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"Ezer, how could you have known? It's not your fault."
"It might as well have been."
Speedpaint in Photoshop. Playing around with illustration using a different kind of style I hit on last night. A scene from a project that's been gestating for a while (and which might be vaguely familiar to any who've seen "Spear", that OLLLLLLDDDDD "animatic" from years back).
For those wondering, Ezer is a Stresser, a kind of almagalm creature with bits of falconiforme thrown in, the origin of which is deeply tied to the story in question.
FA's compression made this look ass ugly. Go see the better version here: http://esda06.deviantart.com/art/Blame-181773173
"It might as well have been."
Speedpaint in Photoshop. Playing around with illustration using a different kind of style I hit on last night. A scene from a project that's been gestating for a while (and which might be vaguely familiar to any who've seen "Spear", that OLLLLLLDDDDD "animatic" from years back).
For those wondering, Ezer is a Stresser, a kind of almagalm creature with bits of falconiforme thrown in, the origin of which is deeply tied to the story in question.
FA's compression made this look ass ugly. Go see the better version here: http://esda06.deviantart.com/art/Blame-181773173
Category Artwork (Digital) / Fantasy
Species Avian (Other)
Size 1280 x 527px
File Size 99.2 kB
This actually was enough of a kick to the tailfeathers to go out and see the animatic.
As far as I see, the story seems to follow the same sort of arc as Heavy Metal did -- the Spear being the Expy for the Loc-Nar, the sapient evil object that tied the rather disparate stories together.
Absolutely love your falconmorphs, though. They, too, brought to mind a very neat story -- Ernor.
As far as I see, the story seems to follow the same sort of arc as Heavy Metal did -- the Spear being the Expy for the Loc-Nar, the sapient evil object that tied the rather disparate stories together.
Absolutely love your falconmorphs, though. They, too, brought to mind a very neat story -- Ernor.
Well, the short of it is that it was a series of viginettes, some raunchy, satirical, funny, and in one case bone-deep scary, all linked by a little green sphere called the Loc-Nar. The various protagonists all seeked to possess it, but it turned out to be something like an interstellar One Ring -- it had sentience all its own, and corrupted everything it touched.
In fact, it was the Loc-Nar that narrated the whole movie, and bookended the tales with its own perspective on things.
Heavy Metal had pretty far-reaching influence. The entire movie The Fifth Element was VERY heavily based off one of the Heavy Metal shorts. So was an entire genre of zombie apocalypse movies!
In fact, it was the Loc-Nar that narrated the whole movie, and bookended the tales with its own perspective on things.
Heavy Metal had pretty far-reaching influence. The entire movie The Fifth Element was VERY heavily based off one of the Heavy Metal shorts. So was an entire genre of zombie apocalypse movies!
Ah, well despite what you might've grasped from the animatic, it's not really like that. My storytelling skills weren't so great back then, hence the jumpiness of it and why it probably seemed like a series of vignettes rather than a connected story. Still, I should watch Heavy Metal just cuz I liked Fifth Element a lot and I would love to see how that film influenced it.
Heh. Well, actually, I did grasp that the animatic was a connected story, not a series of unconnected vinginettes. It simply looked like ALOT of time had passed over the course of the entire story, and that the spear, rather like the Loc-Nar, influenced events as they came and went.
The Heavy Metal short that inspired The Fifth Element was called Harry Canyon, about a cab driver in a dystopian future that has a mysterious woman fall into his cab. You'll see a ton of Korben Dallas in Harry.
Other shorts of note are Captain Sternn, which rumour has it inspired the Zapp Brannigan character from Futurama; B-17, the best-animated short of the movie, about a WWII bomber overrun by zombies during a mission; and Taarna, the bookend which the movie cover was illustrating.
The Heavy Metal short that inspired The Fifth Element was called Harry Canyon, about a cab driver in a dystopian future that has a mysterious woman fall into his cab. You'll see a ton of Korben Dallas in Harry.
Other shorts of note are Captain Sternn, which rumour has it inspired the Zapp Brannigan character from Futurama; B-17, the best-animated short of the movie, about a WWII bomber overrun by zombies during a mission; and Taarna, the bookend which the movie cover was illustrating.
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