Episode 0 Page 2

Page 2.
With this page I wanted to get something that resembled my friend, Cheeks' art style. His style has a really loose, active feel to it and he has really subdued, deep color palettes.

For the most part I think that came out well on this page. I had also previously spent alot of time going back and forth between stylistic vs. realistic looking zombies for this story. Right now, I'm going with the stylisitc zombies because I think they can be just as creepy as something that is photo correct, it's just all about the set up of the image. Hopefully, I've succeeded on that end as well.

In the end, I was really happy that I was able to get the end result to resemble the storyboard so closely. You can the storyboard below.

Episode 0 Page 1

Page 1

So, I've been kicking the ZSB idea around now for a couple of years. Jed Desuka, the editor/ webmaster of GW and me came up with idea one day while I was visiting him, which was inturn based off of a completely random topic of conversation developed by two of my best friends while they were at work. The idea of "Zombie Shark Bear" was so cool I knew I had to run with it somehow.

So, while we had the concept and the barebones version of the story down, how the story would actually be told was something that was up for debate; as was the art style of the comic. I knew I wanted something different from Gremlin World, but what I knew I wanted to get out of it was beyond my grasp at the time. It wasn't until I saw a friend from Deviant Art's digital inking tutorial that I had the epiphany that brought it all together.

Below is one of the early drafts of the first page of ZSB, while it does have some stylistic similarities to the final version, I don't think it has the cohesion of the final piece, which I'm quite happy with and think it has a nice, dreamy kind of quality to it.

Episode 0 Cover

Here is the cover of Zombie Shark Bear Episode 0.
This page was really simple to make, actually, it's pretty much just the old "Coming Soon" image on a black background. Since I wanted the artwork in the chapter to speak for itself, I decided that a simpler cover page would work well. I also like the way Mirai's eyes contrast with the rest of the image.

The original teaser illustration I took Mirai's picture from is below.

Pending Updates

Okay, so I have a new plan!

This upcoming week, I will be posting ZOMBIE SHARK BEAR Episode 0 and Episode X here on the Production Blog and will giving some commentary on each page with each update! I'll also be showing the storyboards for some of the pages and may even include alternate versions of scenes if I still have those available! Please make sure to check out these updates!