The Dualist : Convergence primed.

posted 2008.12.18 at 16:43

The again-temp cover has been reformatted, the synopsis and production data have been ported over, and Convergence - Chapter Two of the second edition, Chapter One of the first - is ready for pages.

This won't be a straight crop-clean-and-dump a la Signal. Most of the original pages will be given the same treatment - I'm currently leaning towards redrawing one of them. Yeah, just one.

I'm learning, see.

So 35 reworks, one probable redraw, four new pages (which I'm pre-pre-rendering now)... all of it taken at a slightly more sedate pace than the previous chapter. It still needs a complete scene-by-scene rewrite... and I haven't officially started on that yet. The draft of Raven and West chatting doesn't count, at least not yet - the first draft is too much exposition with little in the way of impact on the story.

Reworks and cleanup have so far been fairly easy - the issue I'm toying with now is the idea of removing the O from Tantek's 8O8 optics - covering it over with the same gunmetal green as the rest of his armor. Redrawing the helmet completely is out of the question, but plugging the center could make the suit look more "Inspired By Briareos" and less "Badly Drawn Briareos." In theory, anyway. In practice, such a change would be a whole lotta work with very minimal payoff.

There's a lot of that helmet in this chapter, so I'm going to futz around a bit and see if I can come up with a viable solution. If I can't, no biggie - it'll be one less item on the to-do list.

And if THAT isn't fun enough... the core scene of the chapter - some 18 pages - is going for its second adjustment - first 1800x2400 to 2250x3000; now 1800x2400 to 1850x2774 (live area of 1800x2700). That's gonna be FUN! :D

Actually, it won't be. But appearances are important, or so I've been told.