Wednesday, August 14, 2002
Chapter One - "Our Saga Begins..." - Page 4


Commentary for Chapter One - "Our Saga Begins..." - Page 4


[Wednesday, August 14, 2002 @ 3:46 PM]
posted by WolfBoy
Still not inking, but I went back to computer coloring. It just didn't have quite the manga feel without the greytones. One benefit of this layout was that I had PLENTY of room for dialogue. Anson and I would constantly go back and forth about the amount of dialogue per panel. I think the biggest problem we had was in how each of us viewed a strip. He tended to see things as a movie - everything moving from one point to another. I tended to look at the strip as a comic page - you only have, at most, eight good panels to get across what you want on that page unless you want nothing more that talking heads with no action.



Commentary for Chapter One - "Our Saga Begins..." - Page 4


[Wednesday, August 14, 2002 @ 3:45 PM]
posted by Kendrian
Despite my telling him the contrary, Mark still seems to think I viewed the panels as a movie. I imagined them as still pictures, but I imagined at first a four panel system like Real Life comics by Greg Dean, and then as I went on, more like Megatokyo. When I was writing the original chapter, like I said before I did it all at once. Eventually I would start writing it a week in advance, just to get a better handle on layout. We had layout issues, and I agree we saw the comic differently. Another thing is that I usually didn’t give Mark “stage directions” as to where to place people. I gave him basic layout, and dialogue, and let him place characters and angles. In retrospect, that didn’t work well. Had I been more descriptive, we could have avoided layout issues, but in my defense, I was still learning how to write a comic.