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TimestretchArt,Music,Girls,and Good Times...

Dubstep Artist Deadmau5

in a New LightSee the three page article on

the electronica artist

including images

of his new look.

EXCLUSIVEA sneek preview of the latest,

up and coming Graphic Novel

OUR WAR GAME

Ryan Bedillion


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CRAFT: Another reason I feel this piece is

stronger than the rst one is what I learned about

the making a piece like this. Its still done using

Adobe Illustrator and the pen tool. From doing the

rst piece and then seeing everyones in class

I knew I had to step it up a notch. I knew that if

I zoomed in close enough I would see an array

of different colors but in my rst attempt I only

translated the ones I felt dened the form. On

this, my second attempt, I translated every one I

possibly could and I instantly noticed a difference.

Areas of the body just popped more than beforeand a whole new level of depth opened up. Now

the original image wasnt very large so I know

there were probably more details I could have

gotten if the picture was a higher resolution. It

doesnt really worry me, though, because I feel itturned out perfectly. The attention to the craft also

allowed for a sense of texture on certain areas.

The color and shading on the top allude to the

material its made of, a tight, stretchy material.

The skirt appears frilly and lacy for the same

reasons.

COMPOSITION: I chose this image because

the composition was more focused on the

person in the foreground. The angle is much

more interesting as well and the way its set

up breaks up the space much more evenly.

The piece has an over all gray, muted tone

but the many bright colors in the clothes add

a new level of visual weight to the work. Like

any portrait piece if the gure has eyes you're

immediately drawn to them. It's no different in

this case but right away your eyes jump to the

strong areas of color. This is good becausethey make up the majority of the body and open

up the rest of the body and the level of detail

in it. I 'm actually pleased with the simplicity of

the background cause it doesn't take away any

attention from the main focus, the girl. It has it's

own set of angles that completely contrast the

gures though still adding to the strength of thecomposition over all.

CONCEPT: The concept for both pieces, the

rst and this one, is the same they are pictures

of my girlfriend. I think this one tells a better

narrative though. I can think of many different

stories to go along with this piece just based

on how she's dressed, the area the picture was

taken in, and the over all muted, grimy tone

of the piece. She told me the picture was take

when she went to the Pride parade one year

and that's why she was dressed so colorfully.

Knowing that it takes place in the city only addsanother dimension to the narrative of the piece

because personally I think a city/suburban

setting makes for a more interesting backdrop.

I like to think of this image in a more fantasy

sort of way, maybe a poster for some postapocalyptic suburban wasteland based on the

erratic clothing, the worn pavement, and the

muted feel...and that's on the extreme end if

ones looking to get really crazy with the story.


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These are eight variations of the trace project

we started two weeks ago in Adobe Illustrator.

These were modied in the same software.

I First decided to play with a stroke on all the

layers. I must have gone through almost all of

them trying different weights and colors but

none were really jumping out at me. The two I

decided to go for were basic ones but i felt they

had the best effect on the image.

Second I began changing up the colors. I fo-

cused only on the gure for this, its the center of

the piece and I think it helps conceptually.

I did a monochromatic one rst using

blues but specically paler blues from th

cool colors guide. The piece already ha

a cool feel to me cause it was mostly in

shadow so this I feel really accented tha

For the other one I went completely out

the norm and used some inspiration fro

the Joker. The colors clash, its very un-

natural, and its radically different.

Finally I stroked the colored images wit

the strokes I chose in the rst part. They

added a little bit of style to the pieces bu

feel it is all about the colored ones.

...some inspiration from

the Joker.


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I wasnt very pleased with my line

drawings in this class so I decided to keep

making shape drawings. I like the construction

process of these types of works and the

variations and effects you can get are endless.

For this shape study I found a picture

of the dubstep/electronic artist Deadmau5

performing and traced it in Adobe Illustrator

CS. Part of the fun of constructing this image

was all of the straight lines. The precision in

the spacing and thickness of each perfectly

straight line makes the piece some calculated.

Compositionally its nearly symmetrical as well,adding to the technologic tone.

It also made doing the piece quicker and

allowed for very interesting variations which

we will see later on. Another thing that really

helped bring this image to life was the colors.

The shades of blue mixed with the

black is just such a powerful combination.

The lines on the booth are probbably the

rst thing the eye is drawn to. They seem to

actually glow in the photograph even though

its a still from

a concert.

