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Order Of Death

2008.03.17 at 03:42

1. 7.5 pages of Transitional Voices until I need to start modeling again. Six pages out of the next environment, then another environment which I'll get a page out of (and as such should be designed for reuse in DCR).

2. While said modeling is going on, script for DCR.2 will be prepped. The existing outline is amazingly complete - a final script is almost a formality and is necessary more for page/strip flow and to nail down what I'll need for photography and modeling.

3. After TV.1 is complete, modeling and principal photography for DCR.2 will proceed while the script for TV.2 is worked out. TV.1 may be cleaned up - I have some issues with page flow that may or may not be correctable, and I may redo a couple of panels or pages. The idea being to save TV from an Edit similar to the one performed on the first half of The Dualist (including cover rework of TV.1 and DCR.1). The TV.2 script is currently in outline/event form with only one subsection detailed - it needs a hell of a lot more work than the DCR.2 script does.

4. Between prep for Chapters 2 and production of Chapters 2, the ATC and DCR sites will be tweaked and overhauled. Or burned down to the foundations and rebuilt from scratch. In the case of DCR this would be replacing older crappier graphics with newer prettier graphics (already under way). In the case of ATC the big emphasis will be on making it easier to navigate quickly between books, more support material (shipyard, reworked cast, rewritten lexicon, etc).

5. In theory, DCR.2 and TV.2 will be produced in parallel. It's far more likely that DCR.2 will be produced during the course of TV.2 and TV.3.

6. As per previous, the motivating factor for DCR production is the fact that ATC rendering takes forever. The issue now is that DCR will be requiring its own modeling and rendering. Workarounds will likely need to be found, else the alternative is to either stagger production or delay production of DCR until after TV is complete. In any event, DCR needs to be done before the book that takes place after TV can proceed.