The world of Masks is similar to our own but differs in a crucial way, that would be the existence of superheros. We're introduced to high-speed action as superhero Flick battles a burning super villain with fiery powers. Despite the vicious nature of the battle you expect things to ...
Quackcast 645 - AI-cast
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, July 25, 2023 LISTEN on our player!
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We're chatting about the current state of AI, it's use, abuse, and the moronic way it's typically being utalised by mid-level businesses to screw over creative people and save money in the short term ...
Quackcast 595 - Oversold to the Moon!
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, Aug. 9, 2022 LISTEN on our new player!
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How do you describe your work to sell it to people? Writing blurbs is a real skill! You generally have to avoid doing these four things: Underselling ...
The Early Nineties Obsession with Radioactive TV Shows
kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, July 19, 2021
Photo: Attack of the Killer Tomatoes TV Series (1990)
A click of the remote would tune into mutant turtles riding a pizza shooter while commercials for Nickelodeon Gak and Floam consumed the screen. It was a real zany time to grow up in the early nineties thanks to the creative ...
Follow the Yellow Brick Layout
damehelsing at 12:00AM, June 20, 2021
Last week, errrrrrrrr… the week before that, I talked about frames, the magical use of frames, the emotion you can give them, the shapes, sizes, how that can all add to the story you’re telling.
Kind of like how music can really be important in movies, it just gives ...
Archetypes Through a Psych Lens: Social Cognitivism
Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, April 3, 2021
So now we got Behaviorism down, we're ready to talk about the Social Cognitive perspective to how human personality develops!
This is one of the major approaches to Theories of Personality, and a perfect example of how psychology theorists build one off the other to develop perspectives and add ...
Lo-Fi Chill Beats for Creativity
kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, March 8, 2021
Low-Fidelity (Lo-Fi) Chill-bop Music has played a crucial role over the last year in my ability to calm down and feel at ease. Originally used as background music while doing homework or as a sleep aid, Lo-Fi music has been around for a while. The idea is that it layers ...
The Art of the Conversation
kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, June 1, 2020
Understanding the importance of the dialogue between two characters (or an internal monologue) is crucial for writing conversations in comics. It is true that comics are written differently than real world conversations because it removes a lot of the idiosyncrasies that happen in real-time conversations. However, learning to apply techniques ...
All is Lost
Banes at 12:00AM, April 30, 2020
I've talked many times about story structure. Even with a structural approach, there are a lot of questions to be answered, struggles to be had, and hard thinking to be done to make a story work.
One big moment that I like thinking about early in the writing is ...