Are there any differences in the way you work when you're drawing for the web than when you're drawing for a cartoon?
Yes, the comic strip stories are a sequential series of art works that have to lead one to the other. When it's animated that is taken care of at the animation stage, so what I produce for the broadcasts, the web casts is background art work which is quite carefully thought out. It may not seem that way, but it is, I assure you. We have to allow for a lot of action to take place maybe in the far distance, in the middle distance and in close-up. The animators will take very small areas of art work and blow them up to become entire backgrounds. It's very interesting to see that happen, because I wouldn't think of doing that myself, and it works so much of the time. I don't know whether it's a good thing or a bad thing but it's certainly interesting to see the process.
I have to supply foreground characters, middle ground and background characters. I draw them at different sizes because the level of detail required changes obviously, but it has been known for some of the foreground characters to have been blown up slightly more than they could really tolerate. Even so it actually works okay.
It's a completely different process, you have to think a lot about how the shot's going to be used.
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