Webcomic "4D Magician" at page 4

The upper picture is the 4th page of the Webcomic "4D Magician".
This tale has just started.
A showy scene has not come out yet. But the NINJA will appear soon.
Since NINJA versus MAGICIAN fighting will start soon,
the exciting scenes will be seen.

A long time ago, in Japan, magic was called "Tezuma".
In late years European and American magic is the mainstream than Japanese Tezuma.
Blue who is the hero of this tale is a high-tech magician.

And the NINJA is a globally popular Japanese superhuman secret agent.
They are masters of a sword or a Shuriken("hand hidden blade").
Moreover, they are good at witchcraft.

If a Magician fights against a Ninja, which wins ?

Webcomic authoring way

Hi, I am Shig, the webmaster of Webcomic.tv site.

I am gradually becoming accustomed to the webcomic authoring work.
I am using the following tools, in order to make a webcomic.

Modeler: Metasequoia, Lightwave3D
* Metasequoia is a japanese polygon modeler for 3DCG.
Renderer: Currara5, Poser, Vue
Retouch: Fireworks
Authoring: Flash8
Sound Edit: Sound it!

Please see the upper picture.
I am just going to stock the rendered images in the layers.
I rendered the characters and the background separately.
At the beginning, I rendered the character models in the Vue.
However, this way was not so good.
It is because the characters were not conspicuous for a background.
So I rendered the character images separately.
Of course I was cautious of lighting and shadows at that time.

Next, the above-mentioned pictures and the data of voice are read into Flash.
I made the cartoon panels, masks and some buttons in Flash layers beforehand.
And I have only to control the motions along the timeline.
At this time, an interesting animation can be expressed according to an idea.

I am still in the stage of trial and error.
When the technique of me is established,I want to write a webcomic work procedure again.
See you!

Webcomic "4D Magician" at page 3

Hi, I am Shig, the webmaster of Webcomic.tv site.

I uploaded the third page of the webcomic "4D Magician".

Making this took time very much.
It was difficult to draw the expression of his faces by 3DCG.
And I sometimes use Macromedia Flash on business,
but it is the first time to make a webcomic with Flash.
Therefore the pattern making a webcomic has not been completed yet.
I want to accustom myself to this work as soon as possible.

Next time I am going to show you my Flash authoring way.

See you !

Webcomic "4D Magician"

Hello, I'm Shig.

Today I uploaded the volume for two pages of webcomic "4D Magician".

"4D Magician" is a Multimedia comic which is integrated of several media
(e.g. text, voices, graphics, animation, interactivity).
Therefore making the webcomics are not only difficult but takes time.
But the works are pleasant for me.

I translated the dialogues into English.
But the voices have not been dubbed into English.
Because the voice actors are all Japanese.
The friend who can speak native English does not live near me.
She lives in the distance, so I cannot order it to her easily.

The completion portions of the webcomic "4D Magician" are few.
I am going to exhibit the continuations as soon as I make them.

See you!

New-type multimedia comics

Hello, I'm Shig.

I am writing my blogs in Japanese and English.
Since I am not good at English, it is not easy to write my blog in English.
I want not only the Japanese but many people of foreign countries
to see the Webcomic.tv site.

Japanese comics and animation cultures are globally famous.
But the Webcomics which I am making differ from the ordinary comics
drawn on paper.
I am making new-type multimedia comics.

The upper picture is one scene of the Webcomic "4D Magician".
A female ninja by the name of Suzume and a cat by the name of Kurota
are drawn on the picture.
It is difficult to express the delicate looks of human by 3DCG.
I am studying about the expressions now.

Of course, I am also doing the authoring work at the same time.

See you!