I AM THE LIZARD KING!!!!

[maximkovalenko]

I have just got done completely redoing every comic from 6-18-2004 to 6-28-2004 ...in 5 hours.


I rule.
http://requiem.spiderforest.com/?comic_id=4

The link above is where the new ones start.  You can expect more of these coming as I go through most of the back archives.  First stop is unifying the charcter look of Ian throughout the comic...that means every comic he is in up till Requiem 195 is gonna get a makeover.  There are other mistakes that I will be fixing along the way as well, but unifying these comics will go a long way to what I want to achieve.

Along the way I plan on doing something about how the comic looks so damn dark in a lot of places.

I know that a lot of it is set at night and such...but I would at least like them to be visible.


At any rate...keep watching this channel..more of them are on the way.:)  Lemme know what you think

Comments

[gomichan.livejournal.com]

It looks awesome! I ended up rereading the whole comic. :D

Looks like you're tightening up dialogue as well? Or did I misremember the text? Anyway, as far as lighting goes, the train robbery stands out to me as the most confusing sequence. I still really have no idea what happened there.

I made a mental note to ask if you had a way around that 'hair plugs' look people got sometimes, but then I noticed you fixed it in recent pages; I'd just been confused because the hair-plugs-lookin'-guy in River Crossing vanished and this other, rather hot fellow showed up -- I'm a tard. :D

There's a duplicated page. I believe it's Sept. 13 and 14 of 04.

Anyway, congrats, and if you keep redoing them at this pace, I'm going to end up rereading the entire comic /again/ in not too long. :D

[maximkovalenko.livejournal.com]

I'm definitely tightening up dialog in a lot of places. The thing that got me really thinking about this is the side comic I'm doing for Renderosity right now also has Ian in it...but he is being done using this newer version of him. Since "Tunnel Runners" picks up right before "Requiem" does I kindafigured I would get on the stick and take care of that.

You'll be seeing a lot of them get changed here....right now I have a buffer that extends all the way until the 29th of September. I figure I can take a week and a half or so and get stuff done. (at least the bulk of the old Ian stuff.) After that it's goign to be a case of picking and choosing (the railway is definitely on the list.) Problems with that section are the reason why I went from Bryce 5.5 back to Bryce 5

Wht's going to save me here is the factt hat I have been utterly, insanely obssessive about archives. I still have all the source files for this entire thing. (going all the way back to the beginning) So I'm kinda cheating in a way ;)


The hair plugs problem is caused by how Poser hair is built (strands on top of a semi-transparent skull cap) If I am off by a fraction of a millimeter based off of the scale of the figure, the skull cap base partially submerges into the skull.

[gomichan.livejournal.com]

That sounds like a really bug-prone way to do hair. I noticed that hair was the area where the figures were most prone to look wonky. After I first noticed the 'hair plugs' I kept checking out their hair to try to figure out how you do it.

Do you have to download hairstyles, or can you create your own? I particularly liked the shaggy thing you did on the Celtic god fellow -- his name unfortunately escapes me at the moment, but his haircut conveys a lot of personality. :D

[maximkovalenko.livejournal.com]

Hair styles are a mixture of downloads and grow my owns...the thing is that any hair that is truly strand based within Poser is stuck ith the bug prone method. Darnell Wallace has had problems with it a few times...Theresa Quinlan has had it too more than once, as had Targeter. Most of the time it is fine so long as you don't deviate to far with the shape of the skull. That's when you really start noticing it especially when you are using a figure from one manufacturer with a hair from another (Darnell Wallace is such a mixture...sometimes the sides of his head show way to much scalp)...Ian is another cross breed (Hair from one company, with a figure totally from another,


Iovantucarus (Mr. Shaggy) came out really lucky...he was my first experiment in growing hair using the strand based lab built into Poser 6. The lab setup is based off of lenght, root size, tip size...just about every conceivable thing that I can think of that make up the attributes of what we call Hair. It works...but it truly maddening.

[themagestorm.livejournal.com]

Looks damn sharp there. Been rocking out entries left and right, so as you wait for the pictures to render, you might want to get caught up :P

[maximkovalenko.livejournal.com]

Trust me...I most definitely have been. I have Shattered Death linked in on the RSS newsfeed on my copy of Firefox:)

It's been one of the things that has been keeping me motivated. Gotta admit, I had a bad feeling when the discrepancy in James's story first showed up...I was wondering when we might see something like what happened to him.

I just wonder how intelligent those things are gonna get...

[themagestorm.livejournal.com]

Well, it was the support that you, as well as 487+ others sent to me that got me back in gear. And I have actually been wondering myself, as I get most of the story at night, when I sleep. During the legal issues, I lost all the dreams. But, they crashed back into my sleeping world, along with 2 parallel storylines, and three totally different stories.

Didn't know Firefox did that though. I'll have to look into that for Requiem, as I love your work and story on that. Keep your work up, and know that you have fans who love your work. I know it helped me in my darkest time.

[maximkovalenko.livejournal.com]

You can do it via the Live Bookmarks options...or the method that I prefer which is the extension for Firefox called Sage. I have a sidebar that opens each sites rss update into the main browser window.

RSS bookmarks go into the Sage Bookmarks folder in your Bookmarks section. It's great to be able to scan through 40 or 50 sites in about 30 seconds :)

I don't currently have an RSS set up for this new site...the Keenspace locality did, I just haven't gotten around to setting one up for here yet.

As for Requiem and how it's done: With me it's like looking through a window or a door. I hear them in my head, see them in front of my eyes when I focus hard enough. I kinda started this remastering of sections because I started going back through my archives and read a comic and realized "Hey!!! Wait a second!!! That isn't what they said!!!"

So I gotta get it right or else they'll be mad at me ;)

[themagestorm.livejournal.com]

For me, it is like some insane projectionist keeps looping a section of a movie over and over again, till I write it down. I do get 80-90% of what I see onto paper, and that's not bad at all. And yes, I'm getting at least 1 update today.