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At an elite training school --THE SERAPHIM ACADEMY-- nine teenagers are abducted and nearly annihilated by a strange extraterrestrial force. Now they must learn to work together and accept their destiny: saving humanity!
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Please enjoy! Thank you for visiting!
This was very upsetting to work on. It really bummed me out. All the death, blood, mutilation and crying. I feel really sad.
BUT this is supposed to start off the series, right?! It’s about trauma, and how young people deal with it in different ways. And how social media looms over developing young minds. And how the best things come when people put aside their differences and work together.
This is the horrible starting point.
I really hope I don’t dream about these creatures. I spent a long time working on them.
Well, if you want to see more, either email me or TWEET. Until then, Seraphim is on hiatus.
I’ll see you on the next project, reader! Until then, thanks for reading.
Your pal, Illya
May 31st, 2017
This is GOODBYE. Seraphim Episode One ends in pure horror, and it was always meant to. I’m going to leave it alone for a while. Take a couple of weeks to think about my next project.
A year of Seraphim was fantastic! I learned a lot about making comics, especially for the web. I’ve studied the arts, and have practiced some fun visual storytelling techniques. It’s been helpful!
I think my next webcomic project will adhere to a few rules: 1) Stick to a style, and maintain consistency! 2) Make it very short and episodic. Easy to jump in at any moment. 3) Write it specifically for comics, and not an scene-for-scene adaptation of a screenplay. That being said, I think this was a lot of fun. If there is demand, I will continue. But for now, based on my readership, I’m going to move onto more fun and fulfilling projects.
Things are about to become horrifying.
Until next week! One page left, then Episode One is OVER.
I was not interested in working on this page (including the previous and following panels) AT ALL this week. They were really boring me.
However, I started playing with colour and re-remembered a thematic change that has been planned from the beginning: PSYCHEDELIC COLOURS!
Yes, I want this event to have a heavy impact on the rest of the series (if it actually happens) and go into a crazy drug-trip aesthetic.
May 26th, 2017
Last week was a bust. NO SERAPHIM. Unfortunately it takes very little priority over the film/tv tasks that come up. Not only was I tasked with a big writing deadline for TODAY, but I also was acting as producer, editor, and sound designer to the promotional trailer for a short film. Let’s have a look!
I give this 3 or 4 more pages. Not sure. But that will make it basically one episode per year. That’s WAY too slow. That’s why I want to do something new with more one-off potential.
TCAF NEWS: I’ll be in the same city. But I won’t be attending. I have a short film to produce this weekend. But maybe I’ll see you around. If you’re going to TCAF and are staying near Dufferin Mall, TWITTER at me and we’ll hit up NoFrills together.
That’s it for this week.
LOVE YA.
ik
Viewer poll: should my next comic be kid friendly, or offensively edgy and adult? I have two ideas that I’m playing with. I can’t decide. Answer on TWITTER, please.
It’s funny how much the characters have morphed in the details of their faces. I really tried to make them look younger. I feel like they look very old in the prologue.
Where they REALLY changed from was in my preliminary designs. Man, those look so wild and different. Perhaps more... FAMILIAR to people I know. I’ll burn those sometime.
It was fascinating redoing these panels. It reminded me of how meticulous I was in the beginning, before I decided to do weekly updates. Since then I’ve been more efficient, but less detailed. I’ve also been developing an artistic style that I feel suits the series.
May 10th, 2017
This panel look familiar? HA! It’s the prologue again, updated with today’s colouring and character design. The characters didn’t change too much within a year. But today marks YEAR ONE of SERAPHIM! Although I released the Prologue in the summer of 2016, I began working on it in May of last year. Maybe even on the same day!
May 3rd, 2017
There’s a bunch of other stuff too: a web series, a feature film looking for money, another short I’m producing, a kid show I’m writing... if you want to know more, ask me on Twitter you dink.
I won’t call you a dink on Twitter.
I read League of Extraordinary Gentlemen Vol. 3 the other day. The violence towards women is way too much for me, but I really liked their treatment of Harry Potter, a series that I loathe. They take a lot of shots at the lazy world-building of the series with all of its convenient magical deus ex machinas, and how the main character is very banal and uninspiring. It made me smile, because I only come across two kinds of people: HP super-fans, and indifference. People aren’t as irritated by the series as I am. But I’m glad to know at least one famous comic book writer is too.
Surprisingly, I really enjoyed Fantastic Beasts. SPOILER, a drunk and abusive Johnny Depp shows up at the end. ENJOY.
Illya
More stuff on the go:
A 360ª VR Short Film. That will be fun. A great mix of comedy and horror. VR is the FUTURE (for about 2 years, then it’ll be back to normal).
April 26th, 2017
Go back to the Prologue, and you will see that things are syncing up. It was fun picking colours for everyone’s outfits. When I turned these panels B&W, they matched!
A little bit about me: I’m working on some cool projects right now. One is a short film with Dick Sibblies (https://vimeo.com/channels/dicksibbliespi). Not the character, but the man. He’s the only person who reads this comic. HEY RICH. We’re working on a short film about tangible holograms. Lots of laughs will be had, I PROMISE.