Mars
And yeah, one of the key differences between Fei’s world and ours is that Mars is kind of, uh. Blown up.
And yeah, one of the key differences between Fei’s world and ours is that Mars is kind of, uh. Blown up.
Pretty much as soon as I submitted Fei, I began to start doing work on fleshing out the world she came from, not the least of which because I would not allow myself to keep her backstory as just “moon’s[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
One of the things that I found really fun about the tournament format was how it enforced character arcs and growth in ways that weren’t entirely set in stone from the beginning. For example, Fei was originally conceived as far[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
So I redid my entire workflow, and developed a new coloring method I nicknamed “fauxnochrome” (or more accurately a modified trichromatic colorscheme) in order to streamline things; this ended up being based partly on the night lighting in the first[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This matchup, naturally, filled me with an insane, primordial panic. Not only was I up against one of the most ridiculously talented artists in round one, the round two gimmick was now “battle royale,” in which all hell has broken[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
At the end of every two week round, there is a period of public voting. A very important thing to note is that these polls don’t actually determine the winner; Abbadon is still sole judge and in a few matches[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
And so here is the first of what is going to become kind of a lot of friendship endings. You can also read my competitor’s comic here, it’s quite good.
One thing to note by the way is that I draw in Adobe Flash rather than, y’know, an actually reasonable art program. This is pretty much entirely due to professional inertia from using Flash for about 17 years now, but[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This next bit is important: most of the original 64 entered Round one blind; aside from submission comics (and those were optional so some contestants did not have anything more than a character sheet and a quick blurb), most of[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
For most of the round, the singular thought running through my head was “is 8 pages going to be too excessive?” and used the time I had to streamline the story and carve out some pages. This ultimately I think[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…