V zadnjem èasu je internetno pazljivo oko se ¾e davno umaknilo s Piratov 2, ampak nekateri smo si jih ogledali šele v soboto in zganili svoje riti šele danes, da bi o njih kaj povedali, c’est la vie.

Te¾ko se je odloèiti kam toèno bi uvrstil Pirate 2, na eni strani sem jaz, ljubitelj filmov, ki se dobro poslušajo, se pravi so prijetni za muziciranje v ozadju, na drugi strani pa sem jaz, ljubitelj posebnih efektov in velikih reèi. Prvi pirati so definitivno film, ki se odlièno posluša, veliko dobrega in zanimivega dialoga, ne preveè moteèih elementov in odlièna glasbena podlaga. Pirati 2 to definitivno niso, so èisto nasprotje tega, Pirati 2 so spektakel in za kaj veè bi jih bilo te¾ko jemati. Film je gledljiv nekako v stilu kot je gledljiv na primer Rambo, kaj veè bi pa bilo te¾ko prièakovati.

Kar se tièe samih posebnih uèinkov pa kapo dol. vse skupaj je odlièno izpeljano, uporabljena je zanimiva tehnika, ki je tokrat res prinesla 3D animacije v takih detajlih kot verjetno še lep èas ne bodo standard v filmih. Bral sem tudi nekaj èlankov o postopku dela in stvar je res sapo jemajoèa.

Prišli smo torej do dela novice, ki se dotika septemberskega stripa, še vedno mi je ¾al za poletje brez novih delov.

Strip je dobil lasten storyboard, ki je sluèajno tudi moj prvi. V izdelavo še ni šel, ker moram najprej ustvariti tri dizajne ter se ponovno nauèiti kako se nariše nekatere dotiène stvari, ki so se mi uspele nekako izmuzniti. Mislim, da lahko z skorajšnjo gotovostjo reèem, da bo strip narejen ob pravem èasu, kdaj toèno ta èas je pa naj ostane skrivnost.

The internet’s watchful eye has taken its eye off Pyrates 2 but c’est la vie, I only got to see it on Saturday and have only gotten around to saying something about it today.

It’s hard to decide what to say about this movie, on one side there is the me that is a movie lover and judges movies by how listenable they are. That is to say, can you put the movie in the background and just hearken to it. The first Pirates certainly is such a movie, lots of dialogue and lovely music, awesome, the second, sadly, is far from this. It is a completely new breed of movie, rather then telling a great story with lots of dialogue it is action and special effects packed. It was fun to watch, but in the same way as Rambo was fun to watch… but just not that very great.

As far as the special effects go… hat’s off. Very great work, have read a few articles on how they were done and I was simply amazed by how great it turned out to be.

Now we come already to the part of this news post that has to do with the progress of September’s page, and I’m still very sorry about the summer being updateless.

The new page has been storyboarded (my first) and is well planned out, I just have some concept designs to make and re-learn a certain aspect of drawing which I seem to have misplaced along the way and I am feeling confident that the page will be finished on time… just when exactly on time is, I am not telling lest I jinx it.

No, pa smo tam, novica, ki sem se pred njo skrival ¾e nekaj dni, mogoèe bi pa odšla in nikoli postala resnièna, èisto mogoèe; vendar ni bilo tako. Novica je tu, v vsej svoji velièastni grozi in neumnosti, novica, ki bo obšla svet, ali pa vsaj bralca ali dva.

Torej, brez nadanjega nodlašanja, ka¾e da je gospod Cthulhu postal zelo neèimern, saj se je, kot ka¾e, odloèi, da jo zagode risarju èe nima dovolj velike vloge v nekem dotiènem stripu; stripu, ki se je ustvarjal popolnoma predolgo in je bil zakasnjen, prestavljen, zbrisan mrtev, zaklan in poškodovan… nazadnje pa tudi odpovedan. Res je, prav ste prebrali, odloèil sem se, da stripa ne bo. Popolno unièenje mojega truda se ni zgodilo enkrat, ne, zgodilo se je dvakrat, in ko se je zgodilo drugiè me je vse minilo. Odloèil sem se, da bom preprosto opustil prekleti strip in se raje lotil naslednjega.

Torej sedaj, ko je stran brez stripa, se bom posvetil ustvarjanju dnevnih skic… dnevno O.o … in se kmalu lotil izdelave novega stripa, po mo¾nosti ne prekletega, ki bo izšel septembra.

