Post by Darkspecter on Dec 20, 2014 15:24:30 GMT -5
This is a collection of the 2014 Illumina Day submissions. I would like to give a special thank you to each and every individual who took part in Illumina Day or showed their support for her inclusion in MOTU/MOTUC. Thank you guys so much for the support!
- The #Illumina Twitter campaign by The All American of He-Man.org (@motu2015)
twitter.com/motu2015
- Artwork by Niki of He-Man.org
- Artwork by Snake_Man of He-Man.org
- Artwork by gbagok of He-Man.org
- Custom figure by Veronica Mars of He-Man.org
- Fan Fiction starring Illumina by Orko-78 of Planeteternia.de
www.planeteternia.de/cgi-bin/messages.pl?sprID=1;thrID=81415;Page=1
- Animated GIF of Illumina and Sleetah on Planeteternia.de
- Illumina sprite and Haiku by Ahmed Crespo of Shadow Weaver's Realm
- Björn Korthof of DJ Force Weapons Forge Toydesign, had a one day sale on Illumina's spear for sale on his Shapeways store
www.shapeways.com/model/2269327/double-bladed-spear.html?li=shortUrl&materialId=5
- Custom Illumina head progress by Adam Bradley Freeman of Shadow Weaver's Realm
- Art by Darkspecter/Eric DeLima from He-Man.org
- Custom Illumina head by Zombihamma-AI of Castle of Power
- Artwork posted by Brian Ozone of 80smasters.com
- Original pencil version of the MVC MOTU Illumina cover by Enza Fontana, the first appearance of Illumina and MOTUC concept by artist Emiliano Santalucia
santalux.blogspot.it/2014/12/illuminas-first-appeareance.html
- The #Illumina Twitter campaign by The All American of He-Man.org (@motu2015)
twitter.com/motu2015
- Artwork by Niki of He-Man.org
- Artwork by Snake_Man of He-Man.org
- Artwork by gbagok of He-Man.org
- Custom figure by Veronica Mars of He-Man.org
- Fan Fiction starring Illumina by Orko-78 of Planeteternia.de
www.planeteternia.de/cgi-bin/messages.pl?sprID=1;thrID=81415;Page=1
- Animated GIF of Illumina and Sleetah on Planeteternia.de
- Illumina sprite and Haiku by Ahmed Crespo of Shadow Weaver's Realm
Illumina rocks
Geldor was not the winner
Mattel Please Make her
Geldor was not the winner
Mattel Please Make her
- Björn Korthof of DJ Force Weapons Forge Toydesign, had a one day sale on Illumina's spear for sale on his Shapeways store
www.shapeways.com/model/2269327/double-bladed-spear.html?li=shortUrl&materialId=5
- Custom Illumina head progress by Adam Bradley Freeman of Shadow Weaver's Realm
- Art by Darkspecter/Eric DeLima from He-Man.org
- Custom Illumina head by Zombihamma-AI of Castle of Power
- Artwork posted by Brian Ozone of 80smasters.com
- Original pencil version of the MVC MOTU Illumina cover by Enza Fontana, the first appearance of Illumina and MOTUC concept by artist Emiliano Santalucia
santalux.blogspot.it/2014/12/illuminas-first-appeareance.html
Today a group of dedicated fans, lead by Eric DeLima is celebrating Illumina day, an event dedicated to the character I created for the Masters of the Universe 2002 comic vol. 3, that unfortunately was part of a storyline we had to scrap due to the legal constraints we faced as the line was coming to an end.
Fans would like to see Illumina released in figure form at one point, and while Mattel doesn't currently own the rights to her, I like many others, hope that one day maybe a reconciliation could be reach and me and Mattel will find a way to work together to make a figure of her
In the meantime, I wanted to offer to all the fans that supported my creations for such a long time, a glimpse of something never revealed before.
When we began work on Vol. 3 of the comic, I was asked to come up with the story plot. So I wrote a very rough draft for the first few issues, loosely describing the action and what topic we would have covered.
This draft was later reworked, but the following is an extract from my original document, where Illumina makes her very first appearance!
"We see SK and EL in the library of Zalesia where they have spent hours looking in the books an scripts but none of the them contains more information that vague legends and myths (we could start to throw in more about Eternia’s past here) but nothing about Grayskull. It seems that everything has been erased on purpose!
SK is furious because he thinks he has been tricked by the FLO.
On the floor of the Library is painted a map of Eternia, but most of it can’t be read.
