Rant #034 Monday, May 3, 2004

Face Lift

After planning on tackling this task for more than a year, I've finally come up with a plan for replacing the rushed, unrefined art that I did for chapter 1 and the first half of chapter 2. Originally, I'd planned on creating fully-shaded art for the re-makes of these pages, but the size of that task was more than the schedule would allow.

Rather than re-make those first pages of 2214 in full colour (like the current pages), I'ma compromise and re-draw them as sketches, in the original fashion but with better quality. Specifically, to form the geometry of everything more accurately, and get rid of that horrible obliquing (read: lop-sided!) effect that plagued the early artwork. The end result should make those first pages a little less painful to see after reading the current ones.

This will be an on-going project in the next month or two; amid all of the projects I've put on hold, this is one that should take priority, eh? There's still the whole music and video project, but all in due time.

Also, I hope to see you at Anime Central on May 14-16 in Chicago. Once again, no table in artists' alley this year, but you'll know who I am when you see the hat. It matches the header of this site.

Later!