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17 years ago
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First things first. For those of you who haven't already noticed, I've been forced to retire from the VOCT. It's not that I didn't get my submission done on time. In fact, it's laying before me in a full, finished product.
What happened was that every little thing that could go wrong did. I brought my Tablet to school to work on it, turns out oC is the only art program that doesn't work on my Mac's Windows virtual console. Go figure. Of course, everything else is complicated and just generally different... I tried using some other things, but they were taking so long to get used to...
Yeah, so tablet was pointless.
Made even more pointless by the fact that the pictures I'd scanned in back home and e-mailed to myself to post all at once got screwed up somehow. My computer actually sent me all the right file names, but somehow sent me the wrong files under those names... I. Don't. Know.
So, my friend actually shipped me a scanner for Christmas! I get it all hooked up and everything only to discover that, after scanning beautiful previews, the final scan goes to the end of the scanning bar, then the program tells me that there's a communication error. I spent 5 hours trying to fix it with no success at all. Then I resigned.
Shame that a months work on a comic went to waste, but I suppose there's not much I could have done. I'll post the comic some time when I'm home with hardware that "works". Maybe.
On a related note, I'd like to make a quick thank you to
Strawberrymog for portraying my character so well in his story. I'll repay the story somehow, sorry it'll be so much later than yours, and best of luck with the rest of the tournament.
So, yeah, what I said would be online, isn't. Ironically, what I said would never happen again is happening. My dad's begun working again for supplemental pay at a different company. He's happy. We're happy. Everyone's happy. Yay.
Also, guess between that and me still having no way to get art up, despite now having a tablet and scanner at school, I'm staying off commissions for now. Sorry(?)
Guess that's about it.
Take care, everyone.
-Reed
What happened was that every little thing that could go wrong did. I brought my Tablet to school to work on it, turns out oC is the only art program that doesn't work on my Mac's Windows virtual console. Go figure. Of course, everything else is complicated and just generally different... I tried using some other things, but they were taking so long to get used to...
Yeah, so tablet was pointless.
Made even more pointless by the fact that the pictures I'd scanned in back home and e-mailed to myself to post all at once got screwed up somehow. My computer actually sent me all the right file names, but somehow sent me the wrong files under those names... I. Don't. Know.
So, my friend actually shipped me a scanner for Christmas! I get it all hooked up and everything only to discover that, after scanning beautiful previews, the final scan goes to the end of the scanning bar, then the program tells me that there's a communication error. I spent 5 hours trying to fix it with no success at all. Then I resigned.
Shame that a months work on a comic went to waste, but I suppose there's not much I could have done. I'll post the comic some time when I'm home with hardware that "works". Maybe.
On a related note, I'd like to make a quick thank you to
Strawberrymog for portraying my character so well in his story. I'll repay the story somehow, sorry it'll be so much later than yours, and best of luck with the rest of the tournament.So, yeah, what I said would be online, isn't. Ironically, what I said would never happen again is happening. My dad's begun working again for supplemental pay at a different company. He's happy. We're happy. Everyone's happy. Yay.
Also, guess between that and me still having no way to get art up, despite now having a tablet and scanner at school, I'm staying off commissions for now. Sorry(?)
Guess that's about it.
Take care, everyone.
-Reed
But hey! Your dad's working again! There's a bit of positive news. Congrats to him on that.
... I knew I should have named you Herman instead... :<
Well, yeah, these things happen, which does not happen to make them suck any less... However, not much I can do but move along. As they say, no use crying over spilled milk.
It was indeed nice to hear that he's gonna be working again. He was trying to be strong for us, but we could tell it was tearing him up inside to think that he'd never do his job again... So. Yay. ^^
sorry that you had to drop out buddy