I swear, half of this chapter is Whitehouse walking around. It's easy on the dialogue, but every so often it does make me wonder what I was thinking. Fortunately, the talky bits start in the next strip.

This strip? The environment is totally photoshop. The far back is a shopped-over CG "block" layout, and the mid/fore is the reference render, repainted. The test render worked for layout purposes, but the lighting? The lighting sucked and refused to render correctly. All day and then some mucking around with lighting and test render after test render (twitching with Motion PTSD all the while), or use the base reference render to paint up a background that gets the job done just as well in.... uh... a couple of hours?

No decision. I'm getting this thing rolling again, dammit.