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TZH Webcomic Tutorial
Published: 2009-02-09 05:08:00 +0000 UTC; Views: 81669; Favourites: 2693; Downloads: 2054
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Hey everyone! Have a tutorial! Enjoy!It's pretty big...so it may take a while to load^^ I cover everything...I think. Yes.
It takes me, on average, 6-8 hours to make a strip. Sometimes longer because I can be REALLY picky with certain things, especially with the line-art. So it varies-- also this had a far less complicated background, so that cuts down time considerably!
The Zombie Hunters Β©JennyRomanchuk
www.thezombiehunters.com
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Woo hoo! I've been waiting for this one! Thank you, Jenny!
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Awesome tutorial! It's always interesting to know how different artists do their work.
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Awesome tutorial 
Oh, but as a note, the cartoon-y you has a sticky up vertical hair. I have one in real life.. just a single short tuft of hair that sticks up vertically, whilst the rest is very long and very straight. It's not fun XD Your poor cartoon must suffer.
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Wow! The first time I see someone made a comic like that, it's really nice ( and so more complex when I look mine 
Poser7 ein? Not a bad idea.
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most helpful comic tutorial ever. fuckin saved.
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Thats cool that you also use Poser. It is very handy when you're running into trouble with a pose
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That seems like a really efficient way to make comics 
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The one thing that jumped at me is that you use poser like one would use a wooden, posable model.
I'm crap at recalling anatomy from memory and books can only do so much.
I'll have to get a hold of the program. The ability to play around with poses like that and not with a clunky mannequin is like a god send. lol
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If you're not willing or not able to shell out the money for Poser. Go to daz3d.com and check DAZ|Studio out- it's free and comes with a couple free base models to boot.
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thanks for the tip (and after dropping as much as I did on the CS3 suite I'm leaning much towards not able o_o)
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It really REAAAALLY is! Haha.
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Oh god damnit Ash, I looked at this before I checked my webcomics for today. AUGH IT IS SPOILED.
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Hahaha well I uploaded the comic exactly the same time I uploaded the tutorial
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Meanie ): I always check dA.
I'll never forget this!
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Nice job! As with all great tutorials, it's straight forward, and I learned a couple of new things to try out.
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So this is how the magic is made?!?
-M
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This is really handy! Thank you so much for sharing with us how you make your comic.
I'm also making a webcomic, and how you make your word balloons is going to be especially helpful to me.
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Brilliant, awesome, fav'd, double awesome with awesome sauce. Sausceome, in fact.
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Very creative use of poser. It's one of those things that made me say to myself "Wait, that's so obvious, why didn't I ever think of that?"
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Thank you SO MUCH.
This is amazingly awesome for us novice comicers! THANK YOU!
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Excellent tutorial! And btw love your webcomic!
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ooh nice tut you got there! I need to get my hand on that mannequin program, sounds nifty.
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a very useful behind the scenes on my favourite comic
Also useful for me
Thanks for sharing!
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Wow,I was just thinking of making a webcomic series!
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This is really nice and helpful! Thank you! ^^
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6-8 hours at a time...? I really do admire your focus. xDD
It's always cool to get a peak behind the scenes of a project, and you seem to have a really nice work flow.
Nice solution with putting the panels on Multiply so the lines and colour is visible without interfering with the black areas. Hadn't thought of that, haha. :33
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Wow you really are dedicated, what with all that to-ing and fro-ing between programs and computers! This tutorial was really informative, I especially found the part about speech bubbles interesting. That Poser program looks really helpful, I've never seen that before.
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just awesome...and very interesting ^^
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OH MY GOD.
"Multiply".
I never knew about that.
Oh my GOD.
That changes EVERYTHING. OH MY GOD.
OH MY GOODNESS GRACIOUS.
Thank you VERY much for such an informitave tutorial. For someone trying to start a webcomic of his own... this is the most important tool I've found in the last year.
Sorry for me totally nerding out, but I've been saying for literally TWO YEARS that there simply MUST be a way to translate pencil-art to it's own layer. This is a epiphany. Coloring was never an option because of that limitation. This opens up a whole world of options.
Thank you like, a jillion times. Sorry for being a noob. I was just going to play videogames tonight, but now I'm gonna go on a hot steamy date with Photoshop.
Good webcomic you got too. Keep up the great work!
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very nice tutorial- may have to give your colouring method a try.
I've found with my comic at the moment my main problem has been backdrops- partly because of the setting so far being mainly set in forest areas.
I do a similar thing for poses as you- although I've been hassling my fiancee into posing for photos which takes far too much organising so I think I may have to invest in a copy of poser at some point...
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Oh my Gawd... You got EXACTLY the same equipment like me. Even the sound system!!!
The only difference is that I use a MacBookPro.
Nice Tut though!
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This is really helpful! ^^ I've been doing a lot of similar things, but your methods are much faster, lol Especially with the lineart. I don't have a tablet so inking in Photoshop takes me almost 12 hours a piece, lol I never thought to bother with levels, lol
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i found this to be quite informative thank you
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It's always cool to see how people go about doing stuff. Photoshop is such a varied tool that no matter what project you're doing, everybody has a slightly different way of going about it.
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This is pretty awesome. I learned some things I probably never would have thought of. Thanks for this! 8D
PS: Mercer kinda looks like the Medic from TF2 here; imagining him saying everything with a German accent made me giggle. :3
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holy caca! this is great stuff!!!
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This is great 8D Your webcomic is awesome, I've been wondering about this for some time... :3
FAV'D!
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Sweet! We also get to see the new before the rest of the internets!
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how long did you spend working on your craft before you came to perfecting your method?
What with using multiple programs and the like, how long before you gradually came to this method?
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Hahah looong time, it took about 2 years and a LOT of mistakes to get where I am, and I am still learning!
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