Thursday, January 05, 2006

How many pictures?

Okay, a while back I mapped out the first scene. It requires, in addition to default "conversation" poses, 22 images. Here they are:

Cave Entrance
Greasy Camp
Bench, rear view
Truck Longview cab special (inhabited 3/4 view)
Truck Longview proper (3/4 view)
Truck Windshield occluder (front view)
Truck Proper (front view)
Clipboard (being held/signed)
Flyer side view
Flyer entrance view
Flyer Windshield occluder 3/4
Flyer Cockpit Proper 3/4

Kat sitting, rear view
Casey sitting, front view
Jeanette sitting, front view
Lucius driving, front view
Jeanette referring to...
Lucius handing...
Kat signing...
Kat climbing into...
Kat giving thumbs up, 3/4 view

Some of these pictures are pretty simple, like drawing a clipboard (being held by a generic left hand, amusingly...). Some are considerably more complex, like drawing the "greasy camp". There are only two or three pictures I won't use again, later - that's why I'm splitting up foregrounds, backgrounds, objects, and actors. Otherwise, I'd just draw seven full pictures and be done with it.

This way, I can later have Jeanette refer to, say, a widget. Or I can have Kat climb into a sewer. Or I can have other people driving the truck around.

In theory, therefore, the "cost" of this scene is only two or three pictures. That's acceptable, especially since it's on the extremely high side. (Most scenes won't require any "unique" images.)

That doesn't, however, change the fact that I have to draw 22 pictures to put the scene together, not counting default conversation poses. Ha!

I'll get cracking on that, and you'll see them here.

(Due to tablet difficulties, I may not draw final images, but clumsy make-do images.)

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