Ann 18 Nov 2009

Awesome book cover Michael. Your work is top notch. Love the lighting and the creature coming up from below. Looking forward to seeing what the back cover looks like. Ann

Michael Collins 22 Nov 2009

This is the cover of my mother's Poetry book that's published I created for her as well. It was created using Vue Infinite and Photoshop.

Ann 22 Nov 2009

You did a beautiful job on it Michael. How lucky having a son to do the cover. Your mother must have been very happy with it. Ann

Michael Collins 22 Nov 2009

Thanks, I had to type and edit her poetry as well upon my books as well. She has a lot of poems, woosh! She can't really focus too well of things now, as she gets older, but she has a lot on her mind to write so I type. She say it's her dream to send a copy of her book to Oprah or Mya Angelo. So I work on it for her. The next cover will be this image but in 3d. I will create it in Zbrush and try to make it look as real as possible, then place this concept image on the back cover to show transition.

24 Nov 2009

Michael Collins 25 Nov 2009

Thank you. Yes they are both up for print and will be on Amazon website in about 2 weeks from now. I actually came up with the title for her. She wanted My soul speaks but there is plenty books and projects with that title.I'm glad you caught that because I read the title over and over to myself and I caught it but never changed it. I wasn't really sure because it's poetry that reaches out to everyone, plural. Yet reading it now it sounds like a snake reading a sentence. Should have subtracted an "s" though. I will do that tonight so it can be ready. Its my 3rd time revising her book.

Michael Huskey 25 Nov 2009

Fantastic work!

Gail Caduff-Nash 11 Dec 2009

wow wow would love to read this book because i DO judge a book by its cover. really cool creature. where is this available?

jim boehmer 11 Dec 2009

Great work!...really a great illustration..Jim

Michael Collins 26 Dec 2009

Hi, this is Michael. Thank you guys for the comments. Been gone for a second. The books are located on my website for now at winwarproductions.com which will be called michaeljcollinsart.com on the 3rd of January. I'm currently making individual websites just for the stories. One for my mother and one for me relative to the books. It will be anuandtheblue.com and thevoicesofoursouls.com Seems more fitting because my website is a bit over the place as far as categories. For Anu and the blue, I'm workin on turning it into an animated short. Can't decide 2d or 3d, but for now you can view the chapter 1 storyboard video at my winwarpoductions website. Thanks again.

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