Post by Addie on Dec 6, 2006 18:40:05 GMT -5
dont take this the wrong way or anything, but if you stuck with the anime style and not the cell style.. or what ever THE RAIN THINGY X3 but anyhow, maybe instead of just having the rain on the fur darken the fur and add a few droplets comming off of the fur. make it clump a bit more...darken it where the rain hits as well, if there's much movement and its just a little bit of rain there would be patches of dry and patches of wet fur
Thanks for the suggestion, Jaksen:)! I went ahead and tried adding wet and dry patches, but they have a tendency to clash with the shading, and had a confusing result (my fault on that):B. As for adding more clumped fur and dripping rain, that will be showing up in the next few pages as the rain continues (as well as patches of mud where rain has melted snow) ;D.
In conclusion to the poll results, the cell shading seemed to be accepted better by viewers on DA, so I will be sticking with that for the majority of the panels in future pages. Still, I will keep the scratchy shading for other panels that contain flashbacks, sudden occurrences, etc (only more detailed, like the backgrounds), such as in the third panel of page 9.
And while the cell shading did indeed seem more accepted by viewers, using it in this comic is a personal preference as well. Growing up wanting to be an animator, I've always loved cell shading (further encouraged by an art teacher who showed me how to paint overhead transparencies to look like movie cells). Over the past two years or so, I grew more interested in acrylics after taking a college class for them, which is where the scratchy shading came from. So, I'd like to mix the two in KO in the way talked about above:).
