Checking in for one more progress update on the webcomic.
- The location for the feast hall is ALMOST done. I’ve reworked the room a few times, finally got the size and furniture right, set up the tableware. Still need to figure out the elven banner and finalize the overall lighting.
- The characters are now all done. Twice over, in fact. I made a major technical mistake early on, and then had to go and correct it for everyone except the main cast. But now all 63 characters are thoroughly done and ready for filming.
- Except for Oberic. Which is a bit ridiculous, because Oberic has already appeared on page a few times and should have been long ready. But he’s still not exactly himself, not the way I imagined him, and he will be a major player from here on. I really want to get him right before digging myself in deeper.
- On a related note – I’ve started on the art update I’ve been dreaming of. Not all of art yet, not even close – just the seven pages in the dyv antechamber. Because a) I came up with cool new costumes for the feast, and logically the characters should have already been wearing them there. And b) once I started the reshoot with new costumes I realized how atrocious the lighting was in those scenes. Ok, to be fair, my lighting has historically been atrocious until I did a deep dive into it last winter. But I figured that if I’m reshooting for the costumes, I might as well redo the lighting, and that’s a bit more complicated than just replacing the costumes. Still, I’m at 3.5/7 pages done with that. (Oberic appears in the other 3.5 pages, so I’m doing those once he and I can agree on what he looks like).
I’m really hoping to figure out Oberic and finish the reshoot this week. If I get lucky, I might figure out the banner and the lighting for the feast chamber too. But Oberic is being stubborn, and we are having a very muggy summer, which means my brain is fried, so… I’m not particularly counting on that.
Which is all to say, I should be able to start the actual production of the feast scene at some point next week. The webcomic will resume once I have 4 pages of buffer, so depending on how things go – on either the 5th or 12th August. 19th at the latest, but barring sudden illness or natural disasters I don’t think it’ll come to that.
Oh, and the art update will happen way earlier than that. I’ll post about that separately.