#vfx

S3E9: The Tholian Web ⋆.˚ ✧ · ˚⊹ Original effects by Mike Manor:

"I projected the shots onto a white card with a rotoscope set-up and plotted pencil marks where the ship moved by tracing and advancing each frame. Then I created the cel-like cartoon animation using black lines for the grid. Each shot showed a partially completed grid with one line being animated across the field as if by the Tholians. I shot those by pulling a white card frame by frame, revealing the black line underneath. A black and white negative of all this resulted in a black background with white or clear lines on the film which was used to create an animation burn-in." -Interview with Starlog magazine, 1979

Compare these to the 2006 remaster below:

Skulduggery Pleasant was one of the first characters I ever created art for. It was also the first time I posted my art online, shamelessly tagging the author on Twitter because I was so proud of it.

In short, it’s partly thanks to this book series that I am posting my art online nowadays, so it seemed fair to do a little something to say thank you!

Since I now work full-time as a concept artist for video games, the character concept art format seemed fitting. :D