The image also has multiple colored

light sources which, in turn, accent the lightareas with the really dense black areas. I

will admit I didnt include the lights on theback walls but i still think the effect is there. It

makes the piece look even more stylistic and

thats what I was going for as opposed to my

rst trace piece, which was more realistic.

Conceptually, everything about the

piece just screams electronic. It does so

much justice to the music genre that its

easy to see why Deadmau5 is so popular

right now. The blue glowing lines on the

black booth are a call back to the movie Tron and its computer world. That movie is also

why those symbols are so associated with

computers and technology and electronics in

the rst place.

Since electronic concerts dont

feature a band and instruments, they rely

heavily on the stage performance. Thisincludes things like the lighting and props to

set the overall mood for the show. Everything

has to really accent the music or else it might

as well just be some guy behind a Mac Book

messing around in garage band.

I feel that is the over all conceptual

design behind this piece, tio accent the

music and the artist. The crisp lines, the

bright colors and the heavy darks give

you the feel of being at the show and

experiencing the intensity of the lights andsounds.

imageby: onlythetribe.com


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These are the rst set of variations ofthe Deadmau5 piece. I focused on the stroke

more than anything in this group to try and

make a connection between the image and

the music. I wanted it to like like sound waves

vibrating outward from the booth. In music of

this genre there is usually a bass drop, a part

of the song where the artist drops in a new,

heavier bass line that rattles the speakers

and the listener. I decided to try and recreate

that as something you can actually see.

The piece featured above is probably

the most conventional attempts of this

concept. The lines are outlined by thinnerlines that follow the origin perfectly. They

spread out evenly from the main lines as

well. Together these to elements make the

image appear to shake and vibrate like sound

waves.

For the piece at the top of the

second page I decided to move away fromthe perfection. In dubstep the sounds are

abstract and raw, the power of the bass

almost feels as heavy as it sounds. The

strokes here are random, the lines go from

thick to thin, just like the sounds in the music.

What I like most about this piece is the the

dense grouping of lines on either side of the

gure. The strokes follow the shape of the

spotlights in the original piece. This makes

it appear as though the sound is actually

erupting from the booth.

In the nal image at the bottom of the

second page is almost a combination of both,

its slightly perfected but is still very abstract.

The gold lines look more like wires than

soundwaves and in some cases a grid. This

works because, again it accents the idea ofthe electronics and computers with the wire

motif. The grid lines allude to the idea of an

art piece, planned for perfection. at the sametime it has the same repetitive lines that

the rst piece had, and just like that piece it

vibrates like sound waves.

All and all I feel these pieces are

good examples of the intended concept and

the message is recieved loud and clear.

...a connection

between the image and

the music...


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Lights Drop

These are the second set of variationsfor the Deadmau5 piece. In these I wanted to

focus on color and and its intensity. Keeping

up with the theme of relating the music to

the image, I decided to try and recreate the

signiture lighting of an electronic concert.

In the rst image I decided to

completely change the color scheme from blue

to red. In shows that feature this genre of music

the lights often do change color with the music

and especially from one saturated color to the

next. I wanted to create the feeling that the

song just changed and the lights changed with

it or the lights are ashing with the beat. This

basically gave me a whole new image and a

whole different concept to try and work with.

In the piece on the top of the next pageI created an effect that was intended to make

the lights appear as if they are glowing. The

lighting often changes in intensity as well as

in color with the sound. I knew I had to try and

make the lights look like they were glowing so I

added a blur effect to the shapes and adjusted

the levels until I felt it looked convincing.

The nal piece is where I went

abstract. at a concert, whether it be electronic

or a rock concert, when the beat gets really

crazy or a the guitarist does a very intense riff

or solo, the lights will ash chaotically and you

just know the crowd will be going crazy. The

used a very thick strock on key parts of the

piece and made them white to give an extreme

contrast in tone to what the piece started out

as. It gives the feel of the music speeding upand getting to the very intense verse. It wasintended to look as though a photograph was

taken just as the lights ashed.

This whole study I feel was a great

success. If you are familiar with Deadmau5

or music like his or just really love music, I

think you will be able to make the connections

between the image and the sound.

... the lights willflash chaotically

and you just know thecrowd will be going

crazy...


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For my next shape/trace project I

decided to use one of my all time favorite

accessories, Beats headphones. Beats by

Dre are, in my opinion, some of the greatest

headphones out there. Not only is the sound

quality amazing, but the design itself is a work

of art.

