Notes: I'm
actually very proud of this particular page. There's a lot going on, and
none of it really draws attention to itself. As with movie special effects,
the trick in creating an effect in the comics is to do so without having
the audience NOTICE what you're doing. Here I use the multiple-frames-for-one-picture
trick again to create the feeling of panning across Omnivore's face, but
between frames I cut in a relatively static shot of Rob Adler (I think
the page would have been improved if I'd had the technology to copy and
paste the EXACT same image every time). Quick cuts. Back and forth. Like
watching a tennis match. Each frame is the same size, except for the final
one. I'd hoped that this would have created the feeling of a longer shot
(both visually and chronologically) as we watch Omnivore leave the room.
In order to have achieved that, though, I think I should have made his
exit near the far right of the panel. Oh well, live and learn.
Another purposeful
effect is the shading in the first panel. The darkness, which Omnivore
stepped out of on the previous page, is supposed to look like it's rising
from the floor as he steps back away from Adler. He's cloaking himself
in the darkness to seem more ominous. (Hmmm ... that would have been a
good first name for him ... "Ominous Omnivore.")
I also like the
dialog on this page ... or actually, I like the silence. I'd have drawn
that out more if I could have figured out a way to create the feeling of
Adler and Omnivore staring one another down (well, one that wasn't just
a boring repetition of the same two shots over and over again ... if only
Omnivore's face was even WIDER).
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