7nVnnnuVvOax17K2jt9P_tDd90nejF4t5q7t7kostjKwn64PVET37g_PeIyYhYRBpC/s3300/Champions-04---Malice-24.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3300" data-original-width="2550" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDL4MNDqf1QGYiiFTeMLF1EJhedhovnHypwurvEK3dadofHSEiKLpWHgwiaLus2W1rmCm7EVBOisQJHJuuQKOg175DZC2rmR7FM2Cg-lUEunjfOS8tJgCric7nVnnnuVvOax17K2jt9P_tDd90nejF4t5q7t7kostjKwn64PVET37g_PeIyYhYRBpC/s320/Champions-04---Malice-24.jpg" width="247" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">But on this page (and others) her skin tone is crossed out with pencil marks.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Also, take a look at how someone wrote "OK" on the bed color and blue background in the last panel.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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Its fair-use inclusion here recognizes that the underlying story and artwork are the copyrighted property of Marvel Comics.</i></p><p style="text-align: left;"><i style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-style: normal;"><b>Next up: Retro Coloring 06: Skin Color</b></span></i></p></div></div>Mike Mitchellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03668344135138054617noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8703885867650390500.post-79443272175995863242022-12-06T23:00:00.002-08:002022-12-31T00:21:36.941-08:00Retro Coloring 04: Reggie and Me #25 Color Guide, pt 2<p>Here's another story from Reggie and Me #25 (Aug 1967). I picked up these 8 pages (2 non-story, and missing the first page) for about $80. Like the other story, this </p><p>I don't have the complete guide for this next story, so I'm including the first page as it was printed, which includes a coloring mistake that is rather revealing! Look at Ronnie's blouse in the first panel and note that incredible crop top she's sporting! There's no way that was kosher at school in 1967! And, as you can see in panel 2, her modesty (and The Bee's dress code) is restored!</p><p><b>Credits:</b></p><p></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>Script: Frank Doyle</li><li>Pencils: Harry Lucey</li><li>Inks: Marty Epp</li><li>Colors: (attributed to) Barry Grossman</li><li>Letters: Bill Yoshida</li></ul><p></p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKyfVPs3S8ShcsyS3MCZqAQtyU8Q4zKd7SQCBYD7d-4JeSk0ui89Vg0OqmdRGrTAEb8s7O-qf4umISDEM_dOLPiRxH0o5oIeSJ2FEl6h9iKC0SbXufni2UDZEhMx5Iy7X6yBOWZagXUMD_TxjIMluuybVyawt9ZWszEnKx8KJn7FN8omJodRYFE3pc/s1518/Reggie%20and%20me%2025%20-%2002.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1518" data-original-width="1041" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKyfVPs3S8ShcsyS3MCZqAQtyU8Q4zKd7SQCBYD7d-4JeSk0ui89Vg0OqmdRGrTAEb8s7O-qf4umISDEM_dOLPiRxH0o5oIeSJ2FEl6h9iKC0SbXufni2UDZEhMx5Iy7X6yBOWZagXUMD_TxjIMluuybVyawt9ZWszEnKx8KJn7FN8omJodRYFE3pc/w274-h400/Reggie%20and%20me%2025%20-%2002.jpg" width="274" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2972" data-original-width="2096" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOj3kXS5T6wfy14Q_79Z2zed8vfxNYLWTOavhruiDm2WyXS5UXRkA2clMCjrZXMss2Kw3gyS7IYp4gKu08aIx9ywPIj_YpFeRl46BsLUES_MGcJv3_BXfZWNLBG_k7COsWJeZVeWHIGg6XXTKYuHI8NvL3TcseobS76WDQqmc8rZqVbw54uvzLSRCO/s320/Reggie-and-Me-25----Dangerous-Date-06.jpg" width="226" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">On the following pages, I've placed the guide on the left and the published page on the right. I wanted to show you the editorial changes that were made after Barry Grossman submitted his work. Note on page one how the editor indicated that the lower-right box should be red, not yellow. This is the sort of thing that turns up quite a bit in the next color guide I'm going to share with you.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhm6JEInzNGrVVAlWnYk8KzbRtU7A2M_vnM9KvapAevSY7FkDpmiHSsU1W8A0kmHWcO6n_o1W6wdBuHZGM0YO53dcuHVhVpEjsdhKFDU5tEIcgVOyz24gju-OU9xG1JgIY0yTHhi3KtIezjMt8Wws7KYdcRaYk7avIBbS0Mm__HwS5qpxsTok4sGi-2/s2964/Reggie-and-Me-25----Dangerous-Date-08.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2964" data-original-width="2092" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhm6JEInzNGrVVAlWnYk8KzbRtU7A2M_vnM9KvapAevSY7FkDpmiHSsU1W8A0kmHWcO6n_o1W6wdBuHZGM0YO53dcuHVhVpEjsdhKFDU5tEIcgVOyz24gju-OU9xG1JgIY0yTHhi3KtIezjMt8Wws7KYdcRaYk7avIBbS0Mm__HwS5qpxsTok4sGi-2/w141-h200/Reggie-and-Me-25----Dangerous-Date-08.jpg" width="141" /></a> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghrYVNO3nRfP62MkF0KD9AOj6l-Mls7TjbKjENTawYURO_7R2s26N1C3y7MdOose9e5nD3aqhtJWHZpofHA5L7IALFLBL8kfo5Rqb4Rl36xdNENlnmwcrI5tTP3A5w6EKsisIE_fQux8cM1PI8H_VnC4DFQ7wchd1Rf4x70AwIA2n9gQGrW2eA7a4C/s1600/Reggie%20and%20me%2025%20-%2009.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1093" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghrYVNO3nRfP62MkF0KD9AOj6l-Mls7TjbKjENTawYURO_7R2s26N1C3y7MdOose9e5nD3aqhtJWHZpofHA5L7IALFLBL8kfo5Rqb4Rl36xdNENlnmwcrI5tTP3A5w6EKsisIE_fQux8cM1PI8H_VnC4DFQ7wchd1Rf4x70AwIA2n9gQGrW2eA7a4C/w137-h200/Reggie%20and%20me%2025%20-%2009.jpg" width="137" /></a><br /><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3qrHW7W1UxaJWyK9pheJEpTkgIAvcAM63FZj-J9m9rYqZibUk3lVkqUO1qwAFX61HQELmRQgS5jaqI_T8fitJAygpJIRIBAvGa32BZNFng8x2oV_T4rZPAFD36twrEYpI1g_QC0YvV2BYwcPPMZZhUEJx_TBdS86Wm5Ig8CxbM_Qs3hKUMgrEZIza/s2960/Reggie-and-Me-25----Dangerous-Date-09.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2960" data-original-width="2076" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3qrHW7W1UxaJWyK9pheJEpTkgIAvcAM63FZj-J9m9rYqZibUk3lVkqUO1qwAFX61HQELmRQgS5jaqI_T8fitJAygpJIRIBAvGa32BZNFng8x2oV_T4rZPAFD36twrEYpI1g_QC0YvV2BYwcPPMZZhUEJx_TBdS86Wm5Ig8CxbM_Qs3hKUMgrEZIza/w140-h200/Reggie-and-Me-25----Dangerous-Date-09.jpg" width="140" /></a> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEib-CXQlbBodLCcDmrYa6BivZr5UOQ1TkZsHNeKdjNBf1x1hYg3OZsaHqJ4GOphhF49e4kiDKJOiNQb-oPPgp1QR-HsW_U2fngzL28ftuDizzMEkuGsY0RBn8t_3cyDnjKlzUkkeasR0DN8rSrB7YaJ2yWZB26HrZDfbb5pZPgw6Fcsvls6x6cm4M7q/s1600/Reggie%20and%20me%2025%20-%2010.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1090" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEib-CXQlbBodLCcDmrYa6BivZr5UOQ1TkZsHNeKdjNBf1x1hYg3OZsaHqJ4GOphhF49e4kiDKJOiNQb-oPPgp1QR-HsW_U2fngzL28ftuDizzMEkuGsY0RBn8t_3cyDnjKlzUkkeasR0DN8rSrB7YaJ2yWZB26HrZDfbb5pZPgw6Fcsvls6x6cm4M7q/w136-h200/Reggie%20and%20me%2025%20-%2010.jpg" width="136" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p>Want to read the whole printed comic? <br />Check it out here: <a href="https://viewcomics.me/reggie-and-me-1966/issue-25">https://viewcomics.me/reggie-and-me-1966/issue-25</a></p><div><br /></div><p><i style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b>NOTE: </b>This color guide is presented for the scholarly purpose of discussing how comics were colored in the past. Its fair-use inclusion here recognizes that the underlying story and artwork are the copyrighted property of Archie Comics.</i></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial; font-size: 13.2px;">Next up: <a href="https://mikemitchellonline.blogspot.com/2022/12/retro-coloring-05-champions-4.html">Retro Coloring 05: Champions #4</a></span></p>Mike Mitchellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03668344135138054617noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8703885867650390500.post-53500004508839432212022-11-29T23:00:00.002-08:002022-12-30T04:56:00.160-08:00Retro Coloring 03: Reggie and Me #25 Color Guide, pt 1<p> Color guides are a type of original art created in the production of comic books. They are one-of-a-kind creations with hand work by the Colorist. To be honest, they're not very collectable, at least not when compared to the original art. But that's also part of their charm. For instance, the 6 pages I'm presenting here only cost about $88. Not bad for something created about 54 years ago!</p><p>However, I have seen some color guides go for very high figures, especially for covers. If you decide to look into it, you should expect to pay about $50 a page for most comics, more for mainstream superheroes like Superman and Batman. Honestly, you could see $200+ a page for those, and if it's a famous story, multiply that by whatever the seller wants. I recently saw the cover color guide for Amethyst, Princess of Gem World #1 listed at $1,999.