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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!!!
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I felt like posting, and since I post so infrequently these days, I decided to seize the moment. Heh. ^^

Natsume, Naruto, and a little Mistress Fortune )


My beloved 2nd external hard drive, Isley, has started throwing me CRC errors. For those who don't know--like me until I googled it--that means the hard drive is physically failing. It seems all my file transfers and downloading has worn poor Isley out. T.T I've been transferring files from him to Utena2's second hard drive for the past 5 days. So far, I've only lost two folders of anime. One series I have no desire to archive or watch again, but the other I need to redownload. All of it. *pained expression* At least it's a new show, so the torrents are still up and active. If it were something 3 or 4 years old (and still unlicensed), I'd be anxious about finding it again. Utena2's 2nd hard drive is "only" 400 gigs, which isn't enough to hold all of Isley's contents. I'll be burning things to DVD to make room. Oh well, I needed to do it anyway. :P I'm just lucky I've only lost two folders to the CRC errors. *knocks on wood* The transfer is 90% complete. Whew!

And yes, I transferred all the important non-anime files first. *raspberries*

My new downstairs neighbors are a young couple who smoke. Smoke rises + we like all to keep our windows open + my window fan  = me leaping up to remove said fan and shut said window at the first whiff. *gags* Yesterday it wasn't hot enough for me to turn on Hoth, my AC, and the couple and I were home all day long. I had to do the Window Dash five times. Yes, I counted. Unfortunately since both husband and wife smoke, I don't get a break during the weekday while he's at work. When autumn arrives and I no longer need Hoth, I'm doing to be doing the Window Dash 7 days a week. Oh, joy!

On August 9th, I will be driving to the beach, taking local friends [livejournal.com profile] knastymike, [livejournal.com profile] neekaneeks, and [livejournal.com profile] mcruthless with me. This will be my one day of appropriate summer vacation this year, and I'm going to do my best to enjoy it. Even if it's too cold next Monday to actually swim, I'll at least build a sand sculpture of some sort! X3 Heee!!! I'm going to be a zombie the next day, but it'll be worth it. :D

Okay, back to work for me. Wheee!


slr2moons: a self-portrait, of me in my usual habitat: in front of my computer monitors! (zombie)
A couple paragraphs about the heat and swimming, which I dearly love! )

In work news, Saiunkoku v1, Skip 22, and Naruto 50 are all completely finished. At the moment, I "only" have Clay 17 and Natsume 5. I have 7 pink Clay pages left in this vol, and I'm trying to finish them before I have script for New Title 5. Speaking of which, at Expo, Viz announced their new licenses, which includes the true identities of New Titles 5 and 6. *drumroll*

New Title 5 is Mistress Fortune, by Tanemura Arina-sensei.
New Title 6 is Sakura Hime Kaden, also by Tanemura Arina-sensei.


And now those of you who are familiar with Tanemura-sensei's work will understand why I've been collecting screen tones and trying to clear my other titles like mad. Heh heh heh. ^^;;; If you don't know her stuff, next time you're in the bookstore check out Gentlemen's Alliance + or Fullmoon o Sagashite and you'll understand. This mangaka appears to believe white space is wasted potential. It will be interesting to see how lettering these two Tanemura titles compares with lettering Hino-sensei's Captive Hearts, which was also a lesson in cramming as much as possible onto every bit of page.

I have yet another pink Clay page mocking me from Tsukushi's monitor, so I'd best get to work. It's going to be difficult going today, but I must persevere!

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