The sleek exterior of the headphonescoupled with the wide variety of bright colors

make them out to be an artists dream. from

the moment I saw them I had to have them

and now it only felt right to do a piece on

them.

I wanted to give this section a

catelogue feel, like you were shopping for

them in a magazine. I did the preliminary

image; I chose orange because I think its

the coolest color for the headphones. The

material of the headphones picks up great

highlights so it was an interesting experience

to try and replicate the plastic texture. I feel it

translates well here.

I tried them out on both a white and

black background for displaying them in this

spread. i feel the black is stronger not onlybecause of the layout of the magazine but

because it accents the vibrant colors of the

headphones better.

The headphones to me are more than

just accessories, they are works of art. Its a

theme that Ive been in love with for a longtime, the mixing of art and music, and I feel

these are a great example of this.

image by: beatsbydre.com image by: beatsbydre.com


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This next spread is devoted todisplaying some of the color options

Beats has available. I chose the

most popular colors they have on the

market, but these are far from the only

ones they have.

Not only do they mix and

match colors such as the LA Lakers

purple and yellow but they allow

customers to custom make their

own pair on the website, making the

combinations almost endless.

Making all these color

changes was quite simple in AdobeIllustrator, the program pretty much

color matches for you. It can nd the

exact tint or shade of a color as well

as the one of a different color of the

same saturation, its pretty cool.

On the next page I have taken theliberty of also showing the Monster and

Beats logos. Both of these are displayed

on the headphones and, to me, are very

sheek powerful logos.

They are styilized and unique but

highly recognizable.

Monster Logo

Beats Logo


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In this section, I decided tohave some un. I wanted to really showhow the colors dene the product, soI stripped them down to basic shapes.Much like in the iTunes advertisments,

the simplicity and vibrance o the colorsmake them pleasing to look at.I tried a ew diferent variations

amongst the colors, adding and takingaway diferent pieces to try and get t hemto look basic yet recignizable. I oundthat leaving in a ew key highlights aswell as certain areas o colors make

the heaphones identiable but still leavethe creative concept in place. I also reallylike the spectrum efect i got rom these

variations. Its an interesting concept andwould denitly be worth exploring more i I

had all these diferent colored headphones.I will settle or t his or now though.

it shows a basic transition between colors,as well as hints at the realationship owarmer and cooler colors. In my personalopinion I eel the orange variation turnedout the best.

...the simplicity andvibrance of the colors

make them pleasing tolook at...


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Our War Game is a graphic novel I

have been working on for a very long time

now and I feel this magazine is a great way

to introduce it and my plans for it.I also want to use this magazine

to bundle my entire approach to senior

seminar in terms of craft into one piece. I

plan on using my hand drawn art coupled

with Adobe Illustrator and Adobe InDesign

to create a complete arc of this overall story.

I will have full pages illustrated and printed

using InDesign to for the page layouts and

Illustrator to convert my hand drawn pages to

there nal stage.

That being said this magazine will

contain those three key elements all in one.

The layout of the magazine will show my

understanding of page layout and book

design, the trace projects will show my

accuracy of recreating an image in Illustrator,

and of course the handrawn art to give

readers an idea of what they will be seeing.

Im also going to use this and the

next few spreads to introduce readers to the

overall plot and the main characters of thestory.

Our War Game is a story I came up

with around the time I was thirteen and have

been honing it every since. The story follows

a teenage boy named Simon Stryker, a social

outcast who has become more and more fed

up with the view of the world presented to

him.

After an unfortunate accident,

Simon is taken by God to a different world

where it is revealed that his true purpose

in life has always been to help protect that

world from the hands of Lucifer. He is given

godlike powers to defend the realm from

evil, which among other things include

hyper-rejuvination, hightened stamina, and

increased strength.

Simon ends up working for The

Queen of Hearts secret service, an elite

special task force assigned to the mosthostile cases. The team starts small but

grows to a total number of six.

Alice, a mysterious girl with no past,leads the team and is an exquiste marksman

and trained assassin .

Bunny, a rabbit/human hybrid, is

arguably the fastest living creature in all the

land. She has an acute sense of hearing as

well as powerful legs she uses for running at

superhuman speeds and her ghting style

which includes only different kicks.