</p><h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: red; font-family: arial;">Reggie and Me #25, </span></h2><p>I think Archie is a great place to start with color guides. The colors are simple, straightforward and do not include a lot of special instructions. So, without further ado, here it is. (Note, the copies are on what feels like regular paper; it's kind of thin and definitely shows a little "bubbling" from the application of wet dyes (and you can see the ink stains on the third page. There is an odd, brownish border to the pages, which are about the size of the printed book.)</p><p><b>Credits:</b></p><p></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>Script: Frank Doyle</li><li>Pencils: Al Hartley</li><li>Inks: Jon D'Agostino</li><li>Colors: (attributed to) Barry Grossman</li><li>Letters: Jon D'Agostino</li></ul><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjK2NvK4ela5OV8HvL8ZoJOW39oCwJ-FCzn-3SWYJMr_KMNf1_MqPnIsLLvHMO5uuhSpn_avkZavijFXgfeCTEi1LEtGgw36ljrWeKq5wDyMi89u6-o16BW4jz0WSimbGPRUn0923nIBUJTVl70XIMZ-yvUvH3LtbxV_ZckcjaTbxOClfxS1WrItUcf/s2956/Reggie-and-Me-25----The-Phantom-1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2956" data-original-width="2102" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjK2NvK4ela5OV8HvL8ZoJOW39oCwJ-FCzn-3SWYJMr_KMNf1_MqPnIsLLvHMO5uuhSpn_avkZavijFXgfeCTEi1LEtGgw36ljrWeKq5wDyMi89u6-o16BW4jz0WSimbGPRUn0923nIBUJTVl70XIMZ-yvUvH3LtbxV_ZckcjaTbxOClfxS1WrItUcf/s320/Reggie-and-Me-25----The-Phantom-1.jpg" width="228" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4Z2vS7GVhUSJhIetrNam6qsOBWRJMdnXTNRGjbTjp8oIglkLeLmIRrBItBcGoNM6BwZVnKBUhB_myBq3sPUV4O7L8nE0TyNaMhkhVX7ygIX-hIPCODu7xMpf7XhBCYSQiNgRpnz8vRmkY6p4DKQ918dN0eHsBW1m-ff0EVk9OdKab0OypDE6JUCr5/s2956/Reggie-and-Me-25----The-Phantom-5.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2956" data-original-width="2100" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4Z2vS7GVhUSJhIetrNam6qsOBWRJMdnXTNRGjbTjp8oIglkLeLmIRrBItBcGoNM6BwZVnKBUhB_myBq3sPUV4O7L8nE0TyNaMhkhVX7ygIX-hIPCODu7xMpf7XhBCYSQiNgRpnz8vRmkY6p4DKQ918dN0eHsBW1m-ff0EVk9OdKab0OypDE6JUCr5/s320/Reggie-and-Me-25----The-Phantom-5.jpg" width="227" /></a></div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-kYVovvG8xXSPZPYwVWSm37kIPqdLaQKrMQd_dJ5KuGgdPxn_A5b5ZVvANuQ2Ly_qjiJddtBDij6-hSxCek9FYWT0MbPfP_8fVTHdszdXXnsFgUXRmHpUlRQXqQRehCyVm_v6qPZHXSAlvcT2aNHY9jZztXGmauANTHwa5uVy_653ectMTMrAmGHV/s2964/Reggie-and-Me-25----The-Phantom-6.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2964" data-original-width="2092" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-kYVovvG8xXSPZPYwVWSm37kIPqdLaQKrMQd_dJ5KuGgdPxn_A5b5ZVvANuQ2Ly_qjiJddtBDij6-hSxCek9FYWT0MbPfP_8fVTHdszdXXnsFgUXRmHpUlRQXqQRehCyVm_v6qPZHXSAlvcT2aNHY9jZztXGmauANTHwa5uVy_653ectMTMrAmGHV/s320/Reggie-and-Me-25----The-Phantom-6.jpg" width="226" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">© 1967 Archie Comics</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p><i><b>NOTE: </b>This color guide is presented for the scholarly purpose of discussing how comics were colored in the past. Its fair-use inclusion here recognizes that the underlying story and artwork are the copyrighted property of Archie Comics.</i></p><p>By the way, if you have sharp eyes, you'll notice that page 26 is missing. That page was an ad, so it's not part of the story. Want to read the whole printed comic? Check it out here: <a href="https://viewcomics.me/reggie-and-me-1966/issue-25">https://viewcomics.me/reggie-and-me-1966/issue-25</a></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Next up: <a href="https://mikemitchellonline.blogspot.com/2022/12/retro-coloring-04-reggie-and-me-25.html">Retro Coloring 04: Reggie and Me #25 Color Guide, pt 2</a></span></p>Mike Mitchellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03668344135138054617noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8703885867650390500.post-40170972980913566412022-11-22T23:00:00.001-08:002022-12-30T04:30:43.787-08:00Retro Coloring 02: Color Guides<div>When talking about coloring comics, it's easy to forget something that was once very obvious: Coloring comics was a two-step process performed by two different people:</div><div><ol style="text-align: left;"><li>The <b><span style="color: red;">Colorist </span></b>decided what colors went where. This person's job was to start with a stat (later photocopy) of the black & white artwork and then, using special dyes, paint the desired colors where they go. Afterwards, the colorist would hand write color codes on the art. (For more info on this, read last week's blog and don't forget to read "How to Color Comics the Marvel Way" from Marvel Age #13: <a href="https://viewcomics.me/marvel-age/issue-13/22">https://viewcomics.me/marvel-age/issue-13/22</a>.) The finished <b>Color Guide</b> was then handed off to the next person...</li><li>The <b><span style="color: red;">Separator </span></b>took the Color Guide and then used a variety of physical tools and media (mostly acetate (thin plastic sheets) and cutting and pasting them where they go based on the color formulas provided by the colorist. This was a physical job that was often done by women (at least by the 1960s) and the accuracy with which the separator followed the colorist's guidance was kind of hit-or-miss. By that, I mean that the better comic shops got (and paid for) separators who did at least a workman-level job. They usually got it right, but sometimes (especially on tight deadlines), you'd see color get missed or messed up. But the cheap shops had a lot of problems.</li></ol><br /></div><div>I'm trying to track down some good videos on the physical part of color separations. If I find any, I'll link to them. This one is a good discussion about modern recoloring, and it has a few pics of the separation process: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNYDiJibRM4">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNYDiJibRM4</a>.</div><div><br /></div><div><div>Color separation is now handled digitally with computers (unless you're working with some old-school print-making equipment). So we're not going to focus on that aspect of the process. Instead, we're going to look at some Color Guides.</div><div><br /></div><h2 style="text-align: left;"><b style="color: red; font-family: arial;">Color Guides</b></h2></div><div>As I said, a Color Guide starts off as a black & white copy of the black line art. The colorist then paints in each color with special dyes (again, that Marvel Age article covers all that jazz) and then makes up the page with the associated codes that relate to the chart published in last week's entry.</div><div><br /></div><div>Here's what a simple color guide looks like:</div><div><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixT8f3STdQCPaOd8aCogO-VjKcroTyRJApuxhaNpaCyDCUApFritzO3QAfFr-w_d5_Y1EAlmph8hAXuOh6UOacB_Z5AEHv6vXbH6onJk0rISlsNuatlg1G05w06cb_fI9r88dm6BTroPzAmGVXAul8JRd7h4gtovk-Gw6j-61JMmWZpV7kaR9aSyx2/s2956/Reggie-and-Me-25----The-Phantom-1.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2956" data-original-width="2102" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixT8f3STdQCPaOd8aCogO-VjKcroTyRJApuxhaNpaCyDCUApFritzO3QAfFr-w_d5_Y1EAlmph8hAXuOh6UOacB_Z5AEHv6vXbH6onJk0rISlsNuatlg1G05w06cb_fI9r88dm6BTroPzAmGVXAul8JRd7h4gtovk-Gw6j-61JMmWZpV7kaR9aSyx2/w456-h640/Reggie-and-Me-25----The-Phantom-1.jpg" width="456" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Reggie and Me #25 (Aug 1967)</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div>The colors in this guide are attributed to Barry Grossman (by that, I mean most Archie scholars agree that is probably who colored this; it looks like his work and that was his job at the time).</div><div><br /></div><div>Here's a scan of the printed page so you can compare the two:</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdp6eVoW7OJPl-fA1upT5MOrwcxAPH0vkUA0rhbxyMXUTeSRxTkQSn_9vbNkK9U6-UiOoRlQ37HbQg3jDvkUW9uYlz9piw_u3BKNO2-VWd9G_R19-ZuY6LJLpI9GpW5TqexAVIijmelESIx6cx7P5mVLPKNIJy6atpjLVLU7vshzD_AFXRRtzm0aWv/s1600/Reggie%20and%20me%2025%20-%2026.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1103" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdp6eVoW7OJPl-fA1upT5MOrwcxAPH0vkUA0rhbxyMXUTeSRxTkQSn_9vbNkK9U6-UiOoRlQ37HbQg3jDvkUW9uYlz9piw_u3BKNO2-VWd9G_R19-ZuY6LJLpI9GpW5TqexAVIijmelESIx6cx7P5mVLPKNIJy6atpjLVLU7vshzD_AFXRRtzm0aWv/w442-h640/Reggie%20and%20me%2025%20-%2026.jpg" width="442" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div><div>Want to read the whole printed comic? Check it out here: </div><div><a href="https://viewcomics.me/reggie-and-me-1966/issue-25">https://viewcomics.me/reggie-and-me-1966/issue-25</a></div><br /><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">Next up: <a href="https://mikemitchellonline.blogspot.com/2022/11/retro-coloring-03-reggie-and-me-25.html">Retro Coloring 03: Reggie and Me #25 Color Guide, pt 1</a></span></div>Mike Mitchellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03668344135138054617noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8703885867650390500.post-1090981365781900612022-11-15T23:00:00.000-08:002022-12-30T04:27:50.097-08:00Retro Coloring - 01: OverviewI have started looking into classic comic book coloring techniques based on the traditional 64-color palette of 64 colors. Specifically, I'm looking at using the old color codes with modern tools that can recreate those effects in Clip Studio Paint and Photoshop. <i><span style="color: red;">(If you don't know what I'm talking about, skip to the end for some links that explain how comics were color coded for separation using the CMYK color process.)