The Somerton Man Mac OS
Over the weekend, the book hit a kind of landmark. With every page sketched in, the goal that I've had of shifting from the script as the primary guide to the book has been reached. As I've covered, the script was written about 8 years ago, in Scrivener, and has been a good starting point for writing, planning and organizing the book.
Somerton Man Update
Six decades later, the Somerton Man's identity and murder are still a mystery. From the missing labels from all his clothing to the tiny piece of paper with the words 'Tamam Shud' found sewn into the lining of the dead man’s coat, this cold case is brimming with facts that are stranger than fiction. (Top left) A micrograph of a strand of the Somerton Man’s hair. The black area at the top of the root, called post-mortem banding, is what you expect to see when a hair is taken from a dead person. Randy Steven Kraft (born March 19, 1945) is an American serial killer known as the Scorecard Killer, the Southern California Strangler and the Freeway Killer who murdered a minimum of 16 young men between 1972 and 1983, the majority of whom he killed in.
The goal was to have the book in readable, but also visual, book form. To make that real, I created a PDF that contains the entire book, with every current page, so you can now read the book as you will when it's finally finished, by swiping through pages, seeing the figures and the backgrounds, and reading the speech bubbles.
As long as I was working to this goal, my work was really just a mechanical transfer of each script page into sketched visual form; that's most of what this blog has been about so far.
Next Phase
The Somerton Man Mac Os 11
But now, new tasks have emerged. They involve creating the book as a PDF; reviewing the book in the form it now has, assessing how successfully the script stood up; annotating each page for changes that may be needed; and then planning out the stages to take things forward.
That set me on a search for the right software tools to work with. And besides those tasks, there's now a bigger task to plan and organize. So this post is about the tools I've added, and about the existing tools that I've been using. I've mentioned many of the latter on the way here, but I thought I'd bring it all together.
The Somerton Man Case
The first task was to export every single spread or single page in the Affinity Designer Master File. Here they are: