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kradeelavI've been focused on R18/H-manga SFX and lettering this past week which led me down a rabbit hole of design history since - as always - I adore context. (As a commercial graphic designer I feel like erotic lettering gives you so much more freedom of id and emotion than regular corporate design....)
Turns out the e-hentai forums are a treasure trove of scantalators talking shop about which fonts and their processes.... copying a few links and comments here for posterity. please assume all links in this post have NSFW imagery.
* e-hentai's collected useful links thread (sfx, translation quirks, fonts)
* Hentai and Non-Hentai Sound Effects and What They Mean (pdf download)
* process of decensoring by qberg:
Different techniques are used for different cases and different stages of decensoring.
Stage 01 for me is erasing everything that is censored, it is pretty universal. The idea is to get the uncensored part of the picture full of holes where censorship once was, so I can draw underneath and never on top of the basic picture. This way borders of what I have to fill in are 100% set from the start. I also save a copy of a censored pages in the same file to take a look from time to time if some useful information can be gained from there.
Stage 02 is recreating lines. If censored version is see-through enough (transparent bars), I simply draw my clean lines on top of what I see. If censorship consists of tiny bars, it is not a problem to simply connect the dots. If censorship is really bad, that is where it becomes interesting. Either I draw on my own how I see fit if it is possible; either I search for different less censored works by he same author to look for references, paste those on a page, bend-shape 'em to fit the best way possible, draw my clean lines on top of what I see, then delete references for good. Also, believe it or not, I even use 3D references in some cases, though it is not as useful as it may sound.
Stage 03 is background patterns and there are as many narrowly specialized techniques there as there are different pattern types (single shades, colors, simple orderly dot patterns, complex orderly dot patterns, disorderly dot patterns, unclean dot patterns, dot patterns with colors, etc.) The idea is to put patterns layer on the absolute bottom under the base picture and under outlines, then those restored patterns should perfectly fuse with patterns on the base layer where they connect.
* the idiot's guide to scantalating manga is a time capsule of an old indie site that does a great job describing the process from a newb's point of view. related: history of scantalation (up to 2009 or so).
* a "what fonts are used in H-manga/doujin scantalations?" thread (there's goldmine of still-active links that gave me 20+ fonts for high quality inky/bubble lettering)
* another fontrip link
* a neat letterer's portfolio for somebody who does it professionally.
Turns out the e-hentai forums are a treasure trove of scantalators talking shop about which fonts and their processes.... copying a few links and comments here for posterity. please assume all links in this post have NSFW imagery.
* e-hentai's collected useful links thread (sfx, translation quirks, fonts)
* Hentai and Non-Hentai Sound Effects and What They Mean (pdf download)
* process of decensoring by qberg:
Different techniques are used for different cases and different stages of decensoring.
Stage 01 for me is erasing everything that is censored, it is pretty universal. The idea is to get the uncensored part of the picture full of holes where censorship once was, so I can draw underneath and never on top of the basic picture. This way borders of what I have to fill in are 100% set from the start. I also save a copy of a censored pages in the same file to take a look from time to time if some useful information can be gained from there.
Stage 02 is recreating lines. If censored version is see-through enough (transparent bars), I simply draw my clean lines on top of what I see. If censorship consists of tiny bars, it is not a problem to simply connect the dots. If censorship is really bad, that is where it becomes interesting. Either I draw on my own how I see fit if it is possible; either I search for different less censored works by he same author to look for references, paste those on a page, bend-shape 'em to fit the best way possible, draw my clean lines on top of what I see, then delete references for good. Also, believe it or not, I even use 3D references in some cases, though it is not as useful as it may sound.
Stage 03 is background patterns and there are as many narrowly specialized techniques there as there are different pattern types (single shades, colors, simple orderly dot patterns, complex orderly dot patterns, disorderly dot patterns, unclean dot patterns, dot patterns with colors, etc.) The idea is to put patterns layer on the absolute bottom under the base picture and under outlines, then those restored patterns should perfectly fuse with patterns on the base layer where they connect.
* the idiot's guide to scantalating manga is a time capsule of an old indie site that does a great job describing the process from a newb's point of view. related: history of scantalation (up to 2009 or so).
* a "what fonts are used in H-manga/doujin scantalations?" thread (there's goldmine of still-active links that gave me 20+ fonts for high quality inky/bubble lettering)
* another fontrip link
* a neat letterer's portfolio for somebody who does it professionally.
