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posted 2009.04.18 at 18:38
Rearranged a bit. Linework separated from backgrounds; scale to match height followed by a little bit of moving around and cleanup - Thad's blur and Val's shadow in the first panel have been tweaked a bit, and Val's been scaled down and moved a bit in panel two.
A point I've made elsewhere in the 1e metadata, that I figure bears re-stating here: Nobody who commits any of the violence in The Dualist has any hollywood-grade special training. Thad and Ornix have the typical backwoods redneck "we're bored and hide-and-seek is more fun with camo" survivalish "training," and Val has whatever skills Thad has (with much less muscle mass). I greatly prefer the back-alley brawl in They Live to the too-long boring-ass violence ballet of the latter Matrix movies or the 2004 Appleseed*, and fuck if I'm going to write or draw any action I'd skip on the DVD.
That said, I have some simply marvelous violence planned for other stories (DCR, TV, etc)... and it's mostly the kind of stuff that's over in seconds. Just like the real thing!
* 1. I'm an enormous, slobbering fan of Appleseed. It's a matter of public record that I've been waiting for the fifth installment since junior high, that Tantek's helmet is a loving (and greatly simplified) homage to Briareos' Hecatonchires body, and (I don't think I've written this anywhere outside of IRC, so here it is) I love the 2007 film. Not so much the score, but man. The film is PORN.
2. Given everything mentioned in 1, the intro Deunan "workout" scene was fucking boring. Nicely choreographed, beautifully shot, good music... and it'll cure your insomnia.
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20070722 : Scaled and tweaked.
Edited 20050429 : The original way-too-small fishnet pattern fill has been replaced with actual hand-drawn fishnets. While they don't exactly look great - the patience required to do this sort of thing accurately not being one of my strong points - the replaced bit looks a hell of a lot nicer than the original.
Also, for some reason the original page was a few pixels "short", and I didn't notice this until I was done with corrections... so the height has been adjusted as well.
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First new page in almost two weeks. Ph34r.
Pencils, inks, flat colors done last night. Assembly, etc. done at the Beehive today. Got there around four thirty and went nuts with the Wacom tablet- after having to wipe its preferences and reconfigure it on account of the fact that the driver refused to load itself until said conditions were met.
So. Back into production. Four more pages of chapter two section two, then a brief splort of downtime to get c2s3 into less of a clusterfuck than this section has been. o_o
20:30 < ejp> I think solios drew a melt banana song.