Webcomic – Us the Robots

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Rocketman has been working lately on an impressive online comic using Blender and several other open source programs. The comics follow a small group of robots, throughout several humorously entertaining sketches.

Rocketman writes:

“Everything is done exclusively with free software. The characters are modelled and rendered in Blender, with layout and speech bubbles in Inkscape and image editing in GIMP- all under a flavor of Ubuntu Linux. Hell, I even wrote most of the html code (poorly) in Vim!”

There are currently 19 comic strips and Rocketman updates the site every Saturday with a new page. You can check out the thread on blenderartists.org or go directly to the site. And dont forget to start reading from the first comic strip in the series!

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    • Master Danix

      First comment !

      I read all the webcomics until now,it’s great with some abstraction

    • http://www.taddmencer.com Tadd

      NICE! Good to see someone using this for the betterment of mankind … hehe

    • http://metaverse.acidzen.org dandellion Kimban

      great comic. Clean, impressive, funny.
      pity that there is no RSS on the site. I want it in my reader.

    • http://metaverse.acidzen.org dandellion Kimban

      ops! there is the feed…. sorry….

    • http://www.montagestudio.org Jonathan Williamson

      Great work Sam! I love reading these and the blender side of things is very well done! It was fun watching you work on the female bot featured in a strip when we were at Red Hat.

    • http://purpleshiny.etsy.com rivenwanderer

      Not to be confused with We the Robots (http://www.wetherobots.com/) :p

    • http://www.redraven.info redraven

      This is really inspiring !

    • http://www.makesweet.com/ dalekbell

      That’s really quite good! I was afraid that because so much technology was used in making the comic, it wouldn’t actually be funny. But it works.

      I particularly liked the appearance of the Blender default cube in the plot (http://ustherobots.com/utr/8.html). I think it should be elevated to the status of a recurring character ;-).

      Minor detail: I’d like to echo dandellion Kimban and suggest that the RSS feed link be embedded on every page, not just the front page.

    • http://nicknamfx.blogspot.com nicknamz

      Heyyy… really good, im reading and reading… i can’t stop :P … nice to every strip are continuous, good way to introduce the characters… congratz!!

    • JulianH

      Well I like it very much, too. :)

      I only don’t really like the speech bubbles – they are too creative and shiny and things like that – even if they perhaps similar like the style of the comic, i would prefer simple white bubbles with a black outline.

    • http://www.cuby.co.nr Cuby

      Awesome. Really cool picutres, and funny too!

      Keep them up!

    • http://www.rlyeh.es MABB

      Very impressive. You have a great future Rocketman.

    • http://www.cw.sk/ Marcel Zúbrik

      Interesting and impresive. I like that comics, in my bookmarks now :)

    • xvisx

      Great comic! Fantastic style and a really, really funny kind of humor.

    • jedihe

      Nice! Just read the first one! xD!!!!

      jedihe

    • shul

      Marvelous, looks intriguing!

    • http://melting.perso.orange.fr meltingman

      Magnifique!

      You can make a book ..

      i Love all the concept, the robots, the “délire” realy comic ++

    • dronix

      wow this looks nice, great idea too. The renders look awesome!

    • EagleWing

      I have to say this is definitely high quality!

    • http://www.FreezingMoon.org Dread Knight

      I like it! :-)

    • Andrew

      Needs funnnnyy!!

      I’m sorry but it needed to be said. I really want to see this comic succeed because it’s looks very promising, but in order for it to be picked up by the public internet users it needs to be incredibly witty. I know you’re still introducing characters so it’s hard to crack jokes, but just saying anyways.

      Google: PBF comics, Cyanide and Happiness & XKCD to check out some successful web comics, that made it big simply due to the clever writers :)

    • http://e2-productions.com/ Dion Moult

      Um. Typo in the post: directly.

    • http://webpipe.ca Ryan Neily

      Very well done. If you continue with this story you will have the basis for an adaptation to an animated film.

    • Roger

      sometimes the humor is great, often the humor is okay

      i do think the camera angles, character poses and colors are really well chosen, that’s what’s keepin it real interesting to follow!

      love to see where this leads..

      gdluck

    • Alex Delderfield (AD-Edge)

      @Dion Moult

      My bad, spelling error corrected!

    • http://spotmeon.blogspot.com gauavanim

      Waow Blender BOTS !!!

    • http://3d-synthesis.com ROUBAL

      AhAh! Great! i like this kind of humour.

    • http://nyquist.net/ John R. Nyquist

      Well done! The look good and are funny!

    • http://arkavision.com Howitzer

      I see the Segwaybot!

      Looks great!