Yup... it's all gone.
My hard drive crashed as I was trying to transfer files to a DVD a week or so back... and now I'm faced with the horrific prospect of starting over on my coloring chores from scratch.
Unbelievable.
I lost 4 years worth of work, files, and personal items...
I was trying to burn it all off to DVDs, but I guess I just wasn't fast enough... or fortunate enough to have more leeway.
Even with all that I have lost, it's the lost color work that stings the most... the final panel of page 4 had over 30 full figures in it (and even more partial background figures) and was perhaps the best color comic book panel I had ever produced to this point. Agonizing...
All that is left are the super-condensed files I posted here for feedback...
I can't even use them to re-create the original colors because of their bleached out tonality and severely pixelated textures.
No one could save the drive... and I even sent it to Drive Savers in California who are supposedly the best at that sort of thing.
I'm completely heartbroken and discouraged... maybe this is just a sign that this story was simply never meant to be... I've met setback after setback at EVERY stage of this book.
Perhaps someone is trying to tell me something...
Well...
FUCK whoever it is... I restart the color work this week anyway. This book gets done by the end of this year or I take a header off the Brooklyn Bridge...
PS: Eric gets all my DVDS... maybe I'll leave the Godzilla stuff to Justin. With the cash he'll get from selling it all off, he might even be able to commission a proper Kamen Rider Amazon Custom motorbike;)
5 comments:
DaaaaGGGGGG! Suckkkkkks!
I feel your pain man. That's a rough one.
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DUDE
DUUUUUDDDEEEEEEEE
I am feeling terrible. MAN..that BLOWS. CHUNKS. HEARTY BEEFY CHUNKS OF VOMIT. Ugh..I am SO SORRY. I can't even begin to express how much that sickens me....which is likely a miniscule fraction of a fraction of how much it disgusts yourself. I was going to say there are places that might be able to recover your data..then read on....
ugh. double ugh. ugh to the infinite.
I can't even begin to imagine.
BUT I feel your pain. I have lost every single exterior (and one added on interior) hard drive I have ever had..save the two I have now..which I have MOSTLY backed up...I've had instances where I thought I lost one, but it came back...all the pics, art and important stuff is now backed up (save for whatever new stuff has been put on in recent weeks), but in the past I've definitely lost some irreplaceable files. God, for some reason I still think I have one of those drives sitting around even though it's dead, dead, dead.
What a shame that it died on you when you were doing just what you were supposed to do. But next time you'll do that as you go along...or maybe even a second drive that's a back-up to your main drive...duplicate the files as you work on them. Drives are cheap enough these days.
But, yes, your attitude is right..you just have to start over..it'll be better, with what you've learned.
And in lieu of that, I'll take the Godzilla figures.
:)
Man that sucks!!
I thought you'd at least offer me your Kung-Fu movies...
I mean... it sucks about your hard-drive. That's the worst. Sorry that happened.
Still... persevere; it's worth it.
I am very sorry to hear this. That is a tragedy.
Thanks for the commiseration, folks...
I hope to have new content up soon.
Cross your fingers for me...
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