@Jabra:
Anyway, I didn't expect useful info in this thread, I'm totally taken aback! But isn't it frustrating to work as a colorist, knowing that the final result can and will turn out completely different? Or are these super extreme examples mostly a thing of the past?
I adjust and calibrate my monitor to the print copies, and check things on multiple screens and I've done it so regularly my monitor is calibrated pretty closely to print. Its actually set a bit darker than a normal monitor as a result. . I know things aren't ever going to print exactly like they're colored, its part of the process, but after doing it for as long as I have the pallette I have, and I don't do anything that won't work in cmyk, usually prints pretty decently.
Generally printing will unify the colors a bit, but as long as the actual contrasts are fine it usually looks okay and pretty close.
It's mostly only annoying when I do something like a subtle blush effect on someone's cheeks or nose. Usually the print will make it subtle and bring it together, but sometimes it makes it BLARING red and it looks awful.
Like right here. These two pictures are from the same page. Same exact colors used throughout, but because stuff was different around them, they printed differently. The first image got the proper amount of red and printed as intended, while the second because it had a little more skin highlight and the background around it was a little different, got more yellow so the hair is a slightly different shade, the skin is paler, and the cheeks and nose are BRIGHT red which looks terrible and makes her look drunk.
And thats on the same page. Colored both faces at the same time with the same colors in the same scene, but because the background was a little different, they shifted. Note that the blue in the eyes is consistent, and the strong red in the lips is the same. Its just the amount of inbetween red that shifted in the skintone and hair.
So you can imagine how much it varies on different pages, or in more extreme lighting conditions, or with different printings entirely..
Sometimes it prints like mud though, especially if I'm doing anything with lots of purples, so I try to avoid that. AWhich is a shame because purples look cool but they're a very hard to work with. And red pretty much only prints as red, any highlights at all turn it pink, unless you're highlighting with yellow, but that very quickly makes it not red unless you're careful.
The consolation is even digital copies won't be exactly right because everyone's monitor is different, but I have to work towards prints.
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@Monquito:
I was just rereading the latest chapters of Alabasta, and uh. That one scene of Chaka mourning to the corpseless tomb of Pell, reminded me like sooo much of a certain someone.
Oda hardly ever changes habits uh..
Pell is such a standard go-to example, he doesn't count. He was only dead for a couple chapters.
Now, Igaram, who was murdered off camera in an explosion, with no body and only a villain to take credit for it, who Vivi cried over and had flashbacks about and was dead for Little Garden, Drum, and Alabasta… its not like he showed back up alive and well at a crucial dramatic moment with zero explanation on how he survived in order to help stop the war or anything.
Or maybe that was Toh-Toh that Vivi was sad about...
But it definitely wasn't Pell.