Intialising Legal Warfare Site...



THE LEGEND THAT IS!

Damn, Kernal finished the site... now I have to think of something to write here. Uhm.. I write stuff... goodly. =) Seriously, many years now of ColdFusioneering has led to an overabundance of Let Me Do Something Else (stop suggesting PHP and ASP - I don't have the patience! - besides, I rock at CF ;P), so we've resurected a story I'd been playing around with way back in the early days of highschool (don't send your kids to boarding school *nuff said*) and voila! we have LegalWarefare.com, hopefully you'll like what we've done with the place.
 
To set the story straight, the development process goes something like this:
* I write a brief script - with help from Matt and Callem (less of the latter as much as possible =))
* I'll sketch out a little plan comic
* Chips will drag his feet a bit
* Kernal will assess what he can do in 3D for me - ie: what's faster to do that way than flatout draw
* Chips will drag his feet a bit
* Kernal churns out what he's able to from Blender 3d and dumps it in my lap
* Chips drags his feet some more
* I draw the background elements that need hand drawing, composite in anything Kernal has done, and colour it, majority of effects are done at this stage as well as initial placement of voice balloons
* Chips will wonder if we need anything done at which point we remind him of the current comic going on
* After much bitching from Kernal and I, Chips comes through with the goods, sometimes drawn in the wrong aspect - but That's Okay because it's done! (usually quite well too mind you)
* At this point I compile the characters from chip's PSD into the comic, shift voice balloons into final positions, add any final effects relating to characters - shadows - eye-glow etc. We save the comic out and upload it into the site - finne!

Probably a good place to point out that we do this in our lunch hours - so in weeks were we've got big projects on, there may be no comic - but if that's the case, we'll try to upload something, even if it's a Megatokyo Shirt Guy Dom effort!






THE LEGEND THAT WAS!

Web Developer, 3D Animator (*cough*), Graphic Designer, Basketball Player and Legend SAX Player... Is there anything that this guy can't do... Well YEAH!!!!!(my knitting skillz are very ordinary)

Had the joy of working with Aegis for the past 5 years or more and - more importantly - lived to tell the tale.

My drawing skill is somewhat lacking, which is why I don't draw anything in the comic. You can see my l33t drawing skillz here on this page, with the mugshots of Aegis, Chips and I.

Oh well need to get back to whatever it is I am supposed to be doing at the moment.






THE LEGEND THAT NEVER WILL BE!

Webdeveloper/graphic designer come comic artist/ wannabe animator

I also had the disadvantage of working with aegis resulting in severe disformaties and a few insults :P

and yes as you may have guessed i am the bane of aegis, and kernal's insults :)

i also live several thousand kilometres away from them(the way it should be) so we work via email and skype :P


