It goes without saying that these are very stressful and mentally draining times. With the information overload, worries about health and finances and the overwhelming, ever present anxiety about what the next day has in store, looking after your mental health is more important than ever. So here are some ...
Taking care of your mental health
Emma_Clare at 12:00AM, March 20, 2020An Unexpected Pause.
kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, March 16, 2020
At around ten o’clock on Friday morning, I was refreshing my email box for any messages from the boss regarding the status on whether we were required to report to work the following week. There was no word sent from the higher ups that was being trickled down.
Thirty ...
QUACKCAST 469 - The cartoons that date us and Discord
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, March 10, 2020 LISTEN on our new player!
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We're talking about the cartoons that made us! This was inspired by kawaiidaigakusei's newspost from last week about Daria. Daria was a really cool cartoon ...
When the Plot is Too Busy
Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, Feb. 22, 2020
The plot is the spine of your story, the scaffolding upon which everything will be placed in order to create a full experience for the audience to immerse themselves in- be it a movie or a comic or a novel.
Just like the spine, however, there is a limit to ...
The Challenge of Obeying The Rules
Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, Feb. 8, 2020
Rules are meant to be bent, or broken.
Of course they are- if it's a one time thing. If it happens all the time, the stakes collapse, the story comes apart, and the experience is ruined. I'm talking about stories, of course…
As we've talked about time ...
The Icons - Jughead
Banes at 12:00AM, Feb. 6, 2020
I'm not sure who the first fictional character was that I became attached to. The Cat in the Hat? Superman or Batman? Animal from the Muppets? Oscar the Grouch?
In any case, Jughead Jones was somewhere in that very early group of beloved characters. I liked Archie, and envied ...
QUACKCAST 464 - The current digital art landscape
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, Feb. 4, 2020 LISTEN on our new player!
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I recently had to upgrade my main computer because Windows isn't supporting Windows 7 any longer and I don't want to install Windows 10 on ...
QUACKCAST 463 - Sexposition is not a new thing
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, Jan. 28, 2020 LISTEN on our new player!
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Sexpostion is sex plus exposition, it's exposition with sex on the screen. Tantz Aerine addressed the topic of sexposition in an article last year, but what ...
QUACKCAST 462 - Jessica Schab, Studio animation, Guru, sceptic, leader
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, Jan. 21, 2020 LISTEN on our new player!
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Today we have a special guest! Jessica Schab. Jessica works for Mainframe entertainment in Canada, one of THE premier digital animation companies! Before things like Pixar they ...
Comic Creating Apps versus Hand Drawing
kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, Jan. 20, 2020
A few years back, a comic app called Bit Strips was very popular on social media. It was a cut-and-paste type of comic creator that allowed an easy way to design a character and create stories or comics featuring the creator’s likeness. BitStrips was popular on social media or ...