Page 694 – THE CARNAGE BEGINS
AAAAAAAAaaaaaaaaand we’re back! Man, suddenly going back to (mostly) greyscale is a little disorienting, isn’t it? But yeah, in case you forgot over the past month, we’re picking back up immediately after where we left off.
Next up, business: We do have a new Voting Incentive today, but I’m afraid there won’t be one Friday. Aside from the whole “gotta get extra pages done to cover my convention trip” thing, TWC’s recent updating weirdness would make it super difficult to get a new Incentive online before I left anyway. Boo.
BUT, you guys DO have one more Holiday page to look forward too! I’ve got a special New Year’s Eve page that’ll go up on Wednesday (that’s the 31st, not the 1st like I’ve done in past years) That’s cool, right?
(Historical Notes: I wish Past Me had cranked up the blur effect a bit more. The top panel especially doesn’t contrast as much as I’d like, especially since Stilez doesn’t really overlap with the robots enough for the difference to be noticeable.)
I think Past You wanted to show off the cool robot’s he designed an exterior for, and that’s why he didn’t have Stilez overly overlap with them. Also, page width, this is an action scene, and thus you took up the entire page with it.
I’m sure Past Me appreciates you giving him the benefit of the doubt and assuming it was an artistic choice, but I have a sneaking suspicion that the ACTUAL motivation was that the whole panel was drawn as a single piece, and actually drawing Stilez over the robots would have made the blurring effect more complicated to do (even if the end result would have looked better)
…WOW that was a long sentence.
Well, there’s your problem, you tried to have it be a single piece, instead of doing the simple thing (if you have the assistance of drawing software) of making there be two layers, one for the Robots and one for Stilez, and alternating which was blurred between the two panels.
See, I know that NOW, but back then I was still getting used to the very idea of using multiple layers, and hadn’t fully let go of that “draw the whole comic on a single sheet of paper” mindset.