Ragdoll’s Rag Times

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Nov 05
Who Cleaned the Watchmen? Corey Breen did, along with a few others. The film that the Watchmen art was shot on was done in such a way that produced a moiré pattern, even on the black layer. When they went to produce the prestigious Absolute Watchmen volume, all these dots had to be painstakingly erased while keeping all of Dave Gibbons’s original line work perfectly in tact. Sometimes I just used a thicker brush, but the lasso tool came in handy to get rid of larger areas. But as you can see, it made it a little harder to distinguish what is now the dots, and what is actual Gibbon’s line. So imagine getting rid of all these dots and lines of moire patterns! Imagine doing that, and NOTHING else for eight hours a day for six months.

Who Cleaned the Watchmen? Corey Breen did, along with a few others. The film that the Watchmen art was shot on was done in such a way that produced a moiré pattern, even on the black layer. When they went to produce the prestigious Absolute Watchmen volume, all these dots had to be painstakingly erased while keeping all of Dave Gibbons’s original line work perfectly in tact.

Sometimes I just used a thicker brush, but the lasso tool came in handy to get rid of larger areas. But as you can see, it made it a little harder to distinguish what is now the dots, and what is actual Gibbon’s line. So imagine getting rid of all these dots and lines of moire patterns! Imagine doing that, and NOTHING else for eight hours a day for six months.