And here we have Part II, where the plot is beginning to develop a bit.
Like last time, this was done up by The Dude Person of Zombie Outbrick. His comic has a Facebook page too, you should become a fan.
And here we have Part II, where the plot is beginning to develop a bit.
Like last time, this was done up by The Dude Person of Zombie Outbrick. His comic has a Facebook page too, you should become a fan.
Sorry about the late start on this. The house is all torn apart in anticipation of the move, so I had to set this up from the office this morning.
no worries Dave. Happens to the best of us.
its ok happens to all of us
Dude Person! What a great episode. I really like Tosa Tzensa and his horse. Are those aftermarket or LEGO brand?
Thanks Angelina!
And Tosa Tzensa and his trusty puku* are 100% official Lego, set #6709 from 1997.
*Comanche word for “horse”
Old skool throwback. Nice!
Interesting. I really like the way the comic looks. Something wrong with the dialogue though, that I can’t quite put my finger on, like it’s not period. I just can’t seem to read it in my “Tombstone” voice. It seems too modern.
Might be me just being picky.
Hmm… I understand what you mean.
I actually decided not to make John Grey’s dialogue overly-stylized, but I suppose it could be a little too “normal.” I just feel like if I wrote his dialogue like, “Well, I reckon we oughta be partners, let’s mosey on over to yonder town that-a-ways,” it would be harder to take him as a serious character.
I’ll try to make the dialogue more Old West for other characters later on.
I think the dialogue should be regional, and maybe more formal, not less. Have you seen the Cohen Brothers remake of True Grit? It wasn’t just the way they spoke, but the words they chose. The usage of “actually” in panel four seems anachronistic to me, like the character was using modern English, not nineteenth century.
I did enjoy the comic; and I hope I don’t come off like picking fly specks out of the pepper.
I have to agree with the points about the dialog being made here. It does seem a wee bit too modern.
Alright, duly noted, guys.
And I haven’t seen the True Grit remake, I’ll have to check it out sometime.
Why can’t cowboys have shotguns? or rifles? then more cowboy movies would be made, actually I hate cowboys, but still, a shotgun owuld be cool.
Have you seen Tombstone, Unforgiven, or Appaloosa? All great westerns, and all have plenty of rifle and shotgun action. Viggo Mortensen’s character uses an EIGHT gauge shotgun(!); and it features prominently in the movie; and in Tombstone Wyatt Earp uses his shotgun as a melee weapon, too.
Pure Awesome movies.
You know how amazing it would to have an 8gauge?
Sure, until you shot it once and you had to send a search party out to look for your right arm. 😀
Wouldn’t need a search party for THESE CANNONS!
-Flex, Flex-
But in all seriousness.. Just make a new spring system and reduce the recoil like how they do with that bullpup .50 BMG and you’d have something rather powerful and fun!
The firearms in this particular movie was a side-by-side fowling piece with about a thirty-inch barrel, so fancy-shmancy recoil-reducers there. 😉
I think the only folks using anything bigger than a ten gauge are handloading.
I didn’t even know that there was such a thing as a eight gauge, maybe the Canadians make it or something
There is a ton of information on the subject, only a Google search away. Their purpose is to kill a lot of birds at once. There were four gauge shotguns, too.
For when you absolutely, positively have to kill an elephant.
Excellent episode, the photography and editing is also very good. Just curious, how long does it take you to make one episode like this?
Thanks Greg!
This episode took quite a while from start to finish. I shot 3 episodes on the day before I left for a vacation (I had a story, but didn’t have time to write the actual script until I was on vacation.) So I spent a few hours on the photography, I’m not sure exactly how long for each episode.
And because every single shot has greenscreen which needs to be edited out, as well as a background that has to be put in and positioned, not to mention editing in the shadows for some panels, and finally color correction to get rid of the last traces of reflected green light on the minifigs, editing takes a LONG time.
Since this is a four-part miniseries that will eventually be completed, I’m taking longer with the editing than I would on a comic I had to produce on a weekly basis.
So I’d estimate total production time of this one at around 3-4 hours or so. Hope that’s not too long of an answer. 😉
Thanks for the detailed feedback! You are even working with a green backdrop, wow this is really pro level! 3-4 hours per episode, gosh.. that’s a lot but I’m not surprised given the attention to detail. I just noticed the motion blur effect on the tomahawk btw… very cool.
I want to giggle over this episode, looking at that old style LEGO Indian. But I love it too!
Well done Dude.
Hah, thanks Silver Fox! I know, he’s pretty old skool – he’s from way back when Lego was still experimenting with noses. 😉
That’s what I thought – he’s got a nose! I’ve never seen one with a nose before!
I still wonder why obi-wan kenobi never told luke about his adventures in the old west.
They’re obviously still classified…
Haha!
What if I told you that’s not the head of an Obi-Wan Kenobi minifig? 😉
What Devil-Magic Is This!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?
It’s from a Star Wars minifig – just not Obi-Wan. 😉
Don’t blame me for not knowing, I can’t see the beard so I can’t tell that it’s really qui-gon jinn, they are both very similar, the only major difference is the bottom of the beard.