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And the writing odyssey continues...
Today is a strange day. Our friends Corey and Phoenix are coming over, and it is Phoenix's birthday. I know I haven't gone on at length about any of my real life friends for quite some time, but Phoenix is particularly important in that she is my leading lady; the project that I have going on (almost wrote we there, but that has changed), which I have officially committed my life to now, requires some healthy voice talent, and she will playing the lead role. This recent event has saddened them both, as they were weekly regulars at our DnD games, but we'll see how the night pans out.
I've printed out the image I've commissioned for Jay's memorial and am going to be spending the next 4 days coloring it. I recently scanned an image that I am planning on using for an adventure game I hope to start developing, but it leaves me wondering if it won't be necessary for me to begin the adventure that is digital coloring... I have the strange feeling that if I want to be making anything of marginal quality for such a venture I'm either going to need to create images that are something like twice the size of the resolution I'll be working for, or coloring digitally entirely. Both options would be quite challenging, but I'm up to a meaningful challenge. I mean, it's not as if helming what might be one of the most epic animated series ever made is challenging enough O.o but what can you do. When a thing needs to be done right, it needs to be done right. Right?
And so the week plods on. Although I would really love to move in here, it is starting to seem like perhaps it would be best if I had my own place. I do tend to brain cage quite naturally, and good things come from it. I have a feeling that my entire 30s are going to be spent making this series. I had toyed before with the notion of turning it into a video game, but at the same time, it could very naturally be a three season series... that would mean approximately 18 hours of gorgeous motion comic. I think that would historical, wouldn't it? I mean, it would also be ... completely insane, but that's fine. I can live with that. It won't read as insanity after it's created, only before it's created, and you know how I feel about listening to that kind of criticism.
Ah Christ. Well if any of you have any advice in terms of digital coloring, I'd love to hear it. I'm not the sort to color with a mouse, takes the intimacy out of it. I would assume I would need to get a tablet and go from there. Otherwise we're talking enormous pencil crayon efforts and, frankly, the medium just doesn't suit it. If my pencil crayon techniques could effectively lend themselves to a tablet sensibility, then that's my ticket. But I'm going to have to get used to it. But still, as I said, my 30s are up for that. It's time to make a legend out of Jay's legacy. It's on.
Today is a strange day. Our friends Corey and Phoenix are coming over, and it is Phoenix's birthday. I know I haven't gone on at length about any of my real life friends for quite some time, but Phoenix is particularly important in that she is my leading lady; the project that I have going on (almost wrote we there, but that has changed), which I have officially committed my life to now, requires some healthy voice talent, and she will playing the lead role. This recent event has saddened them both, as they were weekly regulars at our DnD games, but we'll see how the night pans out.
I've printed out the image I've commissioned for Jay's memorial and am going to be spending the next 4 days coloring it. I recently scanned an image that I am planning on using for an adventure game I hope to start developing, but it leaves me wondering if it won't be necessary for me to begin the adventure that is digital coloring... I have the strange feeling that if I want to be making anything of marginal quality for such a venture I'm either going to need to create images that are something like twice the size of the resolution I'll be working for, or coloring digitally entirely. Both options would be quite challenging, but I'm up to a meaningful challenge. I mean, it's not as if helming what might be one of the most epic animated series ever made is challenging enough O.o but what can you do. When a thing needs to be done right, it needs to be done right. Right?
And so the week plods on. Although I would really love to move in here, it is starting to seem like perhaps it would be best if I had my own place. I do tend to brain cage quite naturally, and good things come from it. I have a feeling that my entire 30s are going to be spent making this series. I had toyed before with the notion of turning it into a video game, but at the same time, it could very naturally be a three season series... that would mean approximately 18 hours of gorgeous motion comic. I think that would historical, wouldn't it? I mean, it would also be ... completely insane, but that's fine. I can live with that. It won't read as insanity after it's created, only before it's created, and you know how I feel about listening to that kind of criticism.
Ah Christ. Well if any of you have any advice in terms of digital coloring, I'd love to hear it. I'm not the sort to color with a mouse, takes the intimacy out of it. I would assume I would need to get a tablet and go from there. Otherwise we're talking enormous pencil crayon efforts and, frankly, the medium just doesn't suit it. If my pencil crayon techniques could effectively lend themselves to a tablet sensibility, then that's my ticket. But I'm going to have to get used to it. But still, as I said, my 30s are up for that. It's time to make a legend out of Jay's legacy. It's on.