Should be loads of fun, and a good excuse for me to watch it :D
Tuesday, October 25, 2011
Black House Comics on 'Beauty and the Geek'
Quick post: The TV good fortunes continue with some great guests on Channel 7's 'Beauty and the Geek' this Thursday night. My publisher and friend Baden Kirgan will appear as a judge on the show, alongside the lovely Nicola Scott (artist of DC Comics, and whop has given me so much wonderful advice this year), and King's comic store owner Jim Papagrigoriou! (Sydney's leading comic shop and location for the recent 'Youi Insurance/Soldier Legacy TV commercials).
Saturday, October 15, 2011
The Soldier Legacy: Australian comic book series - Black House Comics
Finally got around to doing a quick update on this animatic style trailer I did a few years ago when I first released issue 1. I also founds some of my old animatics for my eventual task of animating a short film with the character. One day when I have the time....
Tuesday, October 11, 2011
Youi/Soldier Legacy spot Action Figure pics
The awesome action figure created for the Youi Insurance commercial, based on the cover of the second issue, and concept art I developed specifically for the design: http://pm-comic.blogspot.com/2011/09/soldier-reference-shots-and-quick.html Enjoy!
Monday, October 10, 2011
Youi/Soldier Legacy spot Behind the scenes production photos
Youi commercial producers, and director Bryan Cawood were kind enough to keep Baden, publisher of Black House Comics , up to date with all the goings on during the filming of the comic commercials at Kings comics in Sydney. Seeing these pics are great as you can really see all the effort the production team went to, to give the store a real 'Black House' presence. Chris Sequeira/Dave Elsey/Phil Cornell's Dark Detective: Sherlock Holmes, Bruce Mutard's Mind of Love, Jason Frank's Kagemono, Jan Sherpenhuizen's Twilight Age, Jason Paulos's EEEK!, Jason Fishers/Jason Franks After the World Aussie pulp stories, the upcoming Terra Magazine art, and my Soldier Legacy books and artwork can be seen throughout the store, including a Dr Nikola poster I did from #6 of DD: SH.
The sets are also a great example of set design/mise en scene. Those shelves and walls adjacent to the counter actually don't exist.Kings has a rather open 360 degree counter design, with an open glass store front, so I am gathering the walls were errected not only for the purpose of the shoot, but to stop onlookers from peering in, getting in the background of shots, or also to control the lighting of the store. It actually gives the sotre in the Ad that darker atmosphere that other comic stores tend to look like, or the perception of them. Actually, the thing that first struck me about the real Kings store was how light, open and 'retail' it looked (as opposed to a dark, clutterd second hand bookstore I was used to getting comic books in- very oldschool).
I think the Commercial captures the best of both worlds- what do you think?
Anyways, Enjoy!
p.s: I will have to try and reference these actors as characters in the upcoming issues. It's hard not to!
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