Last weekend a few members of the Graphic Illusion Studio’s creative team attended the Comic Book Show in Westerford, Massachusetts.
If you’re interested in drawing then you’ll find the following video worthy of a watch where a number of professional artists talk with Ryan Quintal from Quintal Designs.com.
In particular the The Rift artist Enrique “Zeke” Savory Jr. shares his insight and sketches Ja’laar, the main villain from The Rift‘.
If you’re a fan of comics, or if you’re in the market for expert graphic design work, then you’re going to be very interested in our latest sponsor – independent design studio and comic publisher Graphic Illusions Studios.
Graphic Illusions Studios are an independent producer of high quality original comics – in fact, you wouldn’t know they were independent given just how high the quality of their productions are. As I write this I’m sitting next to the first five issues of The Rift (one of their titles that recently almost made it to the big screen – and may one day yet) and I can say without any bias that each issue is absolutely A+ quality.
A year ago Graphic Illusions Studios’ six-part sci fi comic The Rift was on a collision course with the big screen. Unfortunately financing for the film adaptation fell through, but I wouldn’t be surprised if at some point in the future there is renewed interest in this particular series.
The Rift is an epic story that documents an alien struggle for power that finds itself unfolding on Earth. It follows the villainous Ja’Laar, an evil alien on a quest to obtain a key to unlimited magic power. When he learns the key has been hidden on Earth, he brings his equally nasty henchmen with him to tear the world apart in search of it – just as he has done other worlds.
A sole survivor of one such planet that Ja’Laar wiped out is Silo’Ett, an alien herald who, after escaping Ja’Laar’s clutches, successfully makes it to Earth ahead of him. Silo’Ett attempts to bring together a group of humans to help them protect the key and the Earth from destruction.
The thing I like about The Rift is that it isn’t just a stock-standard sci-fi story about evil aliens coming to harm Earth. It is also fantasy story that weaves in a mixture of magic, Vampires and Werewolves – yes, The Rift has them too. Normally I would be the first to say Vampires and Werewolves have been done to death, but in the case of The Rift they come with an all new and interesting slant on their origins, powers and intentions.
