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Published: 2010-11-10 23:24:05 +0000 UTC; Views: 5260; Favourites: 24; Downloads: 10
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WARNING! May contain spoilers about Dragon Age Origins!***********************************************
So finally the first two pages of my promised Dragon Age comic are finished.
Hero of this comic is Jolanda Cousland, who is one of my favorite playing characters in the game.
Yeah and that battle shout of Sten is qunari language: Ataash qunari! – "Glory to the qunari!"
Heh, my first ever drawn genlocks make their appearance in this one.
Enjoy the comic.
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Page 2: Right here
Page 3: [link]
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Page 5: [link]
Page 6: [link]
Dragon Age Origins is (c) to Bioware
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Comments: 41
sweet !!! the death mach begins...!!!
i love how u introduced the ogre......makes it look even more imposing than it already is...
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No mercy can be expected so it is truly a battle to the death.
Yep, I wanted to make that "introducing" frame to be somewhat more impressive and thought that this angle would be different and would show the difference between Jolanda and ogre more strikingly. I myself was very impressed when I first time encountered an ogre in the game and wanted to bring that same feeling to this. And I am very glad to hear that you think that I have succeeded in that.
Next pages will be pure fighting. Hopefully I can manage to make the battle and their movement to look and feel "natural". It is quite a challenge to me so let's see...
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Yup, i know the feeling.....sometimes you give it everything you got and its still not enough to stop an Ogre.....
and just so you know i finished the third page of my comic...swing by when you have time....
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Great. I am on my way... or actually I already visited.
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I think that its head ram and grapping attacks are most deadly ones. Let's hope that Jolanda can avoid those...
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That's what indomitable is for. It looks really funny when your character just slides backwards in front of the ram attack
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True, indomitable is very handy when it comes to enduring ogres ram attacks. Without it you barely get to stand up before ogre usually rams you again, and again. Of course even with indomitable you still take the damage but you are not knocked down from your feet.
But in the name of "reality" I won't use indomitable in this comic. If a force like that would really hit a character, there is no way a human could block or parry it. So if that happens in my comic I will show the true outcome.
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I actually had an idea of what it might actually look like - another question altogether is whether it's realistic at all. But then, all those magical talents aren't all that realistic either
Sähän teet siis tietenkin just niinku ite haluat, ja sitäpaitsi se on draamallisesti kiinnostavampaa jos se on juuri tuolla tapaa realistinen. Siksi Victoriakin välillä lentelee nurin vaikka se periaatteessa on indomitable, ois ihan tylsää jos ei ois mitään hätää ikinä. Pelatessahan siis enimmäkseen ei ole - ainoastaan Nightmare-levelillä joutuu oikeesti välillä ihan keskittymään healaamiseenkin
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No, tietysti on vähän hassua puhua realistisuudesta samaan aikaan Dragon Agen kanssa.
Dramaattisuus on toki tärkeä elementti. Ja sitä saa huomattavasti lisättyä jos päähenkilöä "heitellään" ja "kuritetaan", toisin kuin jos hän vain vähän kopauttaa pölyjä vaatteista massiivisen iskun jälkeen. Mutta lähinnä siis koetan tehdä tästä sarjakuvan "realistisella" melee -taistelulla. Ja nimenomaan koetan pitää mielessä mitä tämmöinen kokoero todellisuudessa vaikuttaisi.
Olen joskus miettinyt olisiko se käytännössä edes mahdollista. Ogren kaltaista kokoa ja voimaa vastaan ei haarniskakaan paljoa auta. Voimat ovat sitä luokkaa, että isku, vaikka haarniska sen torjuisikin, vahingoittaisi silti vakavasti (ellei peräti tappaisi suoraan). Oikeastaan ainoa todellinen mahdollisuus olisi kai pysyä poissa iskujen tieltä eli väistellä.
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ei se kyllä varmaan millään inhimillisellä skaalalla olekaan mahdollista. Sen ymmärtää että jos esim. lohikäärme polkaisee ja kun muut lentää nurin, indomitable warrior vaan askeltaa taaksepäin. Jotain sentyyppistä siinä ogrenkin kanssa varmaan tapahtuu, mutta eihän se mitenkään täysin realististista kyllä ole. Aattelin silti kyllä tehdä sellaisen version missä kerrankin näytän Victorian tankina, kun sitähän se oikeasti tossa porukassa on. 
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Jee, sinullakin on siis visio massiivisesta taistelusta. 