</span></i> <div><br /></div><div>Now, before I dive into this series of articles, I'm going to get snippy. I'm not talking about using some cheesy Photoshop filter to emulate a grainy halftone on your comic art. That's all nice and fun for what it is, but unless you are using the correct, limited color scheme based on the actual 64 colors made from the CMYK progress, the results of your little filter and action are <b>going to look fake.</b> There's nothing wrong with that; if that's what you like, go for it. It's faster than doing it this way and you'll get a much wider ranger of colors than is possible from this old-school, retro coloring process that was used to color comics from the 1930s through the 1980s and early 1990s. Near the end of the 1990s, presses and paper made it possible to expand the color gamut and get more.</div><div><br /></div><div>Before I get into the modern tools, you need a little background.<br /><div><div><br /></div><h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: red; font-family: arial;">64-Colors for Super Comics</span></h2><div><div>I'm not going to go into the full details of how this process works; there are simply too many good other resources available that explain it in detail. One thing you're going to need to understand is that the names of the color channels don't exactly line up with the color codes. </div><div><br /></div><div>As stated above, printing is done with four traditional printing plates: Cyan, Yellow, Magenta and Black (represented by the letters, CMYK). In traditional comics, Black is used only for the black lines: it is NOT used in colors (this changed in the 1990s, but for now we're going to ignore it). If you're uncertain, here's the colors in their raw forms:</div><div><br /></div>
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<td bgcolor="cyan">Cyan is a light blue</td>
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<td bgcolor="yellow">Yellow is yellow</td>
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<td bgcolor="Magenta">Maginta is a shade of pink</td>
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<div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>Unfortunately, Color Codes (which were hand-painted onto copies of the black & white artwork as guides for the men and women who did the actual coloring), did not reference CMYK. Color codes use BYR for Blue, Yellow and Red. </div><div><br /></div><div><b><i>Yeah, it's confusing, but they did it that way for 50+ years, so it must not have been too weird.</i></b></div><div><br /></div><div>Nevertheless, here are a few details, pulled from the article, "How to Color Comics the Marvel Way" from Marvel Age #13 by Mark Lerer (link to article at end of this post):</div><div><br /></div></div><div>"Comic books are printed in the sixty-four combinations of red, blue, yellow and their lighter shades shown here in the printer's color chart. The notation may be a little confusing. <b>R</b> means a solid, or "100% screen" of red [magenta]. Likewise, <b>B</b> means a "100% screen" of blue [cyan], and <b>Y</b> means a "100% screen" of Yellow. <b>"Y2"</b> means a 25% screen of yellow, which makes a very light yellow shade, and <b>"Y3"</b> means a 50% screen of yellow which makes up the intermediate yellow shade. Similarly for <b>R2, R3, B2</b> and <b>B3.</b> Every color on the chart is a combination of these shades. For example, solid green is <b>YB,</b> a 100% yellow combined with a 100% blue. <b>R3B2,</b> a reddish purple, is a 50% red screen combined with a 25% blue screen."<br /><div><br /></div><div>Here's a copy of a traditional color chart from Marvel Age #13:</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifkfERZu71U2UnuV39MXdDwEDTDJwQgY_god8xgjJ1IXgJC0CwN87Mwz-vCAeNGC5W6U08PRucqOjC8F0B95QVgv7XF-1yYLbc6nKSgIopWQ5KmRFpgHBOTXDLCJ8JG8MI0IHS7voRJq438w-v0nGDh1f_7z1Fqkjg-Y7RBlu8qDNmO7E5m54NXJt2/s2025/retro_color_chart.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1524" data-original-width="2025" height="301" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifkfERZu71U2UnuV39MXdDwEDTDJwQgY_god8xgjJ1IXgJC0CwN87Mwz-vCAeNGC5W6U08PRucqOjC8F0B95QVgv7XF-1yYLbc6nKSgIopWQ5KmRFpgHBOTXDLCJ8JG8MI0IHS7voRJq438w-v0nGDh1f_7z1Fqkjg-Y7RBlu8qDNmO7E5m54NXJt2/w400-h301/retro_color_chart.jpg" title="64-Color Chart" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div><div>As I said, I'm not going to try to make full sense of this. Go check out the following resources for more info.<br /><h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: red; font-family: arial;"><b>Other Resources</b></span></h2><div>The basics of old-school coloring:</div><div><a href="https://kleinletters.com/Blog/more-on-coloring-old-school/">https://kleinletters.com/Blog/more-on-coloring-old-school/</a></div><div><br /></div><div>An article about the physical act of creating color separations. This is a fantastic article that has a lot of detail about the way Marvel Comics were separated:</div><div><a href="https://www.eliotrbrown.com/wp/marvel-behind-the-scenes-beyond-the-behind-chemical-color-plate/">https://www.eliotrbrown.com/wp/marvel-behind-the-scenes-beyond-the-behind-chemical-color-plate/</a></div><div><br /></div><div>Fun to watch, but not really informative.</div><div><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tiITySqmjsg&t=191s">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tiITySqmjsg&t=191s</a></div><div><br /></div><div>And the super-important "How to Color Comics the Marvel Way" from Marvel Age #13:<br /><a href="https://viewcomics.me/marvel-age/issue-13/22">https://viewcomics.me/marvel-age/issue-13/22</a></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">Next up: <a href="https://mikemitchellonline.blogspot.com/2022/11/retro-coloring-02-color-guides.html">Retro Coloring 02: Color Guides</a></span></div></div></div></div></div>Mike Mitchellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03668344135138054617noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8703885867650390500.post-34620064649067102632022-08-11T23:46:00.003-07:002022-08-12T23:16:42.573-07:00Make your own icon fonts<p> I needed a font that had symbols for the various Microsoft Office documents (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) and the Adobe PDF symbol. Alas, I couldn't find what I needed, so I started looking for a way to make my own icon font. I found a solution in minutes, and it worked perfectly.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here's the site: <a href="http://fontello.com/">fontello.com/</a></p><p>And here's a video on how to use it.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="357" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/XCt_v1JEVSs" width="429" youtube-src-id="XCt_v1JEVSs"></iframe></div><br /><p><br /></p>Mike Mitchellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03668344135138054617noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8703885867650390500.post-20248082264247676842022-03-07T14:35:00.006-08:002022-03-07T14:43:28.065-08:00Red Sonja - Retro Selected as Renderosity Poser Staff Pick of the Week (Feb 29 - March 6)<p> HUZZAH! It's always gratifying when you put in some hard work on something and it garners recognition from your peers! <i style="font-weight: bold;">Once more, an illustration I created has been selected by the Renderosity site as a "Poser Staff Pick of the Week." </i>And, if you're counting, this is the eighth illustration to receive this honor. You can see the <a href="https://mikemitchellonline.blogspot.com/search/label/Poser%20Staff%20Pick%20of%20the%20Week">whole list here.</a></p><p>They selected my "Red Sonja - Retro" illustration, as shown below.