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). (more…)