Just like the table scene, the dance scene can be an invaluable story telling tool: a way to showcase where your characters stand without having to force them to speak about it or have someone else infodump about it.

This stance can be on the characters that dance (i.e ...

A friend of mine, many years ago, showed me a cartoon that was fascinating, funny, and horrifying. In my memory, it was the first anime I'd ever seen. I'd forgotten most of it over the years, and would try to find it once every so often, without knowing ...

Hi Drunk Duck,

In 2015, the Drunk Duck Fashion Forum had their first fashion and interview competition called #Pageant 1.

In January 2018, we began promoting #Pageant 2, and we'd love you to be a part of it! However, if a character of yours can't participate as a ...

Cassidy is a sleepy wolf who does nothing all day. He never really gets into trouble because he just doesn't DO much anyway. All that changes in the blink of an eye when his front door is bashed in and he's attacked by two dogs claiming that he ...

A discussion at twitter (you should be there! If you haven’t looked for @Drunkduck you should, add DD and you’ll be added back!) brought to my attention a very subtle but very aesthetically and narratively pleasing element that, when we take the time as artists to factor it ...

A thread in the forum by JillyFoo on Net Neutrality has inspired this newspost.

I did some cursory research on it on the issue of how repealing it might affect artists- indie artists, like most of us are as webcomic creators and DD contributors.
According to Rolling Stone repealing it ...

Kim Luster’s The Good Walker webcomic is what inspired me to write this newspost about dreams.
Depicting a character’s dreams in a story is a very powerful and useful tool! Especially when it comes to visual narratives, such as webcomics and movies, a dream sequence can communicate to ...

Mirror, Mirror,
On the wall,
One webcomic site?
Or do I do them all?

Nowadays there are a plethora of options available to creators and the question is no longer where to post your work, but how many websites should you feature it on? Do you opt in for exclusivity ...

One reason why the movie Psycho is so iconic is, aside the expert directing and artistic cinematography, the fact that the one we’re led to believe is the main character of the movie gets brutally killed in the shower quite early into the movie.

What did killing her off ...

Cheat, cheat, no reason to play fair…(the Clash)

Years ago, when I did my first animation and posted it online, looking for attention like always, there was one comment that made me defensive, annoyed, and eventually, thoughtful.

I had no idea about animation timing or any of the little ...