• Real Name: Wendell
• Gender: Male
• Age: 42
• Location: Glen Burnie, Maryland (United States)

• Joined: Mar 23rd, 2008
• Last Visit: May 16th, 2008

User Tags: artist, computer graphic artist, flash animator, illustrator, musician, photographer, web designer

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The SYMBOL The Web Comic, Act: 2 

After confirming (from his "source") of a terrorirst attack planned for Washington, D.C., The SYMBOl leaps into action to confront the perpetrators!

The SYMBOL The Web Comic, Act: 1 

Of Liberty and Justice, for the Nation
This new Hero will be...The SYMBOL.

Sketches from: The SYMBOL The Animation 

Character Sketches from scenes of the animation I did in 2002.

[ Posted by TheNorm on Mar 28th, 2008 8:13 PM ]...

wow, how long is it.
Also, i have added a few drawings into my gallery. They are a bit hard to see becuase i had to take pictures of them with my phone. As soon as a figure out how to work my scanner, i will post better quality ones.

[ Posted by TheNorm on Mar 28th, 2008 3:29 PM ]...

oh ok. I usually dont have to much trouble makin a building in perspective but sometimes the person is difficult for me. Also, can i see the animation

1 Reply [ Latest posted on March 28th, 2008 7:08 PM ]

[ Posted by TheSymbol on Mar 28th, 2008 7:08 PM ]... I don't have the animation online, because it's just too big of a file. Before I learned FLASH (as I know it now), I made The SYMBOL animation, without ANY understand about file SIZE and the importance of keeping things as small as possible. Each image I was importing into the animation just kept adding TOO much to the overall megs of the animation, so I just decided to keep it to myself. I'll tell you what, I'll upload just 1 3-minute sequence of action the send the link to you. It's one of my favorites. I'll get back to you when it's uploaded. I hope you have a fast connection (cable or DSL). Otherwise, you're going to waiting a LONG time for the animation to play.

[ Posted by TheNorm on Mar 27th, 2008 8:42 PM ]...

i love the character, but the main thing i dont like about the web comic was that the backgrounds looked 3d.

1 Reply [ Latest posted on March 27th, 2008 9:12 PM ]

[ Posted by TheSymbol on Mar 27th, 2008 9:12 PM ]... Fair opinion and I respect it. The backgrounds were/are made in a 3D modeling program (Vue D' Esprit) and I purposely incorporated "that" style of background in the web comic, because I could never draw them to look as "real" as the way Vue creates them. Besides, in 2002, I built a 3D city for The SYMBOl's animation and it's just simpler to navigate through it and capture the perfect angle of a building to use for a specific scene in the web comic. Thanks again for the comment TheNorm.

[ Posted by CreationNation on Mar 24th, 2008 2:40 PM ]...

Thanks for dropping by! I love the design on your character! Keep it up!

1 Reply [ Latest posted on March 27th, 2008 7:34 AM ]

[ Posted by TheSymbol on Mar 27th, 2008 7:34 AM ]... Thank you CreationNation.

[ Posted by Glenn on Mar 24th, 2008 1:32 PM ]...

Thanks for adding me...Cool character!

[ Posted by TheSymbol on Mar 23rd, 2008 11:00 PM ]...

To TheNorm, yes...I created The SYMBOL, about 2 months after 9/11. Inspired by what comic artists were doing to acknowledge the tragedy, I decided to draw a 9/11 themed image featuring a patriotic, superpowered, hero team I created in 2000 called Force America. Afterwards, I wanted to create a new, non-superpowered hero who was "born" from 9/11 and I came up with a character I was originally going to call The Flag, but after learning there was already character using that name (in Rising Stars), I later came up with the name, The SYMBOL. He is my version of a patriotic Batman or a Dark Knight Captain America.

[ Posted by TheNorm on Mar 23rd, 2008 5:12 PM ]...

did u create the Symbol