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<DIV>In a message dated 1/30/2004 9:19:42 AM Eastern Standard Time, Thomas Pryds Lauritsen <thomas@duckburg.dk> writes:</DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: blue 2px solid"><FONT face=Arial>I think that often when whole areas (mostly backgrounds), which might <BR>even include the Ducks, are coloured in a uniform shade, it is done in <BR>order not to call too much attention to that part of the drawing, <BR>probably since something else is happening in that panel that really <BR>should be the centre of attention. </FONT></BLOCKQUOTE>
<DIV>Perhaps so, but there are other ways to accomplish this without losing detail in the coloring -- depth of field filters, for example, or differences in brightness levels.</DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: blue 2px solid"><FONT face=Arial>Oh, I agree that the colouring of the Bone covers is marvellous, and I'd <BR>very much like to have such colouring applied to Disney covers. But I <BR>think it might be too much if whole stories were coloured this way. I'm <BR>afraid it might take away the attention from the story, but perhaps this <BR>is just because I've always seen Disney comics coloured the "flat" way.</FONT></BLOCKQUOTE>
<DIV>It's possible, but there's no way that we'd know for sure 'til we saw a story colored that way. I have a Gladstone issue somewhere with a Barks story about Donald being a doctor operating on cash registers... the first page was colored in the way I describe (it was a tense scene in a room with directional lighting) -- and the coloring both looked gorgeous and added a lot to the scene.</DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: blue 2px solid"><FONT face=Arial>But I see the same thing in Danish issues; shading used primarily for <BR>backgrounds and large, otherwise uniformly coloured areas in the <BR>stories, and shading used to a higher degree on covers (but not to the <BR>extent of the Bone cover example at all).</FONT></BLOCKQUOTE>
<DIV>This is, in my opinion, unfortunate.</DIV>
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<BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: blue 2px solid"><FONT face=Arial>Notice that the Bone comic itself is uncoloured, so I think it's a <BR>little hard to say whether the colouring of the cover would really have <BR>been too much if applied to the story, too.</FONT></BLOCKQUOTE>
<DIV>I think that the only reason that Bone is uncolored is the expense involved; the books are self-published. The first issue was later re-released in a colorized version; I'm not sure if the shading was up to the quality of the cover or not.</DIV>
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<DIV>-Yossi</DIV></BODY></HTML>