The People’s Publisher

Today I am very sad. Two of my hockey teams in the NHL Playoffs got knocked out last night. No All Canadian playoff final wet dreams for me anymore. So.. *sniff* yeah… wait, what was I suppose to talk about today again? [Robert looks off screen, reads the cue cards then brightens up] Oh riiiiiiiiight!

Alright everyone here we go… The production of page 20 of Abigail’s War was selected for Page X. Those that might remember, Page X is the Zeros 2 Heroes (Z2H) process of building one page to full artwork and lettering and stands as the standard for the rest of the pages of the book.

When we began on Abigail’s War, I went through the script with Jennica Harper and built out thumbnails of the pages so we could get an idea of how it would look like and if the pages needed revisions due to too much dialog, too many word balloons or just too many panels in general.

Here is the thumbnail for Page X

Sandrine then came on board and began working on the pencils for Page X based on the script and the Vision Document. Here are the pencils:

From that we went to the painted colored version of Sandrine’s artwork:

Then the lettering was added to bring it all together in one complete package here:

So now Sandrine has began full production work on the rest of the pages of Abigail’s War while Jennica and I are reviewing and discussing the rough pencils of the pages as they come. I am very pleased with the process so far and I am extremely happy with the work that Sandrine is doing!

Hey wait, what’s this?

Is that a teaser for some of the production art work on Abigail’s War?! If you still need more Abigail’s War news (come on, we all know you want more!), check out the two part interview with Jennica and myself here…

Part 1 on this blog http://blog.zeros2heroes.com/2008/04/08/making-of-abigails-war-part-3-page-x-interview/

Part 2 on Jennica’s Z2H blog post
http://www.zeros2heroes.com/component/option,com_myblog/show,Abigail-s-War—Week-4-Update-Quid-Pro-Quo.html/Itemid,107/

Also Jennica Harper was on The Gutter a few weeks ago.
A great listen, very enjoyable, check it out here:
http://www.zeros2heroes.com/component/option,com_myblog/show,The-Gutter—March-31-2008—November-s-Song.html/Itemid,110/

Have a good one this week. I am still trying to figure out if my cats knew it was Earth Day yesterday or just wanted to bring in huge mounds of dirt into the house for fun? I mean worms are cool but no need to step in them in the morning unless you are camping.

Cheers,
R