Name/Nickname: Marty Lau (SubWAY)
Country Of Origin & Time Zone: New Zealand GMT+12
Gender: Male
Age: 20
Enter Msn or Yahoo messenger: imartyl[at]hotmail[dot]com
What Field You Would Like To Be Positioned In: Typesetting
Why You Want This Position: I find it to be the most challenging thing that I am able to do.  I cannot translate Japanese to English, so I find myself left with three positions - Cleaning, Proofreading, and Typesetting.  Looking at each of the three, I found typesetting to be the most challenging of all, and I headed straight for it.  Luckily, I have quite a bit of time on my hands after work, and I'm never all too sleepy during the day (my work finishes at 5pm) after work.  This being so, I'm very sure that I am able to devote quite some time into being a typesetter.
Your Time Available:
MON: 5:30PM - 10:30PM  TUE: 5:30PM - 7:30PM  WED: 7:30PM - 10:30PM
THU: 5:30PM - 10:30PM  FRI: 9:30PM - ANYTIME  SAT: 12:00PM - 6:30PM  SUN: NO-TIME
Experience: I have no experience in typesetting.  I know myself to be a digital designer - a good one.  I have made posters for several clients, edited movies using programs such as Sony Vegas and Adobe After Effects, made animated advertisement banners, and - of course - had my share of making signatures for forum-goers.  I've been giving this typesetting thing a try (over these past two nights), and I'm picking it up quite well.  Yes, it's taken me this much time, but as it is I'm still in the process of having much to do.  The times above are just predictions as to how much spare time I'll have to dedicate to typesetting, should I be accepted.  I'll have the download link up as soon as I finish off Haruyuki Bus and Reborn.

PS:  I hate this excessive cloning T-T

LINK: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=TUTB4ROB

Thank you for waiting, and thank you in advance to taking the time to look through my application :D

Peace!

I'm finding the last one (Reborn) to be very difficult to clone/redraw.
Any tips? -_-

Patience + copy/paste from other parts on the page,

Lol, you can post them. But I can't review ts tests yet, as I'm still a new typesetter.

Yo. My suggestion to you is to finish up all the pages and save to PNG, zip, upload them. We like to comment on all your pages at once.

I'm excited to see your test! (:

So, I'm nearly finished =)  I've only got under half of the cloning of Reborn left.  After that, I'll upload it to somewhere, and put the link here =)

It's been a long day, and it's time to sleep.
Good night!

I really can't wait for your test~! Since I'm super new here I won't be reviewing though

Upload it to mediafire next time please ;)

Redraws for reborn aren't complete, but you did a good job on the right side. Please don't put text vertical this makes it hard to read. Please redraw hibari's  clothes and clone the gray pattern of tsuna's clothes.

Put the sfx note on hirayuki bus horizontal. Most of the dialogues can be shaped more like a diamond.

FT9 has some placement issues. Also restructure the second bubble in the 5th panel.

FT5 has some placement issues. Same for FT3 except some font are too small.

DD3 some text is really small, like the bubble in the 4th panel. You'll have to restructure it to make it fit.

DD1 font for captions is cczoinks. You can make the "Master work is work!....." bigger.

BB11 not all text is centered.

BB7 center text here too, the text in the last panel is a thought.

These are some issues I saw, as I'm still a new typesetter someone else will look at it again to point out more problems.

Good luck ;)

I'm not going to do a redo until everyone who's going to moderate this has seen it, written down what they don't like, and reply here.  I'm not going to subject myself to redo-ing the strips every time someone says that they don't think a little bit is right.  If I NEED to do a redo, then I want to only do ONE redo - if at all.

So, Malionette, you should download it and take a look before you expect me to listen to what ONE person (who, himself, claims to be new to the team) and do everything he tells me to do.

Cheers.