With the fallen Sirian consigned to his fate and Lyra consumed by her inner demons, Loki’s designs draw ever closer to their terrible conclusion. As the conflict rips into the fabric of time, Gus G. returns with an unlikely guide, offering a glimmer of hope for our heroes… The disturbance reaches far across the universe and heralds the arrival of Joe Satriani, The Extremist, whose incredible energies bring balance to the cosmos, but leave our world consumed by Khaos magic. Michael Amott lies at the heart of this volatile new reality, empowered by mysterious amber artifacts and rivaled only by Misha Mansoor, a time-traveling wanderer wielding unparalleled technology! With lives lost, heroes reborn, and darkness rising, don’t miss the climactic resolution to ETERNAL DESCENT VOLUME 2!

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We’re retaining a distinctly comic book art style in keeping with the origin of the series and currently experimenting with a variety of different shaders and textures to achieve a hand drawn look with all the benefits of real time lighting and 3D engine driven effects.

Without further delay, here’s a few previews lifted from our early builds and concepts…

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We’re having a blast working with Joe Satriani, Andrew WK, Gus G, Wayne Static and many more fantastic talents on this project, looking forward to sharing more with you soon!

Llexi

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Nate and I spoke about doing a collaboration ages ago, and we finally found the time to make it happen. It started out as a rough concept based on Nates ‘B-Side’ a stylized vinyl cassette with loads of character.

We figured a demonic mix tape would be a neat project to capture the spirit of Eternal Descent using the B-Side as our canvas and so ‘Loki’s Heavy Hits’ was created. 666 of Loki’s favourites – on a winged cassette tape of doom!

Nate detailed the whole project from concept to completion with a set of photos and notes. A huge amount of work went into this custom toy and I’ve created this post to share Nate’s process. Hope you enjoy! – Llexi Leon

“Here are the base components i used. I don’t usually kit bash, but i didn’t have the time or desire to sculpt any wings. I found this action figure at Big Lou’s in Los Angeles. The wings were pretty perfect. I’m usually well aware of action figures and pop culture, but i really don’t know where this guy is from.”

“This guy sat around for months with a light pencil sketch on him. I finally sat down and carved in the title. I used a file at first, but an X-acto ended up working much better. In the lower picture is shows the Magic Sculpt for the project.”

“Nips likes to try and help out every once in a while, she’s currently pretending to be an X-acto lid – Safety 1st!”

“Here he is with a lot more cracks carved in. I added horns, spiked wristbands, and modified the wings as well.”

“Llexi didn’t have a high res ED logo that was in this horizontal format. So, i live traced it in Illustrator and the finished it off in Photoshop. I think the imperfections actually added to the look.”

“I wanted it to look like the labels we’re being burned off, so i really burned them. the effect was decent, but i ended up using a Sharpie to blacken all of the edges.”

“There was no way I was gonna be able to sculpt this symbol by hand. I had to simplify it in illustrator and the modelled in Rhino. Mana Studios did the output for me.”

“This the final sculpt. I wanted the symbol to look like it was embedded or busting out so i had to add some material for that.”

“The original concept image gave me the general direction for the paint scheme. i primed it black, then primed certain areas white. After that i sprayed a transparent orange over the white.”

“The orange wasn’t all that transparent, which ended up being a good thing. i needed the base coat to be light so the yellow would look yellow. i painted most of the cracks yellow and started dry brushed black over the whole thing.”

“It was a tough paint job. Painting is not fun for me, it’s my least favourite part of the process, but it obviously needs to be done. I spent as much time as i could stand on it!”

Here’s a couple more of the finished custom!

Quotes from Nate Mitchell’s blog – http://squidkidsink.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/eternal-descent-b-side-custom.html

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Pencils: Ivan Fernandez – Inks: Jason Gorder – Colour: Javier Tartaglia

Here’s the previews entry some of you may have spotted, with all the details for your local retailer:

The good folks at Things From Another World have already placed the book in their pre-order system, you can find it here. They offer worldwide shipping and the best customer service you’re likely to find! Of course we’re also on Amazon and in all good book shops ;)

Pencils: Jason Metcalf – Inks: Tony Kordos – Colour: Chris Summers

Aside from including all 6 issues of the Volume 2 comic series, the novel will also collect the ‘Cobalt’ backstory co-written by Justin Peniston and myself, with incredible art from Eternal Descent veteran Jason Metcalf. Originally only available as a 4page bonus story in the Volume 2 comics, we’ve collected all 6 instalments into an additional 24page story for the novel.

On top of that, here’s a sneak peak at the 25+ pages of bonus cover galleries and concept art we’ve compiled for volume 2!

Llexi

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