Swan.

For the good of the people.

[batteryjam]

It is with the utmost pride that we finally get to show you what we’ve been doing! Introducing Battery Jam! A local multiplayer game of competitive territorial mayhem!

We’ll be heading to Steam Early Access in January! Check us out! http://store.steampowered.com/app/751330

[swanthered]

I’ve been working on our game for a while now, check it out!

[deepvisualspace]

Rika Ishige

[batteryjam]

And finally, Introducing our lean green (and purple) fighting machine, Slug! We’re very excited to have shown you our characters, but we’re even more excited to for our reveal trailer coming soon! stay tuned!!

[batteryjam]

New, blue and the first of our crew, introducing the new Turbo!

We’re super excited to finally get to start showing you more of the game! Expect more media and trailer coming soon!

[inspirationlogo]

Volusion logo by Ramotion

[theartofanimation]

Victor Bauer  -  http://victor-bauer.blogspot.com.es/  -  https://www.facebook.com/victor.bauer.904

[brandonswanart]

Is this now?

[brandonswanart]

Boop. 

[brandonswanart]

Find me on ArtStation - https://www.artstation.com/artist/brandonswan

Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Deviant Art = @Brandonswanart 

[armaturenine]

https://www.etsy.com/shop/ArmatureNine

Hey all, last year I started working on these brown Riders, but due to cosmetic imperfections caused by the material, decided never to launch them. But instead of letting them sit there I’m putting them on our recently resurrected Etsy shop to see if we can also breath some life into that online space for us. Will you help us out by sharing this news with others? Functionally the only difference between these and the ivory Riders is they don’t have the tripod adapter on the back that was introduced this year. Even at $30, they still come included with the $10 platform. So it’s a pretty sweet deal!

[brandonswanart]

I was lucky enough to work on Dropzone, and this was one of the illustrations I got to do for their marketing team for their Holiday event! Inspired by the classic Norman Rockwell! DID I MENTION THE GAME LAUNCHES TODAY?! Go check it out! http://www.playdropzone.com/steam

[brandonswanart]

Ghost Knight enemy design! Check out my Artstation! https://www.artstation.com/artist/brandonswan Or follow me on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook @BrandonswanArt

[decorkiki]

Mens Fashion  - www.GoGetGlam.com

[uglyassprettyboy]

I just came a little

[5lim-v-deactivated20241116]

Yeah Bc some of y'all walking around looking like Steve Harvey and Cedric the entertainer back in the day.

[sachinteng]

For anyone who missed out on the Viscera sweater collab with OMOCAT, or just wants a matching poster, my final addition to the store is a huge 17x22 inch giclee poster, signed and numbered edition of 100. There are only a hundred of these but they’re pretty! Check it out HERE

Either way here’s here’s some hi res art!

[hiragananinja]

Japanese I-MY-ME-MINE 👉 http://hiragananinja.tk/wp2/imyme/

[theartofanimation]

Sparrows     -     http://ofsparrows.tumblr.com/tagged/*

[rapidpunches]

[aishishii]

rapidpunches:

SHORT STORY/ONE-SHOT/ONE CHAPTER/COMICS 101 CRASH COURSE RAPIDPUNCHES’ STYLE

I’m NOT an expert but I have some working experience I can share. You need experience to become great. Here is my set of instructions, tips, and notes towards making a 12-page comic.

My method is to work backwards. Personally I work “backwards” because the end is the only wholly necessary page or set of panels in the story. Everything in between is open to editing and hacking as the most important moments are emphasized and chosen.

I even plan/draw the end page first. The end is the last page a reader sees- so spend your freshest energies on making it as epic, memorable, poignant, and beautiful as #$%^&.

If you draw the pages from 1 to 12 sequentially you run the risk of fresh to burnt out- an uneven distribution of drawing skill. (treat the first page and the 2-page splash as you would the last).

Roughly… the steps to making your comic is

WRITE

PLAN THUMBNAILS

DRAW

…BEGIN THE WRITING (DO NOT SKIP NO MATTER WHAT) like this, in this order:

How does it end?

Does the protag succeed or fail?

What is the turning point of their story?

What the protag do that led them there?

Where does it start?

Who is this protag?

EXAMPLE:

Guy gets mauled by a bear.

This is a fail on the guy’s half.

The bear must eat something or he’ll starve to death.

