And that is as far as I’m going. The dates that are marked with an asterisk (*) are tentative dates. Judging by where I am in the storyline, I suspect that after Page 20, there are probably ten or fifteen more pages left in Hawk & Wolf. After that, I’ll probably do a series of one-shots, or two/three page-long shorts until I can get the outline for the next series together. So keep your fingers crossed!

And keep your eyes out for a 3rd Anniversary commemorative on September 19th.

Overall Progress.
█ Ready, █ Finished, █ Not completed

Outline:
Page 11██████████ Page 20

Final render:
Page 11██████████ Page 20

Page Layout:
Page 11██████████ Page 20

Progress: Individual Pages.
█ Completed, █ Not Completed

Page 11 ██████████ 98% done. What’s left: Add dialog.

Page 12 ██████████ 98% done. What’s left: Add dialog.

Page 13 ██████████ 100% done.

Pages 14 through 20 ██████████ 5% done. Page have already been set up. What’s left: Changing material settings, pose adjustment, final render, and page layout.

I should have a solid update by this weekend. After that, I’m going to try for one update per week—probably Fridays or Saturdays.

Overall Progress.
█ Ready, █ Finished, █ Not completed

Outline:
Page 11██████████ Page 20

Final render:
Page 11██████████ Page 20

Page Layout:
Page 11██████████ Page 20

Progress: Individual Pages.
█ Completed, █ Not Completed

Page 11 ██████████ 80% done. Final rendering started. What’s left: Complete final rendering and page layout.

Page 12 ██████████ 70% done. What’s left: Final rendering and page layout.

Page 13 ██████████ 90% done. What’s left: Page layout.

Pages 14 through 20 ██████████ 5% done. Page have already been set up. What’s left: Changing material settings, pose adjustment, final render, and page layout.

Don’t know if that helps but I’m thinking I should have a solid update sometime in the next week or so.

At anyrate, the next pages are going to utilize a newer version of the cel shaders I’ve been developing since last summer. I will say that adding Ambient Occlusion and removing Edge Blend makes these new shaders positively sing when it comes to night-time renders. You’ll see when the new pages roll out, though

While I’m on the subject of revisions, I’m also going to announce that I’ve made some revisions to Pages 6 and 7. I didn’t really like what Illustrator did when I exported the files, and I’ve reworked the dialog for Page 7.

Also corrected a broken link in the Comic Guide section.

And, in my quest to help with the work-flow, I stumbled across a new tool that makes outlining a helluva lot easier. A very powerful script writing (as in Film/Comic/Stage play script—not JavaScript) and outlining tool called Celtx. Best of all, its free! I’ve been using it to outline the rest of Silent Shadow Issue 1, and I am very happy with the program. The program comes with six default templates: Film, A/V, Theatre, Audio Play, Comic, Storyboard and Text. The only problem, and maybe this is because I’m a Poser user, is that there is no really easy way to combine templates. Since I’m a Poser user and I’m using cameras, I’ve found that its very handy to have a shot list for each panel. However, I have found that there are workarounds in Celtx, and that I can have more than one template in each project file.

Alright, that’s pretty much it. I hope to have an update to the comic in the next week or so.

I’m having some problems with Page 11, but instead of holding up the rest of the comic while I try to solve those problems, I’ve decided to take a rather novel approach and work on the other pages. Right now, I’m working on what will be either Page 12 or 13; depending on whether or not Page 11 extends into Page 12 or not, I’ll just call it Page 13, just to be on the safe side. All Page 13 consists of is changing materials to the new ones I’ve developed, I should say everything from Page 13 on will be nothing but material changes. It’ll be the same stuff that was posted last summer but just with the toon shaders added.

Now that I’ve gotten my PHP/Wordpress developer legs back, I’m going to start working on the Webcomic Publisher plug-in again. I’m looking for a beta release sometime next month. I think all I really had to do for the beta was finish up the documentation that is supposed to come with the plug-in.

That’s it for now. Keep an eye on the Comic Guide section, though. I’ll make a point to periodically update with new information; I’m actually thinking about switching that section over to a wiki; would make more sense that way, actually.

I’ve started working on Page 11. I want to see if I can squeeze in two more pages, before I go back to school in the fall. The last few pages were done without an outline, since not a whole lot happens in them. The next page (or two), there is going to be some action so I’m going to have to write an outline to get a feel for what I want to happen.

In other news, I’ve launched a second website that is more along the lines of a person blog/collective-type site, called Dumpster-fairy.com. Its a tutorials site for Photoshop, and other programs and I’m hoping to feature some of my Poser techniques as well.

I’ve got the computer that I normally use for Poser tied up encoding videos to DVD format so once that is finished I’ll start working on pages 11 thru 13. I really want to progress the storyline along abit.