Saturday, November 27, 2010

Profiles from SUPERMONSTERAMA!

The SUPERMONSTERAMA project is making headway this weekend! Here's two profiles of the Supermonsters from the main storyline! Mutator and Gigantotron!


I'm choosing to use the limited color pallet for a nice contrast to the fully rendered paintings throughout the actual story. It's kinda neat how the limited color in old comics and posters was a cost issue but really created a beautiful aesthetic for the artform. That aesthetic can really be seen in some of the old Hammer posters, which they have recently made a pretty friggin neat book out of.

In a time where artists can use literally countless colors and filters and effects to render, it's good to remember that sometimes less is just what the doctor ordered!

5 comments:

Sherm said...

Love the limited palette! Are these gonna be tradong cards? I love that each one has a cool self-contained bio-story

thefusionman said...

Thanks Sherm! I haven't thought of trading cards, but that's a great idea! These are just pages in my latest SUPERMONSTERAMA full color widescreen comic magazine extravaganza...:)

o f l o d a said...

These are great! Great names too.

thefusionman said...

Thanks! I'm partial to MUTATOR the most:)

Tony Figueroa said...

Ted, your work is terrific. I grew up watching films such "Kronos", "The Colossus of New York" and "Godzilla vs MechaGodzilla". Your work has a quality that evokes those old movies which were much more fun than today's overproduced CG fests. Keep up the good work.