20100121 (14) – Replaced the coffee cup logo with the DCR logo. 20100131 (3) – Rewritten. As with some of the sparser pages, the existing type was cannibalized into the new type. Only one piece of actual dialogue change on this page – I decided to leave the “tails” in the last panel alone. Part of that’s being lazy, part …
20100121 (9) – I’m friends with both Mike and Dave of Crayon Death – I mentioned using the CD logo to Mike at one point and he (if memory serves) was cool with it, so that stays. Submachine, however, I don’t know anybody from – so the fictional band “Murder Booth” has been substituted. Thanks to mdxi and Band Names …
Rendered Monday, drawn Tuesday, shaded Wednesday. I’ll probably process most of the next page the same way, in order to iron out text and visual consistency issues prior to committing the strips. The idea is that this will make for less cleanup and readjustment of the proper DCR Pages. In a change from previous practice, this is the writeup. Strip …
VT100 is a cheeky little bastard of a font – it looks good at certain really specific point sizes and like crap at all the rest. “Looks good at print scale” happens to translate into “illegible smear” in this case, so: ICG 44E-NE37 HEMERA SENT: 598.08.21 – Repeat contact, HRV 4.18 in vicinity of GSV-368. Location exact. Initiating transfer to …
Captain, we hardly knew ye. Tons of work here – from the BLAM!-style Big Sound to the revision of panels three through five to figuring out a reasonably tasteful means of visualizing gore, this one was a bit of a time sink. It took longer than I would have liked, but it’s done and I’m fairly happy with it. Even …
In a break from tradition, this page is designed to be read clockwise from the upper left. 20120113 – For whatever reason, a build log seemed like a good idea. This has been an “expensive” (in terms of time, 3d assets, etc.) one-off page, and the props are unlikely to be reused. So, here’s some idea of the work that …
2012 03 16, 16:53 – Ready for shading and mirror background assembly. Rendered in late February, line art drawn late Wednesday and early Thursday; cleaned up Thursday and Friday afternoons. 2012 03 17, 15:48 – Created mirror backgrounds and word balloon tails. Bent the top left border a bit, may add some energy effects to finalize the “exit.” 2012 03 …
Even on combat drugs, the genetically engineered human mind can’t track and deflect incoming fire from a pair of TMP-45s with a pair of knives. Greg has a few brain implants to coordinate the chassis and input sensors in such an event, and these implants are kicked off by running software macros – the cybercommando equivalent of a shell script. …
Curtis! Closure! Door slams! Crushing disappointment! A UFO over North Side! Shaded while re-watching The Prisoner! Hinge point of a high stress near-breakdown that had better damned well follow up on the line of thought unleashed around 4am Thursday! Exclamation points!!! Also, next to last page of DCR. 5.20 is ready for line art and I may well start pencilling …
BLACK SPACE OF DOOM. Also, cropping. There’s going to be a lot of cropping… and with older pre-CG pages, that probably means sacrifices. The overall composition hasn’t suffered, but it has gotten a bit more… cramped. And cleaned up, somewhat. Mastering notes, 2016.12.06 – Minor dialogue adjustments.
More headspace for Raven in panel four, along with some basic cleanup and scrubbing. And continuity – pip! I’m pretty sure that’s the last one I forgot. I hope. Also background tweaks and overall replacement, a la the previous page. The huge increase in headspace really works here – for once I had an overblown amount of dialogue that I …
Three new bits – the background of panel one, the radar panel (Four? Five? Depends on how you look at it), and the focal point, obviously. One for accuracy, two because the original was fugly, and three… also for accuracy. The revised dialogue reads a bit better, and I finally ditched the “I’m BUSY” line. While the conversation builds up …
Again with the fresh renders and re-composition. One of the things that rankled me upon review of the original CG rendering of this scene was that when I created it during first edition cleanup, I was (more or less) matching the CG shots to the photoshop shots… and the photoshop shots were exemplary of my limitations at the time. A …
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 …
Same as previous – background type removal and some minor adjustments. While I’m making it a point to add the boys of Greymalkin’s glasses wherever they’re missing in this half of the story, the “headspace” is the one area where I’m not worried about it. If he looks a bit different here, it’s not a bad thing. So I don’t …
20091124 ~1430 (1) – Lettered this… uh… yesterday? I think? Still have to do linework, shading, tails, etc. That’s been scheduled as Sunday’s Project, which slipped to Monday thanks to a hangover, which then slipped to Tuesday thanks to other business. 20091124 2246 (1) – This page breaks two of the three big timesaving Don’ts I decided on at the …
20090815 (23) – See next page for pre-formatting comments. 20090911 (6) – Lettered.
20090813 (5) – Given how challenging this page was the first time around, roof-raising just wasn’t an option – I just don’t have the will for it at this point. The question was “how to crop and comp?” with the results being some cropping of all three panels, with two and three being scaled. Some detail work on the left-hand …
20080709 – I’m not all that happy with the new linework for panel one, but it’s better than the previous version. As is the explosion. Admittedly, I spent more time on that than I did with my pencil and microns. I think it looks quite a bit spiffier than the old version. It’s all anime ‘n shit. ========================== Explosions are …
