Fiddly, Fiddly
Oct. 22nd, 2005 05:27 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
thessalianIf my three days off are going to be like this, I'm going to wind up going to work just to take a goddamn break.
Let's see: 6 NPC character sheets. Three NPC background page rewrites. And one NPC background from complete scratch. And so, so much more to go...
I mean, it's not even as if it's all that difficult. It's just fiddly. Fill in the little caltrops with PhotoShop's paint bucket tool, fill in the text info, keep a PSD file in case edits are required, then take a copy, flatten it, save it as JPG and stick it into the text as an image. No problem. Except it's fiddly and it takes time. Then again, I suppose it's easier than writing it all out, and easier to read for people, too. And then there's the rewrites; I've never been very good at word culling, but that's sort of the objective here. But I suppose if I can get all that done in three and a half hours while doing other things at the same time, it shouldn't be too much of a hardship to get it done on time, anyway. It'll just be fiddly and annoying. But hell, I signed up for this. It's coming out okay, anyway, and that's the main thing.
In an hour and a half, I go meet NaNo people. Whee. Hooray for NaNo people. More spending every last iota of free time bashing away at a computer keyboard to make deadline. I'm not as negative about this as I sound.
Oh, fuck a bunch of this. I need a break and I mean to have one.
Let's see: 6 NPC character sheets. Three NPC background page rewrites. And one NPC background from complete scratch. And so, so much more to go...
I mean, it's not even as if it's all that difficult. It's just fiddly. Fill in the little caltrops with PhotoShop's paint bucket tool, fill in the text info, keep a PSD file in case edits are required, then take a copy, flatten it, save it as JPG and stick it into the text as an image. No problem. Except it's fiddly and it takes time. Then again, I suppose it's easier than writing it all out, and easier to read for people, too. And then there's the rewrites; I've never been very good at word culling, but that's sort of the objective here. But I suppose if I can get all that done in three and a half hours while doing other things at the same time, it shouldn't be too much of a hardship to get it done on time, anyway. It'll just be fiddly and annoying. But hell, I signed up for this. It's coming out okay, anyway, and that's the main thing.
In an hour and a half, I go meet NaNo people. Whee. Hooray for NaNo people. More spending every last iota of free time bashing away at a computer keyboard to make deadline. I'm not as negative about this as I sound.
Oh, fuck a bunch of this. I need a break and I mean to have one.
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Date: 2005-10-22 05:38 pm (UTC)