You're watching the main character do their thing, and it's all smooth sailing, when another character comes in the room and sparks fly. You expect them to, and if written well, you look forward to each scene that has them both.
That other character is the foil.
The ...
The Foil
Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, May 15, 2021Building the stakes
Emma_Clare at 12:00AM, April 2, 2021
Not long ago, I wrote about utilising cliffhangers. This week it’s all about them stakes. When it comes to creating a comic, it is important to give a reason for the reader to care about it. Stakes are a pivotal part of that. Cutscene University explains what stakes are ...
Star Trek Economics
Banes at 12:00AM, Feb. 4, 2021
I just finished a rewatch of The Mandalorian series and one of the things I thought about was the vicious profiteering and scramble for money (or ‘credits’, or valuable metals or what have you) that indicates what kind of economy is at work in that show.
Granted, so far we ...
QUACKCAST 510 - STUFF WE SPEND OUT MONEY ON
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, Dec. 22, 2020 LISTEN on our new player!
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This is the time of year you typically spend your money on other people… but we wanted to talk about what we spend our money on when ...
QUACKCAST 506 - The fightcast
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, Nov. 24, 2020 LISTEN on our new player!
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Today we chat about fight scenes! This was spurred by a post in our forums about how bad fight choreography can spoil a film. Our Patron vid ...
Telling Stories in Order to Close the Gap on Social Distance
kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, Oct. 19, 2020
Inktober 2020 (October 18) Submission. “Trap” by Andreas_Helixfinger. Traditionally drawn with pencil and inked with fine liners and brush.
A freshly drawn picture for the “TRAP” Inktober theme on this corresponding day of Oktober 18th. A scene of my comic anti-heroine Molly Lusc at a museum, trying to steal a ...
I Hope John Connor Already Exists in 2020
kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, Sept. 21, 2020
Seven months into this new reality and coming to terms with this idea that the world is becoming more digital is a lot to wrap my mind around. Just last week when I reported (in-person) at my job, I overheard a conversation about a person who had shown up to ...
QUACKCAST 493 - Use existing IP to explore new things?
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, Aug. 25, 2020 LISTEN on our new player!
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First up… HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO TANTZ!
This Quackcast is about the topic of whether it's right to change an established character just to fit with the ...