NODES: Web pre-production Thread

[T51R]

Upcoming artwork:

-Misha, Yuuri, Etsu and Etsuko: Wallpaper for 1280 x 768
-Obsidian, Amethyst and Amber, The Fates: First Look + profile
-Sutiki Jagaimo & Gokoku, last NODE: First Look + profile
-George & Tabitha Anaheim: First Look + profile
-Etrigan L'reau: Profile
-Exodus, Genesis, Stasis, Aranox, Rifle: First Look, profile + Garage Power profile
-Arashi Seneda: First Look + Profile + "Headbusting For Girls" dojo corporate profile
-City of Dreams streetscape + country

Seperate planes(non-City of Dreams)

-Rod Haxon & the Red Unit: First Look + corporate profile
-Drak'a'lar: First Look + profile + World
-Street 16: First Look + Profile + World/s
-Kombat: First Look + Profile + World
-Chrome Soldier: First Look + Profile
-Vetasuri & the Wolfen world: First Look + profile(Niku's pet omniverse. That regularly invades her apartment.)
-Anjia and Prema: First Look + Profie + World
-Mechna(one of Kokumotsu's Creations): World, profile, street/cityscapes, country


This isn't the end of it by a longshot; the expanse of the whole thing is pretty insane and also ecompasses the multiverses of other earlier Creations by my friends and I.

[Farealmer]

Misha, Yuuri, Etsu and Etsuko: Wallpaper for 1280 x 768
-Obsidian, Amethyst and Amber, The Fates: First Look + profile
-Sutiki Jagaimo & Gokoku, last NODE: First Look + profile
-George & Tabitha Anaheim: First Look + profile
-Etrigan L'reau: Profile
-Exodus, Genesis, Stasis, Aranox, Rifle: First Look, profile + Garage Power profile
-Arashi Seneda: First Look + Profile + "Headbusting For Girls" dojo corporate profile
-City of Dreams streetscape + country

Sweet, sounds like were going to be Livin Lavita Noda:D.

[T51R]

Bonus: the test material for the coming wallpaper:

BRING ON T3H CATGIRLS!!!! :D :D :D This is Misha, the lesbian catgirl who's constantly after Sayaka. She's a very happy person. BWAHAHAHHA....

[Farealmer]

Upcoming artwork:

-Misha, Yuuri, Etsu and Etsuko: Wallpaper for 1280 x 768
-Obsidian, Amethyst and Amber, The Fates: First Look + profile
-Sutiki Jagaimo & Gokoku, last NODE: First Look + profile
-George & Tabitha Anaheim: First Look + profile
-Etrigan L'reau: Profile
-Exodus, Genesis, Stasis, Aranox, Rifle: First Look, profile + Garage Power profile
-Arashi Seneda: First Look + Profile + "Headbusting For Girls" dojo corporate profile
-City of Dreams streetscape + country

Seperate planes(non-City of Dreams)

-Rod Haxon & the Red Unit: First Look + corporate profile
-Drak'a'lar: First Look + profile + World
-Street 16: First Look + Profile + World/s
-Kombat: First Look + Profile + World
-Chrome Soldier: First Look + Profile
-Vetasuri & the Wolfen world: First Look + profile(Niku's pet omniverse. That regularly invades her apartment.)
-Anjia and Prema: First Look + Profie + World
-Mechna(one of Kokumotsu's Creations): World, profile, street/cityscapes, country

Wait a second...NO SEICROSS :(

[T51R]

Seicross is the final character to be shown, when all the preliminary artwork is completed.

[JDogindy]

That's some cool wallpaper you made, Mech. If it's not much, can you make a promo wallpaper for Nodes:Zero that I can put on my computer?

That'd be cool.

[Farealmer]

Seicross is the final character to be shown, when all the preliminary artwork is completed.

I like that it gives him a certain mystery. I guess it's fitting since he used to be God of the City of Dreams.

[T51R]

Previously posted artwork, imported from MUGEN: Universe supplementry thread:



Inked version of sample page.



Another sample page.



Concept sketch for "Tiki."



This is Etrigan L'reau, one of the Great Mages. He's one of the few survivors of the Disark War, and hails from one of Kokumotsu's many Creations. He's a political activist campaigning something or other. [Constantly, to the extent of doing one-mage picket lines in front of KFC] He used to lead a sect of renegade Mages before the Disark War fighting for independance for their magically cloaked island nation[that also happened to be several times the size of Pangea and suspended in the upper atmosphere by magic]

He's an absolute phenom it all things magical, an excellent planner as well as being exceedingly good at preparing for bad situations. His right arm, as well as half his face were lost in a brutal fight before the D-War, against the result of a mortal race experimenting to create their own version of NODES.[and they wondered why their planet exploded]

Etrigan's home is still the Island, but these days it floats around wherever the Currents take it in the Seicross Realm. It's a place with its own unique ecosystem and indiginous species, as well as its own unique brand of wild, chaos magicks[that gets sold as souveniours after being bottled up] Of course, the place got recognised as its own sovereign state. But what it didn't have, was an economy that Etrigan keeps trying to build.

