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Sep. 3rd, 2009 08:49 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
egypturnashWent out to a couple of cafes with Nick today and worked on stuff. I now have all of the script he wrote for Chapter 2 in thumbnail form. There's some bits that really make me happy in there; it should be fun and surprising to draw. It might end up being a short chapter; how short depends on how much dialogue winds up happening before the sex scene.
We could make it longer but there are certain rhythms we want to establish. And, really, chapter 1 was originally intended to be around 24 pages but grew. I'm happy with chapter 2 being closer to that length. The required minimum hiatus will be a lot shorter that way!
It always surprises me how much work this part of the process is. I'm just doing crude little scribbles, I think; it should be easy! But it isn't; I'm deciding how to break up the script into pages and panels, deciding what kind of angle to take in each panel, how to throw them around the page... I'm doing some fairly complicated work at this phase. In some respects, everything is downhill from here, even when I'm sitting there filling endless detail on a crazy background - there's a lot of work to be done, but nothing that's as much heavy mental lifting. I'm blocking the shots, keeping track of continuity, thinking about how to layer body language onto the dialogue... it's complex stuff, and it leaves my brain feeling a little exhausted when I stop.
We could make it longer but there are certain rhythms we want to establish. And, really, chapter 1 was originally intended to be around 24 pages but grew. I'm happy with chapter 2 being closer to that length. The required minimum hiatus will be a lot shorter that way!
It always surprises me how much work this part of the process is. I'm just doing crude little scribbles, I think; it should be easy! But it isn't; I'm deciding how to break up the script into pages and panels, deciding what kind of angle to take in each panel, how to throw them around the page... I'm doing some fairly complicated work at this phase. In some respects, everything is downhill from here, even when I'm sitting there filling endless detail on a crazy background - there's a lot of work to be done, but nothing that's as much heavy mental lifting. I'm blocking the shots, keeping track of continuity, thinking about how to layer body language onto the dialogue... it's complex stuff, and it leaves my brain feeling a little exhausted when I stop.