telemachus

Re: Hey Rube! Circuses in Pulp Hero.

Circuses: What does this say to you?

The first two things that come to mind are that great, old Superman cartoon where the giant ape goes on a rampage in a circus, and the other is the Circus of Crime various Marvel Comics titles, in particular, I think, The Incredible Hulk.

Re: Storn Art From Idea to Full Picture Year 4

This might help-

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_the_AK-47_and_M16

Re: Terran Trade Authority

Right now I still consider myself a novice at 3D modeling. So I have not managed to justify spending major bucks on a commercial package.

I just stayed up too late looking over your CG gallery and I gotta say it was worth it- you do excellent work! Dude, you don't need Maya or 3DSMax or Lightwave or whatever. From the looks of things, Blender handles everything you want to do more than adequately, so, again, I say stick with it.

K-7! The Leif Erickson!! Microgramma Bold Extended!!! Winch, you're my new hero! lol

Let me know if it's okay to email you- I have some thoughts I'd like to throw your way and discuss this whole 3D thing further. Again, well done, sir!

Re: Terran Trade Authority

I brought a second hand copy a few months back of, and I think the title is "Starliners of the Terran trade Authority". I have all the others.

 

Another book I really like is a book called Tour of the Galaxy, which reads like a scrapbook for a holiday (with a bit of espionage thrown in). Full of things like brouchures, receipts from shops etc etc. Remember that one?

I saw "Great Space Battles" about a million years ago, but never did see any of the other books in the series. "Tour..." sounds kinda cool- maybe it'll make it into the new line.

Re: Terran Trade Authority

So far Blender has been totally adequate for my needs. If I ever go pro, I'll look into a commercial product. I have heard nice things about Cinema 3D and Zbrush.

I'm too much of a lunkhead to figure out Blender without a lot of help, but I did give it a shot. I have access to some dandy video tutorials for both C4D and Zbrush, so that's the way to go for me. Well, two other things helped with C4D- it shares some similar elements with Photoshop and Illustrator, which I'm familiar with and then there's this guy http://www.renderosity.com/mod/gallery/browse.php?username=Matthieu

who has done some really incredible work with the program.

BTW, from what I understand, Blender is basically the same thing as Maya, so if it works for you, I say stick with it! You also might want to look into DAZ|Studio, the free and very well supported clone of Poser.

And how soon can we see a CG Ogre?

Re: Pulp Hero Resources

For your convenience, a list of dead links I discovered while surfing the list:

http://www.paper-dragon.com/1939/ima...rydeckplan.jpg

http://www.icewebring.com/ICE_Products/RMSS/RMSS_5701_Pulp_Adventures.shtml

http://www.ezhero.com/ezhero08.html

http://www.blackmask.com/cgi-bin/newlinks/page.cgi?g=&d=1

http://www.depts.drew.edu/~acadtech/faclab/natlgeomaplist.htm

http://www.labarc.com/Fangsters/

http://www.blackmask.com/cgi-bin/ne...page.cgi?g=&d=1

https://www.cia.gov/redirects/ciaredirect.html

http://www.paperworlds.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=UpDownload&file=index&req=viewsdownload&sid=84

http://www.paperworlds.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=UpDownload&file=index&req=viewsdownload&sid=33

http://home.earthlink.net/~ddoepke/index.html

http://www.armlesstigerman.com/intro/pulp/index.html

http://www.brighthouse.ca/lee/odyssey/

http://www.geocities.com/fadingshadows1/btm.htm

Re: Terran Trade Authority

I'm on several 3D rendering forums, and the artist who did the new TTA book is incredibly talented.

 

Any hack can throw together a 3D starship.

It takes a highly skilled artist to make a 3D render that looks like an oil painting done in the style of a specific artist.

Heyyyy, you're that OGRE guy!

And, yes, the CG work is *very* impressive. I thought I was looking at a reprint until I started noticing differences from the originals (intentional ones, that is).

What 3D programs do you use? I'm still in kindergarten stage with Cinema 4D and Zbrush, myself.

Re: Terran Trade Authority

who did the original art? some of them look like Chris Foss work' date=' Chris actually did some of the art for Marc Millers Traveller[T4']

Foss doesn't appear in the first book of the original series, "Spacecraft: 2000-2100AD", but there were a few other books in the series where he apparently did (I only have the first one). Angus McKie, Jim Burns, Colin Hay are other artists of note in the series, particularly the prolific McKie (of "Heavy Metal" fame), who seemed to be represented on every other page.

Oddly enough, there is a lot of similarity among most of the artists in these books, especially so because none of the work was commissioned. I'm curious as to why that is, but I suspect it may have to do with most or all of them living in Britain at the time.

Do any of the old-timers here (like me) remember these books? I was at Borders the other day and was surprised to see it on the shelf (they've been out of print for almost 30 years!). Turns out someone had acquired the rights to the printed material, but not the original artwork, so they recreated almost all of the paintings as 3d renderings.

At the end of the book was a mention of an upcoming rpg based on the TTA series, but, as far as I know, it hasn't been released yet. Here's a link to a Wikipedia page that covers the books, including the new stuff, in pretty good detail.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terran_Trade_Authority

edit: turns out the rpg is, in fact, available. Info available here-

http://www.terrantradeauthority.com/

"75 years of History From 1920 - 2006 for every year including the following

Popular Culture, Music, Film and TV, Technology, World Events

Cost of Living, Inflation, Price of goods and property, Wages and The Value of Money".

http://www.thepeoplehistory.com/index.html

Re: Takeshi Yamada's Sideshow Gaffs

Repped.

