S.N.O.P. Prototype 2

This version is a more sleek, easy to replicate and overall better design than the previous. Now I can finally get started on some comic ideas I had a while back...

Also, gradient backgrounds make everything feel more professional.

S.N.O.P. Prototype 1

After many renditions I have settled on a base design for my new character, S.N.O.P. I do plan to work on they way the armor goes fully around his arm. More updates to follow.

Diary Entry: Codename: R.O.M.E.O.

Dear Journal (let's face it; diaries are for sissies)


     Last night was the most magical night I have ever lived. I had'nt felt love until that moment. When I saw her there, dancing at the party; I knew she was the one. I've never seen her before, nor did I know her name. Fair Juliet, my heart sings to thee. When I approached her whe the moment was right, and we hit it off right away! We touched hands and kissed, but as soon as it started the party was over. Later that night I snuck over the gate of the royal Capulet house into the brush and peeped upon the fair lady. I revealed myself when iI knew all that I needed to kow and made my move to seal the deal.  Rosaline tis but ye olde news, she didn't want me, so now I no longer want her as well. Juliet is perfect in every way but one: She is a Capulet! Nevertheless we are so madly in love we are leaving our families and getting married! Smashing!

Maus Visual Metaphor Comic

"To What Extent"

Matt Froese

Block: 3

“To What Extent”

            

          To a large extent, Vladek’s survival during the holocaust was based on his skills. Admittedly, there were a few moments in the story where Vladek’s survival was based on luck. For instance, he was very lucky that he found the people he did. When he was in the area where they picked people to send off for manual labor, he was lucky that he met the Kapo who needed to learn English and gave Vladek special privileges and told him where to stand to avoid being shipped off for work. He also managed to get Vladek a job as a tinsmith. Also, Vladek was very lucky that he didn’t die from typhus (which he got twice). Nevertheless, his ability to his survive was based around his skills. Vladek had an incredible intelligence which allowed him to do what most others wouldn’t think to do. He was able to think that stealing an extra shirt and washing it and keeping it preserved in paper was going to keep the lice off it so he could get soup when they did the lice check. He was also quickly able to realize that he needed a partner that was strong to help him carry the soup quickly so they wouldn’t get punished. Vladek never trusted the Germans. He had numerous opportunities to try and escape which involved trusting Germans, but he refused each one, and every time he refused one the Jews that trusted them where killed. Vladek had a very easy time adapting due to his superb memory that allowed him to fix shoes which he only saw instructions on how to do; he then paid a shoe smith a day’s ration of bread and watched carefully how he did it so he could know how to do it and save a piece of bread, which bring me to my next point; his thinking ahead strategy of hoarding rations. During countless times throughout the story, Vladek was keeping rations of his food by only eating half or not eating during that day. Even though there where some times were luck helped Vladek survive, the skills he used to survive were more significant. His overall intelligence and skills with adapting gave him the upper hand during the holocaust.