Episode 12 - With special guest Dino Andrade [95:34m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

At just over 1 hour 35 minutes, this is our longest PodWarp 1999 to date. With that in mind, we’ve prepared something special: some show notes.

• Introducting our special guest, Dino Andrade - voice actor and founder of SoulGeek.
• We discuss with Dino the origins of SoulGeek, and the future of the site including the planned Webcomic portal.
• Dino talks briefly about auditioning for the voice of Skull in PVP: The Series.
• It’s my turn to have a new one torn: We discuss Jump Leads, and I die a little inside. Also, I get very defensive.
• How you guys do your star fields. Tyson Sukeforth and Jacob Stockton separately suggested this Tutorial by Greg Martin. Steve Troop’s tutorial, which we discuss in the podcast itself, is below the show notes.
• Story-driven scifi comics Vs. Gag-a-Day scifi comics.
• Briefly: Starlog Magazine, and their “Scifi Movie of the Year” list, from which the “Scifi Vs. Fantasy” debate sparks up again.

And now Steve Troop’s star field Tutorial:

1. use a sharpie to black in all the backgrounds.
2. Wet a toothbrush under the faucet (I don’t recommend using your daily toothbrush for this — a new one used expressly for this purpose or an old one you no longer use on your teeth).
3. Shake a bottle of Pro-White (Professional White Out) and open it. Some of the Pro-White will stick to the cap. Rub the wet toothbrush in the cap so that a thinned-out layer of Pro-White is on the bristles.
4. Put the toothbrush near the surface of the blacked-out starfield. Run your thumb from the tip of the brush towards you, so that the bristles will spring back towards the paper and deposit little specks of white all over the drawing (you can mask out other artwork by covering it with scrap pieces of paper, but usually people won’t notice the extra speck on mostly-white artwork).
5. Wait for it to dry. You can go back over some areas with a pen to make parts less dense. Or you can add a star or two with a fine brush. The nice things about doing it this way are that the stars appear on your artwork (in case you sell originals) and the stars are completely random.

Hope this helps!

Thanks Steve!