The Last Day of Rain Update: 7th of February 2025
Preview: the first background and working with a mix and 3D and 2D
A version of this post was originally published on the 7th of February 2024, in a private newsletter to my Kickstarter backers. I’m now making all the updates available to the public, so you can see how I create my comic books.
Dear friends,
It’s been a while since I used this mailing list, but the new chapter has been progressing quickly (finally), and I wanted to send you an interim update.
As a few of you may have read in the previous e-mail, I decided to have a go at modelling the backgrounds for this chapter in 3D. For a few of reasons:
A bit of added realism and details.
Saving time (maybe).
Building up skills to find an art job.
I have already finished a few of the backgrounds, and my approach at the moment is to create them in 3D and then export them as line art, which I will later paint and adjust by hand.
Here’s an example of one of my favourites: the observatory floor (where you can spot one of your cameos: extra cute if I might say so)!
In this image, the characters were drawn by hand, and everything else was created in Blender, as 3D models. It will need a bit of cleanup and a few adjustments to the thickness of some lines, but I’m quite happy with the general result!
And here’s how this looked when initially sketched:
To build the 3D floor, I used a lot of reference images of star observatories from all over the world, so it ended up looking a bit different from my initial idea.
Finally, here are a few unfiltered renders of the 3D model, which look a bit lo-fidelity but you may enjoy seeing a bit of behind-the-scenes!
There are some hints here at the final colour palette, perhaps! 🤓
This is it for now! I’m hoping to hit the April deadline for deliveries. 🤞 Will keep you posted with updates.
Thank you so much again for your support!
- Claudia
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