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh0GokL1hg3EDWou3ruSZTGq8NIwjLuqOkImC6UME0U7jWZ9jxfUIfqsPZ5DEugYZBfHRFwJtqxnWwdBQs-w1p7tQrn3afXJtDYbw7Vp7h6d7otMEF66_bWMInQhoZBV3XcQwzZz9zz-LtGw_1TG2j27esaqGQHbhfc9YyHtIf5JTgfqDL0_QfQtok2=s1362" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1362" data-original-width="1000" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh0GokL1hg3EDWou3ruSZTGq8NIwjLuqOkImC6UME0U7jWZ9jxfUIfqsPZ5DEugYZBfHRFwJtqxnWwdBQs-w1p7tQrn3afXJtDYbw7Vp7h6d7otMEF66_bWMInQhoZBV3XcQwzZz9zz-LtGw_1TG2j27esaqGQHbhfc9YyHtIf5JTgfqDL0_QfQtok2=w294-h400" width="294" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: arial;"><b>© 2022 Mike Mitchell<br />Red Sonja TM 2022 by Red Sonja LLC</b></span></div><br /><p>The moderators of Renderosity's Poser gallery review all the submissions for the week and pick the most outstanding work posted during that time. This week they selected 6 illustrations, which includes some pretty cool work. </p><p>The entire list can be see here: <a href="https://www.renderosity.com/forums/threads/2969252/poser-staff-picks-feb-28-thru-march-6#msg4435565">https://www.renderosity.com/forums/threads/2969252/poser-staff-picks-feb-28-thru-march-6#msg4435565</a></p><p>And, once again, I didn't get any money or prizes for this honor. I just got a nice, virtual pat on the back for making something memorable.</p>Mike Mitchellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03668344135138054617noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8703885867650390500.post-4509136846385633532022-03-03T13:16:00.006-08:002022-03-03T23:03:13.389-08:00Retro Coloring - Red Sonja Attacks<p> This is an illustration for a fanzine (in other words, this is for print and the "Anthems" is the name of the feature in the magazine.). This is my first serious attempt at using the KraftTone brushes from Vintage Texture Supply Co. These are a product that emulates old-fashioned comic book coloring techniques from the 1930s through the 1980s. A very nice set of tools, which are available for Clip Studio Paint, Photoshop, Procreate and the Affinity tools.</p><p>I used my standard workflow: I rendered the figures in Poser Pro 11 using the Comic Book Preview. I then took them into CSP for clean up, inking adjustment and coloring.</p><p>Figure is a customized Victoria 4.2 wearing the cool Red Sonja cosplay costume by the inimitable Terry McG. Hair is End of Summer Hair by goldtassel and Daz Originals.</p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiaaPgz-C-Jopmo5MR_Uu0VVhTPeAv5PfoLf9sh28dsjtLfMbg6s4rL_qzovom1KQiV5jeVI242Ge0BfoLAjXtAJdv90ssxh5zL9QsXsxAhjKj3z_vysGX-Jx59nHMwNPs06Aylc5Dpy_JVpgg_xtvdcr5mvEWE9wygLnvn0QgOZiH1aaNyoupfDzml=s1362" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1362" data-original-width="1000" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiaaPgz-C-Jopmo5MR_Uu0VVhTPeAv5PfoLf9sh28dsjtLfMbg6s4rL_qzovom1KQiV5jeVI242Ge0BfoLAjXtAJdv90ssxh5zL9QsXsxAhjKj3z_vysGX-Jx59nHMwNPs06Aylc5Dpy_JVpgg_xtvdcr5mvEWE9wygLnvn0QgOZiH1aaNyoupfDzml=w470-h640" width="470" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: arial;">Image © 2022 Mike Mitchell</span><br style="color: #cc0000; font-family: arial;" /><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: arial;">Red Sonja TM 2022 by Red Sonja LLC</span></div><br />Mike Mitchellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03668344135138054617noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8703885867650390500.post-77795506660798352442021-12-13T09:31:00.050-08:002022-02-16T09:47:43.448-08:00MS Word – Add Chapter number to Table and Figure Captions<p>Once more, I found a useful tip and I'm documenting it here so I can easily find it again. This time, the tip is about adding chapter numbers to Table and Figure captions in <b>MS Word.</b></p><p>Normally, a Caption is entered sequentially, like this:</p><p><b>Chapter 1</b></p><p>Table 1<br />Table 2<br />Figure 1<br />Table 3</p><p><b>Chapter 2</b></p><p>Figure 2<br />Table 4<br />Table 5<br />Figure 3</p><p><br /></p><p>But, when using an engineering-style document with numbered chapters, sometimes you need a more formal method of numbering things:</p><p><b>1.0 Chapter Header</b></p><p>Table 1-1<br />Table 1-2<br />Figure 1-1<br />Table 1-3</p><p><b>2.0 Chapter</b></p><p>Figure 2-1<br />Table 2-1<br />Table 2-2<br />Figure 2-2</p><p>The info on how to do this is in this short-and-simple video:</p><div style="text-align: center;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrcAmAQWSK0</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="385" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/UrcAmAQWSK0" width="463" youtube-src-id="UrcAmAQWSK0"></iframe></div><br /><div><br /></div>Mike Mitchellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03668344135138054617noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8703885867650390500.post-38328226258209420762021-10-06T15:42:00.000-07:002021-10-06T15:42:01.587-07:00Devil Wing™ Takes Flight<p> Here's a character study for a comic book character I might work with. Devil Wing™ is an anti-hero in the tradition of Vampirella or Satana. Here we catch her in a light mood as she revels in the joy of flight.</p><p>Figure is V4 with Bettie Page morphs and hair. Outfit includes the top from the Rockabilly Burlesque and the boots are custom for me by Terry McG.</p><p>Workflow is Poser Pro 11 renders with clean-up in Clip Studio Paint.</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgU5Hse8EW5JY37Dx6QMqqIZf1dqMkklIxPV1SRmmqx_i_4IEgTrYLoPMANBiTGp1bAdrlVOd96nWi0A2eJ78LKQNE-adqnERoQmEPUqygaZ3g_0q7zQwfgNkdvqKAwgtCtlVF6eQLRb8w/s1200/Devil+Wing+Flying+%252810-06b-2021%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="927" data-original-width="1200" height="309" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgU5Hse8EW5JY37Dx6QMqqIZf1dqMkklIxPV1SRmmqx_i_4IEgTrYLoPMANBiTGp1bAdrlVOd96nWi0A2eJ78LKQNE-adqnERoQmEPUqygaZ3g_0q7zQwfgNkdvqKAwgtCtlVF6eQLRb8w/w400-h309/Devil+Wing+Flying+%252810-06b-2021%2529.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: arial;">© 2021 Mike Mitchell</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p><br /></p>Mike Mitchellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03668344135138054617noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8703885867650390500.post-74248817474020120662021-09-30T15:47:00.034-07:002021-10-02T15:55:50.493-07:00Comics Flashback: When Hostess Ads Attack, pt 4<p> Time to close out the month of September with my final mock ad. Fear not, my hot-headed Hostess hunks, I am working on more and will post at some point in the future.</p><p><br /></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMNR6J2ru9U-_0mR6ieXPlsHhHbfiwRjcTNs7JbKwpUdjrTmtmej0t1R5oMyvfughVzuDr8iAzUf0hVPTL1VqicaNVKX6K04rmzBBtwLlSaGLDYCg144DPFR31f7YZ-MzLiEJcoRPU-tY/s2048/Aquaman_Imperiled_Sub_big_resized.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1392" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMNR6J2ru9U-_0mR6ieXPlsHhHbfiwRjcTNs7JbKwpUdjrTmtmej0t1R5oMyvfughVzuDr8iAzUf0hVPTL1VqicaNVKX6K04rmzBBtwLlSaGLDYCg144DPFR31f7YZ-MzLiEJcoRPU-tY/w436-h640/Aquaman_Imperiled_Sub_big_resized.jpg" width="436" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: arial;">Text folded, spindled mutilated and © 2020 by Mike Mitchell </span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p>And here's the original:</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhho_tNF0AP7z4SXdUKr9P_NUDO0FcSPigRsVMG6hOryKGU3rz-VWl86rRulq4Q3I6T9TBtWHVcQU7HYosW5e9u9y3ZkIDPWLntfpyuI7GwVGM1Elz4fWC6HhxUH07rKBL3q3dE1SMEfwE/s1976/Aquaman+-+Imperiled+Sub++DC25.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1976" data-original-width="1280" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhho_tNF0AP7z4SXdUKr9P_NUDO0FcSPigRsVMG6hOryKGU3rz-VWl86rRulq4Q3I6T9TBtWHVcQU7HYosW5e9u9y3ZkIDPWLntfpyuI7GwVGM1Elz4fWC6HhxUH07rKBL3q3dE1SMEfwE/w414-h640/Aquaman+-+Imperiled+Sub++DC25.jpg" width="414" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: arial;">Originally published in Action Comics #484, June 1978<br />© 1978 DC Comics, Inc.</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p><br /></p>Mike Mitchellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03668344135138054617noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8703885867650390500.post-52220873842965656462021-09-28T10:30:00.001-07:002021-10-02T01:43:32.599-07:00Comics Flashback: When Hostess Ads Attack, pt 3<p> We're back for some fast fun, with a faster flashback! Here's another poor Hostess Fruit Pie ad that I butchered for the Snicker-Snack Fanzine APA. As you can see, I definitely continue the sophisticated, urbane humor initiated in the last instalment featuring Batman and his not-so-bashful Boy Wonder. This time we find our fleet-footed Barry Allen on the move...