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posted 2009.04.18 at 18:34
With this page I finally found the "kicked in the balls" line for my recent ram upgrade. Huge-like-xbox layer groups, lots of scaling... eating enough memory to make the swap drive grunt like a congested heifer. All that to preserve type editing ability.
That's the thing that's hung me up on this scene, actually - not just the rewrite (which as of composing this info blurb - April 12 - I haven't gotten to yet), but also pruning out lyrics and whatnot. "Crazy" used to come easily. It still does, mind you - but it's no longer the Amazing Technicolor Angst that informed the Thad/Val arc.
So not knowing what I'm going to be changing it to yet, I've been preserving everything for editing. Once the reformatting work (what I'm writing about now) is done, I'll be doing the rewrite pass.... and man, I'm not looking forward to that. It's not that I'm not looking forward to getting it done, mind you - it's that I'm currently going on a couple of weeks without Going Out. I write Out, not In - so I'm either going to have to figure out how to jump that hurdle, or spend hardware money plowing through rewriters block.
Not that it should take very long, mind you. It's a one-character internal monologue - and not even a coherent one.
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Edited 20050603 : The boobs weren't removed so much as moved to the previous page.
So.
20:56 < mdxi> this stuff is so much more...
20:57 < mdxi> ...SENSICAL...
20:57 < mdxi> now
20:58 < mdxi> good job
So glad I'm done finding excuses for fucking around.
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Woop. This should have been page five, but I think the story's better off for the delay. I need to reup on bristol before I can continue with page production- my pad ran out with this page.
More illustrator experimenting,with the type- and it's a good thing that I hoard all of my data like a mad bastard, otherwise I wouldn't have had access to the textures and correct colors. o_o I did mess up the shading on the face a bit- it's a hard area for me to work with, especially since the shading for this was done while I was talking a friend of mine through working various bits of iDVD.
Small correction- for some reason, there were no apostrophes on the page uploaded earlier. This has been remedied.