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Whew! Talk about the hustle and bustle before the holidays. I'm three days over the deadline on this one, but the editor swears he'll get it on the issue and mailed so that people will at least get this issue before the end of the year.
As far as work goes, this was a lot more complicated than usual. The front scene, with Santa and his sleigh, was one of the more complicated I've ever done in terms of the number of figures that are included. Typically, I usually only do 1-3 figures in a scene, but this one had four, plus the big bag prop. I was going to add some gifts and toys to the scene, but I ran out of time and I didn't want to clutter things up more than I already had.
The back cover was a lot more typical for me, as I only rendered the fairy, tree and mouse in the same scene (I kinda think the House Mouse looks more like a bear, but I'm okay with that). The gifts and the penguin were separate renders that I tossed in at the last minute to flesh out the scene. The skyline is clip art.
As always, there is a lot of postwork (and I've got to work on increasing the speed of my coloring). Figures were rendered in Poser Pro 11 using the Live Comic Book Preview, clean up was in Manga Studio 5EX (aka Clip Studio Paint).
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FYI: The cast of characters includes, from left-to right in the sleigh: Hatta Mari, Santa, Moon Wolf and (holding the whole thing up) is the Collectors' Club mascot, Captain Epistle. On the back cover, the fairy is Nirona. The mouse and penguin are just visiting.
Comments (7)
anitalee
Excellent!!
uncollared
Fantastic image. And Happy Christmas to you
Cyve
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
Marvelous creation/composition !!!
rayag
Merry Christmas to you too.
UteBigSmile
This is a very nice looking image - Merry Christmas to you too.!!!!!!!!!!!!!
tkdrobert
Nice man. I'm not use to seeing color images from you. This look great.
mmitchell_houston
Working on this piece gave me even more respect for the great color work YOU do! Clip Studio Paint has great tools for coloring (its use of Reference Layers and flatting tools are really powerful), but I am a complete novice with those tools. I did this very slowly by hand. And although I do like the results, if I were going to use color on a regular basis I would need to double or triple my current speed. That you get so much done so fast is amazing to me.
Meshbox
Looks great! It is also nice to see great and creative post work
mmitchell_houston
Thanks! Thank you for providing such a versatile model for me to work with.