Re: Help Me Set up a Pulp Campaign

My vote goes for "Tomorrow Men". Has a nice, pulpy ring to it and is non-descriptive enough that it can accommodate a variety character types.

Re: Japanese ghost town

It's like Innsmouth from Hell!

 

 

Well, er, you know.

Maybe Innsmouth after the FBI came in and blew it up. "Take that, you froggies!"

...okay, maybe fifty years after they blew it up.

Re: Japanese ghost town

As the captioner observed' date=' that would [i']definitely[/i] make a great setting for some sort of post-apocalyptic movie. Nice find!

Being a Lovecraft fan, I can't help but think of it in terms of a horror story. It definitely has an "Innsmouth" thing going on.

Re: Japanese ghost town

Whoa! Nice find! Dangit! Tried to rep you but I need to spread it around a bit...

jak

I'll take a rain check.

Re: What are your favourite Pulp cities?

Howzabout Kurt Busiek's Astro City? It's chock full of built-in npc's and there's that snazzy map and everything. Just backdate it, take out the superheroes (heck, some of them would probably be right at home in a pulp setting) and voila!

As far as real cities go, Kansas City from the mid '20's to the late '30's can't be beat for a city full of story potential. Here's a quote from Wikipedia about KC-

"In the early 20th Century under "Boss" Tom Pendergast, Kansas City became the country's "most wide open town", with virtually no enforcement of liquor laws or hours. While this would give rise to Kansas City Jazz, it also led to the rise of the Kansas City mob (initially under Johnny Lazia) as well as the arrival of gangsters. The 1930s saw the Kansas City Massacre at Union Station, as well as a shootout between police and outlaws Bonnie and Clyde at the Red Crown Tavern near what is now Kansas City International Airport."

Now, throw honest-to-god cowboys (KC was a huge cowtown back then) into the mix and you've got a recipe for some crazy-fun pulp action!

Here's a site that I discovered today with photos of a 19th century Japanese mining town that could be used for a variety of purposes. As is, it's pretty creepy, but cleaned up, it could make for a nice exotic locale, if your pulp game runs toward the globe-spanning adventure variety.

http://archibase.net/archinews/14101.html

Re: The Future hasn't been Written.....yet

I almost remember an old Justice Society story. I think it was a Roy Thomas story. Per Degaton, the evil time traveller who set up events which threatened all of the US presidents up to Ronnie Reagan.

I could be wrong, but you may be thinking of All Star Squadron Annual #3 where Ian Karkull tries to influence the future by gathering together a rogue's gallery of second-string supervillains (all of them great for use as pulp villains, however) to assassinate future presidents from their present day (Truman) to our present day (at the time, Regan).

It's actually one of my favorite Squadron stories, due in large part to a creepy shadow-form Karkull and his extra-creepy lair- a house made entirely of flesh.

Here's a pretty thorough synopsis of that issue-

http://www.dcindexes.com/database/story-details.php?storyid=6142

Re: Flash Gordon Series News

I actually liked the Filmation version better than the campy movie.

 

Keith "But not Filmation's cheesy second series" Curtis

I feel the same way. At the very least it looked (all things considered) like the old comic strip, which was nice since that, for me anyway, was the strong point of the strip.

I have an old Starlog magazine that had a small article about it that showed an unused scene where Ming is communicating with Hitler(!) I can see why they decided to cut that bit, but it would have given the whole thing an interesting twist, if nothing else.

Re: [Hooks] News articles that could be Pulp Adventures

Just replace the cult with an evil one...or don't.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/religion/2007-01-19-zeus_x.htm?csp=34

Re: Sam Rami to do a Pulp Film?

Wasn't there a fair bit of the Jewish legend of the Golem in there as well? Or am I thinking of a different superhero?

If we're still talking Gladiator here, then no. Hugo Danner's father injected a solution into him while still in his mother's womb, giving him his abilities. The story is science fiction in the traditional sense in that it deals with (admittedly off-the-mark) scientific probabilities and logic and like that.

Re: Sam Rami to do a Pulp Film?

...and that should be "dour", not "dower".

Re: Sam Rami to do a Pulp Film?

People have pointed out the similarities between Doc Savage and Superman before. Doc was "the man of bronze"' date=' Supes "the man of steel", both had a "fortress of solitude" where they went to be alone, both are orphaned at the start of their adventures and both have the christian name "Clark". (I'm sure that there were other similarities, but those are the ones that I remember)[/quote']

 

It should be pointed out, too, that Superman borrowed heavily from Philip Wylie's excellent "Gladiator" published in 1930, at least where his rural upbringing, his super powers and their origins are concerned. Where Superman and "Gladiator" differ is in the generally dower mood of Wylie's story, dealing more with ideas later used in Marvel's Spider-Man and X-Men comics.

 

I highly recommend giving Gladiator a read. If it's hard to find, I do know that Howard Chaykin recently adapted the book as "Legend". I haven't read it, but if you're a fan of Chaykin, it could at least be an entertaining read.

Re: Digital Hero Pulp Index

The adventure index is by Genre.

 

The character index has a listing of a target genre ( pulp, western, horrer, fantasy, etc). I have not listed every possible genre but only the first or most fitting one. Currently the listing includes the first 20 issues of DH.

 

http://www.herogames.com/forums/showthread.php?t=51355

 

Mulgar

Now, that's the ticket!

Nice work, Mulgar! This will come in very handy.

Re: Pulp Hero Resources

One for the fans of the Air-War pulps

http://www.luft46.com/

The scary thing is, it's all *real* (sort of)