As I type this, it is 12:01am on Friday. The schedule lives on! In my ears, the Ents are just now releasing the river Isen from Saruman’s dam. Good for them.
If you follow me twitter feed (over there on the side, or simply @TGDSteve), you may have noted that there were some rather cryptic tweets to the effect of “not this week!” The explanation for those is that eventually I want to move the comic over to doing it in Manga Studio (I have v4 Debut, I had 3 EX previously which is overkill for me, not to mention that I suspect it doesn’t work with Snow Leopard).
Manga Studio is a great program, my main problem with it right now is wrapping my head around how the interface is just different enough from Photoshop that it makes my brain hurt. Certain things are done slightly differently, and I’m not quite used to the whole bleed/trim/safe concept yet in that program to really do anything productive with it. Add that to the fact that it slows down my workflow considerably (which is already pretty damn slow), and it’s gonna take me a while to move over there.
Meanwhile, I’ve been watching Noir, which is, as the kids sometimes say, an “older” series (okay, it was released here in 2001… but I’ve heard people call Cowboy Bebop an “old” series, too…). It’s pretty good, and I’m wondering why it took me so long to watch it. I remember getting the first few episodes in the English version of Newtype back in the day (first 3? not sure) and liking it (particularly the music), but never got around to seeing the rest.
I was telling a friend that I found the gun porn in it somewhat amusing, given that there’s a dearth of personal sidearms amongst the general populace in Japan. She pointed out that Shirow does a ton of gun porn in his works (or used to, I haven’t really checked to see what he’s up to recently), but that’s more “extrapolated into the future” gun porn. I have a feeling that if you knew your handguns, you could easily pick out the gun models when they do closeups.
The other weird thing about it is that while there tons of gun play, so much that Kirika and Mireille rival the original Predator squad in terms of “kills per engagement”, there’s very little blood. They also variably use silencers, with no real apparent logic to the pattern.
Anyway, that’s enough out of me. Tiem for teh sreep.
See you next Friday!
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