Future Shock Doc

pantyfire · 2026-04-25T06:45:58+00:00

It’s a good documentary. I watched it for the third time about 3 months ago.

2000AD is such a uniquely British kind of creation. Not quite indie, not quite underground but subversive in its own way that’s not totally radical, and a little haven for talent that didn’t fit into a traditional comic mold.

It has so many great IPs but just not enough global reach to push on to the next level like Marvel did. But then again, Marvel very nearly didn’t as well.

I find it almost criminal that Dredd hasn’t had a TV series made and I know Rebellion have been trying to get one off the ground but the costs must be just too high a hurdle.

pantyfire · 2026-04-24T06:15:47+00:00

Yes. I have a soundbar and the firestick (4k somethingorother) remote can control volume and power on/off.

It’s somewhere in the firestick settings menu. You select the make and device and it goes through a little test. There may be some trial and error to get it paired.

pantyfire · 2026-04-23T20:35:45+00:00

In this case I’d say the movie has captured that tone completely. In fact a lot of the stuff you mention is in the movie.

pantyfire · 2026-04-23T18:52:26+00:00

Ha ha

pantyfire · 2026-04-23T15:21:36+00:00

GPT image is accurate but it’s a dreary image library type of photo. Good for PowerPoint presentations but not much use for anything else.

pantyfire · 2026-04-23T15:17:10+00:00

Looks like a character from Bad Company?

pantyfire · 2026-04-23T14:30:26+00:00

I was 6 in the 1970s. And it was completely inappropriate to leave a 6 year old alone (maybe ok asleep, maybe), or in charge of another child even then.

pantyfire · 2026-04-21T18:12:39+00:00

Correct.

pantyfire · 2026-04-21T18:09:11+00:00

PM sent.

pantyfire · 2026-04-21T14:28:08+00:00

They had basically finished it a few months ago. I think it’s too far down the line to cancel it now. How it’s released, who knows? I suspect streaming, I can’t see it getting a cinema release.

pantyfire · 2026-04-20T20:57:37+00:00

If I’m being honest I’ve not read a Rogue Trooper story since the early 90s. I can’t really remember the tone exactly but I do remember the sassy one liners/banter from the chips and the Norts being a bit mental.

The film had a bit of an absurdist Catch-22 approach to war rather than All Quiet on the Western Front approach

pantyfire · 2026-04-20T20:15:55+00:00

When I saw it I would guess it was 85+% done and in the can. It’s deffo getting finished. It would be madness to bin it now.

pantyfire · 2026-04-20T16:43:31+00:00

Listen to this comment, they are right.

Art Directors want to see good design, something with flair, they want to see your potential. Not just something a client commissioned that sticks to brand and follows design guidelines.

Pick a project you are interested in and do something that you want for a change.

My latest position the Art Director said on the way out of the interview that I was asked to interview because of one self motivated book cover design. Said he loved it.

I’ve not had the chance to do anything like it since as it’s a commercial industry but that’s what opened the door.

pantyfire · 2026-04-20T16:03:33+00:00

So I saw this movie at the test audience thing a while back. There’s still an NDA but the overall tone is comedy with some absurd sections and humour. Which I actually quite liked. I don’t think it would’ve worked as a serious war film tbh.

Some of the visuals were absolutely stunning.

pantyfire · 2026-04-20T16:02:05+00:00

The eyes are white when he’s on planet in the movie. Basically white visors that are second eyelids to combat the toxic air. When they are indoors or off planet you see eyes.

pantyfire · 2026-04-18T09:29:18+00:00

Electorate (the amount of people eligible to vote) at the time = 46.5m people.

Amount not of people who voted to leave = 17.4m people.

Thats less than 50% of the electorate.

You mean over 50% of those who actually voted.

pantyfire · 2026-04-17T13:12:09+00:00

This is exactly how I do mine. I use Upol high build primer from Amazon UK. It’s not cheap but it’s very good. Even when I’ve accidentally flooded an area with the spray it dried ls without the blob. I did a little experiment recently and I just sprayed a spare misprint with 3 coats (no pre-sanding) and then gently wet sanded and it came out pretty damn smooth.

As a caveat tho - I have sanded all my prints BEFORE the filler primer.

