Interested in some response to a comic book I'm working on in my spare time. It's called "Men of Science" (tentative title) and it's written by Tom Alvarado with the art supplied by yours truly. The story is concerns the Roswell crash and is set in the 40's and 50's. The Carrara connection: I've tried to blend 3D images produced in Carrara with hand-drawn images. The Roswell spacecraft is based on drawings of witnesses and was modeled and textured in Amapi and Carrara. The jeep was a .3ds model that was textured and rendered in Carrara.

Here's a close up of the ship on page 2

(I asked for a larger pic... But Robert already sensed that)

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And another of one of the main characters, Ike Dow.

It looks excellent! Very slick and pro. It's really impressive. There's one little error I see, though. The Saguaro Cactus (you've placed two of them alongside the road in Chavez County) grows only in a very small region of desert called the Sonora desert. Roswell is a good 250 miles away from the nearest Saguaro Cactus. The Roswell area does have scrub brush, creosote bushes, desert grass, mesquite trees, barrel cactus, and prickly pear cactus. Organ pipe cactus and century plants grow there, too, if you want something that stands upright like the Saguaro. Good luck with this! I'm looking forward to seeing more.

Very nice images , this is nice to see Carrara helping out here.

Dex, thank you so much for the info. This is the kind of inaccuracies I'm trying to find. I have only driven through New Mexico a couple of times so I wasn't sure.

It looks great! -Kix

-Kix

I think, the combination of 3D and drawing as you use, is really excellent and gives a very expressive comic book.

Whether he has a degree or not, I know I don't want him hitting me! ;-) I like it. Will you be publishing on the web, or in print? markd

Publishing it? Hell, I'll feel lucky if I ever finish it. It seems to take forever. Well, if it ever does get finished, Tom and I were hoping to take it around to some of the bigger comic book companies. We'd want to keep all the rights to it though. Thanks for the comments. This is sort of a dream project of mine. I've always wanted to do a comic book. Oh yeah, one other Carrara connection: the typewriter is the stock typewriter included in Carrara's objects. I rendered it twice, photorealistic and non, and did a bit of Photoshop work.