A narrative theme can be described as the core meaning or message behind your story. It serves to tell your audience what your story is about as well laying groundwork for its context. Establishing the core theme early can help you keep your comic grounded and focused as you begin ...
Grounding your comic with theme
Emma_Clare at 12:00AM, July 3, 2020DD Red Carpet 2020
Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, June 27, 2020
The DD Awards are here again, thanks to the wonderful Niccea!
And that means that together with this year's DD Awards, we also are having the DD Red Carpet event again!
The DD Awards are more or less the equivalent of Oscar Night for Drunk Duck, and so we ...
QUACKCAST 484 - Background styles
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, June 23, 2020 LISTEN on our new player!
Listen on Stitcher - https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/drunkduck-quackcast
Or TuneinRadio - https://tunein.com/podcasts/Books–Literature/Drunkduck-Quackcast-p1150194/
Backgrounds are part of a choice you make about to best show off your characters and how to present your comic. Plain white backgrounds aren't a ...
A Character's Free Will
Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, June 20, 2020
Whether we have free will or not is a philosophical, existential and psychological conundrum that will forever tease and challenge us. While I can't speak for philosophers, I can for psychologists:
Behaviorists will tell you it doesn't exist (look up Skinner); Cognitive behaviorists will tell you it's ...
Using 3D Art to Create Comics by Genejoke part 4
Banes at 12:00AM, June 18, 2020
This is the final part of Genejoke's epic on creating 3D Comics. The articles accompany his new video tutorials
The Video - Part 4:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDNn40Xewik
Part 4
Da finale
Lighting and rendering.
This will be the final part as there are definite limits to ...
2020 Drunk Duck Awards: Now Accepting FYC Submissions AND Trophy Designs
kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, June 15, 2020
The Drunk Duck Awards are accepting For Your Consideration (FYC) submissions.
I want to know how you characters have been coping over the past year. What did they do last year in lieu of the awards (we didn't have them last year)? Or do they have their own tips ...
Writing More Than You Know
Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, June 13, 2020
We're all aware of the classic tennet for writers and creators of all stories- write what you know in order for the story to be good.
We've explored before what it means to write what you know, and where this rule should be adhered to: at the core ...
Using 3D Art to Create Comics by Genejoke part 3
Banes at 12:00AM, June 11, 2020
Welcome back to the 3D Comics-making series by Genejoke. These tutorials accompany the new video
version that he created.
Video Tutorial Part 3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJO3ehav02E
BUILDING SETS
Another huge and time consuming aspect of making 3D comics is set building and it should definitely factor ...
Second Guessing Yourself
Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, June 6, 2020
Constructing a story is a work of high creativity and love. Enthusiasm and personal interest in it are required if the story is to have quality and engagement, be unique and full of personality. While writing we look forward to certain scenes or sequences that we expect to have special ...