It's Sunday again, and it seems like forever since I've had a chance to really put some time into some art even though it actually hasn't been that long.
Today I'm resharing one of my all time favorite share's here on Hive for the first time and in OCA for the first time. Last time I posted this was on Steem and Communities didn't exist yet so it's sort of like a first.
I'm also going to be trying out the new @reward.app project that you can read about here and here.
It's still in the experimental stages so I'll sign up to be a guinea pig for it.
So for all who don't know, many years ago I did a Kickstarter for a motion comic that was successfully funded. A lot happened, but I was working on it exclusively for about 8 months before I ran out of money and had to wrap the whole thing up. This is a bunch of the work from that project.
The story was a combination of sci-fi and post apocalyptic zombie. I hadn't seen a story where there was a zombie breakout in the future. The world was similar to the world in the movie "Elysium" where you have a few mega wealthy people living on a space station and the rest of humanity is an over crowded mega cities.
This is where the 1% hang out. Since we bought Hive, we live here too.
The main character is Jason, a pizza delivery drone operator that ends up having to deliver a pizza one night the old fashioned way when his drone breaks down on Halloween. While he's out he runs into an old friend and has that awkward moment where he's embarrassed at where he's at in life.
Then all hell breaks loose.
This was just about a 100% solo project when it comes to the artwork. @klumsyk helped out with a few concepts at one point but all the final artwork was done by me. It...was a lot of work. I really gained an appreciation for artists that COMPLETE solo projects like this and I learned a lot by working on it.
Behind the scenes there was a ton of pre-production work. I had a vague idea of this world, of the characters and props, but all that stuff had to be totally fleshed out. The following is some of the art that I have to do before I make the art. The design phase.
If Hive ever moons bigtime and I don't have to worry about paying bills anymore, I'd totally pick this back up or do something similar with a different story. Maybe have help this time because the burn out was real working on this. Hope it doesn't break your browser!
Throwback post of my "Past Away" motion comic project. Gone but not forgotten 😅 Also I've been seeing #NobodyArtistClub going around and I'd say I qualify. https://t.co/MD4yvBhLkL
— midlet (@c_middlet) July 13, 2020
In the @onchainart community on #HIVE you can earn just for posting your artwork. #hiveisalive pic.twitter.com/wRyy9L0JdU