Nick's Ecard.

Wishing everyone a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from The Dorad & Sirius Partnership.

Marko's Ecard.

Chuck Yeager Page 1.

The two images shown here are pages from a story about the flight pioneer Chuck Yeager. The comic-strip look produced by Nick, can add to the eclectic ‘classic comic’ visual style of Dorad & Sirius generally, along with CGI models created by Mark Hirst and the large body of digital artwork that Marko Keränen has already provided.

Chuck Yeager Page 2.

You can see more of Nick’s work at his new website Nick Spender Illustrator.

At the same time, Marko Keränen’s website Lighthouse has been recently updated, with a gallery of illustrations generally, along with more recent work which he’s created as a comic artist.

While continuing with updating Lighthouse, Marko has been designing a new floating structure for Dorad & Sirius. Here’s a ‘sneak-peek’ of one version in a test render.

An ideal cetacean human home.

A new Vue for a new year.

Watch this space for further developments in 2011, but in the meantime, Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

It's all in the mind!

Here’s Marko’s latest comic artwork test, this time dealing with the concept of teleporting across space. While in the context of the fiction, the telepathically linked humans and dolphins are able to teleport almost instantaneously over vast distances, it would be uninteresting visually if a spaceship was seen having arrived at a point in space, without having shown any representation of the teleporting process itself.

The ability of humans and dolphins to teleport over light years of space, offers plenty of scope for trying out imaginative ideas visually within the storyline.

Having been teleported across many light years of space, over several stages, the spaceship Paxford arrives at a newly discovered Earth-like planet.

Panels of Paxford.

Here’s a ‘sneak-peek’ at another comic artwork test by Marko. As in the previous post, the images combine the features of Vue 8 and Manga Studio EX 4. As Marko said: “I used the Paxford 3D model for this one and added some characters too (extras I guess)”.

At this stage, the main point of the tests is to create examples of a distinctive overall look, by combining CGI elements with hand drawing and natural tones. So as the D&S tag line says, ‘evolution and imagination’.

Here’s a ‘sneak-peek’ at an early test, where renders from Vue were converted to a background tone with Manga Studio. People and other details were added with Manga Studio’s painting tools. The speech balloons were also added to round-off the ‘comic artwork’ look.

The Vue from here.

Manga Studio clearly has great potential for giving Dorad & Sirius the look of a classic comic adventure concept combined with up-to-date techniques. So then, onwards and upwards!

An asteroid spaceport module within Lagrangeville.

As mentioned in the details for Pacific Chakra and New Moon, most of the electricity used on Earth is supplied by Space-Based Solar Power (SBSP). It is Lagrangeville, situated at a stable gravitational point, or Lagrange Point, between Earth and the Moon, which is the principal element in the SBSP network.

Today, there are several companies and organisations outlining plans for producing SBSP. One such company, Space Energy, has a comprehensive website setting out the project details, along with useful information about Space-Based Solar Power generally.

To tie-in with the update, here’s a view of early costume design sketches by Marko Keränen, for the main human character Dorad Neubaum.

Early costume design sketches by Marko Keränen, for the character Dorad Neubaum.

The format involves a storyline evocative of wholesome science-fiction comic adventures of the past, while utilising production and presentation methods which didn’t exist at the time.

The purpose of the blog is to outline various aspects of Dorad & Sirius, while accompanying the concept with relative items generally.

Dorad & Sirius: Copyright © 2009 The Dorad And Sirius Partnership

As the project  is a ‘work-in-progress’, there will be further postings with the latest news and developments.

At this time, The Dorad And Sirius Partnership: Geoffrey Ellis* and Marko Keränen.

*Chakralog writer