Refactoring Pepper&Carrot webcomic to be compatible with printer
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All long strips are now split to individual 300dpi pages.
4 episodes affected in 30 languages per episode.
Over 500 files manually edited and fixed.
The renderfarm script is now adapted ( simplified ).
This was a massive work of hundreds of hours.
Changelog :
Problems: It was a single long strip designed for web in first age of Pepper&Carrot.
- The panels are now wider and were patched to extend to the new panel size.
- The last panel takes now a full page. A starfield was added to fill the empty space.
- Three moon corrections to fit with the cosmology of Hereva.
- No more green panel border. Panels color are white to respect a standard.
Problems: It was a single long strip designed for web in first age of Pepper&Carrot.
- Drawing a new panel on page 4 was necessary to fill the page.
- A lot of panel extension painted on the top for wider panels.
- No more foggy border, back to a solid square design. ( foggy rounded panel are for flashback or dream ).
Problems: Page 2 was irregularly sized.
- Page 2 first panel was extended and recolorized.
- Page 2 : speech balloon position were modified a lot.
Problems: Last panel twist (page 4 ) was a irregularly sized page.
- A new panel was added, a close-up on the house. Many details were added. It's now a 'zoom out sequence' of panel.
Git commit :
- episode 1 : 1dc565279e012d1f012c63388d938d12f9057f71
- episode 2 : 6ed2807bcad59fb12fda84117d3c661ac38e99b5
- episode 3 : 23d7f7486a4af608201032b433a66bda0132ebc4
- episode 5 : 0adee9f070acb471bbb1f18a8ff52ecd6ed7c6f5
Standard infos :
Now Pepper&Carrot pages are all 2481x3503pixels, sRGB, 300dpi.
At episode 13, it represents now 74 comic pages ( x 30 languages , 2220 pages )
5 comments
Wow ! That's a huge work you have achieved ! And I guess that wasn't very fun to do.
I'm glad to you for this cleaning task. I intend to print a comic book of P&C with my own project when it will be finished (at the end of he year, I hope).
Good luck and bravery for the next episode. :)
Nice !
@Jo , @Ncarrier : Thank you :) Yes it was a really repetitive task over hours and hours. But it feel good when all is over :) A printing project? very cool !
I'll just print it for my personal use.
Great (and massive) job. Also, cheers for the mini set of brushes you just released.
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