Shadow Major
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Current project: The Realm Wanderer
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Post by Shadow Major on Aug 29, 2011 2:06:26 GMT -5
This thread is not only intended for my purposes; anyone else feel free to use it. Anyway, if you want to start a webcomic, where should you start first?
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Post by PJCzar on Aug 30, 2011 17:46:40 GMT -5
write out the whole story as a book before i start drawing. thats what i would do. then once it is finished i would re-read it and draw the frames as i go scene to scene. this method is a lot like what they do for movies, what with a script first then the director comes on then the cast. i dont know if thats what you meant with your OP but that how i am answering it.
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Shadow Major
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Current project: The Realm Wanderer
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Post by Shadow Major on Aug 31, 2011 3:05:33 GMT -5
No, no, PJ, that's a very good answer and is in fact what I am doing at the moment. Thank you for sharing with us!
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Post by kokoroinc on Aug 21, 2012 20:56:45 GMT -5
My brother, who's much more digitally inclined than I am, began a blog to post the pages we make, one by one. I think it's just a simple google blogger site we use. Since both of us are professionals, we do this very part time for fun. So we're letting the story develop organically with a broad outline. My brother is the story one. I'm just his illustrator.
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Post by Caliber Mengsk on Aug 22, 2012 9:32:22 GMT -5
Most people tend to come up with the very well thought and exact story, but there are some that just go on a page by page basis, and others that have specific sections of stories (chapters or volumes) with an over arching goal. So, XD I kind of summarized what everyone else just said. Just like drawing, it's down to personal preference. If you are detail oriented, write out a script, and do story boarding, if you just want to draw a story, but have no clue where you want to go, then just do it.
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Post by polistiren on Sept 2, 2012 0:48:27 GMT -5
Hm, speaking from personal experience, going from page to page without any ideea where you're going is not the smartest move if you want an "epic" storyline(though it worked in Katsuhiro Otomo's Akira, but that's just an exception). It works if you're doing something episodic though(generaly gag mangas), where you have to remain as flexible as posible with the scenario since your readers are drawn in by that one chapter, not the overall story(as examples look for Kino's Journey, Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei or Mushishi).
If you write the whole thing from begining to end, then wouldn't it be better to just release it as a light novel, since that's what it is at that point. I don't know, I just don't see the point of doing double-work.
Having a general outline is the most convinient way for me. I know where the story is going, and I also have a little flexibility to alter cetain things if get a better ideea for a scene or development in a side plot(or even the main one).
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