It doesn't help that his "country" meets the same fate as the SHIELD helicarrier more often than he'd like[read: gets crashed into the ocean, thrown into other dimensions, blown up, swallowed by the negative multiverse growing in its core, overrun by (giant)native fire-ants, used as a hideout for terrorists and has its own cannibal civilisation, which keeps eating the tourists] Etrigan's woes are plenty; his island is THE ultimate vacation spot, and with everything on his plate from it being pelted with Nova Rain, Niku using it for a meditative retreat, Sayeka using it as a hunting ground for men and Nod and Kansai playing with demuirgic firecrackers[and blowing it to kingdom come again] on the beach, and least of all high-school students infesting its rivers with genetically altered pihranna, you might guess Etrigan's one of the most tortured characters in the series.

[T51R]

More previous artwork:



Kanraku + Kokumotsu

Koku owns and runs the webcafe/LANgaming club in the centre of town, and Kan's the hopeless CS-addicted NODE who can't seem to shake the habit[doesn't help that he's a full time BETA-tester in his day job either] His specialty is shoot-em-ups, and he's responsible for the webcafe's staggering electrical bills.

Combat-wise Koku's a bit short on raw power[he's the machine-god who had 551 of his Creations destroyed in the Disark war, and he fought the insurgence alone, in their own Omniverse hoping to make himself the barrier between the Disark and his people] He makes up for that by drawing power straight from Kan. His strengths are his flexibility and analytical abilities, as well as being able to find the best solution for every situation. He's based on Mr. Spock[Leonard Nimoy's character because Spock was the reason I began to watch Sci-Fi, LOVED his portrayels!] and so is hardcore logical.

Kan's a bit different; he doesn't have the glitches the other NODES have, but his LAN-gaming addiction causes him to do many, many stupid things[ie. what to do when your internet crashes in the middle of the night? Try and jack someone else's, with hilarious results]



"Cute Brigade"

Arashi's the local pervert who's leaning towards pedophililia, which causes him to be sent o the hospital very often. Unfrtunately, he also runs a small martial arts academy which is only for girls. And since Niku teaches there part time, so you can imagine what happens to him.

Misha is the lesbian catgirl who's stuck on Sayaka, and her brother Atilla is the local problem child. He's spoilt, whiney, and an all-round brat. Too bad Kadachi's his substitute teacher.

Etsu and Etsuko are a pair of destitute, homeless Djinn who sell wishes to get by[how much damage can they do anyway, seeing as it's possible to blow Kansai to pieces and not harm the landscape? ] This pair of girls have it hard, and they'll have an arc dedicated to them later on about how they ended up living on the streets, and where they end up[heads up, there's somebody who's gonna have a crap ton of pissed off NODE's trying to squeeze their way into their Omniversal Creation]



Finished Niku's Angel. Here's Iida, the latest-gen Angel. She's the same as her host, and a completely new evolution on Miso's design. Like Niku she's faster, stronger, more capable and a whole lot more lethal than her predecessor. And like her host, she also has a problem: she's got ADHD; Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder.



Concept drawing + colours for Niku. Her armour design is changed for production version of NODES: Web

She's bloody random, and has an extreme glitch: she's got OCD. Unfortunately for everyone else, she's the last active NODE unit left. Which means she's technically the only "God-Killer" left in existance. She's also an EX-U, or EXperimental Unit that incorporates pretty much the epitome of the rest of the unit's systems making her the most powerful NODE unit built to date.

WHich is bad news. Since she tends to do things that are completely retarded for no apparent reason. Combat wise she's normal, but the rest of her life...hoo boy. If you think Nudoru and Kansai cause their neighbourhood to be unlivable, it does help[a bit] to know that Niku's a city girl. Because she's even worse.

And you might notice, she has a crap-ton of Runes at her disposal.

Personality wise she's one of the extremely sociable char's, and she's really nice in person. But when her OCD hits...expect PAIN. ie. I have ascene planned where she literally headbutts Kansai though a planet.

[T51R]

The concept sketch for Sayaka:



Brief bio:

Production run #: 02 [yup, she was hot off the bio-forge after Nudoru was built]

Job: Magazine assistant editor[yup, she edits high-zoot magazines which have nothing to do wth pr0n]

Personality: Bubbly and friendly, but thanks to her programming[wich she can't really control too well] she's prone to bouts of ultra-violence.(Guess who's usually on the recieveing end.)

