All drawings are drawn on A4 paper. The format follows
that of standard format for comic strips syndicates submission.
| Woh... They say you can tell a lot about someone from his working area...
You bet that's right! By the way, John 'listens'
to 'movies' when he works!! He might not be the first one
but he certainly enjoys so. |
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The requirements for scanning is rather low:  256
greys is used for the basically black & white drawing. A more surprising
fact is that it's further reduced to 16 color for much smaller file
size when published. A more challenging aspect in scanning is the cleaning
of tiny residues on the supposedly white ares. |
A layer of color is
applied to enhance the contrast of outstanding items such as body outlines,
tears, blood and etc..
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What about the different languages? That's simple. Make copies from
the original and write texts on the copied ones. Just in case you wonder,
Johnny's
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Because all the members are not in the same country. Tasks for each
members are as independent as possible.
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Chin. Responsible on the Chinese wordings. John sends the English wordings
(via email , of course) with completed strips for her translation. This
has to be done a week or so in advance to catch up with the deadline. Many
times Chin misinterpreted the strips and would somehow come up with very
different interpretation. And that has added in some very interesting
ideas!
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"I joined the team because John's
vision of life and the world has so much in common with mine. And I'm happy
to be one of the members.
I first got to know this traditional
Chinese musical instrument - Yang-Qin, when I was 25. I've been playing
this instrument ever since then. I adore it and I'm amazed by the joy it
brings to people. When I started learning, I didn't know any musical theory,
neither could I read the score. And now I'm one of the members of Hsinchu
Municipal Traditional Chinese Music Group. And for this I have to thank
my teachers for their excellent and patient guidance. I hope to continue
contributing in making traditional Chinese music known to the world and
wish anyone who has the same persistence in their works achieve their goals." |
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Chin
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From June 2000 onward I've gradually changed the presenting style from
the panoramic strip to portrait panel style. Doing that
takes more work as each diagram would have to be altered on the computer.
The main reason for this is the 800x600 resolution can't fit in the panoramic
presentation. While not many of the strips are of single diagram I figured
it's okay to switch to panel style.
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John
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"The internet has given many of
us an oppurtunity to do what previously would take an enormous amount of
effort to accomplish. Any individual with basic computing knowledge could
publish their work with little cost. And I just happen to be one of the
very them to take the chance. Having said that, I believe what's more important
is your will to achieve something you deem worthwhile." |
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