PRODUCTION SHUT DOWN

Fans and casual readers visiting the tomorrowsgirls.com website last week were met with an announcement that production on the comic has been suspended. We’re not happy with it. We don’t like the direction it’s going, we don’t like the script, and the technology we’re using to produce it is obsolete. We’re revamping the whole thing, and we plan to return before Christmas. New promos and previews will start appearing on the old site URL in July. We hope you’ll stick it out with us while we try to make improvements to our work. With any luck, it’ll be worth the wait.

TEST RENDER / V4 JAN

Yes, I know. I’ve neglected the blog forEVER, and I’m a rotten friend. I’m sorry. We started a new company a few months ago and it’s been all consuming.

Here’s a render of the new version of Jan Starr. Refinements are exclusive to her figure, which gives her a much thinner/slighter silouette–far more similar to the original Victoria 3 mesh model which played Jan for eight (yes, EIGHT) years. The new Jan will take her place in the comic when we next see her in the current arc. Thanks for patiently waiting for this update.

PROMO RENDER / BRIDGET STEELE

Bridget Steele

 

Tomorrow Girl, Bridget Steele set adrift on a barren sandy desert plane. This Vicky 4.2 model has been injected with the PERFECT V4 morph kit which fixes mesh problems when the travel of the model’s joints exceed their design parameters, causing ugly wrinkles and odd shapes–particularly in the shoulder joints, and where the thigh meets the hip. The V4 model also tends to elongate the tush when she bends forward more than a few degrees, and these morphs “correct” that. By correct, I mean they sort of shave off a piece of her backside to keep the proportions correct. The result is either MUCH better, or it creates an odd flat angle along the backs of her thighs which you then have to go back into the movement parameter dials to correct.

I will say that these new morphs do a GREAT job for the every-day render, and I haven’t had to do NEARLY the amount of adjusting that ordinarily I would have.

Carmen Promo

A promotional image for Carmen.

Sydney and AMP

Sydney engages AMP, in conversation on the bridge of the Bad Idea.

Sydney, the Bad Idea’s navigator, tries to establish communications with AMP, a military combat droid which has commandeered the ship so that he can rejoin his unit.  As earlier established in the story, Sydney has a problem with pharmaceuticals.

Scillation Technology

Scillation Navy shuttle on initial descent.  The shuttle can be crewed by two, and can seat five.  The shuttle has faster-than-light capability for short jumps, and can maneuver in and out of planetary atmospheres with aplomb.  The military version is lightly armed with two energy canon on the wing-tips.  Civilian versions are available for smaller wattage particle beams.  The shuttle can operate for up to 7 Earth standard years without refueling, and can sustain its crew in the void for days.  Volluna is equipped with a pair of them.

Kennedy Brell, Receptionist

Lassiter’s Receptionist, Kennedy Brell

Her Dad’s software engineering job took the family from Seoul to Pacific City when Kennedy was four.  By the time she was five, he decided to leave the company and start his own firm, and by age 7, Kennedy was getting picked up by a driver at their Lemmon Place flat, and whisked away to the trendy private school her Dad could then afford to send her to.  Kennedy, supported and nurtured by the best of Pacific City society, excelled at everything that interested her.  And that turned out to be almost everything; music, math, art, dance, physics, everything.  And when she was old enough, biology.

Her parents were shocked when Kennedy came home one day in hysterical tears.  And when she told them why, her father threw her out of their flat with only the clothes on her back, and the contents of her purse.

Within hours, Kennedy became easy prey for the street types in midtown, trolling the avenues for pretty young runaways, and girls in trouble–no shortage of them in Pacific City, sadly.  Whitney Rand happened to be driving by and noticed Kennedy, out of place, being scooped into the back seat of the beat-up sedan, and called the license plate and descriptions in to Tai, Kristin, and an impromptu Tomorrow Girl clean-up squad.  With Tai’s help, Kristin and her team found the door of the squalid flat in short order, and went through it too fast for the occupants to do much other than gawk.  As fast as it all went down, they weren’t fast enough to keep the heroin out Kennedy’s veins.  Kristin’s motto being “no job too big,” the team took Kennedy back to One Lassiter Plaza, to Dr. Lender, and to Gabriel Lassiter.

When Kennedy woke up, she was alone in a room with a lot of odd equipment, wearing a robe, and hungry enough to eat the particle-board table top at which she sat.  Dr. Lender stepped in and explained things to her, and after Kennedy got through laughing, Dr. Lender told Kennedy about the loyalty device in her head, the new apartment, job, and career path she had acquired while she slept off the heroine/strychnine cocktail she’d been given.  And at first, Kennedy resented the meddling of her new employer.  Then she realized that she had it pretty good, and she resigned herself to being part of the Lassiter office scenery.  And still later, she started thinking about the loyalty device, and how she would find a way to get it out of her head.  The thought would keep her occupied for a really long time.

Carmen / New Studies

Tomorrow Girl, Carmen Connors

Carmen has long been one of my favorite Tomorrow Girls.  Up until recently, she’s not enjoyed a lot of column inches in the story, but over the last several weeks, we’ve chosen to focus on one of her adventures.  We take up the story at a point six years prior to the main plot’s timeline, when Carmen and Alexi meet a man named Nelson Ford who’s wife has been kidnapped by a ring of white slavers.  Nelson explains how they found themselves in that predicament, and why he can’t simply turn to the police to get his wife, Kendall back.  Carmen decides to take the case, and jumps into the fray to restore the Ford family to its pre-victim state.  But due care and caution are not among Carmen’s hallmark traits, and after plunging herself into what she thinks is a run-of-the-mill conflict with organized crime, discovers that the game is a good deal larger than she suspected.  The new plot thread featuring Carmen, Alexi, and a young Tomorrow Girl Agency, is playing out in the comic now at http://www.tomorrowsgirls.com

Holly / Experimental Haircut

While we love Holly, “adoptee” (some would say alien abductee) and First Officer aboard Lassiter’s “Bad Idea,” we’ve never liked her hair. Oh, it looks fine when she’s standing straight, arms at her sides. Not so much when she’s bending this way or that, or doing something active. We’ve been looking at alternatives, and we’re kind of not minding this new haircut for Holly. It’s a 3Dream model which they call “Gregoria Hair.” Would like to know what you think of it. Let us know!

The Merc Squad

A trial render of Rick’s mercenary squad, marooned on an offworld mountainside trail. Part of the story thread we picked up when we first met Monica Rice, the tracker.