Making of “Hello World!”
June 3rd, 2009
Behold! It’s a “making of”-video depicting the delicate process of creating an Optipess strip, presented in time-lapse-o-vision over 13 glorious minutes!
GASP… at the overly ludicrus attention to unessential detail!
MARVEL… at the razor-sharp accuracy and blazing speed of the inking process!
SHUDDER… at the obvious frustration with the third panel, culminating in offensive swearwords!
ROCK OUT… to the tones of Icelandic post-rockers For a Minor Reflection!
LAUGH… at the realization that this entire process in real time is something like 10-12 hours total!
The making of an Optipess comic strip from Kristian Nygård on Vimeo.
Please share this video with your artist friends so they can learn how to NOT make a comic strip!
June 3rd, 2009 at 00:35
is that song from explosions in the sky?
June 3rd, 2009 at 01:47
Ah nope, it’s For a Minor Reflection. (Link to their myspace page is in the post.)
They’re certainly inspired by Explosions in the Sky, though!
June 3rd, 2009 at 04:03
Great video! I didn’t know it takes so long to make a strip. At least now I know to appreciate it better. Keep up the good job!
June 9th, 2009 at 06:20
And I though I had a really anal creation process. You’re faster than me though, all my projects involves at least a couple of hours of completely unrelated procrastination.
June 15th, 2009 at 09:13
i see you are using the windows xp royale theme! good choice!
June 16th, 2009 at 14:02
I was..? Actually I can’t remember – not long after I recorded this video my computer crashed and had to be reformatted. I’ve been using Windows 7 since then.
June 17th, 2009 at 15:13
Holy crap! I am embarrassed by my process now. That was pretty cool Kristian. Very cool.
August 30th, 2009 at 20:20
Love it! It’s great to see your process… I don’t think time-lapse of writing a song with GarageBand would be quite as nifty.
September 9th, 2009 at 09:40
Thanks for recording your process, it’s always cool to see how other people do their strips. What’s the first program you used? Painter?
September 9th, 2009 at 09:52
Thanks for checking it out, Sean. Sketching and inking is done in the excellent Manga Studio. Since the release of v4.0, I can do most of the coloring in that program as well, only saving the final few “post-production” stages for Photoshop.
I’ve tried Painter on a few occasions, most notably to do the “Versus” strip, but I ran into a few too many instability issues on my aging computer. It’s a great tool when I can get it to work properly, though.
September 26th, 2009 at 12:15
i love time-lapse and i love your strips… so a time-lapse of a strip… awesome.
September 28th, 2009 at 06:09
Thanks so much, Casey – I’m glad you liked it! I shall try to make more of these, but maybe I’ll wait until I’ve bought a new computer that actually can handle more than two simultaneous applications…