</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8xeUv8wkH8dQdQWJgNb327fYMjBgcfZxQNNBzKYiM_OYyBhf28A0k6Nl9GEuaNUnl9CYm_m-fmk85Hi-uFZBJbdXGubk4symTm2HMSvqlm1kUn1etZ5qu0wlb1ql8AtmThZmNroO67oc/s2048/Flash_Fruit_Pies_Ad_%252801-17-2020%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1583" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8xeUv8wkH8dQdQWJgNb327fYMjBgcfZxQNNBzKYiM_OYyBhf28A0k6Nl9GEuaNUnl9CYm_m-fmk85Hi-uFZBJbdXGubk4symTm2HMSvqlm1kUn1etZ5qu0wlb1ql8AtmThZmNroO67oc/w494-h640/Flash_Fruit_Pies_Ad_%252801-17-2020%2529.jpg" width="494" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red;">Butchered Text © 2020 Mike Mitchell</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br />I've got to admit; this one is tied with my first Batman as my favorite. I just loved the interactions between the three bad guys.<br /><p>And here's the original:</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSHFX-b4uRhBjMF9yeMz5tqbXPe4hP1J6SPmk2bbn6qAmY9UIfSeRz_uEIckF1Q5REjOoYY-kn6-S9FcIpDOJp7v_Jpic1DsQoKmduBPY_Hlf4OyQrjv_g1f00tjUu5rhCyFry4t-JgFc/s1516/Flash+Medusa.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1516" data-original-width="1000" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSHFX-b4uRhBjMF9yeMz5tqbXPe4hP1J6SPmk2bbn6qAmY9UIfSeRz_uEIckF1Q5REjOoYY-kn6-S9FcIpDOJp7v_Jpic1DsQoKmduBPY_Hlf4OyQrjv_g1f00tjUu5rhCyFry4t-JgFc/w422-h640/Flash+Medusa.jpg" width="422" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">From Sad Sack and the Sarge #140, Dec. 1979<br />© 1979 DC Comics</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p>And yes, that footnote is right. This FLASH ad appeared in a Sad Sack Comic!</p><p>Stay tooned for more sugary-sweet parodies!</p>Mike Mitchellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03668344135138054617noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8703885867650390500.post-78726079702772016332021-09-27T15:19:00.041-07:002021-10-02T15:43:19.511-07:00Comics Flashback: When Hostess Ads Attack, pt 2<p> Being an equal opportunity offender, I decided to jump ship and go over to Marvel for some super action. In this case, the indomitable Captain America and Nick Fury found themselves in my crosshairs...</p><p>Now, I liked most of this version, except for the final line of dialogue. So, even though the original line is okay, I updated it for this blog posting (and all future reprints).</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_2mfVbdkfF3uGckNIuo2e1-lJClXzUmv_und6sJOw26sWiHF7breycppkjnohP-vZeLK8e0mYmsYfONW4iICoB_jlN9fdWxnRYc0_KWA7uLIs-6ermcOfnhMvyM-MjD1stbZhTT5Yot0/s1526/_Published_Captain_America_Fury_Unleashed.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1526" data-original-width="1064" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_2mfVbdkfF3uGckNIuo2e1-lJClXzUmv_und6sJOw26sWiHF7breycppkjnohP-vZeLK8e0mYmsYfONW4iICoB_jlN9fdWxnRYc0_KWA7uLIs-6ermcOfnhMvyM-MjD1stbZhTT5Yot0/w446-h640/_Published_Captain_America_Fury_Unleashed.jpg" width="446" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: arial;">Text butchered and copyright 2020 by Mike Mitchell</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p><br /></p><p>Here's the original dialogue (only the last word balloon is changed).</p><p><br /></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhptht5VeboQEkpDXTKsV-VJoOGf1WInxHvpy4PZyoHqrpC79ugSV1pr6oGd2QjBZmE1ueH5tdtOooRahSQwPupSu32rgehET92nQix1JMgX8bNjrxVv8nqzk2gm9qoCiCad8xLcfUEbFc/s1650/Captain_America_Fury_Unleashed.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1650" data-original-width="1275" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhptht5VeboQEkpDXTKsV-VJoOGf1WInxHvpy4PZyoHqrpC79ugSV1pr6oGd2QjBZmE1ueH5tdtOooRahSQwPupSu32rgehET92nQix1JMgX8bNjrxVv8nqzk2gm9qoCiCad8xLcfUEbFc/w494-h640/Captain_America_Fury_Unleashed.jpg" width="494" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Text © 2020 Mike Mitchell</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p><br /></p><p>And, finally, here's the original as it was appeared waaaay back when.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsk5jAFPWR35r4SHMux9T35vEmMGcPc4sLtuXMgoHfUabKYIvAg45ZT7YcthkgaZyXa0TGMyheG84OPsee4vwxnu9vAVesQcO12O2rq-Boy4YTYPx_wqYhAy1l5VeOopUD0Gd-MnwTUC0/s1438/Captain+America+Furny+Unleashed+-+Marvel53.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1438" data-original-width="968" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsk5jAFPWR35r4SHMux9T35vEmMGcPc4sLtuXMgoHfUabKYIvAg45ZT7YcthkgaZyXa0TGMyheG84OPsee4vwxnu9vAVesQcO12O2rq-Boy4YTYPx_wqYhAy1l5VeOopUD0Gd-MnwTUC0/w430-h640/Captain+America+Furny+Unleashed+-+Marvel53.jpg" width="430" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Come back soon, folks. I've got one more outing to share with you... then I need to get off my own star-spangled ass and make some more of these!</div>Mike Mitchellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03668344135138054617noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8703885867650390500.post-45732292639287169152021-09-26T01:12:00.001-07:002021-10-02T15:46:37.920-07:00Comics Flashback: When Hostess Ads Attack, pt 1<p> As you saw in my last post, I'm a big fan of the Hostess superhero ads that appeared in comics from 1975 thru 1981. These things were a hoot! Having heroes use sugary snack treats to defeat their villains is just too perfectly "comic book" to ignore. </p><p>So... I didn't.</p><p>When I joined the <b><i><span style="color: red;">Snicker-Snack </span></i></b>APA (it's a quarterly fanzine), I decided to have some fun by altering the dialogue to these classic ads... with a bit of a wicked twist.</p><p>Here's my first attempt at creating something funny (but naughty) out of a random Hostess Ad. This one established all the rules I would follow in this series:</p><p></p><ol style="text-align: left;"><li>I do not change the artwork until the last panel (see below)</li><li>I do not change the size of the word balloons.</li><li>No profanity – innuendo is <i>much funnier.</i></li><li>I DO CHANGE the product in the final panel: Whatever Hostess product was there is updated with the Snicker-Snack logo.</li></ol><div><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbees4NaBpAT-E6R1RZyP5D9ZcBvWFv7WoGsGBeXG05z-fe9DkeB_AbpzPxQSANHYDX5IdRn-JZk5XJeFya_Q_nEIQXL3IStuCGguQlkGkdzG73Cno_-sPwlDCHJZgDxH7fEatnjpHpTA/s2048/Snicker-Snack-Ad-Final.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1583" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbees4NaBpAT-E6R1RZyP5D9ZcBvWFv7WoGsGBeXG05z-fe9DkeB_AbpzPxQSANHYDX5IdRn-JZk5XJeFya_Q_nEIQXL3IStuCGguQlkGkdzG73Cno_-sPwlDCHJZgDxH7fEatnjpHpTA/w494-h640/Snicker-Snack-Ad-Final.jpg" title="Updated Ad Text and art changes © Mike Mitchell" width="494" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: red;">Updated Ad Text and art changes © Mike Mitchell<br />(Click to see full-size)</span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br /><div>Here's the original version</div><div><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgAfy3BsVZ6iX602SUmtNfnARdaEt421Oa6mzqFkKD0H_ZKVgv1IsmspfbX5TTlFKif9S17IAqQi2bxofWNzvn3-_oUj4NdGzMGGH1JPQKlDhyonx1sREUIf5NMM49XcpI2PgXfMk4V6U/s2048/Batman+-+Mummy+DC01.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1341" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgAfy3BsVZ6iX602SUmtNfnARdaEt421Oa6mzqFkKD0H_ZKVgv1IsmspfbX5TTlFKif9S17IAqQi2bxofWNzvn3-_oUj4NdGzMGGH1JPQKlDhyonx1sREUIf5NMM49XcpI2PgXfMk4V6U/w421-h640/Batman+-+Mummy+DC01.jpg" width="421" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Our Army at War #279, April 1975<br />© 1975 DC Comics</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div><br /></div><div>Tune in soon, same Bat Time and same Bat Channel for our next assault on common decency!</div><div><br /></div><p></p>Mike Mitchellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03668344135138054617noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8703885867650390500.post-5077364821367602312021-09-24T00:00:00.038-07:002021-10-02T01:11:27.334-07:00Comics Flashback: When Hostess Ads Rocked the Comics World<p> As someone who grew up reading comics in the 1970s and 80s, I was in love with the humorous ads that Hostess ran in the comics. These were BRILLIANT advertising and perfectly suited to their medium: in these ads, there was a random one-page comic ad, drawn by a current comics professional (so it looked exactly "real") and featured our favorite superheroes using Hostess products to foil crime. These included Superman using Twinkies, Batman using Twinkies (and not just as a sidekick!), Hulk using Fruit Pies, and so forth.