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Not really. With comic typefaces what you want to be concerned about is readability at smaller sizes.
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It is fairly planned out. I think it has been used enough now that certain words have shown up more than once. I should probably write up a blog post about it. :P
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Fine. /BANNED
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Not anymore. We fixed it. Go enjoy your perfect forum.
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Good question. Probably Grontar, since he's a Quadrillian and Scherzer is just a (huge) human.
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No. I don't have an Okie accent since I grew up in Northeastern Oklahoma. It is a really plain dialect there. But I know enough people who grew up somewhere with an accent that I can totally do an awesome Okie accent on cue.
Here is a video of me talking (and Chris!) so you can hear our "accents"
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No, if you mean actual photorealism, it is done with values and not lines. That's what makes it look like a photo. But, if you mean as a person gets better at drawing do their lines become thinner, I'd say that depends on the style they are going for.
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asked by adanode
It is some backstory that I don't know if we'll be able to fit in. Basically what happened was, Grontar was out trying to slay this giant monster as part of a manhood ritual when Excelsior crash lands right in front of him. At the time, Excelsior had a different mechanic, and Efrem and Reona discovered him to be a GEF spy. So, a fight between the guy and Efrem breaks out, to be interrupted by the giant monster Grontar was trying to kill. Efrem uses his powers to kill the monster and Grontar finds that really impressive. This leads to that and Grontar follows Efrem. That is part of why Grontar respected Efrem so much.
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I'll have to talk to Joe about it.
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Not about the comic itself, really. Mostly what we have meetings about these days are financial things, merchandise or conventions.
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No, Alex and Joe are cool guys, but NNFB is their project. I love NNFB, and I'll happily do guest comics and fanart, but I won't ever be doing any official NNFB comics.
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I do a much better job of it. You'll notice Zap's mega bright green aura gets toned down in volume 4. I also use a different shade of blue for Robot. That was for printing purposes.
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It is, especially if it is handled inorganically. Like, a character just announces everything or a narrator just goes on and on. People tend to think that they need to dump all their world building at the beginning of the story, and really it is more rewarding for the reader to discover a world along the way.
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asked by adanode
I actually tend to slow things down with characters that people enjoy. For instance, this scene with Naveed and Gunner. If it were with characters people didn't care about, I'd take out all the little character nuances and just get to the meat of the plot and move on.
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I think for a lot of people they draw things enough that it becomes consistent. I don't feel my art is particularly consistent. I'm always trying to push myself to improve, so I never stopped letting things organically shift as I went along. The characters in Zap are distinct enough that even though someone like Gunner looks a lot different than he did when he first showed up, you wouldn't mistake him for another character. So, that has helped a lot through all my style shifts.
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asked by adanode
Colored lineart is super easy. I've tinted the lineart in Zap for a couple years now. It is just one more step you do at the end of the coloring process, and photoshop can do it in a couple automated steps. Some people do it by hand, but I don't know why! Borderless art is much easier when you have a coloring process for it. Basically, you do your initial sketch and then just fill flat colors over that. It does take longer, but that is the aesthetic some people like, so it is worth it for them.
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Mostly camera angles, or adding an establishing shot while the character is speaking. For Gunner's exposition a couple pages ago I added the flashback sequence to illustrate the underlying event he was talking about.
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No, I love drawing any scene or moment that is emotionally charged. What I hate are 'talking head' type pages. I really struggle to make those feel interesting. They end up taking way longer than usual, even though they should be quick.
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Not before I finish Zap!. I have a couple ideas I've been tooling around to start once Zap! is finished, but it would be too much work and Zap! would suffer if I started a full-blown second project.
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3+ years, probably! Woof.
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