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In this Quackcast we chat about the categorisation of work by specific genres and how it makes it easier to promote your work to people, while for fans it makes it easier to find what you're into, but it can also be a bad thing when people categorise ...
Quackcast 375 - Categories, genres and rants
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, May 22, 2018It’s the Mileage
Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, Feb. 3, 2018
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 ...
Quackcast 359 - The Covershow
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, Jan. 30, 2018 LISTEN!
Covers are a very important part of books and comics! They entice us to pick them up and read them, they encourage us to BUY them. But how much are they really needed for webcomics? You hardly ever look at the front cover and what you really want in ...
Easy and Tough
Banes at 12:00AM, Jan. 11, 2018An old movie called Sullivan's Travels is about Sullivan (natch), a film director who makes successful but shallow comedy movies. He wants to abandon these efforts and do a more serious project about the plight of the downtrodden.
After some wild adventures posing as a hobo, Sullivan experiences some ...
Quackcast 345 - Horror no horror
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, Oct. 24, 2017 LISTEN!
- Cover image from horror short Little Matthew
Does a horror film without the horror still make sense? If it does then it's probably a really good film… that's what we're talking about in this Halloween themed month! The idea was based on a recent newspost by ...
Character Development and a Captivating Storyline OR Stunning Graphics?
kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, Sept. 25, 2017
Above: Final Fantasy IX (2000) by Squaresoft. Below: Final Fantasy XIII (2010) by SquareEnix.
One of the main influences of my art style comes from the Final Fantasy video games of the late 1990s and early 2000s. I remembered being mesmerized by the full orchestrated score by Nobuo Uematsu, I ...