February 2009
the dualist : Gate up. C2 done, moving.
posted 2009.02.27 at 21:44
Gate, which used to be Distortion - a "problem scene" if ever there was - is done and up. Everything that needed cleaning got cleaned last week or earlier - after polishing up some freelance, I slapped on the finishing touches and called it good.
It's fitting to stop here - I have to move again. This week or next, I don't know where yet. The last six months will make a great chapter in the autobiography, or maybe a stand-alone comic. Possibly a sitcom.
After that's over and done with, the plan is to rework the covers (and a small bit of the website), then start reproduction of Chapter Three.
Oh, and after Xeno (who's stuck in the fun place this weekend) commits typornography, I'll start processing One and Two as issues.
Hardcopy. It's gotta happen sometime, right?
idle : Casting (the most recent of many)
posted 2009.02.23 at 23:50
20:31 * solios watches something with Clive Owen.
20:31 <@solios> I've decided that Clive Owen will voice West.*
20:31 <@aestuo> Clive Owen++
20:31 <@solios> he'd be motherfucking awesome against Christopher Walken, voicing Greymalkin.
20:32 < xeno> Peter Fonda should totally be Grij.
20:32 <@solios> @_@
20:32 <@solios> I've always leaned more towards Gary Oldman for live action, Alan Rickman (sp?) for animated.
20:32 <@ejp> na, Grij is Hugo Weaving.
20:33 < xeno> oh yeah.
20:33 <@solios> fucking nobody to ever walk the face of the earth can voice contempt like Rickman.
20:33 <@ejp> point
20:33 < xeno> very.
20:33 <@solios> for live action it's really a question of who looks good in horns.**
20:34 <@solios> because let's face it - as awesome as Rickman is, he's built like Polaski. Not Grij.
20:34 <@solios> Grij is built like Wil Wheaton.***
* It was previously decided that Clive Owen is Ornix.
** Which is a great argument for animated. Really.
*** Just sayin'. I wish I had that guy's metabolism.
website : Blog comment preview fixed (?)
posted 2009.02.20 at 16:30 | 8 comments
Thanks to ATC reader bounce for putting me on the debug trail.
Long story short - the preview form was missing the contents of the mt.js file, whereas the entry pages weren't. So hitting "comment" instead of "preview" would work just fine, whereas hitting "preview" and then "post" would throw an error message, as the page was trying to pass a bunch of variables that it knew nothing about.
I could have stripped out this functionality, but I'd prefer to keep as much of the base MT commenting logic in place, should I want to activate the Captcha system, require readers to register in order to comment, or any of the other forms of Spam Control. The kind of arsenal I wish I had for DCR, really.
So, that's been fixed.
I'll make some aesthetic modifications in a few weeks - after Convergence has been re-finished, after I have a few other things done.
Any other problems I should know about?
the dualist : incoming up; breather relocated.
posted 2009.02.10 at 18:41 | 8 comments
So it turns out that when you have an entire scene written, rendered, set up, and penciled... inking and shading go fast. Damned fast.
I like doing scenes this way - all renders, all pencils, all inks, all colors and cleanup, all shading, all tweaks... but I couldn't imagine sustaining it for anything longer than a couple of pages. This shit is work, yo.
Literally. Lots of work - the renders were done in December and early January, while I was still plugging away on other stages of the reformat.... and I didn't have to throw at the inks until Sunday.
"Fortunately" (har, har) I've been sick the past couple of days - when I haven't been shitting my ass off or doing the freezing-hot fever thing, I've been experiencing the joys of Bourbon-and-Tea (Chai, specifically - try it sometime!), doing the Jedi Healing Trance thing, and working on shading the new pages.
And now that all of the in-progress comic pages have been done* , it's back to the Plate O Freelance for a bit.
POF and work, assuming I don't poo my brains out tonight.
* DCR doesn't count. The next several DCR strips are ready for pencils. Thinking about it makes my brain whine like a puppy that's been kicked too many times. I'll get to it eventually, but for the time being the effort-to-reward is unfavorably disproportionate.
the dualist : Convergence (part 3) up; breather.
posted 2009.02.07 at 18:38
Pages 13-19 are up. The scene is finally complete!
No fundamentally massive changes - to the artwork, that is. Some details have been cleaned up, a smidge of pretty added here and there... a pile of the usual cleanup scrubbing has been done. You know the drill.
Next up is "incoming," a new four page insert featuring Heirotus. It isn't strictly necessary, but the story flows so much better with it that I've decided to keep it in. Despite the work involved, which will be fairly non-trivial.
Not only are the next four pages going to be some non-trivial work, I'm also way behind on commission work - which means I'm going to have to bow out of production for a few days (or weeks) so I can tend to things like bills and whatnot.
So, enjoy The Running Xand. She'll be on top for awhile.
So to speak!