Dragon Tails
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Dragon Tails is a 3D webcomic about eight dragons created by Tim Dawson, an Australian artist living in Sydney. The first strip was run on March 11, 1999, and continued, 7 days a week 52 weeks a year, until the 2000th strip, which was published on October 23, 2004. On that day, Dawson announced he would be taking an indefinite hiatus, except for a two comics on November 4,2004 and December 26, 2004. Tim resumed daily updates on December 13, 2005 for twelve days and then on January 1, 2006 he began weekly updates.
The cast is mainly the eight "young" dragon brothers who live together in a place known as the Forest. Other characters include the robot Colin, his minibot Billy, a very intelligent cat called Moppy, and an anarchic dictatorial squirrel called Norman along with his female clone Normeena. Listed is a brief description of each character in alphabetical order.
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Art style
The comic featured a unique art style in that it was done through rendered 3D models which were posed and then captured in to shots which were then formatted in to a three-panel comic and applied with text or any other non-3D effects. Tim had tried a few times to do a number of short rendered animations but found this quite an overly long process.
A few times throughout the series, 2D drawings were use and also drawn by Tim. These were sometimes used for flashbacks or inner thoughts, or in captions and diagrams such as Bluey's Science Explained [1]. However for one whole story arc lasting a number of months, the entire comic was done in 2D for what in effect was a giant 'out of character' story line where each of the dragons and a number of the secondary characters were Marvel-style super heroes.
Major characters
- Abijar - Light green scales; Twin brother of Cornelius; musician; has largest MP3 and MIDI collection of the whole gang.
- Billy - Miniature robot; has innocent nature and experiments with many ideas.
- Bios - Large, gangly robot; armed with missile warheads on back; practical killing machine starting to learn of morality.
- Bluey - Blue scales; twin brother of Goldy; loves technology and explosive objects; failing rocket scientist and inventor; total videogame addict (especially of Sega games).
- Brainy - Red scales; usually works with Bluey on inventions (especially on rockets); excelling cook.
- Colin - Robot; created by Bluey but now fully independent; has rocket-powered arms; slightly detests humanity; has wires hanging out at back of head ponytail-style.
- Corlis - Dark green scales; twin brother of Lemuel; usually cynical and most sarcastic of the gang; struggling stand-up comedian.
- Cornelius - Purple scales; twin brother of Abijar; usually the most philosophical of the gang.
- Enigma - Black scales, metallic horns; eldest of the eight; very strong; loves reading; hates Norman.
- Goldy - Gold scales; twin brother of Bluey; usually challenged by Bluey because of sibling link; excellent artist.
- Lemuel - White scales; pacifist; very good at controlling and fighting destructive robots. The only one who is friends with Norman.
- Moppy - White kitten; bought by Lemuel as a gift to Corlis; very intelligent despite only saying "mow"; very attached to Corlis as a pet.
- Norman - Squirrel; dreams of conquering and enslaving a nation; armed with a Beretta called "Ol' Betsy"; hates Enigma; has little morality.
- Normeena - Squirrel; female clone of Norman due to an error on the cloning registration form; cost $3,000,000 approx; quite strong but gentle and sweet-natured; friends with Enigma.
Minor characters
- Bobby - Billy's brother, ran away after insanely integrating itself with many things.
- Dark Thunder - Winner of the last Dragons' Battle Championship; beat Enigma.
- Firewing - A female orange dragon from another tribe; penpals with Lemuel.
- Luna - A rock from the moon; non-sentient; Colin's girlfriend; ran away with a wrench and got crushed by a truck.
- Talbot - A friendly polar bear in the North who met Abijar and Cornelius.
- Talon - Firewing's brother; stupid but very strong.
- Tethys - A commander of an underwater race who swears vengeance on land-dwellers for damaging the ocean. One of Tim Dawson's favourite characters.
- The Dinos - An Allosaurus, a stegosaurus and a brontosaurus who the dragons met when time-travelling.
- Tocsin - Unknown white flying creature; found in small black ball; able to project 3-D images and maps.
- Uncle Sparky - The only known member of family to the eight dragon brothers. Likes female dragons and drinking beer; good at blackmail.