Posted

Jul 26th 2008

Mood

Artistic

Okay, this is regarding Mirror/Mirror, the remake of Humans. I'm trying to decide for sure which way to finish it. As cool as the lines themselves look, I wanna do something more to it- tones, color, shading, or something. But these things take more and more time to do, so I'd like to hear your opinions.

Here's a sample of the linework... Page 12.
http://www.kiwichanstudios.com/Post/MirrorMirror-12lines.jpg
I'm doing the lines in Manga Studio, same program I did Atlantis U in, because of the lovely line smoothing and the convenient comic-oriented interface.

Here's page 12 done in screentones, like I did with Atlantis U.
http://www.kiwichanstudios.com/Post/MirrorMirror-12tone.jpg
Just slightly better than pure black and white. Making screentones for this page took 26 minutes.

Here it is in basic color...
http://www.kiwichanstudios.com/Post/MirrorMirror-12color.jpg
Basic color took 36 minutes.

Here it is with cell shading.
http://www.kiwichanstudios.com/Post/MirrorMirror-12cell.jpg
Cell shading + basic color took 1 hour 8 minutes.

Now, I could've gone a step further and did full soft shading and ambient lighting like I used to do for Humans, but I don't even wanna think about how much time that would take.

So! How much quality do you think I should sacrifice in the name of speedy production?