Hokay.
This is much less a “YAY Project update!” type of post and more of “oh dear god we’ve uncovered a grave mistake that must now be immediately remedied before we move forward” kind of update.
BASICALLY…
For a while now there’s been something quietly bugging me (Dre) about the pages that I’ve been doing for Timing’s A Witch, Time for Luna! And Catalyst Overdrive.
And then recently (I mean within the last week or so), E was able to notice something that I had done years ago but completely forgot about…
The page formats for Timing’s a Witch, Time for Luna! and Catalyst Overdrive are a different format than SHE IS THE END and that has thrown off the visual balance for these stories way more than I’m comfortable with continuing with.
Basically, SHE IS THE END is done at a standard US comic aspect ration of 663 : 1024 (probably with an end result of being somewhere around 7 x 11), while the other three projects are done to print to 8.5 x 11 which is fine but I honestly prefer the US Comic Aspect Ration because of how it forces me to think more restrictively and prioritize story over trying to figure out how to fill the page in with as much art as possible.
There’s also something about the taller format that makes this read like it’s intended for a more mature audience that I prefer to the basic letter paper size. In fact, that’s part of why they’re different formats to begin with. I originally years ago was planning on releasing books that would be considered New Adult vs Adult with the New Adult books being 8.5 x 11 and the Adult books being the slimmer format and now that we’re not doing that, I need to update everything.
SO……………………………………
I have to go through the 72 roughed out pages for those three projects and change their format from the original to the new one:
Which means that a lot of the updates originally planned for this month will need to be scrapped (sorz) while I go through and update everything as is needed.
We also need to go through things for Ash and Flowers of Azraeém as we found that Tiefling may in fact! Be a copywritten term! So we have to go through a lot of what’s been written and developed for the game and update the terminology used for anything about them to their new Azraeém relevant name: Wyldbornes!
So yeah! UHHH… There’s just a hell of a lot of updating and tweaking that we have to do so the next few weeks are turning into a still much needed time off but with much needed work sprinkled in.
We’ll try our best to give updates now and again as we’re able to but chances are you won’t be seeing us until somewhere close to May.
Thanks for understanding and take care!
~Dre
