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by oBe » May 26th, 2007, 21:40
Alrighty then. Some fine ass ranting coming your way peoples. Sit down and have a drink.
For years I've been been pondering about and sketching up a character and doing something with it, be it an animation, videogame or, what I've come to decide upon, a comic. Over time I've been working on a story, basically creating a consistent web around graphically interesting developments. It'll be a collage of literature, videogames, the drug induced surreality, arty fartyness, fantasy, fairy tales, horror, up to classic superherostuff and the likes. What I'm doing now is trying to fill the wholes between what I want to see happening.
Now, you may recognise alot familiar features, of which I can assure you they're not crucial to the story in anyway. I see these things as homages, rather than stealing. You may recognise alot Spawn, Soul Reaver, hell, even Spiderman. There's alot more then that. Basically, I'm an aesthetic spunge that absorbs everything along it's path and churns out recycled material in a different fashion.
I'm quite exciting to start on this, but I find myself being numbed by seemingly trivial details. Like names, clothes, etc. I need to name a character, but I'm afraid I might change opinion after a while. And clothes is ridiculously important as well, as I don't intend to hide gadgets in utility belts. So, seeing I can't spend fully devote my time to this, I'd have to think years ahead in these details. For example, he wears a skullshaped hockeymask, and I find myself feeling compelled to explain everything, but I'm not sure if all that is necessairy. Also, how the hell would I explain the origin of such an item?
Another silly setback is the medium. I'm seriously considering making this a webcomic, as a way to force myself to keep it consistent and it also opens up a few possibilities I'd like to experiment with, specifically, because I want to play with the medium (animated comics anyone?). But that'll require building one of them sites with scrolling through archive functions, a guestbook or forum might be nice as well, but alas, I posses no knowledge of these matters.
I'm also not too confident in the drawings. My teachers always advise against me drawing figures, they have done so for the last five years, which is on itself quite traumatic. Then again, I don't really have a problem with going Rage against the machine, as I've been doing that the last five years as well. I never said I was smart. I don't really have what you call a figurative style in these matters. I just try to draw everything realistly. This is most noticably in the little robot, whose proportions should be more comically, (it's a toy-robot) and that's where I fail hard. His role is clear in my mind, but again I can't decide on his design either.
So, anyone got any
- insights in my technical issues?
- feedback on the creative aspect?
- hints, suggestions, interesting links?
- free subscriptions to pr0nsites?
I'll take anything.
Also, why the hell does my µtorrent give me 'file blah blah, file could not be opened because it's used by another program' errors all the time? It's not used by another program, you stupid bitch!
There, I just made good for a year's worth of not Posty posting.