20130411, 10:58 – Sort of a more cogent version of the first scene of Earth. Dyluck and Alias, the Sabrosa, elements of the Sabrosa air wing, nuclear weapons… yeah, there’s a lot of parallels. Earth is to Alien the way Water is to Prometheus, I suppose – the same core structure fleshed out in two very different ways. It helps …
20130526, 07:50 – The other half of the tenth anniversary weekend – Return To The QAR! Built in Q4 of 2005, the QAR is the oldest CG interior in ATC. It’s actually my first CG interior ever – my classwork in the 97-99 AIP CAM program wasn’t exactly location-centric. The hangars in John West’s Australian airstrip are (very) open to …
20120623, 07:08 – The Hemera generates gravity in a rotating section – a section that locks into place when the engines are running. The Sabrosa carries massive Mass Amplifiers and Mass Abstraction hardware and can effectively generate its own gravity field and ignore or diminish the influence of external forces on the ship. The Daedalus diminishes the single biggest health …
20130728, 10:29 – I finished this page last Sunday night. Since then it’s had a couple of minor adjustments but has otherwise remained good to go. A study of boredom and light over time, this is the first ATC environment to be rendered at multiple times of day since the night/day of the mall parking lot. While not a whole …
20131006, 10:54 – Nanananaananananana SPACE PORN! This is the last page of the chapter, the last page to be published with Movable Type, and the conclusion of ATC’s first chronological advancement since July of 2008. The last time I wrapped a chapter of Transitional Voices, I followed through with a massive CMS upgrade and site reconfiguring, then the second edition …
20140216, 18:10 – Last modified January 19th, this marks the end of the buffer! I started rendering work on the next four pages yesterday, and got the exteriors and one-off rendered and the primary environment file properly adjusted. I hope, anyway – it looks good at the moment and should hold for the scene but I made huge adjustments without …
West is an A series Addicaine. The program was in its earliest stages when his dad up and disappeared with his pregnant wife and a number of other Heirotus personnel. That story was going to be ATC volume one for a number of years and may eventually be told, but until this thing either takes off (unlikely) or I run …
Plot: The corporate security service and the Colonial Authority security service are, legally, very different animals. In this case “called up” means elevated – in responsibility if not authority or position – as opposed to, say… transferred from the reserves to active duty. If ATC were an OVA then the Peregrine’s tail would roughly match Grij’s horns in a quick …
20160828, 09:19 – Visual continuity edit. I replaced Whitehouse’s placeholder background in panel five with the background I’d intended for him to have when I wrote the script. The weather icon in panel two has been changed from “sunny” to “raining” to reflect this change. More details in the metadata of the next page. The screenshots below have been updated …
The call Greymalkin’s been waiting for finally came in. Panel two is a callback to Jason Whitehouse’s mention of Templar Assistance Commands a few pages ago – TACT being the acronym of Templar Assistance Command, Terra. Think MACV only with better technology and far fewer personnel. Greymalkin filled in “Terra” on the requisite paperwork for obvious reasons – “TACT” sounds …
Defense protocols have been stood down – with extreme predjudice. Whoever’s on that ship doesn’t need to make threats – they clearly mean business. They are loaded for bear. They are not fucking around. The explosion in panel two is the turret from panels six and seven of Fire -27-. This is consistent with its location as depicted in Details …
To make this page appear as intended I performed a complete re-rendering of every previous shot of the QAR. Major changes include lighting, the removal of every reference to the Sabrosa on maintenance hatches and other textures, the replacement of the “psychic” section of the signal console with “quantum,” the replacement of the circle texture, and the addition of a …