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TALES OF THREE: A JOURNEY TO STAR LANDING
A collaborative project
Tales Of Three is about facing your fears and overcoming them, a story about friendship and connection despite differences…
This book was a personal project that I was working on together with Ânia Marcos from Portugal and Frederic Daelemans from Belgium, at that time living in Finland. We met online through an online art class, and quickly became great friends. A mutual friend of ours suggested that we would embark upon a project together and see what would come out of it.
And so we happily did.
The story and the characters are heavily influenced by ourselves and our own experiences. As we believe a story is best written if it has a foundation based on the experience of the storyteller. Their fears have been our own fears. We spent nearly every day after work and , in my case, art-school working on this project together. Living in different countries and different time-zones we were depending on online tools such as messenger, google hangout and google documents to work on this collaboration.
It took us nearly two years from start to finish. From planning, writing, sketching and illustrating to advertising, to creating videos and webpage and content for the Kickstarter campaign we held in the autumn of 2016, which to our delight became a success!
Although every desicion was a group effort we split the work so we could all have our individual touch upon the book, but also to make it way more efficient in production. I wrote the story, with plenty of feedback and re-writes. Ânia sketched the thumbnails which we were all going over afterwards picking out the ones we liked, or combining some to make the picture we wanted. Frederic did the lineart, and then Ânia and I went over the lineart with values schemes. I did the colour composition with feedback and suggestions from the others, and did the first painting layer. Fred finished the painting and Ânia added the final touches with texture.
The story itself isn't completed, but our lives have changed so much since we did the first book that it is currently unlikely that we shall continue the story. At least not anytime soon. However, if you are interessted in buying the book to view the artwork or reading the story, we still have a few copies left. Feel free to contact me about a purchase.
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We also have posters of each of the characters and a few postcards.
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