Hey everyone,
Well production is starting to kick into high gear on the beta books. I am very excited to mention that Gustav Hayes is moving along from script to artwork!
All us beta book associate editors started out working with the writers to get the scripts up to par, review and revise to the point that it would be ready for production. While working on Gustav Hayes, I was lucky that Morgan Jeske had a great script already in a comic book format. I had a great time working with Morgan and a series of thumbnails (yes, bad Robert artwork and all) which helped put the script into its final format.
As mentioned we use a Zeros 2 Heroes tool called The Dashboard. This allows for discussion & review with the entire team on a comic book. As we are working on the Dashboard, us editors are also putting the tool through its paces in this test run. Noting bugs we find and making comments on what would make the tool better is all part of this beta books experience. From script edits to visual thumbnails and final artwork, the Dashboard is a great tool!
So production on the Gustav Hayes is in the pin-up stage where we are working to nail down one character sketch which encompasses the main character bang on. Our penciler Mauro Gianetto has also made a number of pin-ups of some of the supporting characters & villains. Take a look!
The above pencils are shots of Sue Jones, Malcom Ellis (wow - both these characters look like people I knew from mid-80’s high school! Yes, I am that old… *le sigh* :P) plus the dreaded post-nuclear Zomboid! I can just feel the zany and fun 1980’s nuke movies vein in these great pin-ups. The angular and lyrical lines are exactly that artwork that we wish on the book. The artwork gets me so excited!
From this point, we build the final pin-up from pencils to inks to coloring and once approved by the writer (to ensure that we are on the right track art-wise) then we move along to Page X. Yes, Page X it is as mysterious and mutant-like as it sounds. Once the final pinup is completed, I will post it up here for everyone to see the process of pencils, inks and finally the colors.
Cheers,
Robert
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[…] Hey Kids. Want to know why there are less posts here than usually? Well your part-time blogger here is busy with the Zeros 2 Heroes upcoming comic book, Gustav Hayes. You can see some production pin-ups here: http://blog.zeros2heroes.com/2007/12/13/gustav-hayes-pinups-galore/ […]
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