Moon Dust (Project) ⁽¹⁰⁾

One small step of a person - and a huge leap of mankind … Neil Armstrong, first man on the Moon, 1969. We need to move on in a kind of challenge "Draw every day, so as not to go crazy during the world quarantine and learn something new." This time I decided to draw something completely from scratch, fast enough and schematic enough to work out the very technique of drawing with a tablet.

Little by little, in my spare time, I polish the test scene for the cartoon - while it is, without optimization for fast rendering. Moon Dust will take place on the Moon in the 1980s, and therefore it is imperative that the environment is convincing. So far it turns out like this: In a panoramic view, it looks like this (hold and drag to move camera; the panorama can be expanded to full screen, like…

In the alternative historical reality of the film, the International Space Station "New Frontier" is the space station "Skylab" launched into lunar orbit (in reality, destroyed due to lack of funding), supplemented by residential and research modules of American and Soviet origin, as well as a landing module of the revived program Apollo and a docking lock for the space shuttle. In 1986, united humanity is about to return to the moon to build a…

The climax of the story: when the deprived of strength, the main character finds himself alone with an inhuman mind, ready to devour him, but refuses to die, even when he has nothing left to live for. Materials: A4 paper, acrylic paints.

One of the key moments in my comic is when the characters unexpectedly meet someone who should not be on the surface of the moon at all: the third member of the 1986 expedition. During the flights of the Apollo lunar program, one of three people necessarily remained in orbit in order to keep in touch with the Earth and help dock the lander with the command module. Here, an unknown force literally breaks the…

When I was finishing work on the Moon Dust comic, I wanted to make a colorful yet cinematic cover for it, which would resemble movie posters. At the same time, it was interesting for me to try to paint something really large-scale with acrylic paints. In the foreground is the lonely figure of the hero of the story, the first American astronaut on the dark side of the Moon, in a damaged spacesuit, behind him…

The last man on the moon with no hope of a happy outcome. Illustration for my comic "Moon Dust". Paper, pen.

Test render of a lunar landscape with detailed relief, baked lighting and a dynamic camera. It turned out quickly and cinematically - a good way. 3ds Max + Vray + After Effects + Sony Vegas

A clay figurine of the head of a character in my comic at a turning point in the plot, when, due to damage to the suit, "moon dust" enters into a chemical reaction with his body and takes over his mind. Clay, gouache, acrylic paints.

I've always wanted to create my own cartoon. It was an agitating, intolerable desire that sat inside and flared up again and again after it was almost crushed by doubts about the possibility of this idea, technical difficulties, lack of experience and knowledge, and so on. I'm still not sure if I can do it - but the more I think about it, the more I realize that I will finish this project one way…