Emotional Charges and Diminishing Returns
Many writing methodologies suggest mapping out the emotional change of each scene. The scene either starts positive, and goes to either negative or “extra positive”, or starts negative and goes to positive or “extra negative” by the end of the scene.
So if a lovelorn ...
Diminishing Returns
Banes at 12:00AM, Dec. 15, 2016QUACKCAST 283 - Writing Dialogue pt1
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, Aug. 9, 2016 LISTEN!
Art by Ozoneocean
Dialogue is a key part of any comic, it pushes the story along, keys the reader in on things that would be otherwise ambiguous, hints and foreshadows at future happenings, creates humour… well, it's just a big part of comics, that's all! And that ...
Quackcast 275 - Layouts, what to do and what not
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, June 14, 2016 LISTEN!
Art by Ozoneocean
The topic this week was ALL Banes' idea! We talk about page layout: techniques to make a good, readable layout, and stuff to avoid. We have Tantz Aerine (greetings), Banes, and myself, Ozoneocean, chatting about how best to do page layouts, at least from our own ...
Quackcast 236 - The Songcast/Drunkcast
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, Sept. 15, 2015 LISTEN!
Pitface, Banes, Tantz Aerine and Ozoneocean reunited for a repeat of the legendary Drunkcast of Quackcast 137! Almost exactly 100 Quackcasts later we hit the booze again, but this time we had a goal to pursue with our drunken ramblings: music. We decided to talk about what themes inspire ...
Quackcast 218 - Sexy and attractive characters, Part 2
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, May 12, 2015 LISTEN!
Image by Ozoneocean
Content:
Once again we're chatting about just WHAT makes characters sexy and or attractive. The sexy Banes and Ozoneocean are joined by two attractive ladies, PitFace and Tantz Aerine, so now we have even more insight into the topic! We discuss the topic with humour ...
QUACKCAST Episode 139 - Telling gender from comic styles
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, Oct. 29, 2013 LISTEN!
Content:
For Quackcast 139 Banes and I were joined by Kawaiidaigakusei who had an amazingly interesting subject to talk about:
“Telling Someone's Sex By the Way They Draw”, based partially on this old thread from the forums: http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/forum/topic/161694/.
Kawaiidaigakusei says:
This has ...
QUACKCAST Episode 137 - The Drunkcast, Part 1!
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, Aug. 13, 2013 LISTEN!
Summary:
Tantz Aerine, Pit Face and Banes join Ozoneocean for the Drunkcast! The theme of this week's Quackcast was four webcomicers getting drunk and chatting drunkenly about drinking, as a homage to our site's proud former moniker: Drunk Duck. Tantz even Quackcasted from a bar in Athens ...
QUACKCAST Episode 92 - Women, feminism, and webcomics with Noelle Dreves part 2
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, Aug. 28, 2012LISTEN!
Summary:
For the 92nd Quackcast we return we return to Australian heroine and flying ace Noelle Dreves and and international bon vivant and professional wine taster Skoolmunkee chatting with me about women in webcomics! This is the second part of the two-parter that began with Quackcast 90. We begin ...
Are you in San Diego? Do you like get-togethers at bars? There's one tonight!
skoolmunkee at 7:47AM, July 22, 2010When: 6-7pm tonight (Thursday)
Where: The Tipsy Crow (770 Fifth Ave, San Diego CA 92101)
Who: all DD members are welcome to come, as long as they're over the age of 21!
ozoneocean, Creepy Carly, some Wowio folks and the WowioTV guys will be there, they will be doing ...