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Joo no niitä aina tulee välillä väistämättä tuolla tematiikalla
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The detail in the armor is amazing! And the action scenes are pretty well done too.
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Always nice to hear such kind words from a fellow DA artists.
As I mentioned earlier to someone else, this comic is going to be a practice for me so that I could "unlock" the secrets of portraying movement and combat. I think I will have quite challenging scenes ahead but that's the way how we learn.
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Great to hear that. I was (and still am) a little bit concerned that I wouldn't give you too big expectations.
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My expectations are always high, but you've managed to reach them every time so far
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I hope I am able to reach them in the future too.
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Great storytelling here. Also gret perspective on the last panel. It relly gives the viewer the impression of "large vs. small". Let's just hope that Jolanda is up for the challenge despite noone's able to help her out on this one. 
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We will see how it turns out for Jolanda. She has her doubts even if she is a skilled warrior with templar abilities.
I made the last panel to be somewhat different as I wanted to bring forth threat, danger and massive strenght and size.
Well, clothing is usually my "Achilles heel". In this case I had reference for Morrigans clothes so it was not so hard. On the other hand if I have to design clothes myself... Waaaaagghh!
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"Threat, danger and massive strenght and size" Well.... They all got through in my opinion.
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Thank you.
The challenge of the next pages will be portraying melee, close combat and fighting movement.
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Looking forward to see it, as always.
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yikes, I usually fight an ogre by distracting it while a range companion attacks him from afar
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As I usually play with warrior character (like Jolanda here) I take them head on. Of course I too take often Morrigan along to backup me with her handy spells.
But ogre can be quite tough opponent to melee warriors, especially at the lower levels and harder difficulties.
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My mind is reeling over your armor skills. And the forced perspective on the ogre is just righteous.
I always wondered who's job it was to put the loincloths on the ogres... it seems like the task set aside for the genlock who ticks off the supervisor.
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The skill has come with practise. But I admit that I have always enjoyed to draw armors, especially scale-, chain- and plate mails. Bioware really "hit the spot" with their Dragon Age armor designs from my point of view and I especially like the templar armor design.
I wanted to achieve something "special" with the first frame with ogre. Therefore I used that perspective.
You think ogres need "assistants" to dress themselves?
And that would be quite bad punishment indeed.
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Wow! Absolutely great artwork. Also your drawing is a bit unfair to your hero: The Ogre seems to be A LOT bigger than the ones in DAO.
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Thank you. It is very pleasant to hear that the hours (and days) spent to this are worth of the effort.
Yes, the ogre does look like a bit (a lot?) bigger but these are my points why it is so:
1. The angle. We see the situation behind the ogre (actually through it legs
2. Jolanda's pose is crouched because of the sword swing and therefore she is not in her full lenght.
3. Ogre is standing straight. During game (when battling it) it is usually crouched to different fighting poses.
4. The last one is that I wanted to make this view point so that we would look the situation through ogres legs.
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Whoooaaaahhh I have a feeling that this is going to be more epic than is probably legal. 
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Well, I don't know can I yet go above the "legality of the epicness"
Ja kylläpä näihin kahteen sivuun menikin aikaa. Tosin näkyy se tuloksessakin mutta meinasin jo hermostua kun ei tullut valmista. Ja joo, kaksi genlockia sain tähän tiristettyä mukaan. Ei tämä koko loppuaika (viime kommentistani tähän hetkeen) sentään pelkästään niiden piirtämiseen mennyt. 
Pitää vielä tulla kommentoimaan sinun viimeisintäsi.
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No näkyyhän se sitten heti laadussa. Ihan mahtavaa jälkeä 
Hei, multa tulee ihan kohta toinenkin sivu kunhan saan tekstit paikalleen. Olin vähän nopee.
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Kiitos, kiitos!
Oho, sinullahan on tosi inspiraatio ja into päällä. Minä en ennätä kohta kommentoimaan edes edellisiä. Pitää äkkiä mennä kun vielä ehtii????....
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Very much thanks.
I used more time to the shading (and to these pages overall) than I usually do with my comics.
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The result is great. Congratulations.
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Yay
You've definately improved since your last comic. The faces are better, the detail to armour is amazing, the feel of action is great and I look your shading more than ever
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Well, I also used much more time and effort for these two pages than usually. No wonder it took some time to finish these. But I must say that I like Morrigan's and Sten's appearances here and am quite satisfied to their looks. (Alistair is only showing his back side so...
One big goal of mine is to practice movement, action and battle poses with this comic.
Again, it's good to notice that you like.
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