recon -5-
posted 2009.07.04 at 17:57
This is - rather obviously - where the original version of the scene started.
A few points :
1. Most of the remaining pages already have commentary. As of this writing (June 25, 2009), Recon 6, 8, and 10 are the only pages without any.
2. Sterling's dialogue (and Sterling herself) may seem like a continuity break with established veil behavior. That's because the Majestic is at 1.5 and holding - it's not moving through the Veil in either direction. Hence the dialogue isn't blurry and hence (as you'll see in a couple of pages) why Sterling isn't sporting the usual "stencil" look that Veil-transiting characters have.
3. Half of the previous point is just a clever excuse for keeping the type easily editable.
4. The CG earth looks absolutely hideous close up - I was able to work around it with transition, but in this case was so irked by the poor quality of the renders that I tossed the results and built the veil-earth completely in photoshop. Given the spiffiness of the "weather effects," I'd say the decision worked out exceptionally well.
First Edition Metadata
OPD : 2004.09.25 @ 20:31
20070730 : Rewritten. Previous version here.
Edited 20050429 : Fixed the type. Mind you, I like Bank Gothic. Quite a bit. But I also like Orator, and Orator is what I use for the covers and titles and other fun bits. So Orator is the Third Person Omniscience of The Dualist. Period.
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Finally. Feels good to get back on the stick after three weeks of being off of it. Not that bad, considering I've got mad crazy sinus pressure thing going on courtesy of The Jungle Virus.
The big holdups were (in order) : Not having the scene completely prepared by the time Briefing was done due to stress incurred from the whole Quitting Smoking thing; Getting broadband and thus spending a week getting everything Just So; and getting my ass kicked by the Mystery Jungle Virus Thing.
All in all, I feel fairly rested and ready to resume production- if I can get up to two or three pages a week, this scene will be done in very short order. I'd write more, but SINUS HEADACHE PRESSURE THING MAKE STUPID. :P Sinus headache pressure thing also make artboi draw the Captain looking like some kind of mutant. Meh.
And I screwed up type sizing again! :D You'd think it would have occured to me to check the previous page before starting the current one, but.... oops! :P
Still Amateur Hour here folks. THIS PAGE PRESENTED IN LARGE PRINT FOR THE HARD OF HEARING.
So, yeah. Recon plus two more scenes and then Chapter Three is Done! :D