Blood and Steel Vol.5

Blood And Steel Vol.5, Hong Kong version is coming in Jan!!




This is the cover of limited edition.

Comic Trailer【Blood and Steel】Vol.2-3

This is the full color version comic trailer for Vol.2 and 3. Created by Toe Yuen and color illustration by Jack Lee.

【Blood and Steel】Vol.3 Cover

Promotional poster


Cover of limited edition.



Front cover and back cover

[Blood & Steel] Vol.2 Special Edition Cover

Cover of [Blood & Steel] comic Vol.2 Special Edition

Blood and Steel Vol.2 Cover

tLast month is crazy busy, I've just finished all the proof reading of our comic Blood and Steel vol.3. The following is the cover of Vol.2 which will be released in HK bookfair on 07 July. We are still working out the possibility of the English version, I hope it can come sooner.

The is the hero character.


坎離水火 雌雄龍虎

「只不過換一塊『武當派青城道場』招牌而已——」

沒有武者能接受這樣的羞辱。
青城山猛虎何自聖的血液已然沸騰，
一雙「雌雄龍虎劍」力壓武當葉辰淵的「坎離水火劍」，
勝利就在咫尺之間……

殺氣騰騰的錫昭屏緊咬少年劍士燕橫，
眼看要魂斷青城山麓之際，
却得到一名身負異國武藝的奇男子及時相救！

南海虎尊派唯一傳人——荊裂，堂堂登場！

Unicorn Studios Interviews

Recently there are few interviews from different magazines about our new Comic and art team. The 100% digital production of our comic seems pretty new to the HK comic industry.

Start from layout, sketch to inking including special gray tone effect, we do them all in computer... we minimize the wastage of paper. The production is pretty environment friendly.

This is the one from 《e-zone》 magazine, last week issue. 664

Click to enlarge (content in Chinese)

Our Comic Publish Today!!

Or 1st martial art comic is available in Hong Kong and Taiwan today!!

"Blood and Steel" Comic NewTrailer

Cover of 《Blood and Steel 》Graphic Novel

Cover of our first Graphic Novel《Blood and Steel 》


The cover of volume one


Above is the cover of special edition which is a box set same with the Novel book size. The special pack with some special items: leaflet, bookmark and postcard. Read more at the blood and steel comic production blog (in Chinese)


Promotional Poster of the special package edition, you can see how the box works.

Ani-Wave Interview

We had an interview on a popular ACG magazine in HK《 動漫狂熱 Ani-Wave 》, we talked about the production of the comic. Take a look if you are interest.

"Blood And Steel" comic on New Youth Magazine

Finally our comic is released!! The first chapters ( 34 pages) of our Graphic Novel is published at the New Youth Magazine today. There will be 2 more chapters come with the next 2 issue and then the Book One will release on 4 April. Cover featuring our hero characters.

Few More Artwork of Blood and Steel

Few more artwork I picked from the Book 1 of Graphic Novel...

Blood and Steel Graphic Novel, coming soon!

東立出版《武道狂之詩》漫畫!! Tong Li Publishing will publish Blood and Steel Graphic Novel which adapteded from a famous martial art novel and we've been working for a long time after the AstroBoy CG movie project!!



"The first in a series of graphic novels based on celebrated Hong Kong author Jozev’s best-selling series of martial arts novels Blood and Steel will debut on 15 April 2011. The graphic novels will be released by Unicorn Studios and Tong Li Publishihing Group. The Graphic novels are created and produced by Unicorn Studios. They were adapted from the original novels by Toe Yuen, a veteran animation director, in consultation with Jozev. The entire project is under the creative direction of Unicorn Studios’ creative chief, Felix Ip, formerly creative director of Imagi Studios. Tong Li Publishing Group, will handle publishing and distribution."



You can check the details from the press release at the official website of Unicorn Studios and Tong Li Publishing Group.



Above: the drawings from chapter 1.

I will share more pictures about our Graphics Novel. You can read more in Chinese at my another blog: all about Blood and Steel production.
Offical website of Blood and Steel Graphic Novel

《Sangre-y-Acero》Official Comic Website Launched!

