3. How Is Star Quack Produced?

At first, the old fashioned way! I draw Star Quack by hand and ink it with the typical cartoonist’s #2 Windsor Newton Round brush. After inking, the artwork is scanned into my Apple G4 and colored in Adobe Photoshop. This unlettered artwork is then optimized into a jpeg file and brought into Macromedia Freehand, where I add the lettering. This lettering is created with a computer font made from my own cartoon handwriting. After this, I export the page as a PDF file with embedded fonts so that you can read clear, sharp text on your computer monitor no matter how much you zoom in on the artwork!

4. How Do You Do The Covers?

The covers are handpainted in egg tempera on glass at about 3’ x 5’.....NOT! Seriously, I am using a 3D animation/modeling program called Lightwave to do the covers. Lightwave is now officially the most commonly used 3D software in Hollywood. It is used for animated series like Max Steel, as well as special effects for live action series. In fact, Lightwave is now used instead of miniatures by some science fiction show called Star...Quest or Star...Track or something. I can’t remember now. Lightwave is a fantastic program and I hope to do more than just illustrations with it someday. Even though I’ve built many Star Quack models with it, I can’t really animate them until I get a handle on creating facial morphs and skeletons and etc. But I’m hoping that day will come! I have a few very simple "fly by" kind of animations here if you'd like to see them. More 3D models should be built by Fall of '02 for you to see.