 
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-- science fiction, games, movies and the like are referenced in this comic<br> Legalwarfare - Trial by Firepower. The year is 2346. 290 years since the eruption of the super volcano Yellowstone - the world has changed. The web comic or webcomic, however you prefer! sorry if you have a non-frames based browser and are reading this dross!<br /> <br /> Welcome to the world of legal warfare, where lawyers battle it out the way God intended: blood sports.<br /> <br /> <h3>Story Background</h3> <p align="justify">In the year 2056, the super volcano yellowstone erupted. Scientists had been expecting it for many years, their forecasts of the violence to come paled in comparison to the actuality. The continental United States ceased to exist overnight. The fallout from the volcano shrouded the country and much of its neighbours in choking ash and toxic gas. Billions died as the deadly cloud smothered the planet, blocking out the sun and threatening all life on Earth.<br> &nbsp;<br> A year passed, and the human populace watched its hopes dwindle to nothing as the ash suspended in the atmosphere continued to curtail all non-hydroponic attempts at agriculture. Animal species disappeared into extinction at an ever increasing pace.<br> &nbsp;<br> As the last camel inhaled it's final, abrasive breath, the prayed for eleventh-hour reprieve arrived. A British owned, Southern Asia startup hit the news in a big way. The little corporation, Azimuth Vulcanix Pty Ltd, had completed final testing on a prototype device they had been developing for half a decade. This device had been designed to assist in evacuation of towns that existed close to active volcanoes by removing ash and toxic fumes from the immediate area, staving off the deadly threat of asphyxiation and worse.<br> &nbsp;<br> Few believed the device would work. It was installed on a mountaintop in Papua New Guinea - the remote location chosen due to the untested nature of the device's output. Once activated, the unit fired an intense beam of energy into the sky. The world watched on what was left of the news media, as the device, the size of a small family car, energised the particles of ash in the atmosphere, causing them to clump together and rain down upon the surface - a black hail to greet the dawning of a new era in human existence.<br> &nbsp;<br> The speed the device operated at was unbelievable. Within an hour it had cleared the sky of ash out to a distance of twelve kilometres. For the first time in a year, the engineers responsible and their accompanying journalists, saw direct sunlight.<br> &nbsp;<br> Azimuth's phone did not stop ringing for six months. When the orders did begin to wane, it didn't matter to their bottom line. The canny CEO of the time had seen the longevity of their product as short-lived, and had adjusted the price of each unit accordingly. Needless to say they made an enormous fortune during that period. In that time they began acquiring businesses whose stock had plummeted during the Dark Age as it was being called. The diversification of Azimuth was as astonishing as their device, they branched into everything they could lay their hands on - media companies, construction firms, high-tech corporations, software giants, and more. By the time people realised what was happening, it was too late. Azimuth was effectively the world government.<br> &nbsp;<br> During the Dark Age, much of the surviving populace had drifted away from the remaining governments, choosing to see to their own food needs rather than supporting politicians' waistlines. And this was where Azimuth made its second fortune. One of the corporate entities they had aquired was a gene bank containing many of the species, both plant and animal, lost in the recent events.<br> &nbsp;<br> Time passed into years, years into decades. Azimuth was a behemoth, slow and ponderous, becoming much like the governments it had replaced. Smaller corporations were beginning to grow again, and slowly, the ailing economies of the world began to reinvigorate again. Azimuth saw this, they also saw what was coming. Already the lawsuits between these smaller companies were getting out of hand, the fleeting economic growth flitting away into the ether from whence it came. Something had to be done. The increasing number of large scale suits was bogging down the legal system. So much money was being thrown into the legal arena that nothing was able to be resolved. Innovation was completely stifled.<br> &nbsp;<br> Azimuth stepped up to the plate once again. This time, there was public outcry at their proposition. But it didn't last long as people began to discover just who controlled their police forces and military units. It was New Year's Eve, 2099 that Azimuth put its plan into action: Legal Warfare: Trial by Firepower. Any court case involving a corporation with an annual turnover of more than one billion euros, would be fought in one of twelve arenas dotted throughout what was once the United States, that country being devoid of a human population since the Dark Age - the survivors having fled to Europe, Asia and Oceania.<br> &nbsp;<br> The two parties would supply lawyers, usually four each, which would be dropped into the designated zone, whereupon they would wage battle. To the victor go the spoils. The lawyers, of course, were paramilitary types initially, but it didn't take long before genetic engineering took a hold, and soon, the lawyers were hardly human at all - boosted strength, agility, reaction times - coupled with advanced armour and weapons led to fierce battles, but the cases were still resolved quickly. The only limitations placed on the combat were that of no outside interference, and no energy fields. To police this, Judges were developed - huge automated weapons platforms that dealt swift, harsh justice to any team that went against this edict. Of course, humans always look for the easiest route, so sometimes, the Judges weren't quite the deterrent they should've been.</p> <br /> comic,web comic,trial,firepower,art,desktop,dropship,legalwarfare,warfare,legal,lawyer,books,DVDs,dvd,book,movie,amazon -- science fiction, games, movies and the like are referenced in this comic