Jack McCallister is a con artist and

human/end hybrid, a race that is highly

frowned upon. He is incredibly smart,

boasting an almost unrecordable IQ. He is

also quite gifted with a knife, which is his

weapon of choice in a ght.Cammy is a genie set free by Simo

during a mission. He prison was actually

a chinese style lantern and leads her

appearence and ghting style to be closely

related to a ninja. He new freedom placed

restrictions on her powers, so she cant do

everything she used to.

Finally, Remmington Lasher, an

ex-convict and accused murderer. He is a

gifted musician and his guitar has the abilit

to transform into a battle axe. He also has

a condition in which his emotions effect his

strength.

Together, this elite squad is assign

the task with stopping deadly criminals wh

set out to destroy the kingdom. Eventually

they begin to notice corruption in the

government and soon are forced to choose

between living a lie or being hunted. All the

while, God is watching as the master plan

unfolds around the unknowing players inwhat turns out to be the war to end the wor


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1) Simon Stryker

2) Alice

3) Bunny

4) Jack McCallister

5) Cammy

6) Remmington Lasher


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Simon Stryker, high school senior and the

main protagonist of the story. Simon is an American

born teenager who was forced to move to Japan to

live with his father and to keep him out of anymore

trouble with the law.

Through out his whole life he has slowly

felt his sense of belonging dwindling and a growing

disgust in the way people behave to try and t in.

One day when coming home from school, he was

jumped by some kids from school. After a struggle

he was fatally stabbed and left to die but instead

was taken, body and soul, by God to another world.

In this world Simon was told he would nd

his true purpose, to ght as a warrior of heaven in

a seemingly never ending war against the devil.

The world he was transported to is a place where

anything and everything is possible and thus the

winner of the war there will be the ruler of all worlds.

To contend with the forces of evil Yahweh

gives Simon a piece of its power and an elementof nature, the power over the darkness itself. With

this he has becaome almost superhuman, his body

being able to heal rapidly and his stamine able tolast longer. He also has greater physical strength.

The unique feature to his power is the ability to

absorb others strength like a consuming shadow.

This makes his strength ever increasing and the list

of abilities he can possess nearly endless.

The claw on Simons right arm is his

other main weapon. It manifests itself from the

stone that became embedded in his hand. Its a

stone formed from forbidden alchemy and, when

activated, generates a liquid metal. This metal coats

to anything and hardens onto it, becoming almost

indestructable. Since it becomes a part of Simons

body he learns to manipulate the metal, causing it to

take on new forms.

Simon is headstrong and sarcastic but with

a strong sense of justice. Much of the trouble he

used to get into was ghting for what he thought was

right and standing up to people who would terrorizeothers. He will jump head rst into the fray without

thinking twice. Hes known to take a beating, and

hasnt backed down unless he was dragged away or

knocked out.

Finally having been given a purpose, he is

quick to except his new life and act on any situation

simply because he knows he is stronger. He soon

realizes though that the world is far from supercialand his actions have consequences that sometimes

do more harm than good. Before his time is up

he will have watched the world reach the brink of

disaster twice and then nally be pushed over the

edge. And when that happens, all eyes will be on

him.

i came up with the concept for this chara

when I was around thirteen or fourteen years old

since then his design has grown substantially in

every way imaginable. He changed with some

trends I would see in high school that I thought

would work well for him.

I gured he would wear something that

only a cartoon character could pull off and not ge

laughed at. His dark clothes are metaphorical for

this whole theme of darkness that follows him wh

ever he goes. He will constantly struggle with his

inner demons throughout the story and be pulled

between the light of Heaven and the darkness of

Hell.

This is his most recent rendition and I thi

its right where it needs to be. I did this with penci

and markers on a sheet of 8 1/2 by 11 paper. His

proportions are accurate which is something I ha

trouble with when I was younger and he actually

on the whole page another thing I had a problemdoing back in the day.

This is simply meant to be a concept art,

hes in a pose that has some action to it whileshowing of all of his physical features. You get to

see how detailed his clothes are as well as his cla

The colors are a little cliche but at the sametime I

was in high school when this color combination to

off so it kind of just stuck with me. I think it works

him, though, once again accenting that evil side h

keeps buried inside.


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Alice is the original memeber and leader

of Her Majestys Secret Service. She doesnt

have any knowledge of her past up until she was

about seven or eight when she was taken in by

an elderly couple. The only reason she knows her

name is Alice is becasue it is tattooed to her body,

but not her last name. She would come to call the

couple her grandparents but never took their lastname as her own.