Lives: Townhouse across the road

Angel: Kosei [mutation unit]

Drives: Mini Cooper S

Favourite food: Three-cheese lasagne[on the NODES Plae, it is impossible to open a packet of this without getting assaulted by Sayaka and having your food stolen]

Claim to fame: NODE posessing the laziest Angel ever

Issues: tends to get hit by things, and tends to hit things as well[being a woman driver, you can imagine the chaos she causes. And another problem? She's addicted to extreme sports; ie. BASE jumps into a truck full of explosives, gets bird-strike through her helmet while riding her bike, plane crashes into the airport where she's standing, etc etc etc]

Story: The second NODE to be built, Sayaka's one of the more sensible[read: NORMAL] ones who's more of a victim of circumstance. She retired along with the rest of them, but unfortunately she ended up living right across the road from Nudoru and Kansai. And yes, the two of them generally drive her insane with their antics[hence leading to periods of ultra-violence] Other than that, she does get along well with everyone else. Kosei generally lives on her couch and refuses to move. This leads to her trying to summon her back-up, but failing miserably. Usually leads to Kosei getting the crap kicked out of him when she comes home.

Skills: Cooking, writing[obviously] housekeeping[she lives alone; every man who enters her house gets attacked by Kosei, incl. the mailman] Karaoke, knitting, multiversal fabric repair, mechanics specialising in engines using Demuirgic Pulse Detonation, and misc. other shit.

Fighting style: Capoeira/Wing Chun

Capabilities: One of the best theta-taskers built, she can support a simultaneous offensive across a record high of 30,271 disparate omniverses without needing tangents between them. Thus far, no upper limit has been established for her offensive capabilities. Defensively, she has withstood heavy-offensive type bombardment by other NODE units while unshielded[read: Kansai trying to dig his yard up to put in a swimming pool and throwing five separate multiverses filled with anti-matter through her window by mistake. You prolly know what she did to him shortly after.] Her Angel Kosei is pretty much perfectly matched to her, as long as he isnt stoning; Kosei has much more offensive power than Miso, but lacks defensively because of his mutations; he doesn't have Miso's techo-organic/energy wings. Sayaka has the total standard package that a NODE unit gets when it comes to being equipped, however she picks her weapons and sticks to what would work with a scenario for minimal damage. Kosei just nukes the whole place flat even before she starts up[read: more violence]

Uniform colours:

Coat: red
Tank top: white
Miniskirt: White
Unitard underlayer/armour: metallic
Straps: black

Hair: blonde
Skin: fake tan

Friends: Hangs out with the three man-hating Fates on Friday nights, tries time and again to get a boyfriend. However, since Kosei bites every guy whe brings home...you can imagine what her life is like! Adding to her distress, Kosei pops out of nowhere to attack her dates! The only one successful date she had was when Obsidian[one of the Fates] clubbed the holy hell out of Kosei in a straight fight then sealed him in the multiverse within his own chest. Hangs out after work with the rest of her colleagues, but tries not to bring them to the neighbourhood since the goofballs next door will prolly do somthing stupid and cause them to go to hospital. Her closest friend is Misha, a lesbian anthro cat-girl who keeps trying to get into Sayaka's pants[how this friendship kept going for the last few billion years is anyone's guess LMAO] As a side-note, Kadachi keeps trying to get Misha to go out with him but keeps getting clawed to death, or beaten to death by Sayaka.

Her Editor keeps hitting on her, but when she hits back...he usually ends up in another dimension filled with wierd and/or painful things[ie. dimension of cactus, dimension of poisonous jellyfish, or the worst...Blue Oyster Dimension...aka GAYLAND!!]

One guy she has her eye on is Corinth, a later-run NODE who has things pretty together. Unfortunately, he's allergic to her cooties, whih makes things complicated since he also has sudden-death syndrome.

Kosei: One of the more unique angels[besides being lazy, and a stoner who sucks bongs whenever he can] he is a living rune given form by Seicross[making him one of the most powerful Angels attached to a NODE] His wings are skeletal bone with webs trailing between them, talks normally and DOESN'T have a case of tongues. Usually speaks like a person who's high[think Afroman] Has a second maw in his chest which houses a multiverse of infinite Genesis energy sealed in it, that he uses to feed his offensives. He has no eyes, but the lines on his body are the same runic symbol that he was created from. He does talk a lot, which results in both his mouths being taped shut.

