*couple months of silence later*
...Dammit!
I seriously need to make updating a habit. So! After handing in a very un-academic sounding dissertation on webcomics, I'm almost free of college forever! One final handin for the project realisation, and I'll be done. It's a shame that after having such a great foundation year doing actual animation this year's been tons and tons of writing, and I can't say I've enjoyed it all that much. The course seems rigged in such a way that your actual artstuff doesn't matter - just so long as you happen to be good at writing, you'll be fine. Doesn't seem right to me.
Had a fun time staying at my friend's house for the last couple days, and though we tried to work, we mostly ended up glued to the Xbox playing Portal 2 and the most addictive sheep game - the bloody thing suits its name. I declared war on one of the final levels in super sheep mode, but now I'll have to forever live in shame knowing I couldn't even come close to beating it.
My webcomic's still been coming along fairly nicely, though I obviously stopped posting about it here. I blame that very same friend - she's nervous about copyright and she set me off being nervous. Curse you! I don't really think that (especially at this point) my artstuff's even worth stealing, but when you love something, you can never be too careful. Right..?
I do have a new webcomic to recommend, actually. I've gotten quite attached to this one!
The fantasy adventure comic 'Leylines' by Robin Dempsey (see the first page here!: http://leylinescomic.com/archive/cover-everything-is-fine/ )
At first I wasn't all too sure about this one; the art style didn't initially mesh with me, but it's really grown on me since. It has an odd elegance to it, particularly in later pages where the line art becomes heavier. It almost reminds me of the art style used in 'The Prince of Egypt', the Dreamworks film. (It's a brilliant film. See it if you can!)
The artist has put an absolute ton of work into the story, characters and worldbuilding. I think that was probably one of the biggest hooks for me - it's hard not to like how much passion is going into it. She's recorded vocals for the characters names and speech, songs, she's done their cultural dances, the world map, religions, just a ton. I guess I find it inspiring.
The story follows three royal siblings as they try to unravel the conspiracy that took their mother's life, and now threatens their lives. The first is Tama, a kind hearted joker who's also (unfortunately?) faced with being the heir to the throne. Then there's Mizha, Tama's biological sister, who's struggling to come to terms with her mother's death (and who also possesses some brilliant dream magic) and last but not least is Zhiro, their adopted sibling, who's a shadow monk serving the dark god Dream Eater. And Dream Eater is a badass.
Uh... okay, I'll go find something nice to wear. Will this be a flowers-and-cake type wedding, or a darkness-and-chanting type? Because that's a whole 'nother outfit...
(Mini-note! Not entirely sure if I'm allowed to put that up here... should probably ask about that... but if I need to take it down, I will do!)
I'm sure I had more to blabber about, but I just got caught up having to put stuff on eBay and it's drained my brain with the sheer boredom. That, and having the person I was helping shouting at me for ages - it's not my fault that when you sell a vehicle you have a lot of fields to fill in, okay? OH MAH GAWD, STUP SHOUTIN AT THE BACK OF ME HEAD.
Until next time, whichever month/year/decade that may be!
At first I wasn't all too sure about this one; the art style didn't initially mesh with me, but it's really grown on me since. It has an odd elegance to it, particularly in later pages where the line art becomes heavier. It almost reminds me of the art style used in 'The Prince of Egypt', the Dreamworks film. (It's a brilliant film. See it if you can!)
The artist has put an absolute ton of work into the story, characters and worldbuilding. I think that was probably one of the biggest hooks for me - it's hard not to like how much passion is going into it. She's recorded vocals for the characters names and speech, songs, she's done their cultural dances, the world map, religions, just a ton. I guess I find it inspiring.
The story follows three royal siblings as they try to unravel the conspiracy that took their mother's life, and now threatens their lives. The first is Tama, a kind hearted joker who's also (unfortunately?) faced with being the heir to the throne. Then there's Mizha, Tama's biological sister, who's struggling to come to terms with her mother's death (and who also possesses some brilliant dream magic) and last but not least is Zhiro, their adopted sibling, who's a shadow monk serving the dark god Dream Eater. And Dream Eater is a badass.
Uh... okay, I'll go find something nice to wear. Will this be a flowers-and-cake type wedding, or a darkness-and-chanting type? Because that's a whole 'nother outfit...
(Mini-note! Not entirely sure if I'm allowed to put that up here... should probably ask about that... but if I need to take it down, I will do!)
I'm sure I had more to blabber about, but I just got caught up having to put stuff on eBay and it's drained my brain with the sheer boredom. That, and having the person I was helping shouting at me for ages - it's not my fault that when you sell a vehicle you have a lot of fields to fill in, okay? OH MAH GAWD, STUP SHOUTIN AT THE BACK OF ME HEAD.
Until next time, whichever month/year/decade that may be!
