largento Posted August 23, 2009 Author Posted August 23, 2009 Thanks, David! I went through and finished up re-lighting and beefing up the backgrounds for the strips I've done so far. I set up a webpage here with all of them, so I can see 'em in one place and mark my progress! Quote
largento Posted August 25, 2009 Author Posted August 25, 2009 Whew! This one was a lot tougher to do! I set it up as one choreography and I'd kind of been dreading it for awhile, but I liked this gag and wanted to see it finished. This was the first strip I came up with when I started thinking about the story. Here it is: And here's the actual render: I made a png file of the panel template and brought that into A:M as a layer to help me set it up so that everything would fall correctly in the panels. Quote
MJL Posted August 25, 2009 Posted August 25, 2009 Great Gag!!!!! When Greyhawk enters the strip does he bring a One-eyed, One-horned Flying Purple People Eater? Quote
largento Posted August 25, 2009 Author Posted August 25, 2009 Thanks, guys! Don't think I wouldn't consider that gag, Myron. :-) The next few strips are gonna' be a breeze compared to this one. :-) Quote
Paul Forwood Posted August 25, 2009 Posted August 25, 2009 Arrgh! This all looks mighty fine and ship shape, me 'arty! Quote
KenH Posted August 25, 2009 Posted August 25, 2009 Looks great. I'm a little confused as to why the witch doctor rolls on the ground. Does Flemm pull him too hard? And although he goes over Flemm, he's still ends up landing behind him. But maybe time has gone by. Quote
largento Posted August 25, 2009 Author Posted August 25, 2009 Thank you, gentlemen! Ken, there's a hitching post at waist level that Flemm has dragged the Doc into ...so he's spinning around that and then being launched from the spin into the bell and wooden sign. Flemm must have continued walking during this and thus ended up where he did. Admittedly it's cartoon physics. :-) Quote
HomeSlice Posted August 25, 2009 Posted August 25, 2009 Oh, he tripped over a hitching post ... I didn't see that. I thought he just tripped or lost his balance or something. Quote
Hash Fellow robcat2075 Posted August 25, 2009 Hash Fellow Posted August 25, 2009 the blue hitching post in blue light is really hard to pick out against the blue wall. Quote
largento Posted August 25, 2009 Author Posted August 25, 2009 I don't know, I think the contrast is fine. I just think it's a tricky thing to read and the coverage of the panel precludes trying to give a dialogue explanation. I dub it successful in what it needs to get across... that Flemm has unintentionally given Doc Bokor cause to curse him. Whether people think he tripped on something or get the actual intention isn't important. Quote
largento Posted August 27, 2009 Author Posted August 27, 2009 Ended up working on other things yesterday and running errands, so today I made up for it by doing 2 strips! Finally the sun's back out! :-) I've got one more I written then I have to go back and write the next batch. Quote
NancyGormezano Posted August 27, 2009 Posted August 27, 2009 Aha!...the aliens caused the eclipse! ... no? ...well, they shoulda... (jes' messin' with ya) You one major cranking machine, you are. Is your partner helping with the ideas or is this mainly on your own? Quote
largento Posted August 27, 2009 Author Posted August 27, 2009 Aha!...the aliens caused the eclipse! ... no? ...well, they shoulda... (jes' messin' with ya) You one major cranking machine, you are. Is your partner helping with the ideas or is this mainly on your own? Hoping to become the major cranking machine, Nancy! Even though I'm trying to have 10 week buffer when it starts running, I'm still going to need to crank out 5 of these each week for ...well, forever. :-) Before we knew I was going to do the art in 3D, I started working out the basic story. Then a few weeks back, McCrary flew out here and we spent a couple of days talking out more of the details for this and another story we're working on. The process varies, but usually we're doing a video iChat to discuss the next section of the story, suggesting gags; and then I'm going and writing up 5 or so strips and then sending them to McCrary to review and make suggestions. Then I try to marry all that together into the final strips. So, there's definitely some back and forth. Quote
largento Posted August 27, 2009 Author Posted August 27, 2009 Strip #10! Four days and four strips! Not going to be able to do one tomorrow, though. I've got to write the next batch of scripts and there's some things I need for this next section that aren't finished yet. It'll be historic, though! Flemm's about to buy The Sea Anemone! Quote
apprentice Posted September 5, 2009 Posted September 5, 2009 Good job, Mark! The comics look appealing. The night scenes looked a tad too dark for me. I'm wondering why didn't you use a different color fill light? Quote
largento Posted September 5, 2009 Author Posted September 5, 2009 Thanks, guys! Andy, I don't know that I'm entirely satisfied with them myself. I may yet mess with them again before they go online in December! As I recall, this set up had a white rimlight, a sort of lavender colored keylight and a light blue fill. I'm just glad I don't have any more night scenes planned for this story! :-) Quote
largento Posted September 8, 2009 Author Posted September 8, 2009 And another one! Trying to make up for lost time! Quote
KenH Posted September 8, 2009 Posted September 8, 2009 Wow....you're motoring now! Tell me, is the sales man...den den den..... actually Mr Sneeze? I've never seen them in the same strip together. The last cell is unusual in that the speaker has their back turned. I don't know if I've ever seen that before. Quote