EL says that being angry made him blind. She solves the enigma her father had told them and chants a difficult spell and slowly a few skull symbols starts to appear on the map!
(The biggest of them is obviously on where Grayskull is)
They’re just starting to analyze the map when the room starts to shake violently and begin to collapse.
EL implore SK to leave the library, but SK doesn’t want to go and he takes EL staff form her hands.
While the ceiling starts to crumble over them He chants a last spell using both staffs!
The room collapse.
We move outside and we looks at the smoldering ruins. After a few moments we see EL and Skeletor emerge from the ruins, a bit beaten up but still unharmed.
We pull back and we see a blue skinned, white dressed and white haired woman observing the scene from the distance. She’s not very young probably a bit younger than Duncan and she wear her Warriors Ring on her left hand but I’m not sure how much we want to drive readers attention on this yet.
On her side there is a big white panther with a silver saddle. She’s talking to the feline. From the dialogue we understand the she caused the ruin to collapse but he didn’t succeed in stopping SK… but she doesn’t dare to confront SK and EL directly and it’s time for the Guardians of Grayskull to move!"
There was really not much else in the plot about her so far. I did the original sketch of her at the same time, to present it to MVCreations.
This is where I introduced, for the very first time, the idea of this mysterious white dressed woman.
She was already in my thoughts since Homecoming. She was nothing more than a plot device back then. At that time, I wanted to merge the original Don Glut minicomic with the Filmation cartoon, so I had He-Man living in a tribe, but secretly being Prince Adam, hidden far from Eternos when he was an infant, to escape from the Horde invasion.
I needed someone that took the kid out of the royal palace and traveled with him to these remote regions of Eternia, where she left him to the care of this tribe. And for some reason, I wanted this person to be a woman. She was not a Gar back then of course, but she was already dressed in white and with white hair.
Fans would like to see Illumina released in figure form at one point, and while Mattel doesn't currently own the rights to her, I like many others, hope that one day maybe a reconciliation could be reach and me and Mattel will find a way to work together to make a figure of her
In the meantime, I wanted to offer to all the fans that supported my creations for such a long time, a glimpse of something never revealed before.
When we began work on Vol. 3 of the comic, I was asked to come up with the story plot. So I wrote a very rough draft for the first few issues, loosely describing the action and what topic we would have covered.
This draft was later reworked, but the following is an extract from my original document, where Illumina makes her very first appearance!
"We see SK and EL in the library of Zalesia where they have spent hours looking in the books an scripts but none of the them contains more information that vague legends and myths (we could start to throw in more about Eternia’s past here) but nothing about Grayskull. It seems that everything has been erased on purpose!
SK is furious because he thinks he has been tricked by the FLO.
On the floor of the Library is painted a map of Eternia, but most of it can’t be read.
EL says that being angry made him blind. She solves the enigma her father had told them and chants a difficult spell and slowly a few skull symbols starts to appear on the map!
(The biggest of them is obviously on where Grayskull is)
They’re just starting to analyze the map when the room starts to shake violently and begin to collapse.
EL implore SK to leave the library, but SK doesn’t want to go and he takes EL staff form her hands.
While the ceiling starts to crumble over them He chants a last spell using both staffs!
The room collapse.
We move outside and we looks at the smoldering ruins. After a few moments we see EL and Skeletor emerge from the ruins, a bit beaten up but still unharmed.
We pull back and we see a blue skinned, white dressed and white haired woman observing the scene from the distance. She’s not very young probably a bit younger than Duncan and she wear her Warriors Ring on her left hand but I’m not sure how much we want to drive readers attention on this yet.
On her side there is a big white panther with a silver saddle. She’s talking to the feline. From the dialogue we understand the she caused the ruin to collapse but he didn’t succeed in stopping SK… but she doesn’t dare to confront SK and EL directly and it’s time for the Guardians of Grayskull to move!"
There was really not much else in the plot about her so far. I did the original sketch of her at the same time, to present it to MVCreations.
This is where I introduced, for the very first time, the idea of this mysterious white dressed woman.
She was already in my thoughts since Homecoming. She was nothing more than a plot device back then. At that time, I wanted to merge the original Don Glut minicomic with the Filmation cartoon, so I had He-Man living in a tribe, but secretly being Prince Adam, hidden far from Eternos when he was an infant, to escape from the Horde invasion.
I needed someone that took the kid out of the royal palace and traveled with him to these remote regions of Eternia, where she left him to the care of this tribe. And for some reason, I wanted this person to be a woman. She was not a Gar back then of course, but she was already dressed in white and with white hair.