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Star Strip page 78

bravo1102

on March 10, 2015

The buffer is down to four pages. Sulu's nose begins to bleed again once the Exo-belt is off. And there's another one of those bridge overhead shots which take twenty or so many layers to composite in Photoshop. I guess I just love blocking (stage talk for moving around a stage) It's almost like I'm running around,  clapping and yelling "PLACES EVERYONE, Come on People…"

Guess this is as close to that as I'll ever get.

The signal to arrest Lon is for him to sit in the commander's chair. So there's a bit of impatience here.  

@Banes: Lon looked extra creepy last page because I changed his expression for that panel in Photoshop. As if to suggest "Jenny you look like you're ready to kill someone… and that someone is ME!"

There are subtle and not so subtle changes made to most of the faces in nearly every panel. Look at the last panel here, the eyes were moved around so the characters are looking at each other, Red got that sly smile and Grace narrowed eyes to indicate slight annoyance. Eyebrows, eye size and what characters are looking at is adjusted figure by figure. It's something we take for granted that I have to remain aware of in every panel. A lot of 3D comics feature two expressions: screaming and not screaming. I try to do a bit more.