largento Posted September 8, 2009 Author Posted September 8, 2009 Wow....you're motoring now! Tell me, is the sales man...den den den..... actually Mr Sneeze? I've never seen them in the same strip together. The last cell is unusual in that the speaker has their back turned. I don't know if I've ever seen that before. No, the bookseller is not Mr. Sneeze.... He's Henrietta! :-) Quote
apprentice Posted September 8, 2009 Posted September 8, 2009 Oh well, Flemm's learning his first lesson in bartering Quote
largento Posted September 8, 2009 Author Posted September 8, 2009 I wouldn't count on Flemm ever learning. He doesn't seem to recognize that there are people who would take advantage of him. :-) Only one strip today. My allergies have been making me miserable all day... Quote
largento Posted September 9, 2009 Author Posted September 9, 2009 I have to do some writing before I get into doing today's strips. I'm hoping to get 2 done today! But, I wanted to ask for your help! Trying to get votes for the webcomic on this Top Web Comics site. I discovered the comic was listed on it last week and it was in the 5,000s. I've been trying to get people to vote and with just 20 votes, we're already up to 501. Hoping we can make it up into the top 100! Click here to vote! Thanks! The site lets you vote once a day, so if you do happen to go to read the comic, look for the little blue "TWC" button underneath the comic (on the right side) and vote each time. It resets every month, so as many people as I can get to vote regularly, the better! Hoping to build up some awareness! I'm going to do a little Webcomics convention here in November and I saw something about it somewhere and the quote I read was "it was a bunch of webcomics you've never heard of." Not exactly ego-boosting. :-) Quote
largento Posted September 10, 2009 Author Posted September 10, 2009 #14! Working on #15, but probably won't finish it tonight... Quote
mtpeak2 Posted September 10, 2009 Posted September 10, 2009 I voted too. They're looking great Mark. Quote
HomeSlice Posted September 10, 2009 Posted September 10, 2009 voted twice now. Largento, is there any way you can put the vote link in your signature so it will be easy to click on in the future? [edit] Dude, you're at 357! Keep up the guerrilla marketing Maybe have some simple contest every month. Some security would have to be set up, but here is a simple idea. Place a page on your web site that has a simple form with an email field, and an iframe that loads your voting page on topwebcomics in it. Every time someone goes to your site, enters their email address and votes (through the iframe), their email address either gets sent to you or gets stored in a database. Every month, run a script that chooses a random email address from the list. The winner gets an original signed panel from the Wannabe Pirates suitable for collecting sent to them via snail mail. The more times someone votes (maximum of once per day of course), the more times their email address gets added to the list and so they have a greater chance of winning. Quote
largento Posted September 10, 2009 Author Posted September 10, 2009 Thanks, guys! voted twice now. Largento, is there any way you can put the vote link in your signature so it will be easy to click on in the future? I think I can ...that's a great idea! Finished up #15 today. This will probably be the last one for this week. I need to write a new batch and do some modeling! Quote
KenH Posted September 10, 2009 Posted September 10, 2009 Loving the strips. I voted but it's not that accessible. In the last strip, shouldn't "What's say" be "What say"? And what does the 4-015 mean in the third slide? Quote
largento Posted September 10, 2009 Author Posted September 10, 2009 Thanks, Ken! You're right ...need to fix that! All of the strips have identifying codes. First number is story number and second is strip #. So this one is the 15th strip of the 4th story. Quote
largento Posted September 10, 2009 Author Posted September 10, 2009 Thanks, Paul! Just realized that I missed the 2 year anniversary. :-) I started this thread on September 1st, 2007! Doesn't seem like it's been that long! Quote
largento Posted September 12, 2009 Author Posted September 12, 2009 I was supposed to be writing the next five strips and lettering five more Greyhawk pages, but I put that off until tomorrow to play with this! I decided to make a one-off poster that I could get framed and put on my wall. Wal-Mart charges less than $16 for a 20"x30" print... I may play with it some more, but I think it came out pretty cool! When I get everything done with this Curse of Greyhawk Island story, I think I'll do a "movie" poster for it, too! Quote
Hash Fellow robcat2075 Posted September 12, 2009 Hash Fellow Posted September 12, 2009 Great design. My one crit would be the guy in the striped shirt is getting lost. You could crouch him down more to clear the sword overlapping him. Quote
largento Posted September 12, 2009 Author Posted September 12, 2009 Thanks, guys! I do appreciate it! Gonna' check on file info to send this poster off to print! Hopefully I can find a cheap frame while I'm at it! I'm realizing that the last time I made a poster for myself was when I was in high school. :-) Everything since then has been for somebody else! It feels good to do one just for me! :-) Quote
Gerry Posted September 13, 2009 Posted September 13, 2009 Hey Mark, just voted! That poster looks great! Quote
KenH Posted September 13, 2009 Posted September 13, 2009 I'm voting too. So much can be done with just one vote! I'm always getting the "voting icon" the right way up for some reason. Quote
largento Posted September 13, 2009 Author Posted September 13, 2009 You guys are awesome, thanks! Quote
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