Artists...what can I say about them?
There are literally thousands of Comic Book artists out there.Each of them
has their own style, and each has strived to make his or her style fit the
popular, and sometimes, not so popular impact on the industry. Some of their
names are so well known that their names alone have been associated with a
whole new style of drawing, character placement, use of the page etc...
Inkers: The guys with the dirty hands!
Inkers, some people say, are the true Artists, while the so called "Artists"
are mere sketchers. It's the Inkers that make the lines crisp. It's the Inkers
that make the characters actually HAVE character. They work on the details
while the sketch "Artists" just give them an idea of where they
should be going with the work. Inkers, the poor souls that they are, often
go un-recognized...but imagine Spiderman are a mere pencil-sketch without
the web-lines, and often, without the color either and you'll see why Inkers
MUST be lauded!
Writers are...well, writers.
These are the pour souls that have to not only come up with what ~Spiderman
will be doing this month, but actually put it down on paper...LOTS of paper.
Each comic book that you pick up began it's life as over 100 pages of text,
describing in detail, each scene, who's in it, what position they're in, what
else is in the room, who is saying what and to whom. Think it's easy? Think
again boyo!
Animators...what can I say about them
Hmmm....lemme think. OK...enough thinking! Imagine taking an artist and
an inker, smash them together and ask them to reproduce their art-work 10,000
times. Yup...10k sketches and ink-jobs...add color to that, and you have a
general idea of what it means to be an animator. Each image has to be exactly
the same as the previous one, with just a small difference and so on and so
on. Each picture has to be photographed, then turned into a film. Think that
10,000 images is a bit much...think again. Take a 30 minute cartoon, times
60 seconds per minute, times 60 frames (or pics) per second...that's 108,000
frames! Just so that you can watch your Scoobie-doo!
