20070724 : Ding removal.

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Yay, scene complete! It's going to be at least a week - possibly two - before I start on the next one. I know most of what's going on and I know what I want it to look like (which'll make The Edit a bit easier when I hit Chapter Two), but I'm stuck on a couple of points and the usual technique of "get faced and run around drunk" isn't quite working as planned - I've written a hell of a lot of the glue that sticks Zero and Everything Else together, but the bit in between here and there is being pretty stubborn.

Probably because the next scene is going to be lengthy and a bit Different (if I don't cheap out), and lengthy scenes have a tendency to make my brain freeze up and gibber, a lot like pages with a high panel count. Tough stuff.

Over the hump with Zero, at any rate- 10-20 pages left. Hopefully I'll be ready to Edit in May!

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Edit, 10 minutes later : Minor adjustments to contrast, solved most of a banding problem I didn't notice until revision A hit hardcopy. // 2005.03.15.03:17- not digging the shadow dynamics that much; might make some adjustments later.

2005.03.15.05:01 : Annoyed by photoshop running through a gig or so of swap to simply switch from a 25% view to a 50% view, I found this while waiting on the "d" revision to grind, grind, grind. An overview of digital art apps, circa 1996 and Photoshop 4. Live Picture, anyone? Read most of it waiting for bits to flip. Regardless, I've dealt with the issues and have a page I'm vastly happier with. Hopefully it looks just as good on Production Hardware.

Almost ten years later and the OS doesn't even fit in Photoshop 4.0's system requirements. I get better performance out of Photoshop 5.5 running in Classic than I can get out of CS doing almost anything. I've only needed CS once (for a layer screwup)- otherwise, the only issue I have is the swap thing. The OS X activity monitor lets me know if I'm dealing with Extreme Gayness or just some serious disk thrashing (guassian blur this, motherfucker), so yay for running six year old software in a four year old OS virtualized on a modern UNIX.

15:19 < Arbo> Mind some criticism?
15:19 <@solios> ?
15:19 < Arbo> I think that chick's right leg is a little too high.
15:19 < Arbo> Like.
15:20 < Arbo> Connecting to the hip, too high.
15:20 <@solios> heh.
15:20 <@solios> http://old.amongthechosen.com/etc/#anatomy
15:20 <@solios> :D
15:20 < Arbo> Oh, a self-aware artist. :) Cool.

She looked fine in the pencils. Practice, practice, practice, etc.