All works Copyright Nicholas Rubatino
I’ve had “Saturday Night Screamer” by Hollywood Burns stuck in my
head since I first heard it and it inspired this. They released all
their music for pay-what-you-will on bandcamp which I am very grateful
for- so many French masters of new dark synthwave
putting here so I can use them in the html... hopefully
Thought I’d change blog headers since I’ll be changing the link from comixology to kindle. I submitted Red to kindle and it has said ‘processing your file, this will take a few minutes’ for over a week now, but the last thing they said will take ‘3 to 5 days’ took a month and a half, so I guess everything is proceeding normally!
Completely forgot about this and just refound it. I didn’t know how I was going to handle the photoshop paintings in Red and the Wolfe so I was trying to figure things out, as well as get some weird Red faces out of my system. I knew working for so long on one thing my handiness would change, so I did a lot of prep work to try to keep it to a minimum. Did around a thousand* photoshop paintings before I started the photoshop work on Red, and there are somewhere around a thousand little photoshop paintings in Red. I never copied elements between panels, each panel is an individual photoshop painting.
*couple hundred
Almost done doing the guided view. It is killing my hand, and the
application grinds to a halt after a few pages so I have to keep closing
and reopening it. One thing I don’t like about guided view is how the
aspect ratio and text size constantly change as you go panel to panel.
That’s something I may plan for in the future.
Looking through old scans I found my original Sketchbook page for The
Crow and The Raven. Just sat down at starbucks and wrote it, I wrote
the text originally to entertain myself but decided to include it as
text-to-speech. I cut this up to make the animatic, then made the full
size assets in my sketchbook and made the finished video after about 18
editing iterations.
