03-03-2020, 02:17 PM
Waking up from this anti-visual streak... Sorry for the huge delay in replying.
@Artloader:
Thank you! Maybe too many ideas at once, which doesn't help focusing...
The layouts in my order of preference:
1. Slide show format. The monotonous panel sizes were an effect of showing the panels one below the previous instead of as a slide show. But this format is widely ignored :(
2. Traditional page layout. I started with it and have it ingrained.
3. Vertical scroll. Impossible to make landscape-oriented panels with it. But widely used.
I see what you mean with fixed grid layouts, they do have a strength of their own when used wisely.
@Rotohail:
I'll try to make cube frames in various materials and lighting, it's going to be fun - or not, we'll see :D
I do have a lot of written stuff, bits of novels, scripts, mini-encyclopedias, notes, but these never capture the whole that is in the head. One can forget things, especially after a decade away, but a story or a world are a dense interconnected network, once you pull a string you get a thousand back, this is how memory works.
If you post some of your panels we can discuss and try to find what is blocking you?
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During the last few months I've been revisiting my old stories in a very non-visual way, focusing on ideas and emotions, and I'm still somewhat in that mind mode because the panels below were done without really looking at what I was drawing. Okay, my excuse is that this is just a draft until I can collaborate with a real artist :)
This is the continuation of the last panels of this story that I posted before. The narration is so condensed that the notion of a scene has lost its meaning. This scroll covers several separate, longer scenes, in the actual version. The dialogs are also so condensed that they lose the spirit :(
@Artloader:
Thank you! Maybe too many ideas at once, which doesn't help focusing...
The layouts in my order of preference:
1. Slide show format. The monotonous panel sizes were an effect of showing the panels one below the previous instead of as a slide show. But this format is widely ignored :(
2. Traditional page layout. I started with it and have it ingrained.
3. Vertical scroll. Impossible to make landscape-oriented panels with it. But widely used.
I see what you mean with fixed grid layouts, they do have a strength of their own when used wisely.
@Rotohail:
I'll try to make cube frames in various materials and lighting, it's going to be fun - or not, we'll see :D
I do have a lot of written stuff, bits of novels, scripts, mini-encyclopedias, notes, but these never capture the whole that is in the head. One can forget things, especially after a decade away, but a story or a world are a dense interconnected network, once you pull a string you get a thousand back, this is how memory works.
If you post some of your panels we can discuss and try to find what is blocking you?
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During the last few months I've been revisiting my old stories in a very non-visual way, focusing on ideas and emotions, and I'm still somewhat in that mind mode because the panels below were done without really looking at what I was drawing. Okay, my excuse is that this is just a draft until I can collaborate with a real artist :)
This is the continuation of the last panels of this story that I posted before. The narration is so condensed that the notion of a scene has lost its meaning. This scroll covers several separate, longer scenes, in the actual version. The dialogs are also so condensed that they lose the spirit :(