I was really on my way to a M-W-F schedule this week, and really thought I’d do it. But Thursday I had an emergency appointment that took nearly four hours, on top of another two hour appointment I had scheduled. So I didn’t get much work done. The big problem with 3d, as I’ve said before is that setup time and rendering time can be a problem. Once the setup is done it can be great. But this next strip had a lot of setup that needed doing, and it’s only a half strip too. Since modo was being such a pain giving me out of memory errors, I had to bring my models into Lightwave and Vue 6 and redo a lot of the textures. That took a few hours to get right (next time I’ll just do it in Lightwave to begin with and not worry about it.) Then today I was busy until around 1pm and then had to spend a lot of time doing the prep work for a cityscape shot. The good news is that now that the prep work is done, my next city shot will be much easier. I still have a lot of work to do, but hopefully I’ll have the strip finished Saturday afternoon some time. If that doesn’t work (because other obligations Saturday) then you can expect it first thing Monday morning.
This next strip is the first of four that I have planned out, then I’ll be finished with Issue #5 of the comic and will work on a really cool cover poster. Once that’s finished (hopefully in a week and a half) I can put up Issue #5 on Wowio. It’s the one with all the cool 3d artwork. Speaking of which, the free pdf version of the comic on Wowio is the best way you can support Far Reaches. I get 50 cents per unique download for each book, and you get high resolution, easy to read pdf version of the comic. It’s super easy to sign up, and costs you nothing but a little time, so please consider downloading them. Here’s the link. I really appreciate the support, without which, the Far Reaches would cease to exist. Now for those of you who just really don’t want to sign up for Wowio (or can’t if you’re international) here’s the same books on Lulu.com for 99 cents each, and they except paypal. I would charge less but Lulu and Paypal have surcharges. So a big thanks to everyone who’s downloaded them and for all your support.
