494

I had a lot of trouble getting the angles right for these panels, since they're facing each other from across the room. But Looking at it now, I'm super satisfied with it.

493

Oh yes! Yes yes! That whole 4 panel reaction Ada has is just great. Quat's excessive lighting powers is one of my favorite reveals ever.

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491

Started experimenting with the Noise filter at this point. Which gets useful for showing Quat's power.

490

Coloring

489

I think half the reason the art quality went back up so far is that I was drawing Magic 8 Ball girl again. It did feel good to go back into my comfort zone.

Still wasn't used to making the word bubbles in photoshop, though. also quat's face gets all wonky there.

488

As much as I keep complaining about the low parts of this chapter of the story, this is my favorite fight in the whole comic.

487

That splashpage of all the stuff Ada complains about was a nightmare to put together
Also, that first panel  being shot from outside the building was pretty challenging as well.
The next 20 pages get really fucking elaborate. I'm not sure why I did this to myself.

486

Had way too much fun with Photoshop on my second outing. For these next few pages I would bring the file back into flash to do the dialogue and framing. But I wouldn't be able to keep it up.

485

Drawing characters was a lot easier in photoshop, but Compositing the overall comic became more and more of a problem.
Text boxes ended up being the worst problem. The Text tool takes forever to load up, and I can barely see what I'm writing, and it doesn't have any box binding to it, so I have to enter every line break manually and ugh...  So anyway, art significantly improves, but the works gets harder just as usual.

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I wish I had done a better job on this one. I'm still pretty happy with it (I like the way Shinji gets older as he's talking with IVan) but this is basically the last time he ever sees IVan alive again. It really could have been a lot better.

483

This one isn't as bad as last week. IVan pose in the last panel really shows how limited my anatomy skills are, though. Grump

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I remember drawing this one and deciding that  just couldn't draw the comic in flash any more. Looking at it now. Flash wasn't the issue.
More specifically for this page, the problem at hand was partly that the lines were too thick, but even more important, the background details were more accute. That makes the background sort of pop up in front of the characters and makes this page just completely painful to look at.
At least the title panel looks nice.