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Stories

Island_Approach.jpg

I am currently in the process of writing three stories, one fantasy, one science fiction and one a talking animal story for kids. Fantasy is by far the easier genre to write, having built-in races, languages and customs so that you hardly have to do any work of building the world beforehand. Science fiction, on the other hand, is a real pain to write as you have to make up everything - species, planets, languages - and work out where your story falls on the "scientific plausibility" sliding scale. (In other words, are you writing Interstellar or Doctor Who?)

Whatever the genre, writing is a fairly gruelling process when you're a visual thinker, and I've had much more fun with doing pictures to illustrate these two stories. My process with the pictures involves using Poser and Bryce (a couple of 3D programmes) to make the images and I then trace over the 3D renders to give the images a more cartoony/Filmation look. I've tried using renders created in Poser and Bryce, but, frankly, they looked horribly synthy and straight renders never give quite the look that I'm after, even when using toon filters.

Spacecat

Being the adventures of a small, green, feline alien au pair who loses the child in his care and must venture across space to find her.

Bored
Robot Cupboard
Hoovering
Spacecat_Jeeves_Colour
Amber_Explorapod_Merged
Mothership
Spacecat_Pilot
Asteroids
Spacecat 2001
Space Pilot
Cargo Bay
Monster Eggs
Tea
Atruenus_Specs_Display_Screen
Stiltcity
Syreenii_Colour
Heffalump_Mechanic
Hologram
Alien_Pub_Colour
Salvage
Whispering
Tellistraxians
Exploding_Jumpgate
Boarding_Hovercycle
Hovercycle
Amber_Discussion_Illustration
Angus_On_Bridge
Axel_Abandoned
Island_Approach
Muddy_Beach
Tower_Door
Monastery
Staircase
Finns_Room
Finn_Spacecat
Finn Reading
Earth
Forbidden Fruit
Brother Thornn
Robot Uprising
Piecemeal
Junkyard Ambush
Krel vs Chthod
Airlock
Bugs Nest
Beetles
Grimsworth
Despair
Sleeping
Kazbiel

The Greatest Runner

A parable that takes its inspiration from The Tortoise and the Hare

Universe B

My stab at an epic fantasy story, in which a boy gets sucked into a magical universe via his sock drawer.

Griffin
Tavern Encounter
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