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  "description": "<p>And so that's the end of chapter 1!</p>\n\n<p>Important info : I am planning on taking a break from this story because it was a bit exhausting. As you might have understood, I had trouble with a lot of pages. I wasn't really in the zone. It was a struggle. That's hard to keep up for 20 pages, never mind 200. Personally, I am still missing a lot of practice and my process is terrible, so it's hard to pump out pages consistently.</p>\n\n<h1>Chapter retrospective</h1>\n\n<p>I will spread the \"behind the scenes\" stuff throughout the chapters. For now, here's a bit of technical stuff :</p>\n\n<h2>Page setup</h2>\n\n<p>I have this insane setup in Blender to create a page with different number of panes and shapes and everything. It renders everything separately (3D backgrounds, mannequins, borders, text) and then I combine it in Krita. I could use the backgrounds as-is, but I prefer the look when I paint over it. I think only pages 20 and 21 have the actual Blender background slightly visible (50% opaque) to add a bit of texture on the wood. It's most obvious on page 21.</p>\n\n<p>On my pc, pages are 4000x5000, but that's like 10-20MB and it starts to be slow to load. I uploaded at 2000x2500 because I don't really see a difference and the file size is much smaller (~4MB). A 4K monitor is about 2000 tall, so there's no real point going past that for a comic. I don't want people to scroll all the time.</p>\n\n<h2>Page style</h2>\n\n<p>About half the pages are full page paintings. The reason behind that is :</p>\n<ul><li>Hopefully the thumbnails will be easier to see and might get people interested to click on it. Honestly, when a comic's thumbnail is too busy and it's hard to make out because there's a bunch of panels or text or whatever, I'm not really inclined to click on it because I have no idea what it is.</li>\n<li>A full page isn't really longer for me to paint than a small panel.</li>\n<li>I prefer to showcase art than to cover everything up with speech bubbles. I want this to be visual art foremost, and not a novel.</li>\n</ul>"
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