Blood Bound Review
Blood Bound The Comic
My very first comic review post ^^. I’ll probably be posting these reviews every few days or so :3. Anyway, Blood Bound is a beautifully made 3D comic that was created by a very good friend of mine who guys by the name of Anubis, or Anubis Darque of Anubic Darque Studios :3.
His work never seizes to amaze me xD Never. I think he uses a program called DAZ studio (I’ve tried DAZ and failed miserably. Technology hates me xD) and I must admit, I have never seen anything so beautiful from a 3D comic in my life. The modeling, the design of his female characters, the whole enchilada xD. Pure Beauty
Blood Bound Story
Blood Bound is an adult webcomic that entails the life of a young female Vampire named Jinni, whose past life is unknown to many and almost forgotten by her. She lives in a world inhabited by both humans and other creatures. These other creatures include vampires, demons, and everything in between :3. In the story, these are known as the inhuman. Humans and inhumans have very little interaction in the story…Unless the inhuman get hungry for human flesh x.x. Yikes! But besides that fact, the inhuman lead normal lives, just like the humans. They have families, friends, religion, and fun!
Jinni meets many other inhuman like herself. Like the sexy Succubi known as Sassy (or Sassana), a head strong and worldly vampire named Christine, Sassy’s friend Chimera, the hulking and often times scary Anubis, and many many more. Then there’s also the humans ofcourse, who usually don’t make it past a good 2 or so pages when they do show up xD hehe…
My take
Let me just first say that I have been a dedicated fan of Blood Bound since I can last remember :3. If you are in to the adult comic scene, very much like I am, then Blood Bound is for you ^^. Blood Bound has been around for a number of years and it has gotten pretty long by now :3. Anubis is very dedicated to working on this comic, and the results of his pages have proven this :3. I definitely recommend this comic, 100%.
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June 30th, 2009 at 6:04 pm
I actually downloaded and installed Daz3D based on what I saw in Bloodbound comic and another favorite of mine, The Dreamland Chronicles. (Reached 900 pages today!)
Bloodbound looks a lot more like some of my own work; photoshopping photos and screen grabs into large artworks, and I’d played a bit with the concept using Second Life, so I thought it would be pretty straightforward.
I hit the interface and bounced! I realized that IF I spent a year playing with it, I might achieve something – but I was a lot better off sticking with the techniques I have spent years developing.
I honestly think that it’s a question of wiring – Daz3D is supposed to be very intuitive. And, I mean, I can see how it SHOULD be. But not to my brain, even though I managed to figure out the Second Life way of doing things quickly enough.
I think I may go back to SL (or one of the other online worlds) just to build sets for places I use a lot. (It’s POSSIBLE to do a SL comic, it’s been done, but it takes either a lot of friends or expensive automation tools.) But even a very crude representation of frequently-used “sets” would be damned useful.
One of the things BloodBound shows best is that you don’t need to accept the limitations of any given medium.
Meanwhile – both the very adult Bloodbound and the kid-friendly Dreamland Chronicles shows the value of sticking with a project.
I spent the last six years dedicating my efforts to ephemeral matters – political commentary. I ran into a wall not that long ago; I just could not read the news any longer, and started clicking on the many comics that advertised on Graphictruth. Well, it’s hard to avoid the thought that my art and writing skills put me squarely in the middle of the pack. There are better artists and better writers, but the ranks thin a bit if you consider both at once.
And then, there are even fewer that deal with adult themes in a grownup way. Ethics, cause and effect, etc. And I’ve been a fan of “Undergrounds” since I discovered R. Crumb and Vaughn Bode in high school.
The Hub and The End (both on DrunkDuck) are current must-reads for me.
BTW, you might want to check out Zazzle.com as an alternate to Cafepress. (an example site of mine) Somewhere just before last Christmas, CP went all corporate and started screwing over it’s contributers in favor of the quarterly revenue reports – and Zazzle has better tools for artists, IMHO. It also is a bit easier to integrate into blogs and websites without frames.