Comic Books and Tarot Cards

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This is the look of my Medieval Domain, the home of some of my high level of detail tarot decks, notably the dragon, medieval and Falconetta Tarot Decks. I’m also working on a few comic books, notably Zombie Girl Comics and Vampire Comics. I’ve come up with a DIY (Do It Yourself) Comic Book Kit, if anyone’s interested. It’ll cost around $50, if we’re lucky and the layout printing job doesn’t come in any higher than I’ve planned for. What the kit consists of is a layout set, ready for your drawings, captions and text balloons, making a pocket-book sized comic of 40 pages. The cost of creating a full-color 40 page comic book today is somewhere around $50 or more, and that’s in quantity, unless you go off-shore, in which case the cost per single copy of full-color full-sized comic comes to around half a buck, but then there’s shipping and customs. Whew. Give me Staples copy center every time, and a deal where I can print a single copy per demand at an acceptable retail cost. What do you think of the idea of using GODD screenshots like the one above in a full-color comic? If you want to keep in touch with all the latest stuff, I’d suggest that you follow my tweet, you should pardon the expression, and get on our special “notify me” mailing list — you have to ask, practically beg, to get on that list; we don’t put you there, unless you want to be on that list, and demand it. My method with new folks in study groups has always been “make ’em work for it”, meaning The First Initiation is to actually get off your lazy butt, leap off the couch, switch off the Smart Phone, and swing into action!

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Pre-Columbian Tarot Deck Coming Soon

Pre-Columbian Tarot Deck Coming Soon at a Theater Near You!!!

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Just taking a break from building a major breakthrough “movie” set in the GODD gaming environment. I found that we had something on the order of 125+ models and several hundred more textures that would work well in a Meso-American tarot deck, so I launched off into a world-building session and came up with a doozy. Everyone is demanding that I stop everything else and work on this photo set, perhaps even with a running orb later on. I expect the deck to serve as the basis for storytelling and prognostication. This sample photo is what I’ll be showing —  hopefully by next Saturday’s ICW. If you still don’t know how to log into the ICW so you can ask questions and participate LIVE, you’re invited! Email me to find out how.

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Get the Bagel Deck Today!!!

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Here’s a list of the GODD Level Tarot Decks I have completed in photography to date…the adjustments for printing and installation of images within the tarot deck layout are in progress as we speak…

Medieval Deck — Dragon Deck — Subway — Egyptian Deck — Space Buddha — and I just added one I’d forgotten was ready now — Norton Street — all of which can be ordered right now, today, for 2 week delivery.

I’m currently working on Falconetta and my very funny “Bagel Deck” featuring such lower arcana items as the 6 of Bagels. I’ll be presenting these decks at the ICW this morning at the usual time, 6:30 AM PST. Was just reminded that I’m also working on the Witches’ Moon Tarot and the Martian Tarot Deck which is set in Mars City, the new capital of Mars since the fall of Barsoom in A.D. 2012.

See You At The Top!!!  — gorby

Level of Detail

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Meet Falconetta; she’s the heroine of my latest tarot deck, The Enchanted Huntress, due for production sometime very soon. The “movie” set around her is a combined effort of the rendering provided by VAL, the models, provided by XxaxX, and the set design, direction and photography, provided by me. The rest of the work is with Marvette and Samantha, and the deck gets from that point to you. The whole deal takes about two weeks to negotiate all the turns, including three different points of proofreading and editing. If I were to render these images in the traditional way, at this Level of Detail it would take about three years to complete, and it would all have to be by the same hand to make it work. Set design of the shooting orb takes about 100-300 hours of steady work. Placement and camera work, about an hour for each setup, plus the actual shots. Costume, character, prop and set changes take an average of an hour apiece.  Each model takes many hours to make. There’s a lot of time and effort in these things!!!

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Custom Tarot Deck Just For Your Website or Business!