Her grandparents were close to the

Queen and soon she took an interest in young

Alice and her intriguing story. She even paid for

her to go to a high end private school to study law

enforcement and ballistic science. When Alice

graduated she was ggiven the honor to protect the

Queen as her personal bodyguard.

When the crime rate spiked in the Realm

of Hearts and criminals became increasingly

more powerful for the normal ofcers to handle,

Alice was promoted to a head of a new division; a

division of special agents that were allowed to go

places and do things that other memebers of the

law could not. She had become an assassin.Alice is a highly skilled marksman. Her

shots more likely than not will always hit their

marks. Her main weapons of choice are two

very intimidating looking handguns. One is a

semi-automatic that can hold twelve rounds and

is made of a gold alloy. The second one is alsogolden in appearence. It is a modied magnum

that has two barrels and can re them one at a

time or at the same time.

The guns are special two her, she had

them both on her when she was taken in by her

grandparents and each also has an A etched

into the handle, making her wonder if they

belonged to her before she can recall. She also

carries double barrel shotguns and explosives on

her at all times.

Alice is a very authoritative person and

loyal to the Queen. She follows orders blindly

and carries them out to the end no matter what.

She has become desensitized to violence and

will shoot on site unless instructed otherwise. She

only hesitated to pull the trigger once; she never

made that mistake again.

One day the team falls upon the

corruption that lies inside the government the

world placed its faith in. Soon Alices morals arecalled into question and she must choose to followthe Woman who has acted as her mother or her

friends who have been like her family.

Alice was a character that is one of the

the story has to Alice in Wonderland. It started

way when I just wanted a fantasy world to put t

characters in. Its evolved from this but still hold

a few key characters and locations.

Her looked was based off of the Disney

version of the character but aged more and not

family friendly. You can see similarities in the skribbon in her hair as well as her long blonde ha

In this story she would be from Wonderland an

have come there by mistake.

The design is once again a pencil sketc

I colored in marker.

It shows the sort of exaggeration you s

comics when it comes to depictions of women

at the same time I dont think its a bad thing. M

women displayed like this in ction can often be

strong-willed and independent, using their sex

to their advantage. Her weapons are also a pla

the giant, highly impossible weapons anime an

manga are famous for. I like this aspect of the g

though so I incorporated it into my character.

Youll soon notice that she has the leasamount of black in her outt and there is a sort

symbolic reason for this. Alice is devouted to ju

and doing the right thing. The other memebers

team have demons that they harbor and have d

things that would be considered either unlawfu

the least distasteful to society. Her lighter clothto try and portray her as a symbol of what unc

justice is.


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Bunny was the second memeber of Her

Majestys Secret service. She is a hybrid, a race of

person in thw world that unexplainably is a cross

of a human with a creature of a different race. In

Bunnys case she is part human, part rabbit.

In fact she is a very rare hybrid, the white

rabbit. She is one of a kind in her tribe and because

of this she is stronger than they are. Normally her

tribe can run faster, jump higher, and hear better

than many other species. In Bunnys case all of

these traits are doubled.

Bunny has the highest recorded land speed

record as well as standing jump. She can even

break the speed of sound by running. Her powerful

legs also make for deadly weapons and her ghting

style revolves souly arouund different, powerful,

high speed kicks. She has yet to reach her fullpotential though.

Bunnys an outcast in her tribe. from the

time she was born she was treated special, believed

to be a reincarnated diety. Her incredibly sheltered

and catered life made her unliked by other children

and she began to rebel. Soon he tribe cast her outfor the shame she brought them.

Her passion was always dancing but sadly

it only landed her a job as a stripper at a nightclub.

It was there she met Alice, who was investigacting

the owner of the club. The two talked for a few

days before Alice had to close the case for lack of

evidence. One day Bunny walked in on a large drug

deal at the club and was immediately thrust into a

ght for her life.After apprehending the crooks she

was approached by Alice to join the team.

Bunny is the most upbeat memeber of the

team and she is usually always in high spirits. She

always motivates the team when they began to lose

faith in themselves or the mission. Though she can

be naive at times she has a strong moral center andwill always stand up for those who are in trouble.

Her past will come back to haunt her,

though, when she becomes hunted by the those

who wish to prot from her lineage. She has been

running from her past her whole life, and the time

will come when she will stop and face what she

really is.

