Excellent! I would be highly interested to see her work that she did for Pandora Tomorrow. I'm such a Splinter Cell addict. As for the manga, I am enjoying it very much. Love the art style too. I went ahead and took a look at the rest of her site and her other works are quite good. Obviously someone who had their first manga published at age 14 has to have some talent, but this was beyond what I expected. I get alot of vibes like Tenjou Tenge, and Honey and Clover which I highly enjoyed. Let the misses know that she has a new long time fan and hope to see more of her work in the future.

Awesome job!

Thanks for all the compliments guys (and gals).

Edwin: Sorry to dissapoint but all she did on Pandora was environment texture work and a few static meshes. That was her first industry job, and after that she was doing shader work on the SC4 prototype, then moved over to an MMO (which will likely never see the light of day) as a concept artist. If we can legally post some of that work at some point we will.

I actually did a lot more on Pandora. I was the "Sam" animator, plus I designed/modeled/textured Sam's camo suit in that game (my original design based off a stillsuit was unfortunately made "more mainstream" a bit too much I think). I also redid the "face" of Sam for that one, as I think my counterpart in Montreal puts eyes too far apart and makes lips too small. (which is why SC1 and 3 look similar, and SC2 and 4 are quite different)

duckideva: Thanks for the critique, it's very nice to hear. You should see her work too...it utterly amazes me that she just draws across the page, doing the panels as she goes...hardly any planning. I guess that's what keeps it very fresh looking though. Once over in pencil, second pass in marker. She writes the text out in the pages themselves--if you go to http://blog.messycow.com you can see her work in it's "raw" state.

I'm glad the "ziptone" came out ok (not familiar with the term myself). You can see what she has on her originals, she uses different dot patterns as pattern overlays in Photoshop. She wants to be able to see the "dots" but I felt it was a bit harsh in pure black and white so when I cleaned them up and translated them I will mix some of the intended value with some dark grey dots. Looked better to me, she almost agrees...

And thanks to everyone else too, she was a bit shy about having these put over to English since it's not "normal" yet, and maybe people don't "get" all the manga codes. This will encourage her to keep going. (actually the ball is in my court, I have 3 pages sitting here to translate)

Oh! And if I've said anything that sounds really stupid in WoW speak, please let me know. I've played some of other MMOs but I haven't played WoW in English so I'm not sure about the proper terms even. Forgive me.