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I got good news and bad news (Comic stuff)
5 years ago
OKAY, this has been a thing for a couple of weeks now, but I've been avoiding talking about it because I've been trying to fix it this entire time.
Turns out, I just gotta accept that it happened and there is nothing I can seem to do about it.
So maybe some people remember me taking a bunch of YCH's to fund for a new laptop to replace the hella old one that was showing constant signs of being ready to croak? It had gotten really bad at the end there to the point where I was losing files constantly and every time I'd work on commissions, it'd blue screen easily several times (especially that last week). I did manage to work through it and still got things done really fast...
AND
you guys helped me get my new laptop HELLA faster than I've ever been able to before! I still can't even believe that went so well and I really have to thank you guys for supporting me so much and making my job livable.
Getting the laptop and all that was the good news! So thank you so so much for that!
The bad news is as I mentioned before, I lost a loooot of stuff and I have no idea what was really going on for it to happen. So I lost tons of old files, wips of lots and lots of personal art annnd... a good chunk of Loa pages. Luckily for the old pages, they're on here. So there is that.
But the like... 20 something other pages not shown publically yet? Those got eaten.
Along with a bunch of species profiles, references, etc etc.
And it's like, spotty? Like some are gone, some aren't, some open in SAI but have this weird white artifact blocky thing all over the image I can't seem to fix? - I can't remember what page had what in between and it's a big old mess.
So that MEGA sucks, but, guess that fits that years reputation, doesn't it?
Am I just scrapping Loa then? Nooo way. I'mma try to turn this around and use this as an excuse to just try again from the comic pages start. Technically those pages still up are the "reboot" of my original comic, but that old one was traditional from AGES ago so you can imagine why I rebooted it once I hit the furry world and learned what furries and digital art was.
I think (or hope) that this will be beneficial now anyway, since back when I uploaded the first like 30 pages, I was a really small time artist who barely knew how to art at all and had no following. So a lot of newer people have no idea what I'm talking about anyway, but maybe now I can share this new shinier version with all you great people who're around these days.
I'm still kinda tossing the idea around a ton, so everything is subject to change, but I'm definitely going to use this as an excuse to revamp some HELLA 2007-11 era designs! I've already tested one to see if it made me uncomfortable or not to change something so old, and nah, it feels way better so that's probably good to go.
Also, the order I'm showing the plot is going to change, rather than showing the prologue first (for whatever reason) I think I will just get us going on the main plot. I think that might be jarring for some people, but like, here we are lol.
So that's that then! My old laptop fried pretty hard, but I was able to somehow stay kinda afloat and get a new one in good time, I lost a butt-ton of work over like 14ish years (Scslcsfcmlms), but now I have an excuse to start kinda fresh... At least on that specific project's comic form.
Wishing you all the best.
You can get something like a 5TB external drive for like, $100. I have 3 of them, two hooked into my TV one filled with movies one filled with TV shows the other not usable right now cause my mother lost the damn power cable, and I have 2 portable 2TB external drives that I use as a backup for all my stuff. I back up everything to one, then duplicate the backup drive to the secondary in case something happens to one of them, then I still have all my data.
SyncToy can help with this a lot too by syncing stuff automatically for you, and skipping anything that hasn't changed.
Can help you set this up sometime if you need any assistance with it, then you'll never lose data again.
I've actually had several internal drives die in the past and I found a way to recover most of what was on them with a Linux LiveCD recovery method. I've almost never lost any data to a failing drive (and now I only use SSDs because they don't die all the fking time).
So lemme know if you need any help and I may have some ideas and such.
Reminds me that I should really back up my old PC, given that 2020’s still got a few weeks left, and you never know...
Do you need a backup drive? I highly recommend one.
If some don't open in SAI or have weird artifacts, maybe you can screenshot 'em and then trace over the screenshot? I've had to do that when I've lost the source files to works but still had a JPEG/PNG wip of them D:
Get yourself a reasonable desktop. I'm not saying spend thousands on a desktop. Just something reasonable middle grounds will get you really far. Even upgrading graphics cards isn't that expensive when sticking with middle ground parts.
If you're not knowledgeable, there are lots of articles online on how to do it, like this one -- https://www.howtogeek.com/268249/ho.....xternal-drive/
Or maybe a friend or family member could do it.