Here we go, the news I’ve been dreading to tell for some days now, but it has to be told and I have to bear the stupidity of it all, so no use postponing, oh no, no use for that at all, nope, no use. Stopping procrastination mode… now.

The bad news, yes it is a piece of rather bad news, rancid ones almost. The news in question is that Cthulhu seems to have grown rather vain and has decided to mess with the artist if he doesn’t get enough of an appearance in a certain comic. The comic in question is the page that has been going on rather long enough and has been delayed postponed, dead and broken and finally… canceled. Yes that’s right, I’ve decided to simply not finish the page. Some force has ruined my work not once, but twice and when it happened last Thursday I finally decided… you know what… screw this.

Without the page I will take care to produce daily sketches… daily and will be starting work on September’s page rather soonly and hopefully that one will fare better than the canceled one.

Prvo, kot prvo, verjetno ste opazili, da stripa nekako še ni na svojem dodeljenem mestu, ki je gor, èeprav je bilo obljubljeno, da bo dotièni srip do trenutnega trenutka ¾e davno na voljo. Do razlik med fikcijo in realnostjo je prišlo po nekaj preprostih korakih. Prvi korak je bil ta, da ima dotièni èlovek, ki stripe ustvarja praktièno dvojno zaposlen, se pravi ena polna zaposlitev in ena honorarna (èeprav sta v bistvu obe honorarni). Drugi korak je bil, da se je raèunalnik, na katerem se odvija vse delo, odloèil biti nesramna baraba in imeti napako na disku natanko tam, kjer so bili do nedavnega vsi deli stripa oz. skoraj vsi ti deli. Sedaj je potrebno vse še enkrat ustvariti in trenutno sem v procesu ustvarjanja kakor hitro zmorem.

S tem smo torej opravili, zdaj pa k zanimiv reèem. Èlan CAD forumov je odkril zanimivo stran, ki natanèno opisuje izdelavo, delovanje in uporabo naprave, ki spreminja tek èasa. Seveda te spremembe niso prave, ampak nekako navidezne, efekti so kljub temu odlièni. Tam je tudi prelep video prikaz vsega skupaj in… ogled je neizbe¾en, èe uidete temu ste… nenavadni, milo reèeno.

Firstly, as you may have noticed the comic is still not up even after I promised for it to be in its rightful position of being up. This is due to many reasons, one is that I now effectively have two jobs, one full time and one part time… moneys are important. Another reason is that the computer all of the work is done on decided to be a downright bastard and have a disk fault right where all the panels were, or at least most of them, so I ended up having to redo a big part of the comic… which I am now in the process of redoing as fast as possible.

Now that that’s out of the way, today a great and quiet awesome video has been found by a member of the CAD forums and that video… shows how one can manipulate time. Of course it’s not really time manipualtion but it does have the same effect. How to make the device, how to use it and what it actually does is greatly explained on the website. You really should go and have a look, it’s worth it.

Vèeraj sem odkril nekaj odliènega, nekaj tako superbno superiornega, da se še Da Vinci skrije v osramoèen. Kot ka¾e je va Photoshopu neka stvarca, ki do sedaj v mojih oèeh ni obstajala, omogoèa namreè nastavitve obnašanja èopièev. Odlièno, kar tako, pojavi se in puf, tam je.

Najva¾nejše pri tem je to kakšne vse nove mo¾nosti odpira, omogoèa res veliko. Ta strip je poskoèil v kvaliteti bolj kot poskoèi zalo velik zajec kadar zelo visoko skoèi. Efekti, za katere sedaj potrebujem le nekaj potegov z miško, drugaèe zahtevajo ure in ure dela, ki na koncu pripelje do prisiljenih in fuj efektov, tako pa so hitro in uèinkovito videti popolnoma naravno in fino.

Zakaj torej nisem prej zvedel za to èudovito reè? O.o

Yesterday I’ve made a wonderful discovery in photoshop. There is a panel I was totally and completely unaware of, it allows you to change the behaviour of your brush. Sure this might seem as obvious to many of you as just why the rabbit is so deep inside the hole, but to me it was unexistand.

This discovery has enabled me two things, this webcomic has jumped in quality a lot yet it still retains what I like to consider a warm and fuzzy feel that was made with the pencils being left in over the computer colouring. Now the pencils are done away with yet the thing still remains nice and fluffy almost makes you want to cuddle it.

Another great thing is that I am now able to get effects done quickly and effortlessly that would otherwise require hours upon hours of work and still wouldn’t look very well. They would look forced and ew, now they look natural and yum.