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16 years ago
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Hullo! Looks like I kinda missed the thousand mark again, by over a hundred views -_- Still, HUGE THANKS to everyone watching! I'm really glad of the reception I've met here so far :D
So as a thanks, here's a reference sheet of my fierce madame with her classic and new outfits 8U with additional info. Might add a traditional, downloadable versions of the sheets later.
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I had a pretty long absence a while ago, this was because I was busy babysitting my brother's 2-year old kid as well as helping with renovations. I was pretty tired every evening and weren't able to get to the internets for atleast two weeks. This change of life also alienated me from web-communities for a while. Now, I'm going to open up a little here so bear with me, I have a need to vent :j
It's strange. You'd think you need less effort playing with a kid as he grows older, but not really. That's when you need to start using more imagination :D
Because my nephew is now able to follow me almost everywhere there wasn't really any time I could spend alone, and this wore me down. Then the imagination effort... You can't really go with everything the kid decides to do and not think of something to do together yourself. Most of the time I found myself just repeating stuff like: good, yeah!, oh shucks, uhhuh. While that's easier it's not creating anything special between you and the kid :l This makes me feel a little guilty, am I being too selfish, should I be giving more to others? I felt like I was a totally different person those two weeks, like a doll because of the way I took things :/
But I don't want to avoid my nephew, especially with me being his godfather. There are close times that really repay you. You teach the kid something new that he later repeats, he does something totally sympathetic or says you're his friend. Just watching the kid grow and learn new things is sweet :) I guess I should just relax a bit more and be proud of my responsibility :j
That being said I tip my hat to every parent out there, that's some serious commitment :D Though I think it'll be a WHILE before I'm ready for that myself >_>
Phew. So anyway, a nerd's ultimate trial. My respects if you were able to read through all that sorry ass venting.
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Now onto some future content:
I'm working on a sort of prologue or test comic about Charis's adventures (isn't placed as the first mission in chronological order), prolly 10-20 pages long. The script for the first part is actually finished but needs a little tweaking, and being the only one reading it through I'm of course blind to my own errors >_< So for anyone anxious out there, be patient. Anyway, I've also been working on a main plot and the structure of my world, which is slowly taking form :o I don't wanna end with something silly if I rush things, this being my first more serious story.
Now I'd like to ask you if you'd like some looping ambience/bg-music in the comics, like in the reference sheet submission (I can manage a mute button too). I've thought about doing this flippityflappety browser for the comics in flash so that one whole episode will be an independent submission. So what do you think? A more traditional silence filled with the sounds of YOUR imagination or the soundscape of my choosing? :]
Also in the works is a new short flash skit, which will propably be uploaded next.
Fleece out.
So as a thanks, here's a reference sheet of my fierce madame with her classic and new outfits 8U with additional info. Might add a traditional, downloadable versions of the sheets later.
--
I had a pretty long absence a while ago, this was because I was busy babysitting my brother's 2-year old kid as well as helping with renovations. I was pretty tired every evening and weren't able to get to the internets for atleast two weeks. This change of life also alienated me from web-communities for a while. Now, I'm going to open up a little here so bear with me, I have a need to vent :j
It's strange. You'd think you need less effort playing with a kid as he grows older, but not really. That's when you need to start using more imagination :D
Because my nephew is now able to follow me almost everywhere there wasn't really any time I could spend alone, and this wore me down. Then the imagination effort... You can't really go with everything the kid decides to do and not think of something to do together yourself. Most of the time I found myself just repeating stuff like: good, yeah!, oh shucks, uhhuh. While that's easier it's not creating anything special between you and the kid :l This makes me feel a little guilty, am I being too selfish, should I be giving more to others? I felt like I was a totally different person those two weeks, like a doll because of the way I took things :/
But I don't want to avoid my nephew, especially with me being his godfather. There are close times that really repay you. You teach the kid something new that he later repeats, he does something totally sympathetic or says you're his friend. Just watching the kid grow and learn new things is sweet :) I guess I should just relax a bit more and be proud of my responsibility :j
That being said I tip my hat to every parent out there, that's some serious commitment :D Though I think it'll be a WHILE before I'm ready for that myself >_>
Phew. So anyway, a nerd's ultimate trial. My respects if you were able to read through all that sorry ass venting.
--
Now onto some future content:
I'm working on a sort of prologue or test comic about Charis's adventures (isn't placed as the first mission in chronological order), prolly 10-20 pages long. The script for the first part is actually finished but needs a little tweaking, and being the only one reading it through I'm of course blind to my own errors >_< So for anyone anxious out there, be patient. Anyway, I've also been working on a main plot and the structure of my world, which is slowly taking form :o I don't wanna end with something silly if I rush things, this being my first more serious story.
Now I'd like to ask you if you'd like some looping ambience/bg-music in the comics, like in the reference sheet submission (I can manage a mute button too). I've thought about doing this flippityflappety browser for the comics in flash so that one whole episode will be an independent submission. So what do you think? A more traditional silence filled with the sounds of YOUR imagination or the soundscape of my choosing? :]
Also in the works is a new short flash skit, which will propably be uploaded next.
Fleece out.
As for the music, I say if you really wanna add it (this assumes you go for the Flash option since CDisplay doesn't allow for fancy music) then go and add it anyway and just add a handy mute button if people have other music tracks in mind. I worked on a story with someone else before and one of the fun exercises we'd do is just send each other music from various sources (games, anime, movies, etc.), and compare and contrast which fits with which scene or character. Sometimes even music is helpful in the development of a story altogether (one OC Remix spurred me to work on a Tails fanfic!). It's rather valuable to the creator of your own work to list what music YOU think is best and at the same time, invite others to fill it in themselves.
I guess in short, add music and a mute option :^D
Anyway, thanks alot for your opinion :D There are actually quite a few flash comics out there with said features, one of the first ones I saw was actually an "animated" version of Metroid manga VOL1, in japanese though. Another was an official multimedia comic about Dead Space. These have alot more effects and movement (not to mention voice acting at times >_>) than what I had in mind ^^ Going greyscale with transitions between scenes and ambience/bgmusic.
.swf files are relatively huge though, not sure how big a file would get with mp3:s and around 20 pages of some 1280*853 .jpegs or more.
Sounds like you had fun with that story :D Music really does help with imagination. Almost all my chars have that certain song/album that helped create them too :j