I’m cleaning up* my rough thumbnails using Photoshop, and I’ve been wondering why the later pages have been taking longer to tighten than the earlier pages. Now I know – I had unintentionally been making things more complex. I guess it’s not a bad thing?

Also, if anyone knows why my greyscale images are about three shades darker when I export them from Photoshop versus when I’m working on them in Photoshop, I’d love to know. Tony dot Cliff at gmail dot com.

*It’s a relative term.

I got a nice email today complaining about the spastic frequency between postings on this blog. So here’s a new one, the first for a few months.

The problem is that the things I seem to end up working on are usually NDAed so I can’t share them until much later, or – like the example above – they spend a long time in a really unpresentable state. Like, I spent October working on four different writing projects. Then, in November, I did both NaNoWriMo and the rough story work for the project above. Not sure how to turn a few hundred pages’ worth of drawing into something worth looking at. Oh wait, that’s exactly what I’m trying to do.

Anyway, if you’re up for some rough drawings and comic panels without dialogue, there’s gonna be a lot of those over the next few weeks.

Only a few more long days until Brutal Legend…

Update: Oh man, what a coinkydink! Turns out today is the 20th anniversary of Tim Schafer’s… uh… being in the games industry. FYI, he has brought you and me such great things as Monkey Island, Full Throttle, Grim Fandango, Psychonauts, and DURR Brutal Legend. You’re pretty great, Tim Schafer! This drawing is retroactively my tribute to YOU. Thank you for the many hours of my life that you have wasted improved.

Based off a photo by my friend Charlie Lee.