Fillers of Xade

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IOX Filler #8 Renders of Hiatus and Alex

Xade

on Feb. 23, 2009

Fillers of Xade
Daz3d If you go to daz3d and make an account please use my link, I will be able to get more models and junk.

You know when he says "Sure!" he's gonna sneak something in. ;)
Jean-Luc said it all but the benefits and drawbacks.

Benefits:
-Much faster comics. I just place, pose, render, add text and go.
-Longer comics ^_^
-With my rather large library and all that Daz can actually do, coupled with Hexagon, a 3d model maker/editor, which is another daz product, you probably will not get bored any time soon with "sameness"
-You will get to see some hand crafted models that I made, which can be imported into daz 3d.
-Fully rendered scenes make awesome wallpapers with a little photoshopping.
-Better backgrounds, with less effort on my behalf. Imagine a 3d model of Potlight that looks the way I see it with pwToon. I have a "city block" that I'll show over at FOX this week with the most popular one.
-Much better detail!
-Can easily do crowds with many models and photoshop.
-Might have time for more comics, Ive been meaning to do Trainer's story but just dont have the art skill for it. This might solve that problem. :(

Drawbacks:
-Spell and special effects might look a little out of place but I doubt it with my skill and transparencies with 3d models.
-I will have to do some photoshopping but as you can see you probably won't notice it.
-Alex's hair will be the worst thing got me to do, and I might have to resort to cheap tricks to get it to work the way I want, like using a 3d prop, specially colored like hair, when he grabs someone with it, or walks on it. or making my own hair, which I dont quite know how to do.
-I don't have many animals yet so it will be rather limited in that area until I can buy some or morph/recolor meshes some out of what few i have.
-I will have a button to daz studio on both sites.
-Some models and poses are bought with spare cash. To insure plenty of variety I might have to ask for donations more often or make the button more visible.
-its a little graphics extensive so it will slow down even my good computer, which needs replaced/updated anyhow.
-If good pc goes down the comics will still be down.
-Crossovers might be a little more bothersome, since I will most likely have to make custom models or clothing, but I show promise at doing that, so if warned well in advance then it wont effect anything.
-IOX updates will suffer for a bit as I alter the textures to fit the characters, example, bringing Alex's light fur down near his mouth instead up up by his eyes and making his hands brown. I'm working on that texture right now.

And I think that's about it. Oh yeah, the model of Alex has glasses too, it's a prop I made, based off of some that Daz 3d sells, and placed on him to make it easier to draw them because they kept coming out all weird looking.
Aired on IOX: Nov 15, 2008
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User: croxtonhas 5


-Posted on Dec 05, 2008

User: Brogan 5


HA! Funny filler today. =)
-Posted on Nov 16, 2008

User: Unigirl 5


I like panel 5 and 3 best.
And hair can be done quite easily and realistic in Photoshop, using a hair brush from a brush set called LindaBrushes (not sure where I got it from). That's how I do hair, like here: http://magic-school.smackjeeves.com/comics/494492/good-idea-2/ .

And I heard you have problems with using your font in bold. Is it possible to use it in a faux bold? (Faux bold is something that enables you to use fonts that don't have bold in bold, I've been using it all the time)
-Posted on Nov 15, 2008

User: BlkKnight 5


All the styles look the same to me.
-Posted on Nov 15, 2008

User: Toshubi 5


-Posted on Nov 15, 2008

User: ghostrunner 5


thats awesome!
-Posted on Nov 15, 2008

User: magicalmisfits 5


very nice
-Posted on Nov 15, 2008