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Larger Script Issues |
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| posted on 2003.02.08 around midnighuish by solstice |
Novella has never really had a script. At least, not in the
sense that is conventionally thought. Our so-called scripts have
only gone ahead a few episodes, and most are ignored or changed
significantly by the time an actual episode is put together.
That began to change this week.
I've finally convinced myself to stop for awhile and put
together a complete start-to-finish script. At the moment, I only
have outlines for some of the major events in the story -- most of
which are in chapter 4.
If I continue as I am with this project, it will ultimatly lead
to slipshod writing and drawing. Novella is a very
(personally) important story to me, and I'd be very disappointed
if it wasn't told with all due effort.
I hope this won't take longer then the month of Feburary.
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The Miki Revolution |
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| posted on 2003.01.30 around 09ish by solstice |
I had a wonderful idea for Miki's character earlier this week. It
has the possiblity of making her more dynamic as well as more
interesting, but it's not without problems.
The new idea clashes with some of the plot elements of the
current storyline. It will take me some time to resolve those
clashes in a way that improves the story.
On another note, I'll soon be posting a new piece of artwork
instead of a new strip. In addition to my illness this week, I
found out I have an exam on friday. I've been spending most of my
cognesent freetime finishing assignments and studying. Moreover,
I'm still unsure of myself for the next story arc.
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Vague-rency |
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| posted on 2003.01.27 around 09ish by solstice |
I've come to the conclusion I must have come down with something
this last week. It's been difficult to concentrate, and I haven't
been sleeping well either. So things have been a little slow this
last week.
I've also found it difficult to really become too concerned
with due dates and the like lately. Afterall, in about four
months, college will be over for me. No more homework, no more
after-class jobs that take up my project-time for DE... It isn't a
pleasent trade-off either, I need not mention the cliche about the
"real world".
The keenspace server -- where the mirror to our Novella
project is stored, had a hard-drive crash last week. Since (I
think) most visitors to that project go through keenspace, I'm
going to keep the current episode up for a little longer. And,
until this vague illness of mine is finished, new comics will be
postponed.
Sorry about this, but that's how it is.
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Novella 2.5 "Vessel
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| posted on 2003.01.18 around midnighuish by solstice |
This didn't take as long in terms of hours, but it certainly did
in terms of motivation. Most of these episodes were made under the
Winter Vacation Bubble, and now it's back to class.
So it was late. Instead of brating myself, I tried to push the
quality of my artwork a bit more. The sketch turned out to be one
of the best that I've done yet, but the shading seems to be
lacking. I have a vague idea of why, but whether to not I'll fix
it in the immeadate future or not is something I haven't decided.
More than anything, the slipping scheadule lately has given me
some time to think out how Novella is updated. There's
always been a story-arc stucture to the strip since the first
chapter, and yet, I post things epsisodically. It really seems
quite silly.
One comic that shares the same structure is Demonology
101. The solution there was to post all pages of the arc in
one grand post. The downside is there can sometimes be weeks (on
average 2) before the arc is posted.
Given the current time investment per episode of Novella
I would guess it would be almost 3 if not 4 weeks before I update
the thing. That's with college concidered. In a few short months
that too will be over. A real job might give me *more* free time
since it's not polluted by homework.
The advantage would certainly be directorial: I could actually
think of the entire arc as a whole, instead of individual pages
that make up a whole. Perhaps I'll even afford the time to
storyboard it first and catch potential errors there...
I'll think about this for awhile, email me with any
suggestions.
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Slipping to on-schedule |
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| posted on 2003.01.11 around 6ish by solstice |
The new episodes have been showing up "late", or at
least they have from my prespective. I suppose if you weren't
following closely, one might even think that I was updating
"early", and in that case, I'm not going to argue with
you. ^_~
I've moved back to my college apartment after spending over two
weeks at my parents house. Needless to say, this took the entire
day. A day that I could have spent drawing.
Since the comic was updated last thursday, this week it will
"slip" again to it's traditional friday.
To make up for it, I bring you Plastic Novella Action Figures,
with real Angst Action! Okay, just kidding...
Update: Make that a bit
later than friday, I forgot how difficult it is for me to actually
put together an episode over a weekend.
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