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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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You and I, we arent so different. We will
both live forever, It all depends on you
denition of IMMORTALITY...