Other: She doesn't die, but ends up in hospital and in bandages very often[especially during the Beach Trip arc, where she goes for a swim and gets hit by a nuclear sub, followed by an oil tanker] She tries to pimp almost everyone's ride, causing plenty of out-of-control projectiles. She's in competition with the five guys[mechs] at the local garage, and they end up creating things that would make West Coast Customs throw up more often than not.



Nudoru Kaarage and LONC's Original Character, Zarabeth(height referrence)



All comments welcome

[T51R]

Upcoming artwork:

-Misha, Yuuri, Etsu and Etsuko: Wallpaper for 1280 x 768 DONE
-Obsidian, Amethyst and Amber, The Fates: First Look + profile
-Sutiki Jagaimo & Gokoku, last NODE: First Look + profile
-George & Tabitha Anaheim: First Look + profile
-Etrigan L'reau: Profile
-Exodus, Genesis, Stasis, Aranox, Rifle: First Look, profile + Garage Power profile
-Arashi Seneda: First Look + Profile + "Headbusting For Girls" dojo corporate profile
-City of Dreams streetscape + country
-Dr. Thrash Edwards, Mizuno and Danielle Edwards: Anthromorphic community, First Look, CycleWorks corporate profile
-BoxMan: First Look + Profile
-Theonia, Etrigan's Island

Seperate planes(non-City of Dreams)

-Rod Haxon & the Red Unit: First Look + corporate profile
-Drak'a'lar: First Look + profile + World
-Street 16: First Look + Profile + World/s
-Kombat: First Look + Profile + World
-Chrome Soldier: First Look + Profile
-Vetasuri & the Wolfen world: First Look + profile(Niku's pet omniverse. That regularly invades her apartment.)
-Anjia and Prema: First Look + Profie + World
-Mechna(one of Kokumotsu's Creations): World, profile, street/cityscapes, country
-Disark Lords
-Homonpheu, Disark High Lord
-Disark dimensional ships
-Trafalgar-class Red Unit transveral vessels(Destroyers)
-Icthyon, First Look + profile
-"Dark Demon," First Look + Phantom Entity species profile
-Project X & Y, First Look + profiles
-Vaughnn, First Look + Profile
-Tachyon-series orbital defense Entities(NODE clones)
-Upsilon-series parameter defense entities(NODE clones)



Final:

"Seicross" ~ First Look, Profile, Fax of Doom.




UPDATED.

[quddusaliquddus]

T51R. Im completely new comics but i still desperately want to create my own comic. Have you got any tips on how to learn to draw or anything else? I ask you coz your work is amazing. I look forward to seeing more of your material!

[JDogindy]

T51R. Im completely new comics but i still desperately want to create my own comic. Have you got any tips on how to learn to draw or anything else? I ask you coz your work is amazing. I look forward to seeing more of your material!

Well, I'm the guy he has helped out the most. He basically taught me how to improve my artwork and storywork, and he's usually impressed by the way I have advanced myself.

I think he might PM you a few pointers.

[T51R]

T51R. Im completely new comics but i still desperately want to create my own comic. Have you got any tips on how to learn to draw or anything else? I ask you coz your work is amazing. I look forward to seeing more of your material!

Sup bro, and thank you very much for your comments.

Well, I think that good artwork is somewhat necessary, but the most important thing is being original in your characters and story. Look at many good webcomics these days:

1.TwoKinds
2.Inverloch
3.Earthsong

We don't have people like Superman or Batman in them, but what we do have are the most important things and incredibly good storytelling fudamentals:

• Endearing and memorable characters with distinct personalities and traits
• A very well thought out context(world) and great attention to detail when describing it
• Excellent, DEEP storylines that revolve around both the characters and context
• Great character dyamics and interaction

IMHO these are the core values to any good story.

As for generating artwork, well, it only takes practice. Look at JDog, he's made some incredible progress with his art since we started writing MUGEN: Universe. He used to draw these gumby-type figures, and now his characters have form, shape, pose and musculature(he's getting better at this too!)

The best way to start is to get drawing. Grab a ream of A3 copier paper, a big clip, a few "H" and "B" pencils(you can buy them in kits, Steadler is fine to start off) and a kneadable eraser. Look at anatomy and how the pro's draw bodies and faces. Know which genre you want to draw; I can draw traditional "comics" style, but now I'm learning the simplified "manga/anime" style. I'd pick the traditional "comics" style first because it emphasizes the fundamentals of figure-drawing strongly. Manga/anime is a more "free" form, and learning the more illustration-type form first is very important in order to be able to stylize and abstract better in the future.

Hope that helped! :)

Edit: Oh yer, JDog since you mentioned it, how are you coming with your latest works? I'm very interested to see how you've improved!:)

[quddusaliquddus]

Thank You! I think I'll copy and paste your comments into notepad for future reference :D