Progress with a twisty tummy
Posted by Simon J. Green | Filed under Comics
Today’s a day of rest and roo.
Got past the thumbing, mentally designed Lee’s homemade bike and realising my thumbs are out one page so far. Not too bad, really. Maybe the fight scene will give me that page back, as I purposely overestimated what I’d need for that.
Every now and then I like to check how the pros do something I’m trying to do – how do they write down their sound effects? How detailed are they with their page layout instructions? – and while there’s no definitive and cohesive answer, checking out Brian Michael Bendis’ and Matt Fraction’s script archives have been awesome. I really like the very simple, wide panels Fraction’s been doing in Uncanny X-Men. It gives it a filmic feel and lets the action take centre stage. His script style is weird though, to me at least.
I’ve also discovered I really don’t like the typset Celtx gives me. The scripting page itself has a nice layout that’s pretty much theatre style. You can simply export through PDF-print from that setup, instead of generating a PDF from within the typset feature. You’d have to download Celtx to know what the hell I’m talking about. If any of you do, especially artists – would you find that two-box script layout useful? It basically chucks all the panel descriptions and display text in a box on the left, and all the dialogue and captions in the box on the right.
Anyway freedom fighters, I’d better get back into it. Only so much of Sunday left.
Killeroo is the creation of Darren Close, all around comic geek, freelance designer and poker tragic. His parents are so proud.
February 22, 2010 at 3:59 am
hope it wasn’t the Furlan club food that caught up with you on the weekend