callback -4-
posted 2009.04.05 at 22:10
Again, nothing much to do here. The one major "change" is the rebuild of the upper right corner of the first panel - the dialogue divot was built into the panel instead of laid over it. It's a problem with pages from this era... and for all I know, it's a problem that will persist throughout the rest of the book. I don't mind - It's straight-up technical work, and that's something I enjoy.
Oh, and I switched around the order of the last three panels so they work better with the rewritten dialogue.
Fun fact about the dialogue for this scene - I wrote out the Grij end of the verbage months ago, and never bothered to attach it to panels. So as with other tricky scenes I've dealt with over the years, I mucked around until something clicked and then built out in all directions until everything clicked.
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Edit, 20070721 : Scaled and slightly reworded.
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Oof. This one really took a lot out of me- large volumes of line work usually wind up being poorer quality overall I've noticed- especially when I do something suicidally inadviseable and do the line work and the photoshop work in one sitting- as opposed to over the course of two nights, which is how the first three pages of this chapter were done... and how I plan to process materials from here on. :P Greg's hair is fucked the fuck up, and the antagonist's typeface is a tad small. Still legible, but possibly because I already know what he's saying.
I made one major change from the plotted layout, that being the vertical alignment of the second panel. Aside from that.... whoo, you should have seen the original, pre-effects page. :| I opted to use straight airbrush shading instead of the usual pen tool approach- given the atmosphere it makes sense: I did this for speed reasons (I'd still be shading otherwise) and I had some difficulties working with both vector shading and fuzzy dream effects on page three. So there.
Arduous and uphill, but behind me and in front of you now. Fun fun fun fun fun. Back to the rational, sane approach come the beginning of the week- pacing is such that I could hypothetically have this section of the chapter done within a week or so.
Barring the usual complications, of course.