It’s the guy’s fault the bear can’t find other food. He caused the avalanche that buried all the cabins.

The guy is yodeling in an avalanche zone.

The guy is some guy.

CREATING “THE BEAT SHEET” Take the above stuff and reorder it to make sense.

This guy yodels.

Echoes roll.

Snow slides down.

Avalanche buries the mountain.

Cabins are engulfed.

This bear has no access to cabin food and garbage.

Bear eats this guy.

Expand. Blow up important beats for emphasis. Keep less important beats brief.

This guy is hiking in the snowy mountains.

He comes across an avalanche warning sign.

There is nobody around but him.

A dumb expression forms over his face and he yodels.

Echoes roll but nothing nearby is moved.

At the top of the mountain the snow drifts twitch.

Guy, satisfied, hikes away from there still yodeling.

Frozen snow cracks.

Snow puffs billow and great slabs of ice crash down the mountain side.

Guy sees this and hightails it to safer ground.

Animals, people, are all panicking and getting pushed over by the rushing snow.

Cabins are destroyed.

The guy takes cover by an outcropping of rocks, fastens himself securely to the rock face, and waits for the avalanche to die down.

Avalanche dies down.

A lone bear shambles over from the other side of the mountain.

The bear goes to where a cabin used to be (only roof tiles are left). Bear sniffs a dish satellite.

Bear forlornly eats a food wrapper.

Bear tries to dig.

Guy comes down from the rocks he as climbing and sees bear.

Bear stops digging and sees him.

Guy runs.

Bear chases him down.

Bear eats the guy.

BEAT SHEET COMPLETED!!!

After the beat sheet, write up all the sound effects and speech bubbles and conversation/dialogue you want to be in your comic.

Since comics are a visual medium, highest priority is given to the beats. If a story can’t be told with the art without the dialogue– you messed up and it’s time to rethink your life choices.

Try to keep all your text chunks as short as a tweet. Professionally you don’t want more than 25 words per speech bubble and no more than 250 words per page.

Next is translating the beats to pages…

STRUCTURE OVERVIEW:

[1] point of entry, in media res, hero intro

[2][3] conflict. establish conflict, setting, and mood by the third page. [4][5] rising action/false resolution to conflict/investigation

[6][7] turning point/plot twist/epiphany (this one epic image, to page spread is pivotal, spend a lot of effort into creating this)

[8][9] aftermath/“darkness before dawn”/struggle [10][11] recovery/“rise and conquer”/“fall”

[12] resolution/final end/cliffhanger

[front cover][interior] [interior][back cover]

——————–

My maximum per page is nine panels but I’ve seen pages that have way more. I like to have about 3 to 4 panels per row or less but I’ve seen the “rules” broken before. Advanced comic book artists manipulate time with the number of panels and the size of each panel.

remember, DIAGONALS!!! open up an issue of batman, superman, spider man, deadpool or whatever youre reading theyre everywhere.

———-

…DRAW IN THIS ORDER:

Page 12,

Page 6 and 7 (this is typically one large image that takes up the space of two pages),

Page 1,

and then the rest.

ONLY “DEVIATION” ALLOWED:

Page 12 and 1*

Page 6 and 7,

and then the rest.

*Draw the first and last page as a spread in situations where the beginning of the story mirrors the end of the story.

Cover is dead last.

———-

(If at the very end you find out you need more pages and it’s absolutely unavoidable and totally necessary you have to add them in fours. Try to stick to 12 pages for this crash course.)

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FURTHER NOTES:

Plan and draw the pages in spreads (the twos) since this is how it will appear in print and when you submit them to an editor for review guess what, the pages with an exception to the first and last will be reviewed as spreads.

You at most only need one establishing panel of the setting and environment (scene) per page.

Forget “true to life” perspective outside of the establishing panel). Practice diagonal composition of objects and subjects within panels. For dynamism.

You don’t have to present the text all in one go (one paragraph or bubble). You can and should break up paragraphs, sentences, and if you need to single out words– to make smaller, more easily managed bubbles to scatter through the panel.

Less important moments have smaller panels and or lesser detail. More details (or more word bubbles) slow down time. More drawn detail also creates a concentration of values (it’s darker and sometimes combines together as one shape or mass)

Know your light sources. Control the blacks. Control the values.

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(more coming soon 11/22/2016)