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This is one of my panels for my 3d comic strip. It depicts the process of creating the “Nyx Stew”. Which is made of potatoes carrots onion and tomato sauce (not ketchup).

This panel is showing the finished dish with the head of this creature adorned on top of it.

Originally I was going to make the comic not 3d but I changed my mind because I thought that it would look much cooler. I did not realise that it would be this difficult but the process is fun non the less.

The first photo shows the final mayor that will be placed last. I am going to cut out all of the panels to leave a thin frame which I will make thicker with some cardboard.

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This is Nyx half way through her paint job. I have decided to do it purple and white. Though that does not really show up great in the photo.

After I tried to take her out so I could make my life easier she had a slight accident but with a bit of glue and paint no one will ever need to know.

You can also see one of the antlers the other one is behind the can. it is painted gold which i then am going to add some sparkle and shine to it to make it more spectacular!

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Jellied moose nose

originating in Canada. The nose is boiled in a broth with a bunch or herbs and spices then allowed to set in a jelly.

The dish is strangely eaten cold!

This just looks disgusting. Imagine you finding this in lunch box!

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Casu Marzo

Originally created in Italy this dish is basically rotting cheese, that is eaten with a side of maggots. Which according to one source "jump when disturbed.

So what has become of this dish now?

Well it is now outlawed for obvious reasons but is still found in the black market.

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this is a practise comic page that is not yet finish.

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MAUS

This is my favourite graphic novel that was gifted to me on my birthday.

It tells the rather harrowing story of a Jewish man living through the Holocaust during the 1940s. Though it is written in a new and really inventive way.

Firstly the art style is incredible by the way it depicts the different characters. Because they show the characters as different animals. for example the Jewish people are shown as Mice and the Germans/Nazis are presented as cats. Others are: frogs, pigs and moose. and I am pretty sure that there was a dog as well.

Secondly, this is a true story about a man named Spiegelmen who is the writers father. Art is throughout the story shown going to his dads house and asking about his dads time during ww2 and the Third Reich. We also learn about Art's moms suicide in a brilliant issue where we see the struggles that the writer is feeling when writing this story. We are shown him going to therapy and talking about how guilty he is depicting this story.

And lastly the book is masterly written and thoughtful he is when telling his fathers life and how quickly it unravels when Hitler comes to power in 1933. It is also sometimes funny at times which does not seem out of place and is almost always is when they cut to the future where his father is telling the story.

I won't spoil the ending but it is one of the only books to make me cry.

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The Walking Dead

After getting shot, cop Rick Grimes wakes from a coma to find himself in the midst of a zombie apocalypse. This is a long running graphic novel series and TV show that depicts the same story along with different spinoff shows showing new characters trying to survive in the same apocalyptic world.

Robert Kirkman wrote this and then did other works like Invincible.

This has a very strange art style. If I had to have one criticism it would be that the font for the title page does not really fit the vibes of the book. It more reminds me of what I would see in a book aimed at a younger audience, but that is just my opinion.

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Sweet Tooth

Based in a post apocalyptic world, strange hybrid animal human babies are being born. Including the part deer Gus. This boy has lived his whole life in a small cabin in the middle of the woods where people are out hunting and killing hybrids.

The art is really interesting as it is a little ugly and slightly disturbing to look at. This might be because of how oddly semi real the art is. Some people aren't a huge fan of the art but you can argue that it is like this to symbolise the dark and depressing story that it is telling.

And his counterpart on the tv show is just adorable, but anyway the art is done by Jeff Limire. who is also known for working on the comics: moon knight, x-men, Green Arrow and Gideon Falls.

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CHEW

Written by John Layman "Chew" is about a man named Tony Chu who when he eats things he can see where they came from and some of their memories also known as "psychic impressions". After a mission involving a chef and 13 dead bodies the government has found out his secret and will use it whether Tony likes it or not.

When looking into this I stumbled upon a website that let's you read the first book of some graphic novels:

Read Chew #1 | Image Comics

The art design by Rob Guillory is quite dark with hardly any bright colours use to complement the fairly bleak story.

It first came out in 2009 and has released 60 novels.

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Persistence of Vision

This is why the illusion of animation works. When we see an animation at around 24 fps, our brain does not process the gaps in between the images.

When we see things the image is placed in our retina and then into our brain. Though when that thing is taken away the image remains in our brain for a millisecond before fading. This is why animation works because our brain remembers what the previous image looks like and then the other one replaces it.

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This is what the walk cycle looks before this it was cleaned up.

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NYNX (Canned)

This is Nynx!

this is her before i added the tail and placed her in the can. She is half cat, half deer. (I am yet to add the antlers).

Her front paws are based on a deer hoof:

and the back legs are based off of a cat paw:

Next, I added the hair and more texture. Along with securing the head on the body. But when I rested the tail on the side of the can which was my original idea, it was obvious that it was not attached to the body so I ended up just attaching the two.

This is it almost finished. I am yet to make the antlers, but I am going to use wire. This is because the Super Sculpy would just snap.

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I made a little gif

Using adobe animate it took about an hour and it is really small next time I will defiantly make it bigger.

this is the background. I changed the background to green and then using different colours I made a spiral.

I then added my little guy (Steve) slowly getting sucked into oblivion. Originally, he was going to be swaying from side to side, but it was more fun to do him just falling into a black hole.

Then I thought that it looked a bit pathetic so I added like a "space force" around him like it is squishing him.

And finally he has some more space dust surrounding him.

I think that I should have placed Steve closer to the middle like he is actually getting pulled inside of it.

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My Can

This is the design of what my can is going to look like:

This is the the start of my process where I created the armature of the tail, head and the body:

This is the start of my head:

This my friends idea. She is going to do a shark coming out of the tin:

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one of the most famous comic book artist is a man called Frank Miller. He is the artist for the highly acclaimed comic "The Dark Knight: Returns" and his use of colour is genius as he mainly uses black and white but places the colour in very specific places to make them stand out. mainly he colours blood, but he uses the technique on different characters as well for example the "Yellow Bastard".

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Marvel characters

Comics began to get popular in the 1930s when the new superheroes where coming out, most notably Superman and Batman.

DC started off being the main big ones producing huge sales and gaining more and more followers. Whilst Marvel was cut a little bit into the shadows.

I watched a documentary with Stan Lee talking about his time with Marvel and how he created the different characters which was fascinating. For example Spiderman was first made to be an "anti-drug superhero" which is nothing as to what it is now, how Black Panther was made to shed light on the serious lack of black representation in the superhero world and lastly Iron Man was meant to "be a response to the Vietnam War".

(I hugely recommend checking it out it's on Disney+)

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