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GALLERY - The Readme!
Oh, hello. How are you? I'm super, thanks for asking! This is the readme
for yet another Gallery entry from Mr Dog Productions! The new pictures
I've done are detailed below.
Fate took me approximately two hours to do, and was created in PPaint 6.4
on my luverly A1200, which has been upgradede with a CD-Rom, '030
processor, 16meg memory expansion thing, and a whole lotta lovin'. Or
Something.
Here's how I did it:
Firstly I created the old guy's head. This wasn't really too hard, and I
was lucky enough to have everything go right first time.
Next I drew in the chair. This took me a couple of attempts - human faces
are no problem, but when it comes to inanimate objects I have problems...
Next I drew in the monitors of the Fate computer. This was pretty tricky,
as perspective has never been my strong point. However, I was pretty
pleased with yer final result. The bank of controls came next - the console
looks a little barer than I'd at first intended, but, quite frankly, I
couldn't be bothered with drawing in lots of fiddly little buttons!
Almost-lastly I drew in the scenes on the monitors. These scenes were all
pretty simplistic, and didn't take me very long, although by now my mouse
was playing up and no amount of cleaning was fixing it, so I gave up for
now and went off to play Ridge Racer Type 4 for half-an-hour.
Having completed Ridge Racer Type 4 I came back to my piccy. The final
step was to do a bit of image-processing. I ran a High Blur filter over the
contents of each of the monitors, and then a Low Blur filter over the whole
picture to soften the lines. Finally, I went into Image Studio and cropped
the picture down to size. And the whole thing was finished in a little
under two hours. Sorted.
Silver Star, on the other hand, took me about ten minutes to produce using
a combination of PPaint 6.4 and Candy Factory Pro. Using PPaintI knocked
up an IFF mask, which I then loaded into Candy Factory Pro. I started by
inverting the mask, so that the foreground became to background and
vice-versa. I then applied a metal texture to the foreground, added a
bevel and a bump-map and altered the position of the light source.
This picture is included not because I'm proud of the fact that my
picture looks fabulous; I think it does look pretty cool, but it was
very easy to produce. In actual fact, that's the reason I've included
it - BECAUSE it was so easy to produce, and yet looks pretty cool. If
you want to easily produce stunning images then get Candy Factory Pro,
as it's simple and fun to use, but is capable of impressive things.
Flare isn't really a picture in its own right - in actual fact, it is a
design sheet I did for an aborted super-hero comic which was to have been
called The Formula. The idea behind The Formula was that a secret
government project exists with the agenda of creating a race of super
soldiers using a new drug. However, the Agency behind the project doesn't
want to risk testing the formula on their own men, so they decide to test
it on a group of unsuspecting teenage runaways with the idea of eliminating
them whether the project is succesful or not. The first of the teenagers to
be subjected to the drug was to have been Ricky Ramos, the character
whose design is featured here.
However, after completing this one picture, which took me a while, it
occurred to me that to produce an entire comic this way would take ages.
Therefore the project was shelved.
I'm afraid I can't remember how I created the picture because it's been
so long since I did it. There is a possibility of The Formula being
revamped, but only as a pen-and-ink comic. The style used in the picture
(which is quite unlike my usual comic style) was inspired by the work
of Humberto Ramos on the comic Crimson.
Finally, there's Golden Age. This is my very own tribute to Golden Age
comics, and features an un-named hero fighting an un-named monster in
a dimly-lit cavern. It took me about 1 hour 45 minutes to complete.
There are no fancy effects used in this image; I merely drew the
black-and-white image and then coloured the entire thing in, making
it look as flat as possible. The reason it took so long was that the
figures proved quite difficult to get right, but overall I am pleased
with the image; it has the dynamic look I wanted to achieve.
In case you need it, here's my address;
Chris Spicer
Mr Dog Productions
80 Castle Road
Weddington
Nuneaton
Warwickshire
CV10 OEW
England
Oh, by the way - if anyone can tell me what absolutely brilliant British
comic inspired the picture Fate, you'll win a special No-Prize! Can't say
fairer than that...
LEGAL STUFF
These pictures are (c) Chris Spicer 1999. Do not alter them in any way!
BUT WAIT! THERE'S MORE!
That's right! After discovering that not all of my previous submissions
were included in the gallery due to a disc error, I've decided to
re-submit the missing picture, Covert. For the Readme text for that picture,
please refer to the Gallery on AFCD 42.
Muchos gracias, mi amigos. Let's book.