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The story of Armand begins β¦Experimenting to see how these renders might work in a narrative format.
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MORE MORE MORE!!! lol! I really love it!
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I love it it relly looks like Armand should not like that old guy in the movie who truly confused me.
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its my favorite book out of the entire series.
so of course i dont think you made armand hot enough.
but i really love everything else!
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Hehe ... I keep the really hot pics for myself
Thanks for commenting
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You simply have to do the entire book. I am reading the book for the first time and am totally entranced by it. Please yuo have to do the entire book.
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Well ... yeah ... I've got a good deal of the first half mapped out with the major scenes, but there are copyright issues about showing them in public. Thanks for commenting.
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okay then screw the public, send it to me only, lol.
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..... O.O
Mooooooooooooorrrrrrrrrrrreeeeeeeeeee.
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Thank you! 
More are coming ...
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OK, your stuff is officially amazing!
That phrase: "not made by human hands" always makes me sad 
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Aww... Armand looks so gorgeous! It's amazing how much attention you pay to detail... his hair, his rings... Again, his face is very expressive and seems to be telling a story of its own ... eee 
Also just noticed how closely the skin resembles marble 
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Thanks again!
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It's like watching a movie! I really hope you do more!!!
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It's like watching a movie! I really hope you do more!!!
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Stained glass... ooh, I love the mood of all these pieces. How Armand -almost- fits in with the cherry wood and the rose glass with his auburn hair and wine-coloured shirt; it really helps illuminate his skin, how 'otherwordly' he is.
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Thanks ... the novel is so visual with Rice's details about clothing, surroundings, etc. that to attempt an actual visual depiction you've got to try to at least match some of all that.
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I like the overall thing, but in the three pages there's one problem: The poses look rather stiff. I'm not saying I can do better, but I think you should add a little effect to the clothes. If you examine it closely, especially at the shoulders, I think, the clothes seem to be floating around the character a little, not attached to him as gravity would make them in real.
I know it's annoying to get comments like these on a piece of work you're proud of, but I just said what's on my mind.
Maybe I shouldn't have. Now I'm guily already..
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Critical comments are always welcome as long as they are offered in a helpful light ... and yours are. Otherwise, I wouldn't post these works in a forum such as this. Now for my excuses (lol) ... As I state under Artist's Comments, this series is an experiment in narrative format and I really didnβt intend for each panel to be a stand-alone finished piece. While I donβt think they belong in my Scraps section, admittedly and probably obviously they have not been developed to full potential. I did spend quite a bit of time on post-working the clothing and other aspects of the individual panels (especially since the jacket was not originally intended for the figure mesh I used for Armand), but there came a point where it became much too time consuming for what I actually set out trying to accomplish with these β basically, seeing how these images would work in a graphic novel format. So layout, the choice of specific text from the novel to use (as well as the font), flow of the story, the overall design and probably most importantly, capturing the atmosphere of the Rice novel were the key issues I was trying to resolve with this.
For the most part, I believe I was successful with those goals I set for myself. A full graphic novel version (as opposed to a comic book version) of βThe Vampire Armandβ would require at bare minimum 200 or so pages to properly represent just the basic aspects the book. That would come out to perhaps 500 to 1,000 individual panels. Unless I could gather a team of maybe a dozen or so young and energetic apprentices to help with technical details and post-work (just like Marius in the novel β lol), I believe the most I could realistically hope for is for the βgood enoughβ point of artistic quality to be somewhere just above what Iβve accomplished with these three pages. Though I have quite a few more pages in various stages of development (and they are both fun and challenging to do), I am sill not sure if continuing with these and then attempting to acquire copyright use and marketing the results is worth the effort.
Again thank you for your comments. They are both appreciated and helpful.
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Thanks and.. um.. you're welcome
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Amazing! ecellent! i wanna more and more of this, you made me addictive to your works!! *_*
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Again, thank you! So glad you enjoyed these ... and your comments plus the faves are much appreciated.
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WELCOME!!! 
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Ah, the auburn hair, the rings... that's a real Armand! Great comic, will be very happy if you decide to post some more pages.
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Thanks much! I have quite a few more pages, but with the Rice text there are copyright issues with posting too many ... so I may at some point upload some without the text.
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The profile panel of this one, the second one, would make a nice painting
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Yes, it would ... thanks.
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All nice and good
Crazy thought though:
Now that you have it all in 3D models... Why not animate it? See what that looks like?
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It takes much, much too long. I tried a simple test (just figure, no background) and wasted a full day to get about 5 seconds of lo-res footage. It would probably be far easier to sell the concept to a studio that could handle it. And I think, just like the attempts of Anne Rice movies, it may not translate well.
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Jeez laweez...
You normal people with "real lives" :rolleyes: >_>
i mean, a ten minute video wouldn't take you more than 4 months... Hello! Show _some_ dedicatoin to your work! :gay-ish hand motion:
Jeeez!
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