Comments on: RASL art; Newsarama interview

By: Ching Kovich

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By: Hugh Nguyen

Hugh Nguyen — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 01:55:27 +0000

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

By: Brandon

Brandon — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 23:49:25 +0000

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?

By: Charles

Charles — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 23:59:47 +0000

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.

By: Charles

Charles — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 23:58:20 +0000

Yes, please Jeff. I have been waiting.

By: JonMcay

JonMcay — Mon, 24 Dec 2007 02:19:25 +0000

Very Cool. Thanks for the peek!

By: Jeff

Jeff — Mon, 24 Dec 2007 01:20:55 +0000

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.

By: Marcus

Marcus — Sat, 22 Dec 2007 15:52:37 +0000

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

By: JonMcay

JonMcay — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 05:26:14 +0000

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.

By: Brandon

Brandon — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 04:16:03 +0000

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?