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Started work this morning on Space Buddhaa Tarot Deck which I estimate at about one to two weeks until delivery. It will be a space opera based storyline, with characters out of Tesla III and other spectacular Orbs which are yet to come, to be featured as a specialty “website-name” tarot deck, on spacebuddha.com — and you can order a specialty tarot deck for your website or business, too!!! I do all the production work and roughly 50-100 hours of eyeball-zapping intricate detail slave-labor free. You pay only for the decks you actually order. Minimum order is 50 decks for a custom designed deck — you are the only vendor of that deck!!! Ask about wholesale prices.

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Yes, Indeedy, I’m Happy With This One…

 

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Here it is at last. I took this screenshot on the set of the Medieval and Dragon Tarot Decks. This image is much smaller than the full-size screensaver that you can download from my site. This is the “Dragon Coven” scenario, and it’s the one we’re using this month to tie in all the Urthgame folks. See You At The Top!!! — gorby

Your Egyptian Tarot Deck is Ready…

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Well, here it is at last! The image-making process of my Gods of Egypt Tarot Deck has been completed. The production of the level in which it was made took place over a number of years — the textures and technical skills are cumulative. The entire development of this technique, which is unique to 3D image creation at this time, took a total of 32 years, starting with tabletop and primitive computer systems and platforms,  with the result that today’s engine has thousands of particle and physics effects as well as rendering methods that make the latest video games seem crude by comparison. The GODD 3D Engine was not made for Flattie toys. It’s designed for Real World Voyaging. My Gods of Egypt Tarot Deck will definitely trigger some travel in even a hardened astral-plane-resistant Collapsed Being. I’ll be talking more about states of Being in relation to the organic body/mind/emotions and what it means to piggy-back a flattie, at the next ICW.

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Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Boobies But Were Understandably Afraid to Ask:

Well, I debated for several weeks about whether to post this or not; Rachel Bloom is a total scream, but she definitely goes over the limit, especially with her other videos. This one is the least offensive and has a lot of broad physical humor, the kind that made burlesque what it was. I think it’s mostly harmless, but it does underscore the interests of humans, flat or round, and illuminates the chief sport of biped males — to touch a stranger’s boobs. I guess it sort of makes sense — there is little else to provide amusement for the 60-90 years you have to wait to die.

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Friendly Flatties

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That’s me on the right, indicating my very intelligent but very literal laboratory creation, Bob the Robot, at the 1956 WorldCon Science Fiction Convention. The robot responded to simple commands from the RC unit in my friend Phil’s hand and yes, that’s a lampshade he’s wearing for a hat — that’s what was available at the junk store. He was built in three days. The hardest part was the aluminum paint — it wasn’t perfected yet, and didn’t do well on cardboard. Inside the robot costume is my friend Mike, who helped design and built it, and then figured out how to motivate it and make it “speak”. A flashbulb installed at the top would go off at the touch of a button. It exploded the first time we tried it. Very simple programming produces flatties, basically ON BP=MP, which is to say, whenever contacting any “otherness”, move toward it. Another way of saying that is to quote the U.S. Army’s 3 Commandments: If it moves, salute it. If it doesn’t move, pick it up. If you can’t pick it up, paint it. Of course the paint used is always whitewash. If I didn’t appreciate flatties, I wouldn’t have created and used thousands of them. They make the game work!!! Only thing is, don’t expect from Artificial Intelligence what you’d expect from a live player, is all.

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Hot Lips Ready for Action

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I’ll soon be posting the decks that are currently available — they now number 16 artwork decks and 2 absolutely stunning high-detail intricate and beautiful 3-D full color decks — the medieval and the dragon decks, actually, both of which are total knockouts. You’ve never seen a deck with this level of detail before, not ever. The Norton Street deck is currently a work in progress, and should be completed within a week or two. The decks pictured above are from my “Mango Girl” series, intended as guides for my commercial, advertising, layout, animation and fashion designers and comic and book illustrators. If you’re interested in becoming a commercial artist, you might inquire about my current art courses. Ah, I mentioned “Hot Lips” at the start of this posting…it’s one of the Mango Girl series, in this case, 80 fully tarted-up hotties on their way to a Hugh Hefner party.

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