you can see, very different. Godwinking used more natural colors, with less saturated areas of the page. The lighting effects of the sun in the first few panels really matched the descriptions of the scene in the script. On the other hand…The mighty gareth’s uniform is basically the same color as the guards (bert and ernie) which made them hard to tell apart (especailly when the background was close to the same color too). The other glaring issue is that the orange slime (as it is written in the script) that should be on Page 2 is nowhere to be found. These little lapses of judgement indicated to me that this colorist maybe did not read the script carefully. While I liked his intution and how he colored the panels, the fact remains that each part of the comic creating process must serve the story, even the colors. That’s not to say he is not a gifted colorist and I could have easily asked for revisions to get the pages to exactly what I was thinking. But for my experiment working with different colorists, I decided to leave the page as is and just acknoledge the parts of it that I would probably have wanted to change. If you go back and look at the final colors by kassandra grob haas, you will see what I think is a version that is directly in-between these two styles. She uses a lot of saturation, but also natural colors. The slime is orange but looks like sludge. She also passed the second-to-last-panel test, with the background of the snake eating the mighty gareth showing the actual environment (although motion blurred which is pretty cool too). Final thoughts - any of these three versions of the color could have been the final versions (with minor tweaks) but in the end, I decided to go with the version I liked best and followed the script the closest.
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