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Skeptics and Reality is a short comic created by Michael Island demonstrating that skeptics have no concept of reality. The subject is a conversation a student and his professor have about the nature of skepticism while they walk down a college hallway and an invisible creature named “Reality” dances around them, beyond their perception, mocking them.
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428 views | June 25th, 2009 | Bookmark This Post | No Comments
Here is a render of the characters from Skeptics and Reality, the student and the professor. This isn’t exactly what they’ll look like in the finished comic, but this is their basic design.
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4,045 views | June 25th, 2009 | Bookmark This Post | No Comments
The story for Skeptics and Reality, my work-in-progress comic, takes place in only two locations at a college. It starts out in a classroom and then moves to the hallway. Here are some renders of both locations. As usual, I did the basic modeling in SketchUp and detailed everything in Carrara.
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280 views | June 18th, 2009 | Bookmark This Post | No Comments
Here’s a mockup of the basic layout for my comic, “Skeptics and Reality,” and a brief explanation of the page composition stage in creating comics and the necessity of a mockup/layout. I can’t draw so I did it the “art” in SketchUp and the layout in CorelDraw. This is basically what I expect the final product to look like.
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157 views | June 17th, 2009 | Bookmark This Post | No Comments
More on my work-in-progress comic, “Skeptics and Reality.” This time I explain the need for a script and provide the script itself to show its value to the comics creative process, even for a short comic like mine.
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