All cropping, some scaling. Some in-page dialogue revision as notes for the impending rewrites. Improvements, I assure you. The one thing I have to remember is to make sure the layout of the next page (atc_d2_601) matches exactly, the same way it did in the first edition. Hee hee. Barn. 20090907 (48) – Lettered. Chapter effectively complete barring typos and …
20090811 (11) – Straight scale and crop. Quick work for what is ultimately a transitional page anyway. 20090908 (6) – Lettered. Mastering notes, 2016.12.07 – Minor caption adjustments.
20090811 (10) – 1-3 scaled with a smidge of cropping. Panel four got a raised roof and some photoshop work, with Rayne moved a bit to the right. 20090908 (7) – Lettered. Mastering notes, 2016.12.07 – Minor dialogue adjustments.
20090810 (7) – Another scalencrop, with more lamps snipped. Panel two does look quite a bit gloomier without them, I think… and though it would have been MURDER, a shot of the lot FULL of cars and activity and whatnot in like chapter one or two would have really helped drive the point home. Unfortunately I “forgot” Ornix’s shirt in …
20090810 (6) – The usual trimming and snipping, etc. Whacked a good bit of dead space off of panel three, and wound up repositioning panel one instead of scaling it – moving Greymalkin to sort-of-center. Damn, that man spends a lot of time on the horn. 20090908 (11) – Lettered. Mastering notes, 2016.12.07 – Minor dialogue adjustments.
20090810 (5) – Kinda overlooked this one when I picked (4) for editing. This one was (obviously) much easier. Bit of the old scale and crop – the only thing binned was the lamp pole to the right of panel one. Which kinda helps put the focus where it needs to be – on the Daedalus. Yeah buddy. 20090908 (12) …
20090912 (22) – I thought this one was going to be a ginormous pain in the patootie to reformat, what with panels two through five and all, but you know what? It wasn’t. It was, in fact, pretty straight forward. Crop six and seven, scale three four five, and some minor adjustments to one and two to make everything fit. …
20090811 (14) – What with the multiple reworks of earlier bits of the story and my frequent, flagrant use of the model in the second edition… it’s hard to believe that these were the very first production renders of the Sabrosa. Aaah… memories. That said, this was a straight scale-and-crop, with the Sabrosa scaled down a bit in panel four …
20090812 (16) – Everything but three scaled; three got a roof-raising and a tactical repositioning of the Daedalus. I imagine the Daedalus sounds like a cross between a sizzling hot frying pan and a MiG-15. With long, drawn-out thirty-aught-six undertones on the low end. Believe it or not I do in fact know what a MiG-15 sounds like. I saw …
20090812 (18) – Removed some weird splotches from West’s coat and shirt in panel three. Raised the roof on panels one, two and three (not quite cake… maybe easy as muffin?), scaled four, and trimmed a bit off of panel five. 20090909 (20) – Lettered. Mastering notes, 2016.12.07 – Minor dialogue adjustments to panel five.
20100105 – Re-covered. After a number of false starts on motion and the staring-at-it-for-hours sickfest of descent… and knowing that subversion and the main cover are both going to be time consuming… I wanted something that could be banged out QUICK. Hence, this cover – a quick blend of two renders. The outer security entrance to psi-obs on the front, …
20090820 (8) – Were this a leisurely stroll through The Dualist, I’d take the time to redraw and reshade Raven in panel four. All panels cropped and scaled. Mucked with the centering of all panels, and moved Tantek to the left in panel four so said panel would fit for width. Still a good page, overall – Years later and …
20090820 (10) – Whacked a centipede while I was working on this one. I’ve seen more of them in this place than I have before in my entire life. Ditto the roaches. Makes me wonder what the insect – and employment – situation is like in northern Canada. I’d love to be able to sit down and work for a …
20090820 (11) – More scaling, more cropping. Panel one is preserved; the rest have been trimmed considerably. Lots of dead space, fortunately – though we seem to be seeing less and less of Greymalkin’s chair. 20090909 (12) – Lettered. Mastering notes, 2016.12.07 – Minor dialogue adjustments.
20090821 (17) – Shirt fix pass. 20090821 – Prepped for two new panels, which will wrap Val’s arc for this scene. All panels scaled for width and cropped for height; wound up doing some fairly obvious rubber stamping to give Beef’s portrait the necessary space. While the other Val panels feel kind of hammered in – while I don’t know …
20141206, 05:20 – Work on details -20- and -21- got out of hand and grew to encompass suction -1-, -2- and -3-. Those edits were visual continuity – this one was a planned-from-the-start text edit to bring the name of Ornix’s vehicle in line with what it actually is. While I was in there I reworked a couple of lines …
20090824 (35) – Raised one and two to fit the rest (rendered before I went to bed, processed as soon as I got home from work). Also tweaked the bendy bit of panel five to maximize boobage. 20090910 (34) – Lettered. Mastering notes, 2016.12.07 – Minor dialogue adjustments.
20090824 (38) – Raising one and two kept everything nicely distributed. Very minor cropping to three and four, mostly for alignment purposes. Eight pages left, then it’s on to New Business! 20090910 (37) – Lettered. Mastering notes, 2016.12.07 – Minor dialogue adjustments.
20090814 (13) – One scaled, two through five scaled and cropped to varying degrees. Two and three lost some linework and four lost a good chunk of Raven’s silhouette… which was ultimately filler anyway. Also lost a bit of Greymalkin’s shoulder in panel four, to good effect. 20090911 (8) – Lettered. Mastering notes, 2016.12.07 – Minor dialogue adjustments – de-hyphenated …
