Quackcast 719 - Merry Christmas!

Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, Dec. 24, 2024

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Happy Christmas eve! In this penultimate Quackcast of the year we decided to have a free day and just chat about any subject that interested us at the time. Next week will be our final cast of ...


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FEATURED COMIC -->Tweezen

Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, Dec. 18, 2024



Two crafty bounty-hunters are stuck in a fantasy land chasing after a figure that seemingly can't be caught. These two chaps are wiley, smart, and violent! Their prey had better watch out. This is a fantasy adventure comic with a touch of humour and action, and more than a ...

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Not Because it is Easy, but Because it is Hard

Banes at 12:00AM, Dec. 12, 2024



In our Quackcast about Non-Linear storytelling this week, I had a tangent of a thought about the value of difficult or challenging fiction as opposed to stories that are easier to understand.

An unusual structure to a story can be challenging to understand, but if it's done well, the ...



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Quackcast 716 - Identify with characters?

Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, Dec. 3, 2024

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Is it important to Identify with characters? This question occurred to me as I was watching a rather banal sitcom, Rules of Engagement. I love two of the stars, David Spade and Patrick Warburton, but it's ...


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Infatuation

Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, Nov. 30, 2024



How do you make a clever character stupid?

You give them an infatuation. A fixation. Something that completely overrides their critical thinking and better judgment. Something that drives them nuts like a switch is thrown.

And when that happens, they're dumber than a bag of rocks. (And they're ...





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Exhaustion is a character beat

Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, Nov. 23, 2024



So I'm exhausted.

A ton of things I'm juggling in real life plus emotional baggage plus stuff I'm doing online plus art = exhausted Tantz.

And because my brain refuses to focus on anything else, I thought I'd talk about how using exhaustion can be a cool ...





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Quackcast 713 - Gunwallace, Master Composer

Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, Nov. 12, 2024

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Today we have onboard with us our resident theme maker, our classic composer and musical genius! He does all the DD comic inspired themes that regularly appear on the Quackcast and has done so for the last ...


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Video, Prose, and Comics

Banes at 12:00AM, Nov. 7, 2024



The telling of stories, in a big way, is about working emotions. A major reason stories have the power they do is that the great ones wring emotions out of us, and take us through some kind of emotional journey.

In a movie or TV show, things are different than ...



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Character Deep Dive: Robin Sinclair

Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, Nov. 2, 2024




Today’s character deep dive is on Robin Sinclair, the main catalyst of everything taking place in the supernatural comedy drama that is Blessed Days by Inky Moondrop!

Blessed Days is the story of a young woman that unexpectedly becomes a mom and must handle raising a child- that’s ...




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Panel By Panel: 'Phantom Force 3000' and Pushing the Craft

hpkomic at 3:11PM, Nov. 1, 2024



Hello, everyone, and welcome to Panel by Panel, a periodic exploration of comic panels around The Duck.

This week we're looking at another comic by user HawkAndFloAdventures, who has become one of the most prolific creators on the site, grinding out comic after comic. it's very admirable and ...



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