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Here's a portrait of one of the central characters from my upcoming scifi-fantasy Graphic Novel- a fellow called Theo Metaxis. Is he a good guy? Or is he a bad guy?That depends on who you talk to...Inspired by Japanese print designers- especially Kawase Hasui, who's my absolute hero at the moment.

Veil of the Gods takes place in an alternate cosmos called Eridu, where the rules of our reality do not always apply. Some of the inhabitants have acquired specialist skills, either by studying the Mahjuti Technology or by being born with a gift for it.

Ferneetri Vas became aware of her talent for Mahjuti at a very young age. However, her uncanny abilities only attracted, judgement, scorn, and ridicule from those around her. Her family refused to accept that she was a natural Mahjee, preferring to think of her as afflicted and damaged. They did everything in their power to discourage her abilities, including locking her away from the world for years, hoping that her interest in the ancient technology would pass. It didn’t.

As soon as she was old enough Ferneetri left them. And she never looked back.

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Whipjack Thraw the Cacodaemon.

*sound on

Countless ages ago a disgruntled Cacodaemon retreated from the world to seek refuge deep in his underground lair. And there he would have remained, at peace, far from the squabbling masses of humans who had crowded him out, but for the appearance of a certain Mahjee who was looking to make a name for himself.

This Mahjee worked a Mahjuti Meta-Glyph on Whipjack that bound him within a space-time bubble. In other words, he doomed the Daemon to repeat the same 30 seconds or so of his life over and over, endlessly into eternity. Without respite.

The trap took Whipjack completely by surprise. He’d just finished a poetic warning to the Mahjee that Cacodaemons are immortal and that no Mahjuti tricks could harm him, when a series of glowing Glyphs appeared before his eyes. The ancient daemon, who long ago had proved he was invincible, found himself cocooned in a veil of shimmering sky-blue light. And that was that. He was trapped.

So, for some months now I've been keeping my work under wraps while I’ve been minting NFTs or Nifties, as I prefer to call them. Thanks to the NFT explosion I've been called to explore some exciting new mediums.

If you don't know what a Nifty is, don't worry I'll post a full explanation of this concept later. Let's just say for now that they fit perfectly with the story of Veil of the Gods.

My latest obsession ties in beautifully with NFTs. It is Mocap, or motion capture technology. It's quite a simple process really if you have an iPhone with a true depth camera. Android and the others just can't do this sort of work.

First, I sculpt a character in a 3D modelling programme. Then I take a reference video of my own face as I speak the character's lines. I drop the animation files over the top of the 3D sculpture, render frame by frame, then tidy up the files in photoshop.

After that my partner adds the vocals we've recorded via Final Cut Pro, while I start preparing the next animation. I suppose the tricky bit is digital sculpting, lighting and camera work within the 3D environment. That's taken me years to learn.

Anyway, here's one of the sketches for a character. Stay tuned. He'll be speaking in the next few days. And you might be surprised at how life-like he looks when animated.

Oh, and he’s available now as a rare NFT collectible on Hic Et Nunc https://hicetnunc.art/objkt/568738

Theo Metaxis, a.k.a. the Metamahjee, is a philosopher, traveller and supremely experienced practitioner of the arcane science of Mahjuti. He was once a loyal servant of the Emperor of Purush but after a falling out Metaxis was declared an outlaw, a heretic and apostate. The powerful Religious Sect known as the White Jattamansi have placed a price on his head, but Theo always has a trick or two in store for their hired assassins.

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A 1/3 piece - From the collection of characters from the upcoming graphic novel series, Veil Of The Gods. Big things coming. Follow to stay updated :-)

Ahenti Noon. Trans-dimensional traveller. One of the few who has any degree of mastery over the chaotic and dangerous process involved in crossing over from one Reality Mesh to the next.

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