#ghosts-gone

I want to be super transparent about my process because I don't like to get credit when it's not due, especially in this current chapter where I started using stock images to tackle backgrounds faster:

In most cases I usually use one stock image per scene and tweak it and paint over it. And for headshots, blur tool is my beloved. Here's an example of the current scene with minimal paintover since snow scenes demand a lot less detail. I usually work on them more.

^ This was the first scene where I used a stock image.

The colors are usually tweaked, but I absolutely can't take the credit for most of them. I don't know, this might seem lazy to a lot of people who haven't drawn 300 pages before, but it has helped me tons to keep up with such a long-running comic. I tried making 3D scenes myself but with my attention span it wasn't worth it. That said, not every panel/scene uses stock images, but a lot of them do.

yea! the reigning champ is still across the spiderverse at 1.7 years haha

i love being on a project so early, especially as a lead because there's so much history behind style decisions and character exploration that's hard to catch up on when joining a project later on. it makes it easier to help animators with questions, issues, or notes when you don't have to go looking for the answers yourself first lol

I think the main difference is that it took EPIC!odysseus an entire act to get to where homeric Odysseus is, if that makes sense? Then again iliad odysseus and odyssey odysseus are also pretty different in their own right, but that's probably what you get when putting a man in war (ancient war, where honor and traditions were still upheld) and spooky monster situations (it's apparent from the encounter with polyphemus that this is already Vastly different from home and from troy. the cyclops do not follow xenia, what's to say the others do?)

But again, morality and tradition are still separate things, especially when bringing the gods into it. The law of hospitality is definitely one to respect (iirc it's also a major thing in norse myths) regardless of your philosophy in the importance of human life. It's why the monsters throughout the odyssey are so terrifying, because it present the concept of xenia but all wrong. it takes the rules they live by and bends it every which way. but I digress,

Point is, Odysseus can hold up certain virtues not because they're the moral, kind thing to do, but because it's a way of life (and the best way to not get him or his men killed). He is not immune to murder. In fact, he will murder if the situation calls for it. A lot of his instincts are actually to murder, it's just that he often restrains himself because of consequences. He doesn't derive joy from slaughter (I'd say the war haunts him severely) but it would be wrong to say that he doesn't want to kill, or that he isn't the same as any other soldier on the field in pursuit of glory or fame. He is in fact ruthless in pursuit of his goals. Whatever it takes to win the war. whatever it takes to get him home. whatever it takes to keep him alive. whatever it takes to win him his homecoming and his glory both. He is not a good person. (re: the odyssey)

Shutdown imminent??? shep if you make him pass out at the end of this istg-

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