Bunny is another Alice in Wonderland

reference as she is a white rabbit. Her back

story was more geared towards that characters

personality at rst but she didnt have a big enou

impact. I decided to play off the strengths of her

double lineage and give her a much more dynam

story. It also helps introduce the readers to this id

of this whole other race of human/animal hybrids

I gave her more animal like features in th

later sketches like a tail and bigger feet. Her out

t also became more dress casual but also more

geared towards her abilities. Originally, she had

long pants but running at high speeds is slacks is

probably highly uncomfortable. He shorts cut dow

and friction as well as keep her legs as mobile as

possible. I later gured it would be cool if she had

ight goggles to keep things out of her eyes whileshe ran.

Bunny is representative of this idea of

constant movement and evolution. The plot is

constantly changing, new and more devistating

events take place, as well as character personal

and goals. This is shown by Bunnys inability to sstill and have to be in constant movement. She a

represents the fear many characters in the story

harbor in a different ways. They usually keep the

problms away from eyes but Bunnys well known

history prevents her from ever escaping it. She

shows the importance of facing problems head o


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Jack McCallister is another breed of hybrid

but one that is much more hated. He is part human

part end, a race of demon like creatures that live in

the Dark Lands. This is why he has pointed ears and

sharp teeth. It also is why he has two different calleyes. Due to his ties to this race he is frowned upon

by society.

Jack, however, is highly intelligent. As a mat-

ter of fact his IQ doesnt even register because it is so

high. He has a photographic memory and remembers

details as far back as his infancy as well as work out

complicated problems in an instant. In a ght, Jacks

thinking rate increases, and in his eyes things around

him almost slow down in a sense, giving him the

chance to fully analyze the scenario in seconds.

He has mastered most forms of combat,

armed and unarmed, and he can wield almost any

weapon with ease. Jack chooses to use knives as his

main defense, though, becasue they require more

skill to use effectivly.

Jacks whole life has been a struggle against

social norms. Since he was a child, he was bullied

and abused and even his mother harbored ill feelingstowards him. Finally she sent him away to a boarding

school because she was tired of raising him. Though

he was shunned even there, he still was at the top ofhis class when it came to grades.

This landed him a spot in one of the most

prestigious private schools in the realm. Here he met

and befriended Alice. Alice related to Jack in a way,

not having any knowledge of her real family, so she

knew what it was like to be with out that love. Jack

however still harbored grudges towards those who

were privalleged and often devised ways to hurt them.

This would involve complex scams as well as hacking

computer programs to steal from them.

Alice tried to steer Jack away from these

malicious thoughts but he could never let go of that

resentment and it lead to his expulsion. It also dam -

aged Alice and his relationship when he expressed

his dislike for her nancial backing from the Queen.

Jack soon went into the business of scam-

ming people. His scams were by no means simple

though, he was in the business of conning powerful

crime lords. This was his way of once again enacting

revenge on those whom he thought had it too easy in

life and never had to work for anything.Eventually Jacks luck ran out and he ended

up on the maas hit list. At this time he was reunitedwith Alice, who was assigned to the case of nding a

criminal hacker responsible for hacking into the gov-

ernment grids.

After the two ght complete the mission

together, Alice makes a plea to the Queen to allow

Jack to join the team. She grants him a full pardon in

exchange for his full cooperation.

Jack comes to realize that the grudges he

keeps are a poison that is rapidly taking him over and

to fully be trusted by his friends and accepted by the

world he must learn to let go of his anger.

Jack started off as a simpe gambler wh

I rst came up with him. This character wasnt

strong enough to stand with the others though,

backstory was weak and he didnt represent any

on a literal or gurative level. I took him completback to the drawing board when I updated the

characters. I got a lot of inspiration for his desig

from watching The Social Network. I felt the ma

character had the perfect personality for Jack. H

would be an incredibly smart person but when it

came to certain morals in life he was actually qu

dumb. He used his wisdom to get revenge over

things and in the end he might end up on top in

aspect he would lose things that he couldnt rep

such as the few friends he actually had.

On a more metaphorical level, Jack

represents the product of peoples bigotry. I wan

character that would represent what happens w

someone, despite being kind-hearted and intelli

can be corrupted by the outside opinions of othe

was tired of the stories where the character end

despite having been abused. I wanted to have a

character that caved to these social statuses aninstead of being the bigger man, began to take

revenge. As the story progresses Jack will enfa

make a change and give up the grudges he holdi think it makes him a stronger character to see

changes over time.

