Copyright Nicholas Rubatino
nicholasrubatino@gmail.com
Some recent pedals: MXR Blue box - Arion MMP1 - Fuzzrite with BMP
tone control - Phantom octave with DOD YJM 308 - Sonic Reducer
Bitcrusher - Quantum Mystic. This has been a fun hobby and something
I’ve always wanted to do, but I have to stop looking at the blogs where
they post layouts because I want to make everything.
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.
My halloween costume from 1996, my friend was bill clinton. Still a
handy mask to have around, featured prominently in “He Who Must Be
Obeyed Sets Zealot About a Particular Tasque” and the end of “Winter’s
Magical Graspe”
Using every trick I could think of I finally got Red and the Wolfe
small enough to please the kindle publishing thing. I put in 300 megs of
Jpgs and it poops out a 600+ meg file... what the hell is it doing with
all that space? It saves a redundant dump of all the files I put into
it in the save folder... So I have no idea. Now I just have to tediously
outline every panel for the guided view. I thought about just using the
auto-detect because it is really funny at how terrible it is, mostly
just making one tiny box per page, but I guess I wont. You’d think...
that the THICK BLACK BOARDERS I used would help it out, but it just
seems to confuse it.
Looking through my Red and the Wolfe folder found a scale
comparison from preproduction. Also does anyone who reads comics on
smart devices use the panel-by-panel view? I think I’d prefer
page-by-page but I guess on a phone that wouldn’t work.
