How do you make lines so blurry?
I don't blur the line layer, I blur a copy of the color layer that's over the line layer but under the master color layer. I hope that made sense
As for the panel lines, as my screens of the process show, I work at a much higher resolution for most of the time doing a ship. For example, that ship's original height when scanned was 1700 pixels.
Because it's reduced in size at the end, it blurs the lines (and makes a lot of little mistakes go away, too) and smooths things out.
Then I usually use Sharpen to get my contrast levels back up and do final processing and pixel-art fixes where it's necessary
Anyhow, I'm guessing that it's a similar process to how David goes about it (
although I get the impression he does his cartoons in Photoshop and does his height during the cartooning process, whereas I'm drawing the boundaries by hand and then I do height as the first step of editing).
Do you think you can remake a ship like the WARCAT for example?
I can remake whatever, sure, but:
A. I don't really want to copy stuff directly, it's boring. I'd much rather just sit down and doodle
B. If I was going to copy MOO ships, I'd be more interested in stuff
like these (I still have MOO II installed around here) rather than the really limited palette / resolution of the MOO sprites.
But I'd rather be inspired by those designs than copy them, it's just plain boring to copy other people's work, however brilliant