View “The Dawn of Battle,” a Battlefield 2 graphic novel on my website.
This is an artistic vision of the popular Battlefield 2 modification, Project Reality. I went in and recorded all the action, in a single-player battle against bots. I then went in with the Battle Recorder, and took a ton of screenshots from a variety of angles.
The next step was utilizing Adobe Photoshop to construct a unique theme to the images. I went in, constructed an HDR profile of each image, then applied various lighting and coloring techniques to try to tie everything together.
Then I applied the images to the graphic novel pages, using a variety of overlays and lighting styles to blend everything together. The goal was to sharpen certain elements – like facial features and the weaponry, whilst blurring out the background. I then applied various artistic filters and blended them into the images.
The final step was adding text. I had constructed the plot before hand, so I knew exactly what was happening throughout the graphic novel. Then, I applied an action that darkened the edges and added a slight film grain throughout the page.
Whilst not the perfect graphic novel (in fact, it’s “to be continued”), I felt it had a very unique, interesting visual style. Especially since the base material was, in fact, a video game. It’s fun to read, even more fun to look at, despite the rather bland plot.
The link to the graphic novel is broken… I wanted to take a peek.
Thanks for fixing it and letting me know when it’s ready.
The link works fine for me: http://www.mattc0m.com/College/Graphic%20Novel/
If that doesn’t work, try going to http://www.mattc0m.com/College/ and select “Graphic Novel”
I also have a question about how you’re able to live stream the Quake game on ustream.tv. I haven’t seen this before but might want to do something comparable (for purpose of teaching a class). Thanks.
Here is the step-by-step guide:
http://www.quake-live.tv/forums/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=88
Realize this is optimized for a 30fps, fast, high quality stream of a video game. It uses a hardware-based approach (that requires two computers). If performance is less of an issue, you can use a software-based approach and a single computer in conjuction with a Webcam program and Ustream.
Yamcam is a good free one. http://www.yawcam.com/
However, I recommend Webcam Max for new users. http://www.webcammax.com/
You can use these programs to stream your desktop.