《Sangre-y-Acero》 Blood and Steel, official comic website launched! Most of new information on weapons pages, you can directly visit the "weapon" page or you can see the weapons carried by individual hero a character page. It will be updated.

The earlier concept of this website is just act as online comic browser, I want to amke it more like a "Library+ gallery" of 《Sangre-y-Acero》world just like lots of Japanese maga/anime website. I will share more sketches, design and making of materials as well...

There is only a Chinese version in the mean time, I hope there will be a English version in the future so that more friends can see that.

check this post in Chinese at my other blog

http://www.blood-and-steel.com

Merry Christmas !!

Merry Christmas !!! Hope everyone have a wonderful holidays.
BTW, The official our comic website launched!! There are lots of cool stuffs and info there such as weapon gallery, check it out!
http://www.blood-and-steel.com/

Sangre Y Acero Bookmark Series II

Series II Bookmark we designed will be giveaway at the Christmas Bookfest 2010. The Unicorn Studios website is updated.


第二個系列的紀念書籤，於今年的聖誕書展 Bookfest 2010派發。喬靖夫將會舉辦一場簽名會，時間是25日聖誕節當天下午一時至二時，地點是香港會議展覽中心3FG展覽廳。

Sangre y Acero Comic Update

Jozev has just finished the writing of 武道狂之詩 ( Sangre-y-Acero ) Novel Book 7, congratulations to him! I can't wait to read that. Then proof read, design, printing etc. It will be release very soon within this month.

For the comics, we are still working hard on that!! the release date of comic is not confirmed yet, But most likely will be the beginning of next year. Sorry, that's a little bit slower than I expected. I will keep you guys update here.

But the way, both the Unicorn Studios and 武道狂之詩 official website will release soon:
http://www.unicornstudios.com.hk/

Sangre y Acero Bookmark! 武道狂造型書籤

六款將會在書展送出的人物造型書籤。人物造型的插圖是和《狼派英雄繪卷》小畫冊中相同的。從十四款造型選了其中六款來設計書籤。其他的人物包括：何自聖、 練飛虹、圓性、桂丹雷、江雲瀾、錫昭屏、錫曉巖、樊宗。

A set of 6 hero character bookmark will be the give away souvenir for upcoming BookFair. These images are same as the leaflet inside, 6 out of 14 was picked for the bookmark.

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Sangre y Acero Posters! 武道狂海報

This is the Sangre y Acero Posters set we designed for Jozev/Sangre y Acero Bookfair event if you want to get one, please check the details at Jozev's blog.

兩款《武道狂》海報，武當和反武當兩大勢力兩方陣營對峙。可以看到其中十二位狼派英雄人物造型設計。如想得到此海報，詳情可請看喬靖夫的網誌。



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【Sanger y Acero】 ACG Project

It's time to give my friends here a quick update on what I'd been doing after leaving Imagi Studios. I joined a new studio called Unicorn Studios which was set up in the beginning of 2010 by former founder and chairman of IMAGI, Francis Kao. Unicorn plans to develop transmedia entertainment properties spanning the worlds of graphic novels, comics, video games, and animation. Its first creative undertaking is based on a series of martial arts novels called Sanger y Acero (武 道狂之詩 or Blood and Steel) from acclaimed Hong Kong author Jozev (喬 靖夫). Please see the details in Unicorn Studio's Press release in Jan

So I and my team has been working on the characters design and comic development for the Novel in the last few months. I am a BIG FAN of Jozev (Yes, I am!!) since long long time ago, I always like to draw and visualize the cool characters from his novel. To develop the characters and comic are challenging tasks, yet the process is so enjoyable and we are having a lots of fun. I will share more with you here in the future.

The comic is still under development and production- as we always want to make it better- it might take a bit more time before meeting the readers. Although the release date is still to be determine, we will revil some of the charactes design and give away souvenirs (poster, leaflet, Bookmarks) in the upcoming HK Bookfairs. Here is the sneak peek of the leaflet.

BTW, The Unicorn Studios Official Website is still under development, it will coming soon. I will post more artworks in the next few days.