Post by Amelius on Sept 5, 2013 2:56:19 GMT -5
Here I'll answer any questions you might have on the nature of this re-drawing of my archives.
What is it?
I'm sure you all pretty much figured out from the name what it is! I'm re-drawing the archives to update the art.
Why?
Because we want to print things eventually! Also, i made a big mistake gutting the story for one-shots like I did, so I get to re-introduce the stories that were cut, and answer questions in the actual narrative instead of author's note and long-buried forum threads.
Will you throw out the gag-pages?
No, but yes, a little. These were originally peppered throughout my archives in the "first draft" of 2002-2003's comics. I moved that all to the front end because I originally intended only my gag pages to be online, and I had some high-hopes that I was getting into print right away. Not with my lack of art skill I wasn't! But by the time that dawned on me, it was a little too late to bring that story back in. Gag pages will likely go in their original order. There's the old archives where I've preserved these pages on the site for people who loved those one-shots still. I'm planning for the most part that these would be end of chapter pages when these get wrapped up for print/pdf, and I'll focus more on the story, plot, and actually introducing characters instead of having them materialize suddenly without explanation!
What else is changing?
Well, there will be chapters for one! I can't do much about the pages I have on the site already, but there will be chapter covers as well. Ongoing webcomics do make it a little hard to break things up into chapters because there is sometimes no clear cutoff, but books might just end up having more or less pages for each one, or break off arbitrarily at the max page counts, i dunno! That's a bridge we'll cross when we come to it!
Another big change is I'll have to drop the two crossovers I did. They were fun, but I'm not really sure if I could consider them entirely cannon even though I did drop major plot points in them, but the stories they were adapted and modified from in the original draft did the same thing so I'll be redoing the story as it was originally presented (except, y'know, better, because my first draft had some pretty stupid moments in it!)
After all, I can't do a crossover in print the same way it operates in webcomics, and that's only one of the complications!
Fear not though, all this new material is not going to major-retcon stuff. If there's anything I dislike, it's when new work that is supposed to precede later, older works contradicts itself. Everything "new" you'll see in revamped is stuff I'd established a long time ago in the background but never had the chance to really share. The amount of stuff I have not yet shared is ridiculous! An you'll finally get to see some of it! ;D
Isn't that a lot of work? Won't it effect regular CTV's updates...
Not any more than it has been for the past year or so as I've tried to build a buffer! I'm using slightly altered methods to produce Revamped, and work on multiple pages at once. Even if I'm picky about wanting the quality to still be good, I'm a little more relaxed than on my stuff I'm updating on the other end. I don't want TOO much of a visual backslide when it connects again with the ongoing arc!
Any other questions that I have not covered are welcome!
What is it?
I'm sure you all pretty much figured out from the name what it is! I'm re-drawing the archives to update the art.
Why?
Because we want to print things eventually! Also, i made a big mistake gutting the story for one-shots like I did, so I get to re-introduce the stories that were cut, and answer questions in the actual narrative instead of author's note and long-buried forum threads.
Will you throw out the gag-pages?
No, but yes, a little. These were originally peppered throughout my archives in the "first draft" of 2002-2003's comics. I moved that all to the front end because I originally intended only my gag pages to be online, and I had some high-hopes that I was getting into print right away. Not with my lack of art skill I wasn't! But by the time that dawned on me, it was a little too late to bring that story back in. Gag pages will likely go in their original order. There's the old archives where I've preserved these pages on the site for people who loved those one-shots still. I'm planning for the most part that these would be end of chapter pages when these get wrapped up for print/pdf, and I'll focus more on the story, plot, and actually introducing characters instead of having them materialize suddenly without explanation!
What else is changing?
Well, there will be chapters for one! I can't do much about the pages I have on the site already, but there will be chapter covers as well. Ongoing webcomics do make it a little hard to break things up into chapters because there is sometimes no clear cutoff, but books might just end up having more or less pages for each one, or break off arbitrarily at the max page counts, i dunno! That's a bridge we'll cross when we come to it!
Another big change is I'll have to drop the two crossovers I did. They were fun, but I'm not really sure if I could consider them entirely cannon even though I did drop major plot points in them, but the stories they were adapted and modified from in the original draft did the same thing so I'll be redoing the story as it was originally presented (except, y'know, better, because my first draft had some pretty stupid moments in it!)
After all, I can't do a crossover in print the same way it operates in webcomics, and that's only one of the complications!
Fear not though, all this new material is not going to major-retcon stuff. If there's anything I dislike, it's when new work that is supposed to precede later, older works contradicts itself. Everything "new" you'll see in revamped is stuff I'd established a long time ago in the background but never had the chance to really share. The amount of stuff I have not yet shared is ridiculous! An you'll finally get to see some of it! ;D
Isn't that a lot of work? Won't it effect regular CTV's updates...
Not any more than it has been for the past year or so as I've tried to build a buffer! I'm using slightly altered methods to produce Revamped, and work on multiple pages at once. Even if I'm picky about wanting the quality to still be good, I'm a little more relaxed than on my stuff I'm updating on the other end. I don't want TOO much of a visual backslide when it connects again with the ongoing arc!
Any other questions that I have not covered are welcome!
Ah, my sleep schedule is worse than my updating schedule! I've had to resort to sleeping pills some nights just so I don't waste hours attempting to sleep! I am nocturnal unfortunately, and get my best work done when the sun's down, but then on the weekend I miss out on all the fun stuff that only happens when the sun's up. I'm an insomniac on the one hand, on the other, I get anxiety so bad my mind keeps thinking about upsetting things so I've got adrenaline surges when I'm trying to relax. However, since I have no social life outside the internet (and all my pals i used to hang out with are in another state) if I'm not working on something I'm probably wasting time! Where I will find time to beat a backlog of videogames I've got on hold is the bigger question to me, for sleep is a fruitless effort!
Maybe even a little bit of what he was doing before he met up with the cabin gang too? I will just have to make sure I left myself enough room to put it all back in!