</p><p>The really wild thing was, sometimes the ads appeared in comics by other publishers, so you might see Captain Marvel or Sad Sack appearing in a Gold Key comic! Crazy times.</p><p>Here's a link to a guy who took the time to document which ads appeared in which comics:</p><p><a href="http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/mikes/features/gallery.php?page=hostess" target="_blank">http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/mikes/features/gallery.php?page=hostess </a></p><p>And this guy has a great list broken down by individual hero:</p><p><a href="http://www.seanbaby.com/hostess.htm">http://www.seanbaby.com/hostess.htm</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Here are a few of my favorite ads:</p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjT4-go_EmqYHckVNWEkz9Zg8pwaALTTCWEXwRg43I5H8LuADN87PdTRCC3jhG4kp-9T7V9vcmLviGFMyHVO42h2Hx7iziOmKJyj8D7s8543mOhINAUxqxMVFNdS76btaEqpeGeglvOWsE/s750/Aquaman_Imperiled_Sub.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="750" data-original-width="500" height="439" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjT4-go_EmqYHckVNWEkz9Zg8pwaALTTCWEXwRg43I5H8LuADN87PdTRCC3jhG4kp-9T7V9vcmLviGFMyHVO42h2Hx7iziOmKJyj8D7s8543mOhINAUxqxMVFNdS76btaEqpeGeglvOWsE/w292-h439/Aquaman_Imperiled_Sub.jpg" width="292" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-AThH8aXDT8DBzbzeIlpKlV_cyMYZbsb7wLczIjscsUtgBVdkhfUZ-PtIdD78eJ6DLlkvG0-KzhaIv2U-uUJ9B2nQejAloHA9X20q_4KP3hFW3-Df9I4ltRiFGbU6SRrimylKvZO-65U/s1480/Captain+Marvel+Defends+Earth.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1480" data-original-width="1000" height="406" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-AThH8aXDT8DBzbzeIlpKlV_cyMYZbsb7wLczIjscsUtgBVdkhfUZ-PtIdD78eJ6DLlkvG0-KzhaIv2U-uUJ9B2nQejAloHA9X20q_4KP3hFW3-Df9I4ltRiFGbU6SRrimylKvZO-65U/w274-h406/Captain+Marvel+Defends+Earth.jpg" width="274" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYaazCb1PyQJZiWrg4xK0Ic1u_MWOR51VW3CeyiLDVgN3cPs218w2jcx5vTYjk_NQgk3J9UtT-TqwALgsO_4F1Syj4uTLvrnS78TFFMzISKFVrzsnt3mGJRnaZi2dK5Pm2FPvyJdaS2Cw/s1600/Betty82ad.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1088" height="407" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYaazCb1PyQJZiWrg4xK0Ic1u_MWOR51VW3CeyiLDVgN3cPs218w2jcx5vTYjk_NQgk3J9UtT-TqwALgsO_4F1Syj4uTLvrnS78TFFMzISKFVrzsnt3mGJRnaZi2dK5Pm2FPvyJdaS2Cw/w277-h407/Betty82ad.jpg" width="277" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">These ads are such classics that they often fall prey to parody... and as you'll see in my next blog post, I'm no stranger to such shenanigans, myself!</div></div><p><br /></p>Mike Mitchellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03668344135138054617noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8703885867650390500.post-30136187527511613232021-09-22T12:03:00.001-07:002021-09-22T12:05:16.323-07:00Archie then and nowSomeone at an Archie forum posted some misgivings about thre state of Archie comics then vs. now. Here's the exchange:<div><br></div><div>Him:</div><div>Those were the days. No alternate realities, no zombie apocalypse, no look into the future years, no continued issues, just fun and laughter that could stand on its own for every story.<br><div><br></div><div>Me:</div><div><div>Gee Bee Not really. There were tons of "alternate" realities like "Archie 1," "The Man from R.I.V.E.R.D.A.L.E.," the various superhero versions. Even Little Archie didn't really jive with the teen Archie, if you think about it (it was fairly well established that Ronnie moved there as a teen and did not grow up there). And what about all the witches, monsters and aliens? Seems like a lot going on that couldn't be fit into a single "universe."</div><div><br></div><div>Of course, what really changed was... well, everything. The world, the comics market, and the readers. Archie's has ALWAYS changed with the times. Can you imagine how the readers of the 50s felt when they saw their beloved, innocent teens wearing mod clothing and carrying protest signs? Or actually having those mop-top Beatles appear on a cover? Shocking!</div><div><br></div><div>To be very honest, and this isn't an attack, because it applies to me, as well. It's not that the comics today are all bad, it's just that we're getting old. On one thing we will agree, though, and that is that the talent of yore was amazing and, unfortunately, some of today's talent falls a bit short of those halcyon years gone by.</div><div><br></div><div>But buck up. We still have the classic comics and back issues aren't going anywhere.</div></div></div><div><br></div><div>So... what do YOU think?</div><div><br></div><div>-----------</div><div>A follow-up post by me:</div><div>Gee Bee Hey there. Hope my long response doesn't come off as negative. I do "feel your pain," so to speak. And I definitely have days when I look at comics and feel the same way you do. <br></div>Mike Mitchellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03668344135138054617noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8703885867650390500.post-28223571449774100762021-08-05T16:49:00.007-07:002021-08-05T16:57:23.238-07:00Hey, I got sampled in the intro to a Poser 12 Tutorial Video<p> Well, this is cool!</p><p>I was at YouTube and I saw a video titled<b> "Poser 12 Tutorial: SuperFly Render Settings: Pixel Samples."</b> Sounds like a fun topic, so I watched it. And yeah, I know that I have a weird definition of "fun," but I think we all know that! Anyway, the video opens with a bunch of still images flying by <i>very, very</i> fast, and I did a double-take.</p><p><i>"Did I just see what I thought I saw?"</i> I asked myself (yeah, I often talk to myself because I love an intelligent conversation!).</p><p>I went back and slowed the video down and... Yup. I saw exactly what I thought I saw (and no, it was NOT a "puddy tat"). Right there at about the 2-second mark:</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYEqRPuT4_M9X5jOPIblcyk23SGvbnVJmWn2t0yVaGPAbo9Hesonca4dKSrHcH0866y-MEzCrrmn3QJH8TG_U79O5QTCY4wYcpMQhE8Sg8eGgdReSjIDP6gUvxDh3ZRc0U2GAFiEHw_Wk/s1277/YouTube.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="719" data-original-width="1277" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYEqRPuT4_M9X5jOPIblcyk23SGvbnVJmWn2t0yVaGPAbo9Hesonca4dKSrHcH0866y-MEzCrrmn3QJH8TG_U79O5QTCY4wYcpMQhE8Sg8eGgdReSjIDP6gUvxDh3ZRc0U2GAFiEHw_Wk/w400-h225/YouTube.png" title="That illustration in the video title is by ME!" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p>There it is, one of my illustrations! The line art of the guy and the gal in the car. <i>That's so cool.</i> </p><p>And before ya ask: </p><p></p><ol style="text-align: left;"><li>No, I don't get any money. </li><li>Yes, I gave them permission (it's an option when I upload the image to their gallery).</li></ol><div>For anyone interested, I created this illustration for a book of short stories. Honestly, I'm not happy with the way they printed the illustration (it was printed in b&w, of course). They were supposed to put it at the bottom of a page under the text, and the editor shoved it in sideways, centered on an opposite page. It looks AWFUL in print, so I really don't mention the book to anyone.</div><div><br /></div><div>Nevertheless, here's a full-size copy of the color version (I like to add a little spot color when I post the pics online – it makes them a little more interesting):</div><div><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1RmY0v_CjPRSF1WOqW4VXq_IhIyukZ62MprFjsF-xLIi1ka53Q4uT8uX7DSQ4QfA-WWFUCqUWt9nAIHGeaOD61hsr4MR-8msYegagLiS9YNdRw450NPJv69EZDajrWtYuaLli_JLgzvE/s1200/Driving.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="754" data-original-width="1200" height="251" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1RmY0v_CjPRSF1WOqW4VXq_IhIyukZ62MprFjsF-xLIi1ka53Q4uT8uX7DSQ4QfA-WWFUCqUWt9nAIHGeaOD61hsr4MR-8msYegagLiS9YNdRw450NPJv69EZDajrWtYuaLli_JLgzvE/w400-h251/Driving.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: arial;"><b>© 2020 Mike Mitchell</b></span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div><br /></div><div> If you'd like to watch the video (which is a decent, fast little tutorial on pixel sampling; I learned stuff I didn't know), you may watch it here:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/8K2t7NILyzg" width="320" youtube-src-id="8K2t7NILyzg"></iframe></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>By the way, I glanced at a few other videos for Poser 12, and it appears that this illustration is in the standard intro for all of them. VERY, very cool! Apparently, this started last year (at least in November 2020), and I'm just now noticing it.