Does anyone else get irritated collecting sketches....?
I find I purchased a set of genga/douga/pages 20+ total -for a respectable amount of money , and wind up with only one beautiful genga and the rest being partial picture douga, and eyes/mouths, etc...
Besides storing them...does anyone use the partials included, or get irritated by the amount of really un-viewable material included?
Just venting......But I did get a lovely Rin shot
A Man Who Views The World The Same At Fifty As He Did At Twenty Has Wasted Thirty Years Of His Life. - Muhammad Ali
I've gotten into the habit of animating them. It can be frustrating and time consuming, but it really puts me in the chairs of the artists in the studio and lets me see just what decisions they had to make.
I just did a whole set with an unchanging C1 end layer and a zillion D layers, some in two parts (body + head). I knew that in normal animation layering, the A layer went on the bottom, then B, then C, and so on. So I layered all the D images on top of the C1.
When I got done with the set, it looked very odd, so I went back to the DVD and watched the final footage. Turns out that, at the last minute, the order of the layers was reversed, with the C1 on top and all the D layers underneath it. Also, the last two frames, which I never could get to fit in with the others, turned out to be alternative versions of the previous two frames and were cut out of the final version.
What I dislike more is getting broken sets of sketches, where the previous owner has kept the nice ones and passed on all the partial heads, arms, etc. Or sets that have serious and nasty tape issues that require hours of conservation after they arrive to stabilize them.
I think it really depends on the sketches. If you receive a full cut of artwork, then, that can be interesting, at least if you're interested in animating it. Yes, it can be very tedious work(as I'm learning) but, as my old violin teacher used to say, work like this "keeps you off the streets".
I never quite understood that myself. Meh..that's what I get for smelling the rosin one too many times...
But if you receive just a bunch of random randomness and lots of partials, it can be quite frustrating. And, as sensei mentioned, it's especially frustrating when you receive sketches with lots of old, yellowing tape that just seperated from the page only to have a new, fresh piece of tape stuck on the page by the seller prior to shipping.
I try to animate the sketches if possible. I think it's more interesting than just putting up a few sketches from the set. And each animation poses a different challenge. For example, I just finished making one of Sakura twirling her rod about. So much detail was put into the movement that, if it ran at normal speed, it would be positively dizzying to look at.
I tend to buy inexpensive sketches, so, I tend to be more patient with them. It's like a reverse Oliver Twist situation - "Please sir, I want less (tape)".
Ok..nevermind...I'm still a little hyped up from all the potions they fed me at the dentist today. Mmm...antiobiotic mouthwash & cookies!
I'm with you Sensei. I'm rather fond of animating the douga now, even though it takes a lot of time, especially with the ones that needs multiple sheets to create 1 frame. Storing them all is a whole other matter. ^^;
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Well I guess I'm not expecting much so I'm rarely disappointed. I'm 80% only after what's shown in the photo. So if there's only one sketch I like I'm usually fine.
It's a lot nicer getting a nice variety of sketch shots though. I can be happy only getting one sketch set from a show if there's a good variety of characters and scenes in there. I usually don't like it when there's only one cut per set because that makes it much more expensive just to get the one sketch that I want. That also means the ratio of dead sketches becomes much higher too taking up more space.
Sometimes it is kind of nice to get only a few sheets of good sketches as opposed to a 55-sheet set that has five good sketches in it. Man...all those extras take up a lot of space. And I don't want to dump them either. They're like a Fire Hazard.
Yes, partial irritates me too!! But I want them to complete the cut.
Scanning, cleaning and storing sketches are a pain in the butt! I can do simple animation which is fun....count me out on the ones that require composite sketches.
It is a consideration for me if I can see from the description that the sketch set contains a lot of sheets of paper. As an academic with archive background, I'm philosophically opposed to saving the eyeworthy images and throwing away the rest. So if I see a lot FA that has some nice images but comes with 120 other sheets, then I usually won't bid in the first place. At the current exchange rate, what seems a bargain sometimes ends up not such a good deal after I pay the shipping costs.
If I do go for a set with lots of extra paper, then I set aside that cut, do what needs to be done for conservation (removing tape, separating white and colored paper), and then bag it up good and tight. Then I label the bag with the series and episode/cut numbers, and store it out of the way.
As my sketch collection doesn't get out much (people want to look at cels) increasingly RS is my main way of displaying this art, with more and more of the actual paper bagged and boxed for its long-term health.
