As with the previous page, it was tough coming up with different angles and shots for this sequence. I did reuse the console shot from the previous page because that seemed to work well and it was just another panel of the enemy ship talking. It does feel like a cheat sometimes to reuse art, but given how much time and work goes into each page overall, I guess I’m ok with a shortcut every now and then!
That said, I COULD have reused the salvager ship in all three of its instances on pages 1 and 2. I ended up drawing an almost identical angle each time, so I guess looking at it now, I could’ve saved some time by doing another copy and paste. Oh well.
I never really understood how some people are so opposed to copy and paste.
It’s a perfectly accepted method for animation and why go through this time consuming exercise where the same object will never look exactly like the original?
Wait, did I do this rant before?
If you did the rant before, I should have listened more to it then! 🙂
Is he gonna go for the missile pod trick again?
I do love that trick from Volume 1. But no, he would have to change the orientation of the ship to pull that off. The escape pods are the 3 octagonal shapes in the very back of the ship, behind the cockpit, which you can see in the panel above, and they fire up. So unfortunately, the ship is not set up for it. Ril will have to figure something else out!
if you didn’t already, you should change the color of exactly 1 button on the console… there, see it’s different!
Great idea. And it would make for a fun “find what’s different” activity page! 🙂
Personally I think that copy & paste is good, when well done. Repeating characters poses it’s cringe, repeating a background it’s good.
Agreed! With characters, I’ll sometimes copy and paste elements if it’s a pause or slight facial expression change or something like that. But I at least try to change some parts so it’s not exactly the same, which is what I did with Ril here.
Oddly, I find that layering line work with copied elements and changed elements separated onto different layers may actually be MORE work for colorists to deal with than just completely coloring each panel separately as a single composited line art layer.