About
The Comic
HumanVariant is about a girl named Jess and her friends in a near-future cyberpunk or dystopia setting. Maybe I took "cyberpunk" a bit too literally in the musical sense, because the characters are in a band too, although they would refer to their music as "analog" rather than punk. Partly because I don't want to get into the punk-or-not-punk argument about music that doesn't technically exist...
Anyhow, Jess and co. are set to have various adventures involving other bands, school, gangs, political activists, cults and shady government organizations. This is a mature comic, with mature storylines. Don't yell at me for the sex, drugs and/or rock & roll because I'm not changing it. If you don't like it, don't read it.
The comic is rendered using a program called Daz3D, which is completely free for download (although you will probably end up paying for content at some point. Then again, there are a lot of freebies out there.) It's not because I can't draw. I can, I'm just incredibly slow at it. That being said, rendering isn't exactly fast either. If you want to critisize me for using a program like this to produce illustrations, try it first. I don't mean plunk a figure in a scene, fill it up with pre-made paid content and render it with no shadows so it looks like crap. I mean design your own character morphs, paint a bunch of your own textures, make sure all the surfaces and lights and depth of field are perfect and then postwork it so it looks decent. Only then will you qualify to tell me that I'm doing it "the easy way". And I still won't care.
The Author
Ugh, I hate writing about myself.
Ok fine, I'm 28, a full-time university student, and currently in Canada waiting for my visa to clear so that I can go to the US and live with my husband, who is already down in Oregon waiting for me...
I have another (often neglected) page over at BlueNotebook.net that holds my random tutorials and freebies for Daz, as well as a couple other random projects...