Lara Croft - Tome of the Ancients (An online comic)

Xavien

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This will appeal to anyone who enjoys reading comics, does 3d modeling or just enjoy a good laugh.

A rl mate and i are involved in something called "Project Lara". This started the latter part of last year using a program called "Xna Lara" created by a guy called Dusan.

The program enables you to use models, props and scenery from most of the previous tomb raider games, including underworld and legend, and then create a comic with a story line (using photoshop). Ive helped him with some story elements, characters (including names, peronsalities and looks) and had alot of input here and there. The modeling and general speech though is down to him.

We have now moved over to using daz3d and we feel that the story, look and content have reached an all time high.

The story follows Lara Croft on an adventure with her butlers neice Tuesday Fox, a happy but fiesty young teenager. As the adventure continues they come across all sorts of dangers, interesting people and villians.

I have added a link to the website version below, however please be adviced that it does have adult themes & content, some nudity (very little) and some language (alot has been "***" but a fair bit has been kept in to keep the pictures atmosphere) it also contains masses and masses of childish humor which take the mick out of just about everything that exists in the world including the fantastic characters we have spend hours in making, so if these things are the sort of thing that may offend you then it might not be a good idea to have a look. However it doesnt contain and XXX stuff and we have a 15 rating on the front page. Which we feel is sufficient for the comic at this present time. The comic is in no way to be taken seriously by anybody and its just a hobby, a great use of a powerful pc and a great way to appricate 3D renders.

To sum the comic up in a few sentence it is a parady of life, very stereo typical and contains enough humor to make even the most depressed souls smile.

Alot of effort has gone into this comic as well as hundreds and hundreds of hours to. Chapters 1-3 are using the old software and chapters 4-7 are using DAZ 3D but its all the same story.

Heres a quick picture from the story so you can see what your getting......




This is one of the scenes where our lovable villian is in the USA with Tuesday Fox, as you can see Gerrard has a tendancy to spend other peoples money and his villiany doesnt end there :)

Anyway heres the link:

Tome Of The Ancients

Pictures take anything from 2-8 hours to complete (with photoshop editing and adding effects etc...)


We've had such a laugh creating this comic that we thought that we would share it with anyone who might be interested as well as all our real life friends.

The website is updated as and when the pictures are done so if you look at it and like it dont forget to check back every now and then for updates.


Have fun :)
 
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Xavien

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Ive updated my original post with the new link, as the comic now has its rightful and proper website dedicated to it rather then being tagged on to our old D&D site. Theres been alot of changes in the past year and i believe when i first posted we only had 4 chapters. Well we are up to 14 now and its still going strong! The artwork is better then ever and has been going from strength to strength :)

The old link will still be live for a couple of months but the old domain will run out so remember to bookmark. Have fun!

Ps. Unrelated and off topic to this forum but i would like to say my Pc is still going strong so thanks everyone at Pcspecialist, i did blow my cd rom up last week but managed to buy the same one again for £15 and fit it (i didnt even need a screw driver this case is brilliant) so no big deal there :)
 

Xavien

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Well its been a year since my last post and im happy to say the website is still going strong with some major changes see below:


There are now three main sections on the main website so if your into 3D art you will no doubt enjoy them.

1) Art Gallery with post worked renders using a variety of techniques.

2) A Tomb Raider comic created from screenshots of the game.

3) Our show piece - An ongoing comic called "Tome Of The Ancients"

This comic is a unique "Tomb Raider" storyline which contains tons of humor 19 chapters (so far) unique locations all over the world and unique characters made by ourselves (not including Lara Croft of course).

The website is 100% free but does carry a mature rating. Our website has attracted alot of interest from all over the world and from some famous people as well.

We are actually in the process of creating an Electro House track with two famous singers\songwriters who have had the support of renowned producers such as David Guetta, Tiesto, Armin van Buuren, Paul van Dyk, Oakenfold, Above & Beyond, Ferry Corsten, XM Radio, BBC, Music Choice, Promo Only, Markus Schulz, DJ Shah, Matt Darey, Solarstone and more.

The best part about it is the song will be about one of our characters "Crimson Kiss" This is a dream come true for us and we plan for the song to be released on beatport for sale at some point, more on that as it happens though.

Feel free to click the link above or in my signature to see what all the fuss is about and above all enjoy and have fun!

You can also now follow us on twitter for all the latest updates. I hope you are all enjoying your pc as much as i am still all these years later. PC specialists really know how to provide fantastic hardware to make hobbies like this come true. Thanks Guys!
 
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