Sorry about the difficulty posting today, the wifi in my dorm was acting all funny and wasn’t allowing me to connect to the internet. I got it working, however, so I guess it turned out well in the end. I have some good news: I’ve started on a sort pf mini – remaster of my part II trailer video (the one I released on halloween), and it’s looking better alread. It’ll be little details, like coloring in the bricks on the walls, or shading the character’s skin. I don’t know when it will be done though. A few people have asked me why I used Diamonds and Rust for the video: I mainly used it as it had the right sort of speed and pacing to it. Yes, I know it’s actually about a person singing about their happy memories of a former lover, but I felt it fit the upcoming mood of the comic well. Also I was asked why I used the Judas Priest cover instead of the original, and that was mainly for the electric guitar at the end, when some of the major settings of the comics were being shown.

Two more clarifications I want to make about my characters/comic: 1. The only cybernetic body part Violet has is her eyeball. She doesn’t have robotic arms or legs – They’re just prosthetics. It’s true they don’t come off, making them kind of like a robotic limb, but they aren’t like super strong or anything – they’re pretty low – tech. The comic is set technically in 2033, so maybe they’d have like actual working limbs by then, but she doesn’t have super strength or anything. Also: She still has her arms. her legs are the only fully fake parts of her body (except maybe a few fingers.)

2. The best way I can describe the way they trained without getting hurt is… well, it’s hard to explain. I didn’t show it, but the best analogy i can give is a collective dream that they are all in, created by Andromeda. Since mind control is possible, she more or less syncs up everyone’s dreams, allowing them to fight and train but not get hurt. And yes, this does mean she could mess with people’s dreams if she wanted to – but she’s a pretty nice person, so she leaves them alone. I didn’t do any real art this week, but I did take a screenshot of Davis’ mech’ from Battletech and it looks like this:

It’s called the King Crab and can utterly shred pretty much anything that gets near enough for it to shoot. It can also take a massive amount of hits (it’s tied for the most HP in the game), and is more or less completely overpowered, if you can get all the shots to hit in the same spot. (For those of you who don’t know, each mech’ has arms, legs, a torso, and a cockpit. If you focus your fire to get all your hits to damage one area, you stand a much higher chance of disabling the enemy. Destroy the torso, and the mech’ explodes. Basically if the the King crab targets the torso of your mech’, you’re probably screwed.)

Oh, and I painted it red so it would look like a crab. Because why not. I might do some artwork of it sometime.

See you guys next week.