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Penciled and Inked by John Kovalic
Colored by Melissa Kaercher
Published by Fantasy Flight Games
I got a panicked e-mail from John one fine Friday, begging for my coloring wizardry for the cover of the new edition of Mag*Blast. The art would need to be finished for Monday morning. No problem! I even upgraded to PhotoShop CS2 for the occasion.Little did I know that CS2 had a terrible glitch that raises its ugly head when you combine it with Mac OSX 10.4.5 and a Wacom tablet. If you try to use a scatter brush under these conditions, the program bombs horribly.
This happened a lot. I must have lost four hours of work in three separate crashes on two different computers. See, when my G5 died from the poisoned scatter brush, I attempted to use my G4 laptop while the G5 went through extensive disk repairs. Silly me. I killed the G4 as well.
The sad thing is that I had Christopher Jones' brand new (as in, never yet used) G5 Macintosh in my studio... and I didn't think to move my work to that machine. (Not that it would have helped.)
Yet despite these setbacks, the piece was completed and turned in at 8 AM, Monday morning.
Mag*Blast cover
All content copyright Melissa Kaercher and/or Capstone, 2005. All rights reserved.