Jacks physical appearence is a way to s

that, even though he hates people of the upper

he has still modeled himself after them. Deep do

he feels the need to belong and t in with those

above him. He wants to know what its like to ha

someone want to take care of him and help him

Even after he becomes quite wealthy from steal

from the mob, he still feels like he is just a freak

society looks down on. This leads him to wear th

nest clothes and even act like the very people

hates.

In a way I feel I made Jack a little to com

and he will most likely make one of the greatest

changes of all the characters.


19/22

Cammy is a genie that used to reside within

a chinese style lantern. This is why she looks like aninja. Simon found Cammys lantern on a mission to

stop a band of thieves from mining rare gemstones.

It turns out the leader of the gang knew that a genie

was rumored to be in the mines and his real goal

was to aquire it.

Simon however got the lantern rst and

woke her up. In true genie fasion Cammy granted

him three wishes. Simons rst wish was for the

ability to y, a test to see if she was being serious.

Before he couls make his second wish

though the bandit leader stole the lamp from him

and began to use his wishes to become more

powerful. Unknown to him though was that with

every wish simon too gained his new found power

by touching him.

Soon the thief ran out of wishes and Simon

regained control of the lamp. for his second wish

he had Cammy send the bandit king somewhere

he would never return from, which turned out to be

outer space.

Cammy was very greatful that Simon foughtfor her and was the rst person in all her years

of existance that every treated her like a living

creature. For his nal wish simon wished for Cammy

to be a free of the lantern and t have a life of her

own. Cammy was so attered by his gesture that

she vowed to always stick by his side, for he was

her rst real friend.

Cammy, after explaining to the rest of the

etam what she was and what she was capable

of, was quickly made a member of the unit by the

Queen.

Being freed from the lantern came with

restriction, though. Cammy was no longer able to

grant wishes. She was also forced to respond to

human functions such as eating and sleeping.

Cammy keeps the lantern on her at all times

because she still draws power from it. She also

uses the lantern itself as a weapon swinging it like

a ball and chain. Her attacks are usually re based,

drawing the mystic ame from her lantern and

manipulating it.Cammys existance is challenged though

when God comes to take her from the world. Her

power was never meant to be unrestricted and her

presence in the world is causing reality to collapse

on itself. Without warning Cammys life will beforced to end as soon as it began and she will have

to make the ultimate sacrice for all mankind, and

more importantly her friends.

Cammys original design was to in fact

ninja. This however did not add anything to the

in terms of her personality, history, or even wha

her character was suppose to be representativ

After watchingAladdin for no real signicant re

i became interested in the fact that even thoug

genie was free of the lamp he still had unlimite

now unrestriced power, and this caused no con

it is a kids movie though so I decided to try and

present my own take on it.

Cammy was then transformed into a g

but I decided a liked her ninja theme and kept i

in her appearence. Her bright colors are meant

help accent her mystical image. I thought givin

crazy, long hair would also be interesting beca

she could manipulate it lke a weapon in comba

Since she is new to the world, Cammy

very naive when it comes to many things. After

she has been conned to a lantern and only sa

a select few things in her long existance. She i

constantly asking qiuestions and serves as a sinto areas of the plot that need to be explained

the readers.Cammy ends up becoming an early ch

like gure, in a sense. Her leaving the world wi

save it from self destruction similar to Jesus dy

for our sins. I try to use this to show that not

everyone with power is in fact corrupt and can

corrupted all the time. She is symbolic of free w

and what can inuence a growing mind one wa

the other.


20/22

Remmington Lasher started life on the

streets. He was born to a lower-middle class

arear where to make it one had to be tough or

involved in drug trafcing. In Remmingtons case

there werent many tougher than himself. This

didnt go unnoticed and soon he was working for

a dealer, running prodict all across town. This

opened the door to him working for the most

notorious drug dealers in the land, Feel Good INC.

And like anybody who works with illegal narcotics,

Remmington was hooked.

One day he met a girl named Jenny.

Instantly Remmington fell in love with her and the

two became inseperable. Realizing his line of workwasnt ideal for starting a meaningful life, he went

to the leader of Feel Good to get out so he could

begin a life with Jenny.

The leader of the INC, a bug/human

hybrid girl known as Bugsy, had however fallen

for Remmington herself after taking a new

experimental drug known as Vermillion. This drug

was meant to stimulate the emotions associated

with euphoria and create the perfect high.Unfortunatley it instead threw ones emotions

completely out of sync.

