nothing935 wrote...
Sera wrote...
Something's... coming...!!!
Soon I hope.
I've just begun work on it and it's an incredibly hefty book. Each color page takes me up to an hour due to the great care I take in making the SFX as identical to the Japanese ones - especially when I have to re-render beautiful giant titties to clean pages. Considering this book has over 100 color pages, that is 100 + hours lovingly put into crafting this book.
My process:
I typeset each chapter in English.
Then, I clean each page - if it's black and white it doesn't take long, but color pages can take hours of repainting.
Next, I hand write each SFX and make sure its color, pattern and style matches the original within the space I'm given. Sometimes it's impossible to make them similar because I don't want to cover anything up.
After replacing the Japanese images with my edited English ones, I then send the chapter to Mike and YQII for editing. Once I finish the book in its entirety, I go back and do round of revisions of SFX and type until the book is perfect and it's sent away for printing.
Printing can have its own round of revisions, as well as revisions from WANI. I hope that this book is available soon too, but simply looking at it - it will take me a while. I'm glad the forums are excited about it and I will try to post updates!