BSA215, Comic colouring, 26 October, 2016

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2 more pages to go for colouring and page 15 needs the drawings/story finished to connect back with page 16.  Then bubbles and words and some rejiggering here and there for story sense.

BSA215, Comic Colouring, 25 October, 2016

If I want to have as many blog entries as I did last year, I need to do 55? before 31 December.
Can. I. Do. It???
Should . I. Try???
Anyway, more comic colouring.  The deadline approacheth!

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These snow filters don't look as good as I'd hoped.  HOWEVER.  Pushing forward.

Only two finished tonight because they were 75% yesterday.  Three more are now 75% done and should be finished tomorrow.  Yay!!!

BSA228, World Decoration, 25 October, 2016

 From behind the conservatory door

I installed all of the pieces I made this weekend (except for the Curio Cabinet) in the game today.  You can barely see Lady Greigh's topiary bush- lighting or a different texture will help it pop out.  I wanted her mouth to open wide enough so Lulu can walk through (creepy!) but I'm not sure how to make that happen.  The alternative is to have her gesture with her glasses and her head and arm to separate to reveal the hole in the hedge.  I have to animate in Maya and "bake" it in before exporting it to Unity.  I think that we have four more classes until the games are played at the Flix.    

There's no good view of it yet, but I made a ceiling and covered it with purple floral vines.
This image from pinterest

has inspired me to think about a chandelier of my own for the room.  It'll be made of a prefab tree and surrounded by a particle effect that looks like fireflies.  Whoo whoo!

BSA228, Curio cabinet, 25 October, 2016

Dianne Hoffman, assemblage artist

This is an inspiring curio cabinet.  Maybe I can set mine up halfway with what the player has seen and they have to fill in the rest?

BSA206, Film Review "Drugstore Cowboy", 25 October, 2016

This is only the second Gus van Sant movie I've ever seen (To Die For being the first) as his subjects don't interest me very much.  His editing techniques and imagery are interesting, even beautiful, though.  And on review of his filmography at imdb.com, I'm surprised to find that he directed some very good music videos which I HAVE seen: Red Hot Chili Peppers' "Under the Bridge" and David Bowie's "Fame ('90)".  The following stills were from sequnces that I found quite striking: Bob's narration as he rides in an ambulance at the start of the film, his champagne bubles and pill-induced excitement, and his drug-addled car ride.  The last two have tiny images floating over the screen conveying the character's drug euphoria.  Was it van Sant's intention to glamor or de-glamorize drug use?  

BSA228, final assets, 24 October, 2016

Lady Greigh's talking topiary

Lady Greigh's glasses, one of the collectibles of Level One

not too fancy.  But maybe if I take it into mudbox...

calling cards to alphabetize

Stuff it.  I've more to worry about than the curly whirlies on a serving platter.

curio cabinet

door knocker 1 (collectible)

door knocker 2 (collectible)

BSA215, comic progress, 21-24 October, 2016

I blogged way too much about my comic progress last year and filled it with entry after entry of tiny changes.  This year, I'm just going to post when I've finished colouring them.   As I'm not saving on a day by day basis, either, I hope that I'm not headed for disaster.  I have saved line versions of everything, so fingers crossed...

I can see the face on the back of the cover, but will anyone else?  I was inspired by this image:

and decided to have Amelia Earthart's face looming over the scene in the background.  It may just read as a face... I hope to connect the story dots within the comic.  Of course at this point, finishing seems like it's going to be THE achievement, and not comprehensibility.  Hmmmm.   No soft turn-in Monday because of the holiday, so totally done for the 31st?  Ten days to go!

 Page one:  I spent 5 hours colouring this a few weeks ago and realized afterwards what a huge mistake that was.  Looks good, but my process needs to speed up significantly.

Page two:  My plan was to repeat the same action over and over (colour her hair and face, then do her clothes, then do somebody else, etc.) but got excited and finished the whole page.  I was so close, anyway.  The colouring process feels much faster this time because I did all of the experimenting and failing and succeeding last year.  I'm just pushing forward with what I already know.

Word bubbles will probably be added again at the last minute.

I have to make 19 pages (page 20 will be an ad for SIT because everybody knows that Sea Monkeys are totally fake) which includes the front and back cover.  I've gotten 5 done as of Saturday morning.  Hooray!!

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Page 4 is in progress, but I'm trying to leave problems until I've done everything I know to do and there are two panels that need better drawings.  I may yet get back to it this weekend, in which case I'll post the update in sequence.  

I decided that I liked the flow of having everything happening in order so much that I swung back and made myself fix the problems with page 4 now rather than later.  The figures behind Pierce and his spotlight were badly drawn so I went worked them up and the colour, too.
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I've put an "oldy timey" colour mask over the flashback scenes which I hope will help the viewer read them as such.  Word bubbles should do the rest.  And some time and date markers.  I've also added bits of The Librarian skulking around in the back.

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