<div><br /></div><div>Heh. Ya snooze, ya lose!</div><div><br /></div><div>It's still pretty cool.<br /><div><br /></div><p></p></div>Mike Mitchellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03668344135138054617noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8703885867650390500.post-88726380033906145682021-06-30T11:30:00.059-07:002021-07-25T19:03:45.900-07:00Using Poser to Make Comics: Create Custom Library Collections, pt 3<p>When I finished last week's tutorial, I didn't think there was a Part 3 to this series. But, as I thought about some of my other organizational techniques/practices, I realized that there is one other way I approach the Poser Library that might help give you guys some ideas.</p><p>In addition to creating lists of <b>Favorites,</b> you can also create a custom Runtime Library with assets that will be used in your project. In other words, a <b><i><span style="color: #cc0000;">Project-Specific Library. </span></i></b>This could include customized figures (Michael 4 and Victoria 4 are my favorites), poses, buildings, landscapes, and vehicles. </p><p>In addition to making it easy to find the items you're looking for, it also offers you the opportunity to easily make back-ups of all the assets that go into that project. For example, here's a screenshot of my current Runtime structure.</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjg5D3nxld9pBboQ7Q4UrtTaUdDqd5IrhF6KhU4qHYf0QaqewC6o5GjMnND_ieiKgkRgvwwlX0BrazUGdvk8QIJ1QDPLzLAA5mrGBeqxJ3UjFcozUciXHIIZYC1lMJ14PAjlJIio20OKEU/s833/03_Custom_Library.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="833" data-original-width="710" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjg5D3nxld9pBboQ7Q4UrtTaUdDqd5IrhF6KhU4qHYf0QaqewC6o5GjMnND_ieiKgkRgvwwlX0BrazUGdvk8QIJ1QDPLzLAA5mrGBeqxJ3UjFcozUciXHIIZYC1lMJ14PAjlJIio20OKEU/w341-h400/03_Custom_Library.jpg" title="Project-Specific Libraries are highlighted" width="341" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: arial;">Project-specific libraries are highlighted.<br />Click image for a larger view.</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p>When I create a Library for a single project, I duplicate a lot of things that are in other Runtimes. For example, the Gutshot Library (shown in the image above) is a collection of my Western assets. This definitely includes duplication with my Architecture Library, and with some stuff in My Library (which is the Daz Studio Library). I tend not to worry about duplicates in this situation because I follow one basic rule: If I start off by using an asset from a project-specific folder, I keep on doing it. In other words, I don't get the Hat out of the Gutshot folder and then get the matching bandana from the Poser 11 folder. That sort of crisscrossing can cause problems in the long run.</p><p>At any rate, like the Favorites, I only tend to use this approach when it's a Larger project with a lot of potential for confusion later down the road. With a big visual narrative project, keeping stuff where you can find it is a powerful tool/practice that can really pay off in the end.</p><h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #cc0000;">Creating Custom Libraries</span></h2><p>I'm not going to go through the whole step-by-step process on this process because there are already LOTS of great tutorials on this subject. Here's one that combines text and a great video: </p><p><a href="https://www.posersoftware.com/article/476/how-to-manage-your-poser-library">https://www.posersoftware.com/article/476/how-to-manage-your-poser-library</a></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>Mike Mitchellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03668344135138054617noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8703885867650390500.post-17708543376705579792021-06-23T01:30:00.027-07:002021-07-25T18:10:21.104-07:00Using Poser to Make Comics: Create Custom Library Collections, pt 2<p> Continuing our discussion from last time, we're going to dive into the nitty gritty of exactly how you customize the "Favorites" tab in the Poser Library, and we'll look at the ways I categorize my assets for a comic book story.</p><p><br /></p><h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #cc0000;">How to Save a Favorite Item to the Poser Library</span></h2><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7X-44anZV2Ndg03r6htJIrxJLzIfJwGTZKrfYTJwdql0F3sDGUwjGON7WDsLmg7wqlLDemoFcjfbZ9MLQV2Sx8fuPXlzD67vu4GZC-OqX_pSF0rUAzNbrK4sKfLA15wUsrl5UEC-6iMk/s717/01_Find_Item.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="696" data-original-width="717" height="519" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7X-44anZV2Ndg03r6htJIrxJLzIfJwGTZKrfYTJwdql0F3sDGUwjGON7WDsLmg7wqlLDemoFcjfbZ9MLQV2Sx8fuPXlzD67vu4GZC-OqX_pSF0rUAzNbrK4sKfLA15wUsrl5UEC-6iMk/w534-h519/01_Find_Item.jpg" width="534" /></a></div><br /><p></p><ol style="text-align: left;"><li>Browse through your Library until you find an item you like (note, it must be a single item, you cannot add a folder).</li><li>Click on the "Favorite" icon (it's a star) at the bottom of the Library window.</li><li>Open / Expand the Project Folder</li><li>(If the folder doesn't exist, create it by clicking on the "New Folder Name" button).</li><li>Highlight the sub-folder where you wish to place the item</li><li>(NOTE: This is VERY important and easy to forget, so be careful).</li><li>Click "OK" button.</li><li>The item is now available in the "Favorites" tab in your Library.</li></ol><p></p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlXQZywzucWFmoa6k2HfT2RzTO8kdNTvw3dOw6ZnCwqQWKqvxi39_vIckiAGBYtf0P3Hg1WwaE3QBPvs5XcMrhJpvUpWJMMcTd1LtKI7Ak8lm6dcQU80HHs-rVGKWKR36GatBYwKIz_qI/s720/02_Save_Item.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="695" data-original-width="720" height="512" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlXQZywzucWFmoa6k2HfT2RzTO8kdNTvw3dOw6ZnCwqQWKqvxi39_vIckiAGBYtf0P3Hg1WwaE3QBPvs5XcMrhJpvUpWJMMcTd1LtKI7Ak8lm6dcQU80HHs-rVGKWKR36GatBYwKIz_qI/w531-h512/02_Save_Item.jpg" width="531" /></a></div><br /><p>One thing of note is that this actually creates a duplicate of the object – not a shortcut. So, if you are short on hard drive space, you might want to be judicious with your Favorites lists.</p><p><br /></p><p><i>PRO TIP: If you ever need to reorganize your Favorites, you can right-click on an object and select the "Show in Explorer" option. Once there, you can move files around. </i></p><p>This is just one of the methods I've learned to use after significant trial and error, and I know it seems like a lot of work. Really, I get it. There are times when it feels like I'm spending more time "shopping" through my Runtime than I do making art. But, this process delivers numerous benefits, including:</p><p></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>Helping me see what I've already got, rather than rushing off to Renderosity or Daz to go buy something that I already have (like sunglasses... Randy needs a pair and I almost bought some, but looking carefully through my stuff, I found I already had a pair that were perfect for him).</li><li>When I post the image to Daz or Renderosity, this makes it a lot easier to track back to the item so I can list it in the promotional credits.</li><li>Also helps remind me that, when I do find a great asset, I should go write a review.</li></ul><p></p><p>I know that a lot of you don't use Poser, so this article may be of limited value to you, but hopefully it will get you thinking about the logistics of creating a big, Visual Narrative projects. <span style="color: #cc0000;"><b><i>So, for you Daz users, the takeaway I want to leave you with is simply this: Using ANY sort of asset organization on a big project will be helpful in the long run.</i></b></span></p>Mike Mitchellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03668344135138054617noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8703885867650390500.post-13174616756085934172021-06-16T17:48:00.036-07:002021-07-25T18:02:06.633-07:00Using Poser to Make Comics: Create Custom Library Collections, pt 1<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWqJggJ5B6xCM_MmBaWKnhEhjoPEAPZ6V_dih8chpQK3SRtjl-4RhBdGrH8TDe1FA-Z8ir9dQPsr9xk4LIZVLhO4Vw-q8Bj19p1-eGeav7eLnEgdyFUsJyHq2f_ZASPRvTd2TOVuTORCg/s846/Poser-Organization_Header.