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I just turned in the first draft of Voiceover vol 1. *flops in exhaustion*
This book...OMG THIS BOOK. It's not the most difficult thing I've lettered (that honor still goes to Mistress Fortune), but it's right up there. Thankfully working with Shoujo Editor 3 on this has saved me a LOT of stress and second-guessing. We get along so well!! *luffs SE3*
On a lighter note, I've set a new personal record--and quite possibly with Viz itself--for most fonts used in a single volume.
23. Yes, I used 23 different fonts. A list:
1. regular dialogue
2. thoughts
3. asides
4. page numbers
5. chapter titles (These first five are standard in all manga, though often the dialogue font is used for asides and in italics for thoughts, rather than completely different ones.)
Now, here's where it gets FUN. *rubs hands together*
6. narration
7. character A specific font
8. character B specific font
9. loud and stiff
10. funny shouts
11. speakers and broadcasts
12. fierce and violent
13. heavenly
14. rough and gravely
15. cute and flirty
16. robot
17. scared
18. evil
19. angry
20. stressed
21. character C specific font
22. smooth and suave
23. handwriting for one character
There's a chance Shoujo Editor 3 will ask I pare down that list, but I hope she doesn't. Being a manga about voice acting, dialogue is important, and I'd like to match the font-craziness of the original Japanese version. (Confession: I actually used LESS fonts than the original.) *gulp*
Of that list above, I only had to buy two fonts, as nothing I had and could use for lettering in ID worked. (Specifically, they were character B's specific font--I found one delightfully close to the original--and the handwriting.)
Time is of the essence with this book, and as I already have script and raw pages for vol 2, and said raws--like for vol 1--did not come text-free, I shall begin lettering tomorrow. Also on my plate are preparing for Natsume 15 and two BL books. Waiting for script for all three! WHEEEEEE!!!
This book...OMG THIS BOOK. It's not the most difficult thing I've lettered (that honor still goes to Mistress Fortune), but it's right up there. Thankfully working with Shoujo Editor 3 on this has saved me a LOT of stress and second-guessing. We get along so well!! *luffs SE3*
On a lighter note, I've set a new personal record--and quite possibly with Viz itself--for most fonts used in a single volume.
23. Yes, I used 23 different fonts. A list:
1. regular dialogue
2. thoughts
3. asides
4. page numbers
5. chapter titles (These first five are standard in all manga, though often the dialogue font is used for asides and in italics for thoughts, rather than completely different ones.)
Now, here's where it gets FUN. *rubs hands together*
6. narration
7. character A specific font
8. character B specific font
9. loud and stiff
10. funny shouts
11. speakers and broadcasts
12. fierce and violent
13. heavenly
14. rough and gravely
15. cute and flirty
16. robot
17. scared
18. evil
19. angry
20. stressed
21. character C specific font
22. smooth and suave
23. handwriting for one character
There's a chance Shoujo Editor 3 will ask I pare down that list, but I hope she doesn't. Being a manga about voice acting, dialogue is important, and I'd like to match the font-craziness of the original Japanese version. (Confession: I actually used LESS fonts than the original.) *gulp*
Of that list above, I only had to buy two fonts, as nothing I had and could use for lettering in ID worked. (Specifically, they were character B's specific font--I found one delightfully close to the original--and the handwriting.)
Time is of the essence with this book, and as I already have script and raw pages for vol 2, and said raws--like for vol 1--did not come text-free, I shall begin lettering tomorrow. Also on my plate are preparing for Natsume 15 and two BL books. Waiting for script for all three! WHEEEEEE!!!
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