Making of “Hello World!”
Behold! It’s a “making of”-video depicting the delicate process of creating an Optipess strip, presented in time-lapse-o-vision over 13 glorious minutes!
GASP… at the overly ludicrus attention to unessential detail!
MARVEL… at the razor-sharp accuracy and blazing speed of the inking process!
SHUDDER… at the obvious frustration with the third panel, culminating in offensive swearwords!
ROCK OUT… to the tones of Icelandic post-rockers For a Minor Reflection!
LAUGH… at the realization that this entire process in real time is something like 10-12 hours total!
The making of an Optipess comic strip from Kristian Nygård on Vimeo.
Please share this video with your artist friends so they can learn how to NOT make a comic strip!
is that song from explosions in the sky?
Ah nope, it’s For a Minor Reflection. (Link to their myspace page is in the post.)
They’re certainly inspired by Explosions in the Sky, though!
Great video! I didn’t know it takes so long to make a strip. At least now I know to appreciate it better. Keep up the good job!
And I though I had a really anal creation process. You’re faster than me though, all my projects involves at least a couple of hours of completely unrelated procrastination.
i see you are using the windows xp royale theme! good choice!
I was..? Actually I can’t remember – not long after I recorded this video my computer crashed and had to be reformatted. I’ve been using Windows 7 since then.
Holy crap! I am embarrassed by my process now. That was pretty cool Kristian. Very cool.
Love it! It’s great to see your process… I don’t think time-lapse of writing a song with GarageBand would be quite as nifty.
Thanks for recording your process, it’s always cool to see how other people do their strips. What’s the first program you used? Painter?
Thanks for checking it out, Sean. Sketching and inking is done in the excellent Manga Studio. Since the release of v4.0, I can do most of the coloring in that program as well, only saving the final few “post-production” stages for Photoshop.
I’ve tried Painter on a few occasions, most notably to do the “Versus” strip, but I ran into a few too many instability issues on my aging computer. It’s a great tool when I can get it to work properly, though.
i love time-lapse and i love your strips… so a time-lapse of a strip… awesome.
Thanks so much, Casey – I’m glad you liked it! I shall try to make more of these, but maybe I’ll wait until I’ve bought a new computer that actually can handle more than two simultaneous applications…
enjoyed watching your process,I still like my mech pencil (bic #2, 0.7mm 30+ years old) reg copy paper. cs5.5 with a bamboo,old skool with new tools.Keep the eraser side up and the lead side down, best wishes.
DaD O Matic