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="846" data-original-width="772" height="294" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWqJggJ5B6xCM_MmBaWKnhEhjoPEAPZ6V_dih8chpQK3SRtjl-4RhBdGrH8TDe1FA-Z8ir9dQPsr9xk4LIZVLhO4Vw-q8Bj19p1-eGeav7eLnEgdyFUsJyHq2f_ZASPRvTd2TOVuTORCg/w484-h294/Poser-Organization_Header.jpg" width="484" /></a></div><br /><p></p><br /><h1 style="text-align: left;">Getting Started with a Visual Narrative Project</h1><br /><b><span style="color: #cc0000;">Using Poser to create a comic (or any project that requires a lot of images/renders) consumes a LOT of assets. </span></b>There are figures, costumes, equipment, vehicles, weapons and numerous other items that will be needed. Like most of you (I imagine), I have MANY thousands of items at my disposal. Purchases, freebies, and who knows what are lurking in my Runtime and it's up to me to find out what's there so i can bring the story out of my head and out into the world.<br /><p style="margin: 0px 0px 24px;"><br />One of the approaches I use is to think of it as a movie, mentally visualizing the places and people in my story, and then doing a deep search through my Poser Runtime to find the various bits and pieces I might need or want. And this includes selecting different options, especially for clothing. If I were working on a movie, these tasks would be handled by different professionals:<br /></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>For example, some standard movie roles include:</li><li>Set Designer / Set Construction (interiors)</li><li>Location Supervisor (exteriors)</li><li>Wardrobe (clothes, sunglasses, wristwatch)</li><li>Prop Master (guns, crucifixes, wooden stakes, possibly cars)</li><li>Hair & Makeup specialists</li></ul>I'm not even including all the lighting and other stuff, such as "casting" because we kind of create our characters, rather than find them (at least partly – I frequently do look for pre-existing characters in my library and use them if they look right for the part; this is especially true for minor/background characters).<br /><br /><i>So, back to the tip I'm trying to summarize. </i><p></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 24px;"><b>Poser has a great feature in the Library called FAVORITES, which is a fantastic way to organize assets.</b> For a new project, I will open the Library and, on the Favorites tab, I will create a Project Folder (in this case, "Devil Wing 2021"). Then, I will go through my Runtime and look for the various items I will need and save the various items to separate, organized folders. <i>As you can see in the attached screenshots, the folder names are pretty specific to what's in them.</i></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 24px;">In this case, that includes <b>places/locations</b> (the two big scenes take place in a mansion and in a graveyard, but I will also need some other assets, like a cityscape (she flies over it on her way to the graveyard) and a Greek island (flashback) and I'll also need trees and shrubs to flesh out those locations), <b>interior </b>(mansion interior includes long hallway, library, occult "study" room, & some other room yet to be determined). I'm not sure I'll need a vehicle this time, but I might in the future, so I tagged a few that I like. And, of course, I need to dress the characters <b>(wardrobe)</b> – for them, I will have different folders for each character, and possibly for different scenes (for instance, fancy dress versus casual).<br /><i><br />SIDE NOTE: If the project goes beyond this initial two-issue short story, I would create a more detailed "Call List / Catalog" in Excel or Word (or the Google Docs equivalents) to better organize things and make it easier for me to sort out the various references and image credits. <br /></i><br /></p><b><i><span style="color: #cc0000;">NEXT TIME: Step-by-step instructions on how to create custom collections in your Poser Library.</span></i></b>Mike Mitchellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03668344135138054617noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8703885867650390500.post-64973427336114087442021-06-09T16:00:00.002-07:002021-07-25T17:48:05.883-07:00Gaming Mouse is VERY Useful in 3D<p> Last year I wrote a quick review about my recent purchase of a gaming mouse to assist with my work: <a href="http://mikemitchellonline.blogspot.com/2020/08/tip-use-gaming-mouse-with-poser-and-daz.html">http://mikemitchellonline.blogspot.com/2020/08/tip-use-gaming-mouse-with-poser-and-daz.html</a></p><p>I was pretty new to the whole thing back then, but a year or so later and I must amend my report to say that this mouse is a <span style="color: red;"><b>fantastic addition to my toolkit. </b></span>I'm extremely happy with it and now really can't see how I got along without it.</p><p>I never did get the hang of those marco buttons on the side, so I removed them. What turns out to be invaluable is the ability to change resolution (i.e. sensitivity) at the touch of a button. The allows me to make very fine adjustments to the dials in Poser.</p><p>The mouse has these possible settings:</p><p style="text-align: center;">More Hand Movement << <span style="background-color: white; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><b>1200-2400-4800-6200-8000-12000 DPI</b></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><b> </b> >> Less Hand Movement</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #0f1111; font-family: Amazon Ember, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px;">I usually keep it on 4800, which has a nice feel and speed to it. But, when I need to move the dials to make minute light adjustments in Poser, I just press the button on top of the mouse and suddenly it takes a lot more motion to move things, which means I have a lot more control of the final outcome.</span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #0f1111; font-family: Amazon Ember, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #0f1111; font-family: Amazon Ember, Arial, sans-serif;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #0f1111; font-family: Amazon Ember, Arial, sans-serif;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-_qDJKWNSqLrfiStQW8SxXyfMUbpioAVmYEhjZPr0A48iTqOa6cospYwjj_nCR_MRWQAKHVLC1y-dU4Ou-PgTgwdZyviWlYro6e-_EUWB523O0vxsaUER1wyqGrGBURJ2N3JzbwmT6g8/s483/Gaming-Mouse.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="470" data-original-width="483" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-_qDJKWNSqLrfiStQW8SxXyfMUbpioAVmYEhjZPr0A48iTqOa6cospYwjj_nCR_MRWQAKHVLC1y-dU4Ou-PgTgwdZyviWlYro6e-_EUWB523O0vxsaUER1wyqGrGBURJ2N3JzbwmT6g8/s320/Gaming-Mouse.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></div><span style="color: #0f1111; font-family: Amazon Ember, Arial, sans-serif;"><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></span><p></p>Mike Mitchellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03668344135138054617noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8703885867650390500.post-69862043880441974632021-06-02T14:53:00.004-07:002021-07-24T15:21:58.783-07:00Cerebus Attacks<p> <b>Cerebus </b>the Aardvark is one of the most successfully published indy comic characters of all time. Artist Dave Sim, running 300 issues published from 1977 thru 2004. After the series veered off into politics, it faded away from my interest, to be honest. But the early issues are still brilliant and I still learn a lot from the artwork and storytelling (seriously, even though you probably cannot see it in my work, Sim's approach to lighting and backgrounds are a strong influence on how I approach comics art).</p><p>Anyway, I found a 3D figure of the Aardvark over at ShareCG, so I downloaded it and was pleasantly surprised to find that it's pretty good. It also "kind of" accepts poses for Michael 4. So, here is just a quickie illustration I did to play around with the figure and some free brushes I got from Clip Studio's website.</p><p>Typical workflow applies: Poser Pro 11 and Clip Studio Paint.</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzyCw0mCD-onaRjlq6io_0wbhFDjSC9iKdhg3JTaANUQ0Rc15mlsl1mVmNaK5pBE6vWzXhS2GSrgISOzlqQASPRSArj3pcteTWJB-N7IdD8LOHn-se59IhcykeDG3_-KrsReGNbGwrPP0/s1200/Cerebus+Attacks+1200+%252805-27-2021%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="900" data-original-width="1200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzyCw0mCD-onaRjlq6io_0wbhFDjSC9iKdhg3JTaANUQ0Rc15mlsl1mVmNaK5pBE6vWzXhS2GSrgISOzlqQASPRSArj3pcteTWJB-N7IdD8LOHn-se59IhcykeDG3_-KrsReGNbGwrPP0/s320/Cerebus+Attacks+1200+%252805-27-2021%2529.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">© 2021 Aardvark-Vanaheim</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p><br /></p>Mike Mitchellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03668344135138054617noreply@blogger.com0