CHARACTER SHAPES
I've never consciously designed characters this way, but I recently remembered hearing about this notion some time ago, on the dvd special features for an animated something-or-other.
Characters derived from basic shapes can give a very strong impression of their basic personality type. This can help the ...
Do You See the Kind of Shape I'm In?
Banes at 12:00AM, Sept. 24, 2015Quackcast 196 - The Sidekick-cast
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, Dec. 9, 2014 LISTEN!
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The topic of the Quackcast was inspired by Kawaiidaigakusei's Thoughtful newspost article “An Ode to Sidekicks” that examined the varied subject of The Sidekick. She was inspired by Geoff Peterson, the much loved animated skeleton on the Craig Ferguson show and she went on to examine some ...
QUACKCAST 167 - Anatomy of a Villain
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, May 20, 2014
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Today we talk about villians! Kawaiidaigakusei made a newspost about villains that generated quite a bit of interest so Banes and I had her on to chat about them and read out some of the things our community members had to say.
Kawaii can introduce the topic in ...
FRIDAY NEWSPOST - Heroes Alliance!
HippieVan at 12:00AM, May 9, 2014
Abt_Nihil was the winner of my Easter contest, so here is his well-earned plug for Heroes Alliance!
From Abt_Nihil:
"Heroes Alliance, dd's long-running superhero crossover community project, started its 9th chapter yesterday! In this new chapter, the Alliance has to stop a Zombie outbreak in Darwin, Australia, and meets ...
Let's Talk About Villains
kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, May 5, 2014
I used to take the side of the cheerful, positive, and heroic protagonist in films and comics when I was much younger. As I got older, I wised up to the idea that being a protagonist is relative to biases of the storyteller. Now I rewatch those same films with ...
QUACKCAST 156 - The Abt Nihil and Pit Face bottomless Hero Alliance
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, March 4, 2014 LISTEN!
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Today we welcome a dastardly new bad guy alliance between three powerful super villains of Duck City: Ozone Evil, Pit Dastardly, and Abt Destruction! In their pirate lair aboard the bottomless pirate ship, the trio revel in their shared passion for bottomlessnessnessnessitude. Abt and Pit go on to ...
QUACKCAST 154 - Abandoned Webcomics Nostalgia
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, Feb. 18, 2014 LISTEN!
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It's one of the great tragedies of webcomics the way ‘real life’ so often gets in the way of our comic work. This Quackcast was inspired by HippieVan's newspost about webcomics that disappeared into the atmosphere or deadended into nowhere… Hippie joins Ozone and Banes to ...