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For a strip that actually just features two characters talking, this strip was the single most laborious experience I've had since restarting Puck. The backgrounds had something to do with that.

My wife think that Daphne looks very 1987, but I had to reassure her that 1987 has, in many ways, returned in the realm of teen fashion. (I know this. I'm a high school teacher.) Tight jeans? Check. Ripped knees? Check. Bright colours? Check. The pink Chuck Taylors are my own personal touch.

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~Everyday-Grind-Comic Jul 16, 2011  Hobbyist Digital Artist
ah,. thats the point in life where you see yourself as old. when the damned kids are as big as you are :XD:
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*ElectricGecko Jul 17, 2011
Yeah. It creeps up on you. Nothing like kids to reinforce the concept of just how fast time flies past you...
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=vanilla-vanilla Jul 12, 2011
Speaking of putting effort into backgrounds, wow... Yeah. Do you have actual blueprints or plans of the spaces you're drawing? Or is it just done on-the-fly as needed?
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*ElectricGecko Jul 12, 2011
Enh, I really don't do a blueprint of spaces. I have a general sense of the floor plan (sort of) but I mess around with it all the time to better support the picture. For instance, Puck's house is NOT this big, but I wanted to give a greater sense of space, so the far wall's been shoved back about ten feet.

Cramped spaces never work well for framing shots, which is why houses in movies are always so huge.
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=vanilla-vanilla Jul 12, 2011
Ah, interesting. I go both ways with spaces, sometimes making detailed plans, sometimes winging it.

Yeah, claustrophobic spaces are hard to shoot in. I just saw a film Transsiberian shot mostly on a train. Cramped spaces!
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!Shouten-Samurai Jul 11, 2011
The greatness of this just reminds me of how much I suck at backgrounds. ;)
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*ElectricGecko Jul 11, 2011
Well, thank you for saying. Though I'm really not a very good background guy. In animation, bg work falls to the 'layout' department, and when I was in animation college, I consistently got hammered with stinky marks for layout. I just love the characters more than the setting is all.
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!Shouten-Samurai Jul 19, 2011
I'm with you on that mostly I just ignore backgrounds, 'cos life's just easier if you live in a blank white box...
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*erosarts Jul 10, 2011  Professional Traditional Artist
In "foresight" I would've bet that a background like that would make the strip look way too busy, but I'm in the MirrorBallMan camp on this one: I hardly noticed it. But I don't want to make you sad; it's a very cool background!
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*ElectricGecko Jul 10, 2011
Yeah, a good background shouldn't hammer you in a comedy strip, though. If a reader is thinking, "Whoa, cool background," then obviously the characters and the comedy aren't holding their own. (Full-page comics, I feel, are different, and call for a little big-budget bg splendor.) I WILL say, though, that I like to communicate a feeling of place, and I really hate to cheap out by making every scene set in a featureless box or against a uniform colour field.

The great thing is that I intend to reuse this bg stuff over and over to make life simpler.
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