Commentary
for April 25, 2022:
When originally
writing CJ as a character in Eon’s Comic, now so long ago, I
got a few notes from his creator about his personality. Rebellious,
defiant, doesn’t much like authority, etc. He was a bit of a
maverick and I did what I could to show that, but one of my biggest
problems back then was a tendency to tell rather than show, which is
not great storytelling. Remaking Eon’s Comic as Eon’s
World Vol. 1 gives me a chance to do it better. So here we are,
showing, not telling.
Now, since resuming work on the comic itself in late December, I had
the troubling realisation that pages were taking longer to make than
they should and I was barely managing to complete one a day, if
that. It’s largely my own fault, I think; I insisted on replacing
all the character sprites with bigger, higher resolution ones, so
any time I didn’t have a sprite ready to go, I had to make one,
which isn’t as quick and easy as before when they were smaller and
less detailed. Also, it probably doesn’t help that, on a whim, I
started experimenting with more 3D elements in backgrounds. This
page was the first I’ve made so far in what I would call a
reasonable time. Ideally, I’d like to be getting a minimum of two
pages done most days, if I can, after all.
Anyway, here is the Mages Guild hall in Station Square. We saw a
small bit of the inside back in
Chapter 10, but we never saw an
exterior shot of it. But I’d always imagined it being a little way
outside the city, though I don’t think I’d quite imagined it as a
stone tower on top out a rocky outcrop overlooking the bay like
this. As for the guild masters shown here, I am quite pleased with
the mage robes I made for them; they’re based fairly heavily on some
of the mage robes worn by characters in Skyrim, because I
wanted outfits that were distinct from any others I’ve shown people
wearing so far. If and when we revisit the grandmasters of the Mages
Guild at the central guild hall in Genova, who we met in
Chapter 26, I
may or may not update some of their outfits to something similar.
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