Shadowdance: A Terry Sharp Story | Flash Animated Web Comic - Archive
This was a fantastically fun job and a chance to work on a very stylish comic. I had the opportunity to put together a flash trailer for The Faceless: A Terry Sharp Story, and really liked the work of Adrian Salmon and writing by Robert Tinnell. It is very much like a 60’s spy/detective story with fantastic color and biting wit. When Bob approached me about an online comic, I was excited. When he mentioned that he would like it to be flash-animated and initially hosted on Fangoria.com, I freaked. We set some guidelines as far as how animated it would be, and tried to be by-the-panel to maintain the comic feel. I also set about lettering the frames and bringing them in as semi-transparent .pngs. As the strips go on, I was progressively more ambitious about the animated sequences. This reached near critical mass when I pulled a truck out of a panel and animated it (Day 20, 21 & 22).Eventually, I calmed down and let the story speak for itself. The archive is up, but it is a bit sideways for now and I am working on fixing button issues as I write. It will work for the most part, if you have any issues… please email me. If you don’t have my email, it is located on my Vcard under “about michael.” If you would like detail info on how I created some of the effects in flash, hire me as a consultant. I will say that the art was created as whole panels or bits and pieces here and there with very few photoshop layers and there was a lot of cutting and filling in the gaps with consistent artwork.