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In The Rain4 years ago in Drawings
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The Art Production ProcessTo do a page of art, it needs to be designed.The Art Production Process10 months ago in Personal More Like This
The design needs to be written down. This can be anywhere from 100 to 1000 words.
The design needs to be communicated to a producer, who takes charge of the project.
The producer recruits a designer, inker and colorist.
A sketch needs to be produced, then approved.
After any necessary changes are made, the sketch is cleaned up and a finished sketch is produced.
Then an inker goes in and replaces every pixel of the sketch with finished high contrast line art.
Then a colorist does a set of flats. That has to be approved.
Then after the necessary changes are made, the flats are shaded and any effects are added.
Then the full-res design is delivered to the client.
The whole time this is going on, a producer is watching the project step-by-step and coordinating with the Exec and the client.
A full page of art takes four people anywhere from 12 to 18 man hours to produce.
A comic page takes more, because it also has to be lettered, an
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