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Gnomon Workshop: Comic Book Pencilling with Stephen Platt

Author link: http://www.thegnomonworkshop.com/store/ ... phen-Platt



Overview:

In this DVD, Stephen Platt covers how to create a fully penciled page from beginning to end. He begins with exploration in the thumbnail stage and enlarges the chosen rough thumbnail using a photocopier and lightbox. During the course of the demo, Stephen shows how he indicates change in form, graduated shadows, texture and mass, all while maintaining a dramatic graphic expression. In addition, he discusses industry conventions as well as advice on portfolios and earning a living in professional comics.


Topics Covered:

* Thumbnails and Composition
* Lightbox and Enlargement
* Initial Laying in of Forms
* Rendering Musculature
* Indicating Textures
* Foreshortening and
* Indicating Plane Change
* Industry Practices

Chapters:

1. Introduction
2. Starting Small: Thumbnails
3. Lightboxing
4. Beginning the Final Art
5. Visual Identity and Contrast
6. Narrative Space

Download links:

http://rapidshare.com/files/369815726/G ... 1.rar.html
http://rapidshare.com/files/369815832/G ... 2.rar.html
http://rapidshare.com/files/369815719/G ... 3.rar.html
http://rapidshare.com/files/369815712/G ... 4.rar.html
http://rapidshare.com/files/369815786/G ... 5.rar.html
http://rapidshare.com/files/369815766/G ... 6.rar.html
http://rapidshare.com/files/369815628/G ... 7.rar.html
http://rapidshare.com/files/369815710/G ... 8.rar.html
http://rapidshare.com/files/369815649/G ... 9.rar.html
http://rapidshare.com/files/369815886/G ... 0.rar.html
http://rapidshare.com/files/369815221/G ... 1.rar.html

[Guy1731]

CDisplay Comic Reader v1.4 for Windows 2000/2003/9x/XP

CDisplay is a free sequential image viewer utility for Microsoft Windows used to view images one at a time in the style of a comic book. CDisplay was written to easily view JPEG, PNG and static GIF format images sequentially. The program's inspiration and implementation was partly because already existing programs were too general purpose and thus were awkward to use when simply viewing images sequentially.

CDisplay uses Comic Book Archive files, which have the extension .cbr or .cbz and are simply renamed RAR or ZIP files, respectively. The files are archives of individual page images with a new extension for convenience. The standard icon for cbr and cbz extension is a comic balloon. The format was made popular by CDisplay but is now used by many other programs designed for reading comics.

CDisplay supports the display of JPEG, PNG, GIF, BMP and TXT and also SFV files to confirm that the file is not corrupt, either "loose" or contained within RAR or ZIP files, as above.

* If a .txt file is within a folder or .CBR file, it displays the comic's contents on file opening.
* If a .sfv file is within a folder or .CBR file, it verifies the SFV data to confirm that the rest of the content is not corrupted.
* Automatic colour balance and yellow reduction if desired.

In creation of Comic Book Archive files containing sequentially numbered files (page 1, page 2...), CDisplay does not currently support the supposition of leading zeroes. As such, it will read files as 1, 10, 11, ..., 2, 20, 21, ..., rather than in the order of 1, 2, 3, ..., 10, 11..., which is the usual interpretation of such naming sequences in most modern operating systems. To get around this minor flaw, leading zeros up to the highest digit in the sequence must be added explicitly. For example, the first page of an 80 page document would be 01, and for an 800 page document it would be 001.

Download v1.4 here

(You can download CDisplay Comic Reader v1.8 here, but I personally find v1.4 a little more user friendly - G)

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How to scan a comic:

1. Scan all pages of the comic as image (jpeg/jpg)
2. Use a program as 'ArcSoft PhotoStudio' (download link below) to improve the quality of the scanned images. Use the following effects: 'smart blur' & 'average'
3. Eventually resize the images to 900 pixels with 'PIXresizer' (download link below).
4. If you want the comic to be in a PDF-document use a program as 'Adobe Acrobat 8 Professional' (No download for that one, eventually try this: http://www.uniquewarez.com/appz_zone/37 ... eygen.html


ArcSoft PhotoStudio 6 is a powerful imaging editing application with new features to help you enhance, manage, print, and get creative with your digital photos. PhotoStudio 6 offers intelligent, yet easy-to-use tools such as Face Beautify, Magic-Cut, and Magic-Film along with the editing tools that you have come to love in PhotoStudio.
Download: uploaded.to or megaupload

PIXresizer is a photo resizing program to easily create web and e-mail friendly versions of your images with reduced file sizes.
Download: uploaded.to or megaupload

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