Cover Page : Mutabilis : - New Entry 28/11/2008

drew · Post by **drew** » Thu Oct 02, 2008 11:44 am

On FE2/FFE the front gun came out of the nose, just above the centre line. I haven't battled one recently on Oolite... Selezen?

Cheers,

Drew.

ramon · Post by **ramon** » Thu Oct 02, 2008 8:10 pm

could you give us a quick description of Rebecca, age, colour, hair that sort of thing, also what she's wearing.

i'll have a read through status quo again too - i'm sure it's in there, just being lazy, and my memory is terrible.

Selezen · Post by **Selezen** » Thu Oct 02, 2008 8:18 pm

Yeah, courier lasers come out of the main hull, just under the nose. If you look at the model for the Oolite one, the laser emitter is marked on the nose.

drew · Post by **drew** » Fri Oct 03, 2008 5:56 am

ramon wrote:
could you give us a quick description of Rebecca, age, colour, hair that sort of thing, also what she's wearing.

i'll have a read through status quo again too - i'm sure it's in there, just being lazy, and my memory is terrible.

Description from Mutabilis is:

She is late 20s/early 30s, a little over 5 foot tall, caucasian, thin and slightly built and a touch underweight. Simple shoulder length brown hair, brown eyes, pale untanned skin. Good looking in a 'girl next door' kind of way, but not a stunner - would look pretty if she tried, but generally doesn't, she's very practical - abit tomboyish.. Generally wearing non-descript space jumpsuits, but is in an elegant ankle length green dress and matching high heeled shoes in some of scenes in Mutabilis.

When trying to visualise her I think character wise she's rather like a mix of B'Elanna Torres from Star Trek Voyager (...obviously minus the klingon forehead wrinkles

)

and 'Bechs' (Major Rebecca Childs, played by Hilary Swank) from The Core. I will admit to pinching the name 'Rebecca' from 'The Core' for my lead heroine. I think it was the way she landed the space shuttle, instruments off, in the movie... go girl!

These pictures are very 'Rebecca'... (she doesn't smile a whole lot)

This pic could be straight out of 'Status Quo' or 'Mutabilis'... Jim is also very similar to Dr. Josh (Aaron Eckhart) though he's a bit older, dark haired and greyer.

Here's Hilary in real life.

Cheers,

Drew.

Website · Post by **DaddyHoggy** » Fri Oct 03, 2008 8:14 am

@Drew - Roxann Dawson - you don't say - can't think why (link rather than image)

Very "tasteful" picture of RD - no smut I promise

drew · Post by **drew** » Fri Oct 03, 2008 8:39 am

DaddyHoggy wrote:
@Drew - Roxann Dawson - you don't say - can't think why (link rather than image)

Well... the "feisty female sidekick with attitude problem and emotional baggage" is a timeworn cliche... but hey, when in Rome...

I make no apologies for these two stories being 'space operas'.

Cheers,

Drew.

Killer Wolf · Post by **Killer Wolf** » Fri Oct 03, 2008 12:01 pm

ta for the info!

re the size : i take it the dimension of the book would be better noted as cm, rather than pixels? cafepress stuff i use for pics are at 300dpi for jpegs which would make the pic titchy. would a pic smaller res (80) of the same 1:1.45 (iirc) dimensions be ok for the compo, then a higher (300) mailed for your shop?

ramon · Post by **ramon** » Fri Oct 03, 2008 12:35 pm

~~being a pain again, but what is the size of the book (are you printing it through cafepress?)~~

http://www.cafepress.com/cp/info/help/l ... s.aspx#use

~~I don't mean pixel size, but rather the sizes that cafepress offer in that link above.~~

Sorry - just read a little further on, you're printing the Standard Paperback size.
5 x 8 Standard Paperback 300 DPI 5.5 x 8.5 (1650 x 2550)

drew · Post by **drew** » Fri Oct 03, 2008 6:35 pm

@DaddyHoggy...

Re: link - wowsers. Is that a heat shield she's wearing?

Cheers,

Drew.

Website · Post by **DaddyHoggy** » Sat Oct 04, 2008 12:29 pm

@Drew - glad you liked the link!

Re: Space Operas - I grew up reading EE Doc Smith - Lensmen/D'Alembert/Skylark - you don't get much more space opera than that! (First book I ever read and then immediately read again - "Galactic Patrol" - Kimball Kinnison - now there was a man's man! I was nine at the time and I knew it even then!)

drew · Post by **drew** » Mon Oct 06, 2008 9:12 am

5 entries now, and very high quality! Keep them coming!

Cheers,

Drew.

ramon · Post by **ramon** » Mon Oct 06, 2008 9:25 am

any chance we can see them, see what the the level of competition is like? Ask the guys who submitted them first.

drew · Post by **drew** » Mon Oct 06, 2008 9:28 am

No objections from me....

Any objections from the artists?

Cheers,

Drew.

Frame · Post by **Frame** » Mon Oct 06, 2008 9:40 am

i'm cool with that..

but i think you need to scale it down first...

drew · Post by **drew** » Mon Oct 06, 2008 9:51 am

I'll upload 400x800-ish versions for the web later on if all ok with it.

Cheers,

Drew.