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A long time ago -
around the year 1999 or so - I (Emelie) was introduced to a
certain video game, Tomb Raider: The Last Revelation. I
played it every day for a whole summer and enjoyed it immensely,
but it was still only that, some entertainment after work.
However, one night I had a really strong, vivid dream based on
one of the levels in the game (Temple of Poseidon, if you
really want to know...) and when I woke up I just couldn't get
the image out of my head. I figured this could be the setting
for a cool comic of some kind, but the lack of plot and advanced
drawing skills put and end to the nameless project rather
quickly. I knew three important facts, though: there was going
to be a tower, the main characters were going to be three girls
- one redhead, one curvy brunette and one tall blonde - and eggs
were to be involved somehow (it was unclear how/why from the
beginning). I managed a total of two (2) concept drawings for
the comic before giving it up. Here they are:
Afterwards the
idea was promptly forgotten, and the years passed by. In August
2005, I was accepted into
The Comic School of Malmö
and there I met a certain Mattias Thorelli. We hooked up and a
year later I showed him my old concept drawings and we got to
talking about what could have been of that comic. We went out
for a walk and talked and talked and plotted the whole night,
and when we came back to the apartment we typed everything down
so that we wouldn't forget what we'd come up with, and by the
time the sun rose that morning the basic plot for What Birds
Know was born. :)
In October/November
2005 we started working on the comic for real, and we posted the
first 10 pages online on November 30th. Oh, and as a side note:
in 2007 we replayed the game so that I could show Mattias the
level that inspired the whole thing back in the days, and to my
surprise the level was... well, nothing at all like I had
remembered. Hah.
Here are
some old concept sketches from when we'd just started to plot
out the comic, back in the fall of 2005.
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