...I wish they would offer something like that on print versions. That would work so well in a collected edition hardcover...
thanks again
EvaD!
of course to have that option on print versions would be wonderful, but also costly, since it'd be more paper, more printing, more shipping ...
but just taking advantage of this new technology and, since a lot of production costs wont be spent on the paper/shipping, some budget could go to assist in the gathering and development of these features, without affecting the end cost of the product that much.... maybe like a percentage increase over the regular issue, if not
free, to point out for costumers the values of this new technology (most dvds have some extras, maybe not the full 2disc deal but something)
... Obviously, some work wouldn't need to have that happen, but there are plenty of artists out there whose work looks so good in black and white.
it might be just me but, off the cuff i think i'd be interested in knowing how most of mainstream comics are done... since the standard of mainstream publishing implies a professional mastery of the craft, there's always something to learn (good, bad or just different in its approach)
but you totally have a point
evaD, i hadn't thought that nowadays if we "peel" back many of the mainstream works we would see a lot of heavy photo referencing, google sketch-up environments and objects ... not that this is in itself a bad thing ...
i understand older works would require much more effort and informed professionals but, in the case of contemporary works, all of that material (separate stages of scripts, layouts, pencils, inks, coloring,lettering) is already digitized and in the hands of editorial staffs, and in some cases already partially accessible on artists blogs, sites and flicker streams...
it seems it'd be a matter of planning, organizing and putting it together
... I think the tech gods heard your prayers already, because I remember hearing about a comic, the name escapes me right now, that was for the Iphone and Ipad and did exactly what you described...
thank you
spooky! i'm glad to be back myself!
i hope i'll be even more present if i get more involved in the conversations!
spooky, we just started discussing the tech thing apropos of how coloring sometimes works, and sometimes doesn't, with what i do ....
i bet this extra stuff is being developed already... didn't mean to invent anything
the idea is pretty straight forward if you try to translate the concept of "extra features" to the comics medium...
it might even work better for comics than for movies (smaller single static files with layers or something)
i think years ago i heard actor tomas jane, of all people, talk about this on fanboy radio; he was developing something like similar for his retro sci-fi comics line ... having the b&w version accessible along with the color one; he was also talking about having sound moods for each page but that did not interest me very much ...
... this was at least 4 years ago ... so the platform obviously wasn't there ... but the thought blew my mind!
