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Grrl Power #1373 - The A-Team gets clean
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See how it all ties in? Faulk and Cora and Max were talking about Peggy's foot, and now she has an ticklichy shower foot. Writing!
I had originally planned to have a lot of conversations in the comic take place in the showers, because, well, glistening superheroines. There are two reasons that this is only the third or fourth appearance of the showers in nearly 1400 pages. One, I just kind of keep forgetting to do it. Like if I have people standing around the base talking, it's usually out in the lounge. Well, also, if the scene requires mixed company, then it can't take place in the shower. The team is not that progressive. Also certain characters wouldn't quite make sense wandering in for a line or two. Like Arianna probably doesn't use the showers all that often. Not never, but while she may do a morning jog with the team, she's not doing obstacle courses after lunch, or early afternoon weight training. Also, if she's giving Harem or Dabbler a warning about sexual harassment, that lecture loses some of its gravitas if done while soaping one's bosoms.
The other reason is that despite several attempts, I have no idea how to use Blender. I did actually make a 3D model of the room in Blender at one point quite a while ago, but then realized that I have no idea how to texture a room? I don't know how to texture an apple, but that's a pretty easy tutorial to find. UV unwrap, apply texture... that's basically it. But an interior? It's one thing to apply "stucco" to a wall, but this room has tiles that have to line up correctly, and I imagine that involves slicing the room into dozens of component pieces... well, probably it means making one chest-high wall then duplicating it with an array, etc, etc. But I don't know how to do that stuff. And so... I have to draw the interior of the room in 2D and lay in all those textures in perspective each time there's a camera change. Well, not each time. I just have to do it once and then I copy/paste it all for other panels with the same angle. It's quite a bit more work than having two characters stand in front of a brown wall, for sure.
Comments
Dave Barrack
The... architect. Yes.
AlpineBob
You know, I'm pretty sure Archon could afford to give their shower stalls ceiling height walls, My gym has that, plus curtains across the stall entrances. So this design choice suggests to me that the architect was a bit of an...extrovert.
eddi_TBH
Frix is due for a double noogie.
