My last set of posts was a personal history of computer-generated comic book illustration. Writing those blogs got me excited about CGI (computer generated imagery) again, and I’ve spent the last two weeks organizing and restoring my library of 3D models. I’ve had this image Read More …
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Comics and Computers, Part 3: Poser, Daz, and Lightwave
When I saw the ads for the first Poser software package, I was thrilled. Here was a program that produced posable 3d human figures. I bought the first version when it came out. In those days, the human figures it generated were fairly primitive. Those Read More …
Comics and Computers, Part 2: Strata and 3D Art
Just as I was starting my first college teaching job, I bought a Macintosh Centris and some illustration software. A brochure came in the mail advertising a software package called Strata Studio Pro, and I saw pictures from Marco Patrito’s digital graphic novel, Sinkha, and Read More …
Computers and Comics, Part 1: The First PCs
I thought it might be fun to dig through my archives and reflect on the way technology has changed since my first efforts to create computer-generated comics. When the first personal computers came out, everybody was saying they were the wave of the future. I bought Read More …
A New Year
Welcome back, everyone! I’ve been taking a break for the past week or so to gear up for another big year. This was a productive break. I finished most of the revisions on Season Out of Time, did some work on Intrepid Force III, and Read More …
An Original Christmas Story: The Foolish Gifts
What if Santa Claus could really bring you everything you wanted? When I was in graduate school, my friend Stan and I were both going to write stories based on that premise. Mine turned out to be something different than what we discussed, and I Read More …
Christmas Nostalgia: Action Figures
Who ever thought of calling them action figures instead of dolls? As a marketing professor, I can appreciate the wisdom in that choice since the word doll had become associated with properties like Barbie and Baby Tender Love and boys are sensitive about their masculine Read More …
Christmas Nostalgia: Decades of Cool Toys
For today’s post, I thought it would be fun to look up ads for some of the cool toys I remember from decades past. Those of you who were born in the 1980s might remember the Mighty Max playsets. I used to give them to Read More …
Christmas Nostalgia: A Christmas Carol, Part 2
In yesterday’s post, I introduced you to three retellings of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol. All of them, I thought, were straight retellings. Today I wanted to look at some of the more colorful versions. One of the artistically creative versions was released by Disney. Read More …
Christmas Nostalgia: A Christmas Carol, Pt. 1
One of my personal Christmas traditions is to watch a few versions of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol. My first acquaintance with Dickens’ Christmas classic was this cartoon which was produced in 1969. It was produced by API productions for CBS television’s Famous Classic Tales. Read More …