When Remmington approached Bugsy

with his thoughts of leaving, she poisoned him

with the drug secretly. This, coupled with an onset

of anger fueled by Bugsy, threw him into a blinding

rage and when he awoke from it, Jenny was dead

and it looked like he was to blame.

Remmington began serving a life

sentence in prison, thinking about the bad

things he had done in life as well as ways to get

revenge on Bugsy for turning him into a killer.Remmingtons sentence is caught short after

single-handedly stopping a prison riot.

Once on the outside he met Jack, before

he had joined with Her Majestys Secret Service.

Jack suprisingly found sympathy for Remmingons

story and offered to help him. The two parted ways

for awhile until they reunited with Jack claiming

he could prove Remmington never actually killed

Jenny. At the same time, Feel Good sent a few

members to silence Remmington. He and Jack

handled the thugs with ease and afterwards,

Jack proposed Remmington join the team. If he

did he would have accesss to all the royal courts

knowledge of feel good and he could help take

them down for good. The Queen was hesitant

at rst but Remmingtons vast knowledge of the

crime syndicate proved to useful to pass up and

he was accepted.

Remmingtons strength is determined

by his emotions and can go from super human

to powerless as fast as he can go from anger tosadness. He is a gifted musician and his guitar, a

gift from Jenny, can transform into a battle axe.

Remmington must come to terms with his

past and settle up the score with himself before

his emotions tear him apart from the inside out.

Remmingtons character has actually

changed the least from his original creation to rignow. I feel his design as well as his back story

were so solid they never really needed work. He

is and emotionally charged character who must

come to terms with his ugly past instead of placi

blame on everyone else.

The only thing his physical appearence

really gained was the fact that I wanted him to be

covered in tattoos. This added to his rockstar im

age, and it works because for some reason he is

shirtless most of the time. Why have cool tattoos

no one can see em, right?

Remmington is just a representation of

emotions and how powerful they can be. Some-

times they are friends, other times foes. Its a

double edged sword. His presence in the story is

to show how one can become a slave to their fee

ings as well as be in denial about certain points

there life that they accept before they can grow.

Remmington is often quick to get into a conict t

protect someone because he feels he owes the

world a debt when in fact the only person who sthas to forgive him is himself.


21/22

This is what I guess you would call a teaser

if you were at all invested in this story. Frankie, or

Panda as her appearence alludes to, is a girl who

comes from a very dark and tragic background. She

was raised in an abusive home in all sense of the

word and on top of that was abused further by the

people in her neighborhood.

These harmful acts caused her psyche

to evolve and her malicious thoughts manifestedthemselves as telekinetic energy. This power allows

her to manipulate the mental energy as if it were

another limb and at times it can even be as dense as

a physical object. It also allows her to project her mind

into someone elses for a duration of time equal to

how string that persons mind was to begin with.

When Pandas power rst arises it immediatly

defends her, killing everyone around her. Since than

she hasnt stopped killing, using her power to murder

anyone she feels is going to do harm to her or she

thinks is just a bad person in general.

When they meet, Simon touches her,

absorbing her powers and entering her memory.

Inside he sees the turmoil Panda was subject toher whole life. Simon then realizes he cant kill her

because he has too much sympathy for her. He

actually lets her go during their rst encounter.

Much later into the story Simon goes into

Pandas head and literally ghts off the evil memories

that haunt her and tells her that he would never let

anymore harm come to her. When things begin to fallapart and the team is hunted by the very government

they served, Panda joins up with them and even

becomes a love interest for Simon.

Panda begins to seek salvation after meeting

Simon but she soon realizes in is a gift not easily

recieved.

Panda is suppose to appeal to those who

have that darkness in their life that may lead them

down a bad road. She is suppose to show that no

matter what you will nd someone who can and will

want to save you from your demons if you let them

in.

I dont want to go into too much detail about

her because her character isnt actually featured for

awhile in the narrative. She does end up being very

key to the plot and even gets a spin off story that

takes place after this story concludes.

Her appearence is playful in a dark way. Italludes to her feminine, child like side that wasny

nurtured in her youth. Though she is this murderer

she does it wearing a jacket that has panda ears on

it. Its this quirky idea that even though she is dark

and brooding she still goes out and buys things she

nds cute.

She is one of my favorite creations and felt

she deserved to be featured because, hopefully she

will hold peoples interest and make them want tostick with the story to see when she comes in and

what happens.


22/22

You and I, we arent so different. We will

both live forever, It all depends on you

denition of IMMORTALITY...

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