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I found another pair of story strands that were orbiting each other and not connecting. One strand, the desire to bring back classic animated shorts. The other strand, the necessity to use live action costumes and a mutated mouse. One is the Why, the other is the How, two different things. How to connect them.

I thought up this idea:

Oh, I have a perfect way to make these two ideas line, and have more 'true' animation in the first act. (Which Amber uses to turn Johnny into a Toon on the screen): Instead of a Magic Pen, a Tablet.

A tablet as an portable animation table!

Take an Ipad with all the Apple trademarks off, and double it in size to laptop like dimensions. It keeps all the iPad features like the camera, Cloud Storage, 4G connections, and so on. I'll also add USB so she can use a keyboard, an off board second camera and of course be able to upload captured video from a digicam.

Amber would carry it around her at all times. It's her drawing pad, portfolio, personal communicator, and everything. And connected to her home computer she uses the tablet as her animation desk as she turns Johnny and her friends into cartoons; using a 21st century technology to recreate an early 20th century art form.

This this idea would work? If so, I can have it put into play in Chapter 2.

The Hard Science setting might excude me from going way too far out--with the exception of that ooze that blew Johnny up--but it does help push the ball in the right direction. It helps with getting Johnny to go up against Max in Act 3, and it'll help Amber make her cartoons in Act 1.

Now then, about the shading idea. One of the main reason why my drawings isn't as detailed is because I'm only using letter sized paper, the biggest size for my all-in-one printer. Even if you use a Precise V5, you don't have much room for that much detail.

And all of the profesional comic book artists say, including the ones I can't stand....(Lefield, Land, the AIDS-ridden c--k suckers who do Archie Sonic)..."This is why we use Larger pre-measured comic book boards!" [link]

I get it. Even when I use the Precise V7 pen, (Yes, I'll probably prefer to use Pilot Rollerballs than ink mubs anb brushes) I have a lot more room to play with. Enough room to do more detail on the page.

And more room for me to do the shading. I make the best line art by hand, rather than on the computer. Maybe I should draw the areas where the highlight and shadows are while I'm doing the Pencils and Inks, and then when I scan them in to color, I'll have a better idea on where to shade.

Edit 1: Listen, folks, when you have me shaking my head and talking trash about someone or something, they must really be bad. That's all I have to say about Archie Sonic.

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The next link in the commenting chain, this time coming from [link] .

I found another pair of story strands that were orbiting each other and not connecting. One strand, the desire to bring back classic animated shorts. The other strand, the necessity to use live action costumes and a mutated mouse. One is the Why, the other is the How, two different things. How to connect them.

I thought up this idea:

Oh, I have a perfect way to make these two ideas line, and have more 'true' animation in the first act. (Which Amber uses to turn Johnny into a Toon on the screen): Instead of a Magic Pen, a Tablet.

A tablet as an portable animation table!

Take an Ipad with all the Apple trademarks off, and double it in size to laptop like dimensions. It keeps all the iPad features like the camera, Cloud Storage, 4G connections, and so on. I'll also add USB so she can use a keyboard, an off board second camera and of course be able to upload captured video from a digicam.

Amber would carry it around her at all times. It's her drawing pad, portfolio, personal communicator, and everything. And connected to her home computer she uses the tablet as her animation desk as she turns Johnny and her friends into cartoons; using a 21st century technology to recreate an early 20th century art form.

This this idea would work? If so, I can have it put into play in Chapter 2.

The Hard Science setting might excude me from going way too far out--with the exception of that ooze that blew Johnny up--but it does help push the ball in the right direction. It helps with getting Johnny to go up against Max in Act 3, and it'll help Amber make her cartoons in Act 1.

Now then, about the shading idea. One of the main reason why my drawings isn't as detailed is because I'm only using letter sized paper, the biggest size for my all-in-one printer. Even if you use a Precise V5, you don't have much room for that much detail.

And all of the profesional comic book artists say, including the ones I can't stand....(Lefield, Land, the AIDS-ridden c--k suckers who do Archie Sonic)..."This is why we use Larger pre-measured comic book boards!" [link]

I get it. Even when I use the Precise V7 pen, (Yes, I'll probably prefer to use Pilot Rollerballs than ink mubs anb brushes) I have a lot more room to play with. Enough room to do more detail on the page.

And more room for me to do the shading. I make the best line art by hand, rather than on the computer. Maybe I should draw the areas where the highlight and shadows are while I'm doing the Pencils and Inks, and then when I scan them in to color, I'll have a better idea on where to shade.

Edit 1: Listen, folks, when you have me shaking my head and talking trash about someone or something, they must really be bad. That's all I have to say about Archie Sonic.