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No problem!

It might be more stylised - I think they mentioned something about that side, but they showed another (non-Rogue) project which was much more stylised - so I might be getting the two mixed up.

The grizzled guy/maybe Nort was a bit grotesque, but not massively stylised - I guess if you've a blue lead character with blank eyes, you might want to push it anyway - Dave Gibbons mentioned that he cross-hatched Rogue's skin to give it a more reptilian look, to go with the Cobra looking helmet but that kind of thing passed successive artists by.

Unfortunately the panel wasn't recorded (AFAIK) and they asked people not to, but it was interesting (from a tech point of view)

The Rebellion Films studio seems to use similar tech to the volume used on the Star Wars shows (which I'm pretty sure also use Unreal Engine to render the environments and backdrops that they shoot the actors against), so given that and the showreel stuff they've put out I did assume this would be a mix of CG and live action when I saw the announcement.

I'm sure everyone here will have seen this stuff already, but found it interesting to watch and imagine how a Rogue Trooper production could look.

The casting does give the impression it's a mocap and voice situation mind you. I'm really thrilled this is happening, as much as I got excited about the idea of a live action Rogue movie an animated version done right could end up being really special, can't wait to see it!

The LED wall Rebellion used for Percival was just a temp hire one summer - they have something they call the volume but it's a motion capture volume (basically their mocap division, audiomotion moved in a while back and is set up in their main stage.

As for Rogue, it's definitely motion capture CGI, although some of it will be keyframed too - they've done the main facial mocap of the leads, but still have a bunch of mocap for bodies etc which they said was being done down in Poole. (They were recruiting a few roles recently and are still looking for an Mid-level Unreal bod)

I went to a talk by Treehouse Digital back in November and they showed sample facial motion capture of a grizzled old guy, guess it could have been a Nort or something unconnected.

They talked about their pipeline but this was before the announcement, so didn't show much.

is something along the lines they showed - basically Unreal has a system called Metahuman Animator which makes this kind of thing very quick and a high level - you can get good results even with an iphone and head rig.

As for a career in VFX - it's like games - crunch periods, insecure - the past year with the strikes was particularly bad, although hopefully picking up...

This got me thinking about the 1991 (1990?) Comic Relief Comic, which, from memory, had a bunch of tooth related stuff. Anyone remember any of the contents (or still have a copy)?

Not that much from what I remember - the overall story had a contemporary Blackadder, the 2000 AD stuff had Jim Baikie drawing Dredd on a Lawmaster coming in to raise money, and a question about who had the biggest chin, Desperate Dan, Dredd, or Dan Dare, and the winner being Brucie...

I think I might have donated my copy to Eamonn, not sure.

A couple of interesting bits in it though.

Viz does a Roger Mellie page, where it talks about Savile, and FOR THE KIDS is in bold...

I also seem to recall reading  DC had some restrictions on what could be drawn, basically they supplied poses ?

There was a also a spitting image comic book around the same time, which had Brett Ewins doing a Judge Deaf strip + some other bits, and some Steve Dillon strips.

I think the original artwork was, might have been Stewart Perkins/WR Logan who mentioned it?

Cheers, makes sense - I guess Carlos might have just drawn that before he'd been told the colour was going to be limited to the first 2 pages.

I seem to recall someone who has the original art mentioned a page that was printed in b/w in Starlord is actually colour.

Only the small(ish) local co-op, which has been fine, although empties out of the fresh stuff pretty quickly.

Did sainsburys a couple of weeks back, when people were starting to panic buy, but didn't see any trouble - was just busy.

Whenever I've looked online it's been no chance of delivery...

All the best to you and the family Monkey.

My condolences, Auxlen.

Pete's autocorrect strikes again.

I've started this post several times with a few different reports from the NHS but can't really find the words.

Just this: whatever social distancing and personal hygiene regime you're currently practicing please double it. Really. Step it up again.

That's all. I'll see you on the other side.
Eamonn

Definitely.

Take care Eamonn, looking forward to buying you many pints once this is over.

Thanks, yeah the early stuff was new to me, and of course his character designs were amazing.

Glad people who didn't get the chance to see it at the conventions can watch it.

Something I put together for the Lawless/Enniskillen conventions

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0f-BFBeOzg

Take care Eamonn,

I would have hoped pictures of a temp morgue being erected in London might persuade people, but seeing clips of fuckwits in gyms wanting to 'take it on the chin' just makes me despair.

The UK government is currently building a temporary morgue in London to house the victims of Covid 19.

Their optimistic death toll is 20,000 people in the UK, with no vaccine for a long while, coupled with a massive economic slump.

Maybe a sense of perspective is in order.

Avoid crowded places or events.

Scottish contingent meet-ups were well ahead of the curve there.