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SporQ · Posted: Tue Nov 28, 2000 3:52 pm

here's a voltron piccy

i just got hired on at BGS as a colorist. we have the license for Voltron and hope to have the comic out in January. I'll keep people posted if you like

(im not the normal penciller and inker, but i did pencil and ink this one

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A.Buttle · member Member # Joined: 20 Mar 2000 Posts: 1724

You're not done with this one are you? The colors are super muddy and those little round gradations as sparkles just look kinda lame and cheap. Also, it would probably be pretty easy to fix the line work by vectorizing it in Streamline, fixing it in Illustrator, and then rasterizing back in Photoshop for coloring. The resulting Illustrator file with the fixed line work would make it infinitely easier to later blow the picture up to a larger size.

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agent44 · Posted: Tue Nov 28, 2000 4:33 pm

I love voltron.

Rage-lion · Posted: Tue Nov 28, 2000 4:35 pm

You will Love the new Voltron Comic that is coming out then.

Rage-lion · Posted: Tue Nov 28, 2000 4:39 pm

Trust me...the colors on the Comic will not look like this. The colors are more like this. bgs

SporQ · Posted: Tue Nov 28, 2000 4:43 pm

rage-lion is the penciller/inker

i think he meant to link this image: http://www.bgs-1.com/images/cover1.jpg

dangit a.buttle, you picked the two parts that i didnt like myself

the colors are muddy cause i only spent about half an hour on it. i wasnt originally gonna color it, but thought i should add a bit for some flare. but i agree with ya. ill prolly spend some more time on it.

also, the line issue. i've been looking into getting something that would vectorize my art, but just haven't purchased any yet

what is the best for that? i was thinking illustrator, but that's a lot of money and i probably would only use it for vectoring line art...

SporQ

Shousetsu · member Member # Joined: 15 Jul 2000 Posts: 117

do you know whay that shadow in the blue is so pixelated? Its happeneing to me a lot all of a sudden and I dont know how to make the colors smooth again. It looks like that in Photoshop btw, not just JPG compresion.

A.Buttle · member Member # Joined: 20 Mar 2000 Posts: 1724

Illustrator can't vectorize things. Sure, it can create and manipulate vectors, but it can't convert a raster image (e.g. a scan) into a vector image. Adobe Streamline, on the otherhand, can do that very thing. In fact, that's ALL it does. If you scan a piece of linework in at a reasonable size (i.e. big), it can create some very good vectors based on the edge information within the image. Then, once it's converted to vectors, you can edit it in Illustrator.

The second post is pretty good. I would crank the colors up a bit more. They seem sort of dull compared to comic book standards.

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So...which part of "get out of town freak" weren't you clear on, John?

Joe Dillingham

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jasonN · Posted: Tue Nov 28, 2000 7:42 pm

Voltron was so cool! It was one of my fav cartoons!
Your pic brings back memories. I don't really have anything else to add apart from what the others said. Oh and congrats on being hired!

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Brain · Posted: Tue Nov 28, 2000 8:36 pm

Congrats SporQy bum!!

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