Cart Attendant is a short comic I created for a college course. It details a typical day working retail, albeit with a little more of a Hollywood budget. It tells the tale of a cart attendant working out in the parking lot, grabbing shopping carts after a busy day. Something happens that turns the carts into an enormous beast, forcing the lowly cart pusher to defeat this beast so he can finish his work day. It is a very goofy comic, though it is shockingly relatable to those who have worked retail.
Instead of hand drawing hundreds of shopping carts for this comic, I opted to use 3D models, stylized to fit the theme and setting of the comic. Using Autodesk Maya, I was able to render a simple shopping cart and an entire parking lot environment. Using this tool, I set up dozens of scenes that I would eventually pull into Clip Studio Paint and Adobe Photoshop to draw over and edit to design a visual theme that fits together.
I used this technique throughout the comic, as it gave it a very unique style and it almost cements the story in a little more of a reality, despite the cartoonish nature and ridiculous events. Listed below is the entirety of the comic, viewable in order from left to right.
This comic was hand drawn in Autodesk Sketchbook, Clip Studio Paint, and Adobe Photoshop, with 3D modeling done in Autodesk Maya and general editing in Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator.