Posts tagged "Atomic Robo"
  1. Notes: 14 / 12 months ago 
    And let’s not forget Tesla and Atomic Robo. XD

    And let’s not forget Tesla and Atomic Robo. XD

     
  2. Notes: 4490 / 1 year ago  from arcaneimages (originally from crookedindifference)

    crookedindifference:

    Svalbard Global Seed Vault

    A secure seedbank located on the Norwegian island of Spitsbergen near the town of Longyearbyen in the remote Arctic Svalbard archipelago, about 1,300 kilometres (810 mi) from the North Pole. The facility preserves a wide variety of plant seeds in an underground cavern. The seeds are duplicate samples, or “spare” copies, of seeds held in gene banks worldwide. The seed vault is an attempt to provide insurance against the loss of seeds in genebanks, as well as a refuge for seeds in the case of large-scale regional or global crises. The seed vault is managed under terms spelled out in a tripartite agreement between the Norwegian government, the Global Crop Diversity Trust (GCDT) and the Nordic Genetic Resource Center (NordGen).

    Rendered with precision in Atomic Robo: Ghost of Station X:

  3. Notes: 16 / 1 year ago  from swegener
    swegener: She Devil Island Lets face facts. You cannot be a totally bitchin’ air-pirate lady with a jetpack, who travels the South pacific in a flying boat converted into an air-ship, and NOT have a secret fucking island base. It’s against the rules. Some of you may note a slight resemblance to a certain hidden island base from a movie called Porco Rosso. I don’t know what you are talking about. P.S.: It was very hard not to make this island look like a giant skull.  

    swegener:

    She Devil Island

    Lets face facts. You cannot be a totally bitchin’ air-pirate lady with a jetpack, who travels the South pacific in a flying boat converted into an air-ship, and NOT have a secret fucking island base. It’s against the rules.

    Some of you may note a slight resemblance to a certain hidden island base from a movie called Porco Rosso. I don’t know what you are talking about.

    P.S.: It was very hard not to make this island look like a giant skull.  

     
  4. Notes: 10 / 1 year ago  from swegener
    swegener: Building a Robo Palette Creatively, one of the greatest things about comics is also one of the worst things about comics. The boobies. Color. It’s hard to remember this, but back in the day there were men and women who actually painted the colors on to copies of the final art and then coded them so that a printing press could reproduce it using tiny colored dots on a newsprint page. The CMYK color model is amazing: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CMYK_color_model  These days with computers we can do way more than the old funny books. But more often than not it seems to me that digital coloring gets in the way and distracts from the art and story. We are so excited by the ability to do a million things at once that we don’t ask ourselves if we should do a million things at once. Do I really need to count the pores on Steve Roger’s nose? Is that Superman flying towards the Earth? I don’t know because he’s lost in the sun’s LENS FLARE!!!  Good design is always subtractive, not additive. Great artists always strive to strip things away to let their talent shine through, while mediocre artists tend to pile on layers of unnecessary detail in an attempt to distract the viewer from their deficiencies.    Don’t believe me? Go look at some Shaker furniture. Or, to keep it within the microcosm of comic books, go count the number of awards that Dave Stewart’s won.  In my on-going attempt to raise the art bar on Atomic Robo I’ve been learning more about color theory and poking my nose more into @rleep ‘s business.  The result thus far has been several very productive meetings with my colorist and the beginnings of a Robo color bible. The group of colors at the top are selected from what I’ve been using on the Vol.7 pre-production art, and the cluster at the bottom is a palette built from my favorite pages and panels from Vol.6. It’s all still very embryonic, but it’s something that I’m very excited about. The Dark Arts of Pantone special effects inks can’t be far behind!

    swegener:

    Building a Robo Palette

    Creatively, one of the greatest things about comics is also one of the worst things about comics. The boobies. Color.

    It’s hard to remember this, but back in the day there were men and women who actually painted the colors on to copies of the final art and then coded them so that a printing press could reproduce it using tiny colored dots on a newsprint page. The CMYK color model is amazing: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CMYK_color_model 

    These days with computers we can do way more than the old funny books. But more often than not it seems to me that digital coloring gets in the way and distracts from the art and story. We are so excited by the ability to do a million things at once that we don’t ask ourselves if we should do a million things at once. Do I really need to count the pores on Steve Roger’s nose? Is that Superman flying towards the Earth? I don’t know because he’s lost in the sun’s LENS FLARE!!! 

