Only Escape Route (22)
Last Updated (Saturday, 15 October 2011 22:24) Written by Administrator Wednesday, 29 June 2011 00:00
It's not like - MARK HAMILL's gonna see it. Is he?
Neil Baker - unpaid publicist for SWa9 - used his one opportunity to Tweet a note to Mark the other day and it went like this:
That's it - fortune awaits! Click for larger view
Probably reading a Star Wars Annual c.1978
Can you imagine if my 9 year old self had known that his hero would see the comic some day?
Fair dues to Mark - he's a good sport. The page Neil showed him was the recent 'Makeup Malfunction' one. Oo-er...
Many thanks again to Neil! Neil's finishing a major personal animation project now: Small Sacrifices, which will be hitting the festival circuit. Please check out the trailers, and enjoy the official website - the Production Gallery is very funny! but then, this is Neil Baker - right?
"...I'm here to rescue you with Han Solo."
"ARR"
"..and Chewbacca!"
"So you keep telling me!"
"Aw c'mon, I love the sound of it. Yesterday I was just a moisture farmer."
The Art of Tweaking: No Country for Big-Mouths
Today's page is a hybrid-curio. It's a very early one, but was subsequently tweaked. It must have been quite weird looking! Luke seems to have had a big tall head; we've seen a few of those: like here and here; and those odd diamond-shaped eyes. Chewie's been copied from a Star Wars Weekly Comic pull-out poster. See part of the Millennium Falcon behind his head?
It starts in green felt-tip, but then Leia and Han are drawn in biro, then pencil! Han looks like Javier Bardem in a hall of convex mirrors - or the Hulk! I later made his mouth a bit smaller in pencil. What a weird drawing! And wait - there's more: Han was dressed sans his trooper armour. How could I forget?
Whizz-Bang Animation Feature!
Have a look at the stage-by-stage animation of the drawing of Han. I think I realised my error in omitting the trooper armour before I finished drawing Han's waistcoat.
What sort of a page is this anyway? I wonder if it was originally a page with random images of Luke and Chewie at the top which was then salvaged for use in the comic. At points in my progression as an artist I'd discard old pages (God, I hate to think of it) but sometimes - it seems - I might look at an old page and think "Well, it's not totally terrible. I'll just tweak it a bit."
"It's not as if - I dunno, MARK HAMILL might look at it. Is it?"
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Comments
Thanks for the blug.
I recommend deleating all such evidence, and finding a more gullible fan base if you wish to continue this foolish venture.
Or you could stick with the time machine defense, which is at least as plausable as most "factual" news we are presented with these days.
My lawyer will be writing to you fifthwith. Time machine - time machine... yes. Lucas went via wormhole only last night - to my room in 1978, stuck up the posters while I WAS SLEEP GODDAMMIT and later my mum walked in and snapped the pic. If you had any powers of recall AT ALL... gasp - pant - puff - you would DISTINCTLY recall that the photos - until today - had no photographic SW crap in them at all.
Good day - SIR!
(nice one Tom ;)
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