FreeFall Drift

Author notes

01-14 Ruun explains why he should go.

freefall_drift

on July 11, 2007

Story Notes:
And so, Ruun tries to talk himself onto the starship. Dante explains a bit about the ship and gives an ultimatum or two. And you get to see a bit of family.

Development notes:
I don't like some of the expressions on this page. I knew what I wanted, but couldn't get the characters faces to look right. After a while, I decided I had to stop, let go and move on. I like how intense Uncle Fred's portrait turned out.
I have been re reading Scott McCloud's Understanding Comics. Love that book. Anyway, one of the things he points out, is when the text is dominating the page, the graphics can get more daring. In the forum section, I've got the evolution of this page as I applied this. The third panel was of the two talking and evolved into the family photos. The 4th panel, lost it's border and changed it's focus.
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Reply to D0m - We all know Ruun has to join the ship, after all, the story would end kind of abruptly if he didn't. But Captain Dante would have said that, he doesn't want a disruptive crew.
You made me laugh with your freudian typing. I can read that to have a double meaning."…a 20 year old who just got told he could hop on a spaceship crew". Well, at least a couple, but only off camera! My plan is that Ruun's going to have the Captian Kirk syndrome. He's going to try to get all the green dancing men.
As far as going full color, I have to become MUCH better at coloring before I go full color. This is a strong page without color. If the characters had greys this would almost perfect.

I wished that I had not designed the cool paint that all the characters have, and I would drop the color and go full grey scale.

Viceroy - Greyscale has it's appeal. Would the Maltese Falcon or Citizen Kane or Shindler's List be as good in Technicolor?
How will Ruun be on a gay starship? Like a young gay man in his first gay bar. Like a kid in a candy store but also not sure of the rules of the new game.

Talekyn
Thanks for the advice to take the family photos. I added them at the last minute and my script didn't reflect that. Taking them will be a great element when he leaves.

joerocks1981- Yup, the expressions need work.

silentkitty- Somehow, I think you are right!
The expressions do need work.

Ok, thanks to my web editors, I have reworked those two faces.


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