December 18, 2007

RASL art; Newsarama interview

Filed under: RASL — Jeff @ 2:51 pm

Above is a look at the page I'm working on today.  Also, a new interview went up on Newsarama yesterday and has kicked off some lively comments. The main topic is the newly announced  (standard) size of the RASL series. This brief interview was conducted by Veneta Rogers and is titled A RASL UPDATE.

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  1. Can’t wait for this. I’m really interested as to how it’ll turn out as it looks to be a more adult story and I haven’t really seen Jeff do anything like that yet.

    I’m not a huge fan of oversized books myself unless the book really demands it. I like the portability of smaller sizes and think the standard comic size is a good balance between being too big and too small and hard to read(manga tend to have less words per page so aren’t too bad).

    Comment by ozjthomas — December 18, 2007 @ 3:13 pm

  2. Ahhh, love the preview image! I love blueline work! I’m still super-excited to see to what degree the story will be a scifi genre story. Besides the elements such as time-jumping and this machine he has, will he be in space at all? Will there be spaceships and space stations? Will there be aliens or other creatures in the worlds he visits?

    Comment by Brandon — December 18, 2007 @ 9:25 pm

  3. Looking great! Sounds like an excellent concept for a story that will clearly be told well and look wonderful!

    I’m actually pretty curious about the bluelines as well. Do these pages get shot on film then burned to plate or scanned, then burned direct to plate? Kind of a geeky question, but you know…just curious.

    Comment by JonMcay — December 18, 2007 @ 9:56 pm

  4. I think Jeff scans the art quite high-res, and the bluelines don’t show up on the scanner when you scan as bitmap black and white. Steve Hamaker talked about this briefly in one of his vids related to colouring Bone (http://youtube.com/watch?v=OyGOEeJHxf0). I assume Jeff would treat this art the same way since the plan is eventually for it to be coloured. It’s also a great digital archive of the inked art.

    But I’ve always been curious further as well, for Shazam you said they “shot from completely new film” for the hardcover and the colours turned out better than ever. At which point I said, what?, I thought the colouring was all done digitally? Where does film become involved in the process and how does that work?

    Comment by Brandon — December 19, 2007 @ 12:16 am

  5. Brandon:

    Hey, I think your comment helped me realize what I was really asking was if the non-photo blue pencil will show up in scans of the art.

    I was also kind of surprised by the comment you mention about making new film on the Shazam stuff…most of the printers I’ve used in the last 5 years or so don’t make film anymore and go direct-to-plate from digital artwork (as opposed to making film, then making plates from the film). So – I was kind of curious about the steps used to take Jeff’s art from his drawing board to the finished piece.

    Anyways, the book looks awesome, just curious about the idiosyncrasies of the process for some reason. Thnx.

    Comment by JonMcay — December 19, 2007 @ 1:26 am

  6. For coloring tutorials theres a wonderful sight called steeldolphin.com

    I like the tone this book is taking, he must be trying to shake off the after effect from The Drift

    Comment by Marcus — December 22, 2007 @ 11:52 am

  7. Blue pencils aren’t picked up by a normal scan, but you can see them when you look at the originals.

    I figured if you come to the Boneville blog, you should see stuff you can’t see anywhere else, so I decided to use a four color scan (which is more like a photograph) and let the blue line work show.

    Comment by Jeff — December 23, 2007 @ 9:20 pm

  8. Very Cool. Thanks for the peek!

    Comment by JonMcay — December 23, 2007 @ 10:19 pm

  9. Yes, please Jeff. I have been waiting.

    Comment by Charles — December 28, 2007 @ 7:58 pm

  10. Oh yeah Jeff, by the way. I never even knew what Bone was. I picked it up because my room mate has the one volume collection. I read the whole thing in two days and am so stoked about RASL.

    Thanks for keeping reading interesting.

    Comment by Charles — December 28, 2007 @ 7:59 pm

  11. Jeff, not sure if you’ve answered this already, but I have a question, will RASL issue #1 include the pages from the preview, or are those pages separate and exclusive to the preview?

    Comment by Brandon — December 29, 2007 @ 7:49 pm

  12. Hi Jeff,

    I’m the Head of Development from an Australian animation studio, and we’re interested in looking at RASL to option into an animated feature film. Is it possible to somehow get a reader copy?

    cheers

    Hugh

    Comment by Hugh Nguyen — January 10, 2008 @ 9:55 pm

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