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 Post Posted: Fri Aug 22, 2014 12:39 am 
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Here is where you will find all of the strips from the Bjorkea arc that I have colored...and what still needs to be colored.

This list conveniently keeps all of them in an easy to find location instead of you having to track down each Reaction thread that contains only one. Though the real reason is so I can keep track of what I have done or not. Anyway, I'll edit the this post as things are added.

Since Pete has decided to turn this (simple/short) side story arc into a (complex/plotty) main story arc, the enthusiasm to color the entire arc is waning. I haven't quit, but new colored strips will be much more sporadic.

Coloring Order
  1. 2014-07-14 (1 & 2)
  2. 2014-07-28 (1-3)
  3. 2014-08-04 (All)
  4. 2014-08-08 (1-3 & 5)
  5. 2014-08-15 (1,2 & 6)
  6. 2014-08-11 (All)
  7. 2014-08-06 (All)
  8. 2014-08-13 (All)
  9. 2014-08-18 (All)
  10. 2014-08-27 (All)
  11. 2014-08-20 (All)
  12. 2014-08-29 (All)
  13. 2014-09-01 (All)
  14. 2014-09-05 (All)
  15. 2014-09-03 (All)
  16. 2014-09-08 (All)
  17. 2014-08-22 (All)
  18. 2014-08-25 (All)
  19. 2014-09-09 (All)


Chronological Order with previews
I really need to redo this list. It's way too spread out.


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 Post Posted: Fri Sep 05, 2014 11:01 pm 
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How come there's no replies on here? No one has any compliments for Zil's work? Come on, people!

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 Post Posted: Sat Sep 06, 2014 8:59 pm 
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Well, only about 100 people or so look at the images, so having a bunch of people say something (lauding or criticizing) would be surprising.

I will say that having at least one person who likes what I'm doing, makes it worth it and gives me reason to continue. Though honestly...having someone hate it would elicit the same. It's the ambivalence that makes you question whether to continue.

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 Post Posted: Sun Sep 07, 2014 12:10 am 
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I like them a lot.

Only a hundred views? Darn forum needs a crash cart, STAT!

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 Post Posted: Mon Sep 08, 2014 12:25 am 
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I like them a lot.

Only a hundred views? Darn forum needs a crash cart, STAT!


I stopped coming when this interlude started, I wasn't so anxious to spec as before :P


I love the colour zill. Will check all of them later.

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 Post Posted: Tue Sep 09, 2014 11:47 am 
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This makes me wish I was checking the forums right now, but as Franco said, inbetween arcs is usually when I take a break from the reactions forum. Great job though! I really miss having weekly color comics; even after all these years. You're hitting me in the nostalgia bone with your method of coloring!

I'd love to see these in book form 10 years from now, but I bet that'd be tricky to work out.

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 Post Posted: Tue Sep 16, 2014 7:54 am 
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You should send these to Pete, I know he needs colorists sometimes! :)

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 Post Posted: Tue Sep 16, 2014 10:44 pm 
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I'm up to a whopping 162 views! Of course, that is only based off of one strip since that one has stats while the rest do not. But I'm figuring that most people are going to look at all of them, so that should be about the same for each one. I'm guessing...
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You should send these to Pete, I know he needs colorists sometimes! :)
Pete knows all about them since I put them in Reactions when I complete one. So I know that he knows about them. As for coloring for him...I'm not that quick. I spend too much time "pondering".
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I'd love to see these in book form 10 years from now, but I bet that'd be tricky to work out.
That would be interesting, but unfortunately their quality would be too low to be acceptable and I would have to redo them all. Of course that would be the easy stuff compared to the important "tricky" stuff.

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The new ones are looking very nice, Zill.

Why would they be too low quality for printing? Not high enough resolution?

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Zillatain wrote:
I'm up to a whopping 162 views!

I get broken links when I try to view them, but I think that's because I'm viewing at work and it may be blocked. I'll have to try when I'm at home!

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 Post Posted: Mon Sep 22, 2014 1:37 am 
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OrzBrain wrote:
Why would they be too low quality for printing? Not high enough resolution?
Well to print something out, they tend to want a dpi of 300 for the image, otherwise you might see pixels when it's printed and things will tend to be blurry.

The strips Pete uploads are usually 750 pixels wide, which would be about equivalent to 100 dpi. So to make to make it look good, it would be about 2.5 inches/6.4 cm wide. If that's okay, then we don't have a problem. But if we wanted to print it larger...and look good...

First we would have to assume we would be able to get a hold of the scans of the original line-art --that Pete does at 300 dpi. Second, everything that I did would have to scaled up three times.

The hard-edge stuff can can be scaled up to infinity with no degradation. Here's an example of just the hard-edge colors from the 2014-08-13 strip.

The soft-edge stuff is where we have the problems and probably all of it would have to be completely redone. Here's an example of the soft-edge colors from the same strip. Everything in this image will tend to become blurry as you size it up. The shading's edge where it blends becomes too smooth. The gradients may have some "banding" occurring. Anything that was deliberately blurred, becomes really bad looking. Any line work to to fix/improve things are just like the original line-art since they will become really blurred... Though this image is a the probably the worst example since there wasn't that much line fixing required. And the white overlays...actually, those wouldn't be a problem now that I think about it.

Over all, it could be done, but we're talking about at least a couple of hours per strip. Though in ten years
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I get broken links when I try to view them, but I think that's because I'm viewing at work and it may be blocked. I'll have to try when I'm at home!
Most all of them are being hosted on DropBox, except for one which is on imgur which gives me view stats. It's up to 173 now. I could put up some alternate links to the strips on Google Drive, if that would help.

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