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 …
20090815 (28) – First three scaled; four and five cropped, six scaled and cropped, seven scaled. The crop on six tightens the empty space around Thad, which I think is an improvement. 20090912 (18) – Lettered. Mastering notes, 2016.12.07 – Minor dialogue adjustments.
20090813 (7) – Three and four have been cropped severely so that the other panels might live. And by “live” I mean “have enough space for dialogue.” The end result makes panel four look a bit screwy, but I’m willing to live with that. 20090912 (20) – Lettered. Mastering notes, 2016.12.07 – Minor visual adjustment. Fixed Greymalkin’s glasses in panel …
20090813 (11) – Croppenscale ahoy! Trims to three, five and six; scaling of one, two and four. 20090912 (21) – Lettered. Mastering notes, 2016.12.07 – Minor dialogue adjustments.
20090815 (30) – I thought this one was going to be a giant pain in the ass… but it turns out that the size of panel two – along with the sheer amount of unused space – made it a great candidate for power-cropping. One scaled, two scaled and mega-cropped; three and four scaled and cropped a bit. 20090912 (24) …
20090813 (9) – Cropped 1 and 3 to preserve 2; did the shirt fix in the interim file (copy of the first edition document) instead of the finished one due to the complexity of the composition. While the cropped 3 works, I really like how 1 looks in its current state. 20090912 (25) – Lettered. I’m now out of the …
20090817 (36) – All panels cropped and scaled. Two and five were hit the hardest – I was half expecting three and four to suffer large, and had contemplated losing Raven from panels three and five, but everything seems to have worked out. Yay! 20091008 (29) – Lettered. Mastering notes, 2016.12.07 – Minor dialogue adjustments.
20090816 (34) – A quiet, slow day – and now, at 22:44, the upstairs neighbor’s dog is barking and whining while said neighbor stomps around like a pregnant elephant on meth. Fantastic. There are four pages remaining of the chapter, all requiring some kind of rendering work – or so I thought. I figured this one would, and after TWENTY …
20090817 (37) – Much like (36), I was fully expecting this one to be a roof-raiser. Fortunately, some careful cropping – and a willingness to give up most of The Stick in panel one – kept that from happening. All panels cropped and scaled; one and four cropped the most. 20091008 (31) – Lettered. Mastering notes, 2016.12.07 – Minor dialogue …
20090815 (33) – Got started on this one around noon, then my mom and my cousin Joe (whom I haven’t seen in about ten years) showed up. We did the museum, the comic shop, etc – had some fun; I got restocked, have a vacuum cleaner, etc. It’s now 19:35 and this page is assembled. Cropping all around – no …
20090817 (35) – A large amount of carefully considered cropping kept this one from requiring time-consuming roof-raising renders. While it’s more cramped than I’d like, I like the idea of getting td2e done this year quite a bit more than the notion of showing off the background every chance I get. If I weren’t down to a single machine at …
20090813 (3) – Scaled and cropped – another easy one, fortunately. Though Thad’s sunglasses in panel two have some seriously uneven bows, and that’s after corrections. Might go back and do more later, but for the time being I’m stopping with adding the left bow. 20091009 (36) – Lettered. Mastering notes, 2016.12.07 – Minor dialogue adjustments.
20090813 (1) – Starting pre-format of Chapter Eight with the easiest page. There’s at least one more, a few pages “back” (from the readthrough point of view), but it’s almost certainly going to require a re-render to retain the shot composition. 20091008 (26) – Webscaled. Mastering notes, 2016.12.07 – Re-rendered and re-composited the Daedalus. Lowered the light contrast a bit …
Forty minutes after the events of Subversion, and moments after Interstitial, Transitional Voices picks up where The Dualist leaves off. A brief synopsis of events would follow those lines and links, but if you’ve read The Dualist, you know where things stand…. and if you haven’t, then a summary would be bursting with spoilers. Sufficed to say, Transitional Voices takes …
Huh. (again, Aug 10 ’09 – HOW IS IT 10 ALREADY?) For some reason I always figured this page wouldn’t down-sample useably. Yet it does, with a good amount of elbow room and PLENTY of goatse to spare. Sweet. 20091010 (2) – Lettered. Mastering notes, 2016.12.07 – Corrected a minor grammatical error.
Minor cropping and scaling. The only panel that feels Wronged is the third – I may re-render that at some later date. Right now (1am, 10 August 2009), five is in the art bag (but not the writing bag), “Expulsion” is un-done, and there’s three chapters and change left to process. I have plenty of time to ruminate on the …
20080706.10:43 – Minor text fixes. Matches up nicely with subversion -38-, doesn’t it? You may notice that the gutter at top and bottom is slightly larger than it is on the sides, which is a change from The Dualist. This is to keep the pages a consistent 6×9 at webscale. The area inside the border is 6×9@365dpi, which is the …
20080708 – Minor cleanup. The page still has problems but it’s an improvement. ========================== Worthy of note: Thad’s initials are T.A.G. I’m averse to unnecessary* exposition, but the line just doesn’t work if you aren’t aware of that little fact. Bryan Adams is why I own an iPod. I was in line at a Barnes & Noble a couple of …
This one took a lot longer than I’d expected – two days of linework with heavy amounts of correction on both runs, followed by several more fixes (boobs, noses, neck lengths) after the whole mess was shaded. More effort than usual in part to make up for the previous page. For context, new readers really need to read The Dualist, …
20080708 – Fairly non-minor cleanup. ========================== All glory to the science. And the boobs. In truth, I did some (shallow) reading on aircraft control surfaces, missile control surfaces (some neat stuff there), and related subjects while adjusting dialogue for this page. Technically, I’m sticking with the “super duper gyroscope combined with super duper RCS” theory. Let’s face it – the …