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Re: World War I British Artillery By Pierre-Jacques Ober

Thank you very much for your kind words.
I am indeed trying to create "emotional" images. Try either to tell one story in one image or at least to express something which hopefully will touch the viewer. I got my first box of little soldiers in 1970 I think. Airfix ww1 french infantry. And suddenly my room felt so much bigger, the world of my imagination seemed much bigger. I am still enjoying it. Since last year I have been working on a graphic novel using that kind of images to tell a full story. You can find examples of "work in progress" doubles pages on the avatar URL link.I would be curious and interested to find out what you think of it. Does it work ?
Thank you again for your appreciation. Kind regards. Pierre-Jacques

Re: World War I British Artillery By Pierre-Jacques Ober

I will look and read. I am really surprised that your link to your gallery seems still to be ignored in this forum. I was and am still impressed from your wonderful dioramas. Your capacity and creativity to tell a story with some figures in a diorama is overwhelming.
Do you know Benno´s Figure Forum? I recommend you to post your photos there. You will receive than certainly still more responses. It´s a quite vivid and discursive forum. You will find there under the title "Flandres 1918" one of mine dioramas to the Great War. I am curious what you will think about it:
http://bennosfiguresforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=17050

Re: World War I British Artillery By Pierre-Jacques Ober

You are really an artist with colleagues of similiar creativity. I have found your very special graphic-novel - revolutionary! I have never saw before a similiar combination of diorama-modelling-graphics-text-photos. It works wonderful - especially with the change from diorama-photo to drawing. I love yours sucessful changes from dynamic to more quiter moments.

I would like to see more of it. And I would recommend you only to work still with more smaller sequences to give us more often at first smaller more focused impressions - details - of the scene before you reveal us the total of the whole scene - it would been still more dramatic to discover how the different actions/details are fitting together in a greater environment and the main story. Actually you are working more from the total to the scenes in the scene - but this is a question of personal style. You can create or tell your stories easily with more different photos of the same scene to attract us and ours phantasy still longer.

Re: World War I British Artillery By Pierre-Jacques Ober

Hi there ... Thank you so much for your feedback on the graphic novel's tests. Very valuable and true. I will have to spend a bit more time on it before I feel " I got it right ". Fine balance and difficult exercise. The models and the image making seems easy compare to it. I guess you are German, I am French living in Australia. So you and I are familiar with the world of graphic novels. It is part of our culture since childhood. But because my project is new territory as far as graphic novels go, one has to satisfy the basic rules and grammar of the genre while finding original ways to put it together according to this new technic. Which has limitations. It is a very interesting exercise. I think that at the end of the day, it is about trusting one's personal style. We cannot please or satisfy everyone like Hollywood does in film or Marvel does in comics with formula driven products.
I had a good look at your diorama about trench war in 1918. Very impressive. You did an amazing work on the trenches, the mud, the barbed wire, etc. The painting of the soldiers is excellent, much better than mine and the tanks also are looking great. The "stand out" being the network of trenches. Very cinematographic. Very energetic. Some parts work really well as "scenes" amongst the bigger action. Very, very nice.
I am in the process of registering to the Benno's forum. I am waiting for his "secret answer to the secret question" ...
Hope we can keep communicating. In one forum or the other. Kind regards.

Re: World War I British Artillery By Pierre-Jacques Ober

Hi there ... Thank you so much for your feedback on the graphic novel's tests. Very valuable and true. I will have to spend a bit more time on it before I feel " I got it right ". Fine balance and difficult exercise. The models and the image making seems easy compare to it. I guess you are German, I am French living in Australia. So you and I are familiar with the world of graphic novels. It is part of our culture since childhood. But because my project is new territory as far as graphic novels go, one has to satisfy the basic rules and grammar of the genre while finding original ways to put it together according to this new technic. Which has limitations. It is a very interesting exercise. I think that at the end of the day, it is about trusting one's personal style. We cannot please or satisfy everyone like Hollywood does in film or Marvel does in comics with formula driven products. And for me, it is ultimately an homage to the "little soldiers". To something which has filled my imagination since I was a child. Combined with the respect due to the unfortunate men of all countries who were sent to war against each others. For not much at the end.
I had a good look at your diorama about trench war in 1918. Very impressive. You did an amazing work on the trenches, the mud, the barbed wire, etc. The painting of the soldiers is excellent, much better than mine and the tanks also are looking great. The "stand out" being the network of trenches. Very cinematographic. Very energetic. Some parts work really well as "scenes" amongst the bigger action. Very, very nice. A real movie feel.
I am in the process of registering to Benno's forum. I am waiting for his "secret answer to the secret question" ...
Hope we can keep communicating. In one forum or the other. Kind regards. Pierre-Jacques