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Finished page with captions is here: http://projectfuturecomic.com/darkl.....hp?strip=02-10
Okay, this is a page from my 'Dark Lord Rising' comic, which is a loosely-interpreted parody of Lord of the Rings but set in the mixed medieval-modern setting of DMFA. This page and the previous one (that's not filler) roughly corresponds to chapter 10, 'Strider'.
So, this page had a lot of post work done on it, which occasionally happened on things like the guillotine scene in 'Heads you lose' (also posted on FA) but is a first for 'Dark Lord Rising'.
Basically, Merlin sent me this page with PNG and a PSD versions in case I spotted anything that needed fixing. Unfortunately I did, and to make things more awkward, the lighting in the PSD version was using some advanced layer mode that Gimp couldn't parse, even in the 2.9 series.
So, after making the corrections (things like the 'DR' logo on the Black Rider's barge), making the reflective patches glow, the Black Riders' leathers actually black and so forth, I ended up having to rebuild the lighting from scratch.
This also let me do the eye-glow effect (Furres' do reflect light in the dark like cats and dogs, e.g. http://dmfa.katbox.net/comic/1264 ).
I guess I went a bit overboard, constantly changing the colour grading and thinking of new effects and ways the lighting should behave. At one point I added shadows behind the streetlamps but the large number of lightsources in panel 3 made this far more complex than I had initially thought and I backed those changes out.
I'm still a little mixed about how panel 3 ended up, though I am rather proud of the TV light sourcing in panel 2.
Artwork mostly by
merlin-the-bruce, story and lighting by me.
Okay, this is a page from my 'Dark Lord Rising' comic, which is a loosely-interpreted parody of Lord of the Rings but set in the mixed medieval-modern setting of DMFA. This page and the previous one (that's not filler) roughly corresponds to chapter 10, 'Strider'.
So, this page had a lot of post work done on it, which occasionally happened on things like the guillotine scene in 'Heads you lose' (also posted on FA) but is a first for 'Dark Lord Rising'.
Basically, Merlin sent me this page with PNG and a PSD versions in case I spotted anything that needed fixing. Unfortunately I did, and to make things more awkward, the lighting in the PSD version was using some advanced layer mode that Gimp couldn't parse, even in the 2.9 series.
So, after making the corrections (things like the 'DR' logo on the Black Rider's barge), making the reflective patches glow, the Black Riders' leathers actually black and so forth, I ended up having to rebuild the lighting from scratch.
This also let me do the eye-glow effect (Furres' do reflect light in the dark like cats and dogs, e.g. http://dmfa.katbox.net/comic/1264 ).
I guess I went a bit overboard, constantly changing the colour grading and thinking of new effects and ways the lighting should behave. At one point I added shadows behind the streetlamps but the large number of lightsources in panel 3 made this far more complex than I had initially thought and I backed those changes out.
I'm still a little mixed about how panel 3 ended up, though I am rather proud of the TV light sourcing in panel 2.
Artwork mostly by
merlin-the-bruce, story and lighting by me.
Category Cel Shading / Comics
Species Jackal
Size 1796 x 1280px
File Size 1.17 MB
Part of that's going to be because Merlin desaturated the dark scenes in some way that Gimp couldn't interpret. I tried to reproduce it but eventually decided to keep the saturation as-is.
And thanks - I actually prefer Merlin's version of panel 3, but having bright headlights from a convoy of powerful bikes at the end of the street changed the lighting structure completely. I kind of like how the beam effect turned out but I still think it could be better...
And thanks - I actually prefer Merlin's version of panel 3, but having bright headlights from a convoy of powerful bikes at the end of the street changed the lighting structure completely. I kind of like how the beam effect turned out but I still think it could be better...
Ahh, I know that feeling of switching between art programs (mainly Photoshop to something else) and always having that problem of 'This program can't read that layer type' and either having to accommodate for the problem I needed the other program to fix or somehow replicating what the original layer types were supposed to do. One day I'll find a way to avoid this problem…
But I gotta say, holy moly. I am impressed with the final result. When I saw the page this morning I thought it just looked so cool. The light/dark contrast just created something really interesting to look at. Panel 2 is one of my favorites here, but I also really like the light/dark composition in Panel 3. I think keeping the original Saturation was also a very good choice. I feel like it really make the light coming from the light posts appropriately brighter.
Seriously, great work with the lighting, Tape. It looks awesome!
But I gotta say, holy moly. I am impressed with the final result. When I saw the page this morning I thought it just looked so cool. The light/dark contrast just created something really interesting to look at. Panel 2 is one of my favorites here, but I also really like the light/dark composition in Panel 3. I think keeping the original Saturation was also a very good choice. I feel like it really make the light coming from the light posts appropriately brighter.
Seriously, great work with the lighting, Tape. It looks awesome!
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