Michael Mitchell: Archive

Skeptics And Reality is a short comic I created demonstrating that skeptics by nature really have no concept of reality. The subject is a conversation a student and his professor have about the nature of skepticism while they walk down a college hallway and an invisible creature named "Reality" dances around them, beyond their perception, mocking them.

You can read the comic below, but first I should mention the software and 3D assets I used:

• I modeled the environment in SketchUp
• I used the Michael 4 figure from Daz3D for the professor and the student.
• The blue guy, "Reality," is a free anime-style Poser figure named Maybe and he was created by Akatora.
• I arranged the scene, detailed the models, and rendered all the panels in Carrara.
• I used Toon! Pro from Digital Carvers Guild, an excellent line rendering and cel-shading plugin to get the comics-style look.
• I did the layout and lettering in CorelDraw.
• I used a free comics font designed by Blambot named Digital Strip.

One final note. You won't be quizzed afterward, but for the fun of it try to count how many times these skeptics are actually certain. If you come up with a number, ask yourself: "Am I sure?" Then count again. I'm sure there's an actual number but I gave up when I realized how hard it would be to dissect every word and implication. It just made me realize fully that skepticism, as a consistent philosophical view, is not merely mistaken or even malicious, it's pure bullshit.