    Good design is always subtractive, not additive. Great artists always strive to strip things away to let their talent shine through, while mediocre artists tend to pile on layers of unnecessary detail in an attempt to distract the viewer from their deficiencies.   

    Don’t believe me? Go look at some Shaker furniture. Or, to keep it within the microcosm of comic books, go count the number of awards that Dave Stewart’s won. 

    In my on-going attempt to raise the art bar on Atomic Robo I’ve been learning more about color theory and poking my nose more into @rleep ‘s business. 

    The result thus far has been several very productive meetings with my colorist and the beginnings of a Robo color bible. The group of colors at the top are selected from what I’ve been using on the Vol.7 pre-production art, and the cluster at the bottom is a palette built from my favorite pages and panels from Vol.6.

    It’s all still very embryonic, but it’s something that I’m very excited about.

    The Dark Arts of Pantone special effects inks can’t be far behind!

     
  5. Notes: 18 / 1 year ago  from swegener
    swegener: Felt compelled to do a cut-away showing a bit of the internal workings of the She Devil’s jet packs. Normally all the fans would be in line with one another, but this design uses a differential joint, rather than just ducting, to redirect the thrust. In reality this would probably put unimaginable stresses on the fan system, but hey, this is comics and I wanted that little swoop. The basic design however is modeled after a real turbofan engine. I always like a little reality in my fantasy. The name comes curtest of my wife, @doeflow11 I also felt like doodling a few submachine guns. Ernie Pyle, writing about the U.S. army in Africa in 1943, referred to a soldier’s job as “the craft of killing”. The idea of war being treated as a trade, rather than as some romantic and heroic thing, really struck me. The cheap stamped steel and relative simplicity of what would be mass produced during and shortly after WWII is very blunt and work(wo)manlike, and stands in sharp contrast to pre-war guns like the complex and expensive to manufacture Thompson submachine gun.  This idea of a weapon as a tool (like a hammer) calls back to images of Rosie The Riveter, and I think it’s something that works well with the She Devils.

    swegener:

    Felt compelled to do a cut-away showing a bit of the internal workings of the She Devil’s jet packs. Normally all the fans would be in line with one another, but this design uses a differential joint, rather than just ducting, to redirect the thrust.

    In reality this would probably put unimaginable stresses on the fan system, but hey, this is comics and I wanted that little swoop. The basic design however is modeled after a real turbofan engine. I always like a little reality in my fantasy.

    The name comes curtest of my wife, @doeflow11

    I also felt like doodling a few submachine guns. Ernie Pyle, writing about the U.S. army in Africa in 1943, referred to a soldier’s job as “the craft of killing”. The idea of war being treated as a trade, rather than as some romantic and heroic thing, really struck me. The cheap stamped steel and relative simplicity of what would be mass produced during and shortly after WWII is very blunt and work(wo)manlike, and stands in sharp contrast to pre-war guns like the complex and expensive to manufacture Thompson submachine gun. 

    This idea of a weapon as a tool (like a hammer) calls back to images of Rosie The Riveter, and I think it’s something that works well with the She Devils.

     
  6. Notes: 29 / 1 year ago  from charactermodel
    charactermodel: Atomic Robo by Scott Wegener [ Atomic Robo ] via Comic Art Gallery AKA Social Waste Product

    charactermodel:

    Atomic Robo by Scott Wegener [ Atomic Robo ]

    via Comic Art Gallery

    AKA Social Waste Product

     
  7. Notes: 4 / 1 year ago 

    Adam Warrock - I Am An Action Scientist

  8. Notes: 8 / 1 year ago  from hodgman
    ATOMIC ROBO--link fixed.

    areasofmyexpertise:

    POSTED AGAIN for the fully audience who perhaps did not follow my Saturday AM twitter-rant on the state of story in American comic books.

    And you should find Scott Wegener of Robo here.

  9. Notes: 40 / 1 year ago  from swegener

    swegener:

    Had an extreme urge to mess around on my Wacom. Still needs several layers of shading, but I’ve got actual work I need to get done. So this is what you get. :)

  10. Notes: 23 / 1 year ago  from swegener

    swegener:

    Looking for some ideas for Victorian robots in my reference files I stumbled on this pile of old Atomic Robo concept sketches. Oh man, memories! :D

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