{"id":12277,"date":"2019-11-17T01:56:52","date_gmt":"2019-11-17T01:56:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/dazposer\/?p=12277"},"modified":"2019-11-17T01:56:52","modified_gmt":"2019-11-17T01:56:52","slug":"superhero-or-supervillain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/2019\/11\/17\/superhero-or-supervillain\/","title":{"rendered":"Superhero or Supervillain?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Superhero or Supervillain?&#8221; asked the <em>New York Times<\/em> on 13th November 2019 ($ paywall). &#8220;Technology\u2019s Role Changes Comic Books&#8221; was the key thrust of the article, and that a change to computers hasn&#8217;t been quite as rapid as was once hoped in the white heat of the 1990s computer boom. Here&#8217;s the gist of the rest of it&#8230;<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>The &#8220;job of colorist and letterer has changed and been completely taken over by the computer &#8230; used to be a good inker was the best way to elevate a penciler\u2019s work. Nowadays it\u2019s a good colorist&#8221;.  This is aided by better printing presses and nicer paper.  Photoshop being the workhorse for colouring, on a Cintiq. A few will even &#8220;digitally color the main characters and paint the watercolor backgrounds by hand.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The letterer &#8220;adds all the word balloons, editorial captions and sound effects to the page&#8221;. While he gets paid less to do more, due to the computer, he can still make more than the actual artist &mdash; due to the number of pages that can be zipped through in a day. Pro letterers working for big publishers tend to use Adobe Illustrator, and a few still even claim to do freehand lettering inside Illustrator.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Nothing all that insightful then, and the article is a bit lazy in not even mentioning 3D and Clip Studio and Poser and ComicCraft fonts. But I guess it helps to educate the masses a little. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Superhero or Supervillain?&#8221; asked the New York Times on 13th November 2019 ($ paywall). &#8220;Technology\u2019s Role Changes Comic Books&#8221; was the key thrust of the article, and that a change to computers hasn&#8217;t been quite as rapid as was once hoped in the white heat of the 1990s computer boom. Here&#8217;s the gist of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comics","category-spotted-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12277\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}