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		<title>Promo pinup material</title>
		<link>http://axl99.wordpress.com/2006/09/24/promo-pinup-material/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Sep 2006 05:29:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hello again everyone!
I figured sooner or later we&#8217;ll need some eyepopping stuff to pimp this thing out sooner or later, so here&#8217;s a small round of conceptual illutrations I was playing around with over the weekend :):
    
Thanks for watching, your eyes peeled for some more concept work in the next update [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=axl99.wordpress.com&blog=265837&post=51&subd=axl99&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Vernier: colour concepts</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Aug 2006 02:38:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is the entire list of colour schemes I whipped up for Darwin. Keeping in mind the Vernier had to look a little junky and rustic, he and I picked out #1 and #4 for the time being. 
[Who knows, maybe we'll end up tweaking them some more.....]
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And these are the aforementioned two colour schemes. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=axl99.wordpress.com&blog=265837&post=50&subd=axl99&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Vernier: refinement stages</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Aug 2006 03:16:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Check it out ladies and gentlemen, Darwin&#8217;s getting pretty close to finalizing the Vernier mech design!

Three more conceptual drawings from roughs to cleanup, plus a little commentary from the Duke himself: 
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Refinement stage 1 :

&#8220;One of the critical issues that have to be addressed when it comes to this sort of design is whether or [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=axl99.wordpress.com&blog=265837&post=42&subd=axl99&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s official &#8211;</title>
		<link>http://axl99.wordpress.com/2006/08/18/its-official/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Aug 2006 06:10:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[:D~!!
The sidestory is now a part of the Rotogin franchise; meaning featured content here can be published alongside the comics.
So far we&#8217;ve got 4 segments planned for the sidestory; the online version will be in b+w screentones while the published version will be in full colour for the sake of a final polish. Things are [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=axl99.wordpress.com&blog=265837&post=41&subd=axl99&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Vernier: mech concepts</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Jul 2006 05:54:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So far, so good. Here&#8217;s some of the preliminary roughs Darwin drew up for Strachan and Milton&#8217;s mech. There&#8217;s a lot more to come on its finalizing stages, we should see a solid design come out pretty soon. 
Here the following images will also have a little bit of Darwin&#8217;s commentary:
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THUMBNAIL STAGE:

&#8220;The one concern I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=axl99.wordpress.com&blog=265837&post=32&subd=axl99&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>S+M character concepts</title>
		<link>http://axl99.wordpress.com/2006/07/14/sm-character-designs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Jul 2006 03:45:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ladies and gentlemen, meet Strachan (left) and Milton (right)! 

 

 

[I just noticed the S+M bit not too long ago LOL, apparently Darwin didn't realize it until I told him hehe.] 
Ahem&#8230; 
These concepts I drew up will be adapted in Darwin&#8217;s drawing style for the sidestory doujin. 
Here we have a couple guys [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=axl99.wordpress.com&blog=265837&post=14&subd=axl99&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">colour concept #1</media:title>
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		<title>Siris character concepts</title>
		<link>http://axl99.wordpress.com/2006/07/14/siris-character-designs-mech/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Jul 2006 02:53:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[SIRIS &#8220;THE SPIDER LADY&#8221; MUNROE:

Above is the original Siris character design J.Korim [penciller] drew up for the Rotogin comic. And below [mech designer] Darwin&#8217;s version loosely based from Korim&#8217;s concepts for an animated Rotogin trailer:

 Click here for the animation modelsheet ;). And just a lil bonus, here&#8217;s one of the Rotogin covers done by [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=axl99.wordpress.com&blog=265837&post=10&subd=axl99&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Operation Phoenix is a go!</title>
		<link>http://axl99.wordpress.com/2006/07/11/operation-phoenix-is-a-go/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Jul 2006 04:12:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In order to understand what Operation Phoenix is about, one must understand what Rotogin is about. If you&#8217;re familiar with the title, you can skip the next paragraph and read the one near the bottom ;). 
Otherwise&#8230; 
For those who don&#8217;t know, &#8220;Rotogin&#8221; is a comic book series that takes place in a semi-distant future. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=axl99.wordpress.com&blog=265837&post=6&subd=axl99&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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