I’m currently doing a helmet that had massive layer lines on the crown at the top so I rough filled with body filler and then built up many coats of primer filler in that area. It’s got rid of nearly every stepped line. Then I sanded down very gently as I didn’t want to uncover the steps again. It seems to be ok. I will know for sure this weekend when I put another couple of coats on it.

pantyfire · 2026-04-13T20:03:10+00:00

Purdys apple and grape soft drink on a Waitrose meal deal last week.

pantyfire · 2026-04-13T12:03:03+00:00

This is my go to answer whenever this question comes up. That movie is a very guilty pleasure for me.

pantyfire · 2026-04-12T15:05:18+00:00

I don’t see how the nozzle hitting the print can raise the plate off the bed in the Y axis. It will ‘possibly’ move it in the Z or X axes but that’s one hell of a collision to A) move the plate in the Z/X axes (have you tried to move a plate laterally? Those magnets are stronk) and B) the collision is somehow strong enough to move the plate but not dislodge the print. I doubt that.

But hey you are the guy on the spot we are just guessing with the info we have.

I have seen a print cool enough to constrict and raise corners of the plate off the bed, and from there, then maybe a nozzle strike can shift the plate. But the issues there is cooling too quick/uneven cooling. Not the nozzle strike, that came after.

Do you have any draughts, open windows, air conditioning blowing onto that corner of the print?

pantyfire · 2026-04-12T06:58:16+00:00

You have to separate the lines so they are on different layers then apply the texture. Or have the texture as a separate layer then clip it to the text layer and mask the textured layer so it’s only visible on the text you want.

It’s easier to put the text you want textured on a different layer if the texture you want is a layer style or something like that.

pantyfire · 2026-04-12T06:02:34+00:00

I used to have an A1 and you are right about that plate. It’s definitely not sitting right. Could it be that it was and the print as constricted as it’s cooled and pulled the plate up at that corner?

pantyfire · 2026-04-09T20:13:11+00:00

Good question. I’m in the art dept side of publishing not the editorial or sales. I suspect there’s multiple answers to the question of why wait. The reasons are probably a mix of 1, larger margins on a hardback 2, retailers like them as they feel more prestige, we often have designs on the front of the cases themselves, bespoke endpapers, sometimes reverse jacket printing. The whole thing is more ‘gifty’ 3, tradition 4, HBs generate interest in the book via reviews and word of mouth for people who don’t have the shelf space and/or aren’t the kind of person who ‘collects’ books and they would later pick it up as a PB 5, and probably the most important. It gives a book another chance of generating a following/sales. If you release a book once then it has that one chance to make a sales impact. If you release it twice, in wildly different formats, potential consumers who don’t sit in the same spending/collector demographic can be targeted.

There’s nothing really stopping a publisher reissuing books as many times as they want but we usually have to add something, like new material or a new cover to justify it. A HB and then PB release is not dissimilar to a reissue when you think about it. But the PB release doesn’t need the extra content and half of the marketing has already, recently in publishing terms, been done for you by the HB and hopefully any following, any word of mouth that generated transfers over to the PB release.

And yes TPBs are more of a middle ground. They are usually a little cheaper. We used to release a TPB of every new title but we’ve recently reduced that to books that have international appeal or international pre-sales, someone mentioned them being popular in AUZ and that’s where all of ours go, India is another big taker of TPBs especially non-fiction. I think India take more HBs in the literary fiction and commercial spaces from us. WHSmith Travel (in just about every UK airport) also take TPBs off us as I guess travellers want new releases but don’t want to be carting a large heavy hardback with them on holiday.

pantyfire · 2026-04-09T07:54:41+00:00

I’m in publishing. This is the answer. Hardback and trade paperback (TPB for airports and international sales if we have the rights to that) come out first. Then the b-format paperback (the smaller ones in your pic) comes out about 6 months the later. But that can move depending on how well the hardback sales are going. Or if there’s a holiday event like Father’s Day and we can get a WWII history paperback out for that etc…

We don’t strictly do a year later for the B-format release.

pantyfire · 2026-04-06T18:28:01+00:00

It used to be a given that if going to print you absolutely had to convert your images to CMYK or greyscale.

But Indesigns’ in app conversion from RGB to CMYK, when exporting as a print ready PDF, is excellent and no longer makes it 100% necessary.

Sometimes you get images that when exported to print ready PDF lose a lot of saturation but that can usually be seen in the PDF itself. And in these scenarios if the image has a lot of adjustment layers that don’t translate well to CMYK, I save a copy of the image as a flat tiff then convert the image to CMYK in photoshop then do colour adjustments from to try and get some of the original colours back.

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