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Webcomic - Us the Robots

  Published by Alex Delderfield (AD-Edge) on July 1st, 2008 in 3D News, Art

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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  1. 1 Master Danix Edit Link Jul 1st, 2008 at 6:39 pm

    First comment !

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

  2. 2 Tadd Edit Link Jul 1st, 2008 at 6:42 pm

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

  3. 3 dandellion Kimban Edit Link Jul 1st, 2008 at 6:47 pm

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

  4. 4 dandellion Kimban Edit Link Jul 1st, 2008 at 6:48 pm

    ops! there is the feed…. sorry….

  5. 5 Jonathan Williamson Edit Link Jul 1st, 2008 at 6:49 pm

    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.

  6. 6 rivenwanderer Edit Link Jul 1st, 2008 at 7:10 pm

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

  7. 7 redraven Edit Link Jul 1st, 2008 at 7:55 pm

    This is really inspiring !

  8. 8 dalekbell Edit Link Jul 1st, 2008 at 8:00 pm

    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.

  9. 9 nicknamz Edit Link Jul 1st, 2008 at 8:04 pm

    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!!

  10. 10 JulianH Edit Link Jul 1st, 2008 at 8:32 pm

    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.

  11. 11 Cuby Edit Link Jul 1st, 2008 at 8:47 pm

    Awesome. Really cool picutres, and funny too!

    Keep them up!

  12. 12 MABB Edit Link Jul 1st, 2008 at 9:32 pm

    Very impressive. You have a great future Rocketman.

  13. 13 Marcel Zúbrik Edit Link Jul 1st, 2008 at 11:06 pm

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

  14. 14 xvisx Edit Link Jul 1st, 2008 at 11:08 pm

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

  15. 15 jedihe Edit Link Jul 2nd, 2008 at 12:35 am

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

    jedihe

  16. 16 shul Edit Link Jul 2nd, 2008 at 3:10 am

    Marvelous, looks intriguing!

  17. 17 meltingman Edit Link Jul 2nd, 2008 at 3:29 am

    Magnifique!

    You can make a book ..

    i Love all the concept, the robots, the "délire" realy comic ++

  18. 18 dronix Edit Link Jul 2nd, 2008 at 3:50 am

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

  19. 19 EagleWing Edit Link Jul 2nd, 2008 at 6:37 am

    I have to say this is definitely high quality!

  20. 20 Dread Knight Edit Link Jul 2nd, 2008 at 12:34 pm

    I like it! :-)

  21. 21 Andrew Edit Link Jul 2nd, 2008 at 12:44 pm

    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 :)

  22. 22 Dion Moult Edit Link Jul 2nd, 2008 at 1:08 pm

    Um. Typo in the post: directly.

  23. 23 Ryan Neily Edit Link Jul 2nd, 2008 at 1:32 pm

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

  24. 24 Roger Edit Link Jul 2nd, 2008 at 2:09 pm

    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

  25. 25 Alex Delderfield (AD-Edge) Edit Link Jul 2nd, 2008 at 3:38 pm

    @Dion Moult

    My bad, spelling error corrected!

  26. 26 gauavanim Edit Link Jul 2nd, 2008 at 5:12 pm

    Waow Blender BOTS !!!

  27. 27 ROUBAL Edit Link Jul 3rd, 2008 at 11:52 am

    AhAh! Great! i like this kind of humour.

  28. 28 John R. Nyquist Edit Link Jul 4th, 2008 at 5:44 am

    Well done! The look good and are funny!

  29. 29 Howitzer Edit Link Jul 7th, 2008 at 4:08 am

    I see the Segwaybot!

    Looks great!

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