a significant milestone

[egypturnash]

Whew! I went out to Diesel with Nick and worked on Absinthe for a couple hours. The giant panorama spread of Wormwood that takes up pages 10-11 is now done. This was the first page I drew, and the thought of filling in all this detailed city has been kinda scaring me every time I think about working on Absinthe.


This is a close-up of just part of it.

Illustrator says it's 1258 paths. This might be one of the most complicated files I've generated in AI - and it's still not done, as there's an inset panel that I haven't touched yet. That'll probably only be a couple hundred paths more, though.

I'd done a bit of it yesterday, but that got stopped due to going out to see a live performance of Cinematic Titanic. Which was pretty entertaining aside from having legs far too long to fit into the no-legroom nosebleed seats we ended up in.

Comments

[zeeth_kyrah]

It would be so tempting to just pre-generate a set of backgrounds for a particular region, and then just use sections out of each set for various panels or establishing shots...

[shatterstripes.livejournal.com]

Nah. Thanks to Nick's awesome script, the action moves way too fast for that.

Also I am too interested in letting the needs of the story dictate the camera angles I use, rather than creating a situation where I might end up going "oh crap I have to make another background" - I pretty much always have to do a new bg, and this is fine, because I can do them to fit the compositional needs precisely! (Like the way Absinthe is the sharpest hue and value contrast in the whole spread.)