Episode 260 - D.U.C.K. Radio1
Feb 29, 2016
Welcome to D.U.C.K. Radio! Get ready for your DJs: Smooth Ramone, Hard rock Jimmy Storm (BRINING THE THUNDER!!!), Weatherman Rhet Blanket, Conspiracy theorist Smiley Fraudson, and hilarious* Maple and The Syrup (*they're not funny). This is the first part of Radio DUCK, we're bringing you ALL of the fantastic themes Gunwallace has composed for many great webcomics. You got a small, tiny, insignificant taste little taste of it in Quackcast 258, now be prepared to take the FULL blast! 29 of Gunwallace's classic themes in this cast and two more casts to go to get the rest so stay tuned. Gunwallace radio - All great music all the time!
Topics and Show Notes
Topics and shownotes
Featured comic:
Drunk Duck 54 cards community project - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/Drunk_Duck_54_cards/
Links:
Get your OWN Gunwallace created theme by helping out DD - http://igg.me/at/DrunkDuck
All Gunwallace's projects on DD - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/user/Gunwallace/
Gunwallace's homesite! - http://www.virtuallycomics.com
Track list:
Entanglement - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/Entanglement/
Pegwarmers - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/Pegwarmers/
The Temple at Fifty Fathoms - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/The_Temple_at_Fifty_Fathoms/
Andee Candy - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/Andee_Candy/
PUTRID MEAT - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/PUTRID_MEAT/
Barbarian Adventure - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/BARBARIAN_ADVENTURE/
Demon Eater - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/Demon_Eater/
The Understanding - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/The_Understanding/
JustAnotherDay - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/JustAnotherDay/
May the Rain Come - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/May_the_Rain_Come/
Smorty Smythe - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/The_Dragon_Fists_of_Smorty_Smythe/
ATHENA SCULPTURE - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/ATHENA_SCULPTURE/
Ginger and Shadow - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/Ginger_and_Shadow/
Lite bites - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/Lite_bites/
Albert the Alien - http://albertthealien.com/
FOX Academy - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/FOX_Academy_The_New_Breed/
All Unicorns to Battle Stations - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/All_Unicorns_to_Battle_Stations/
Throviria - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/Throviria/
X UP - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/X_UP/
The Flower and The Nose - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/The_Flower_and_The_Nose/
Inappropriate Irving - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/Inappropriate_Irving/
ANTI FEATURED - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/ANTI_FEATURED/
Joe Pop - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/Joe_Pop/
Everyone Laughs at the Crocodile Man
Caggage - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/Caggage/
Dead Leon - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/Leon/
Duck and Quail - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/Duck_and_Quail/
Regarding Dandelions - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/Regarding_Dandelions/
Journey man - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/Journey_Man/
Special thanks to:
Gunwallace - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/user/Gunwallace/
Banes - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/user/Banes/
- See more at: http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/news/2016/feb/29/quackcast-260-duck-radio1/
Episode 259 - Drawing Crowd Scenes
Feb 22, 2016
Crowd scenes of any sort can be horrible to draw. There are many, many reasons for this, one of them is that it's quite boring to invent a whole lot of new character models just for the purpose of making a group scene. My own way of combating that problem was to do cameos of other characters that I stole from my fellow Quackcasters, Banes, Pitface and Tantz. There are many other tricks and clever ways of managing crows though which you can hear bout in the Quackcast or see us talk about in the Quackcast video. Gunwallace's theme for Phineus Magician for Hire is VERY Sword and Sorcery! It reminded me a little of the famous music to the first (and best), Conan film, and brought to mind the writing of Fritz Leiber.
Episode 258 - Gunwallace music special
Feb 15, 2016
We have a special treat this time! Gunwallace is our guest and he's brought with him 15 of his fave tracks that he created as themes for DD webcomics. For two years Gunwallace has been creating fantastic musical themes for webcomics, the total is now over 90! He, Banes and I chat about the background behind the tracks, there are some interesting stories, and the music is awesome! Gunwallace is the author of many great comics and a contributor to even more as a writer, such as the Drunk Duck Plays. We hope you enjoy his 15 tracks as well as the 5 bonus ones picked out by me, Ozoneocean, including the theme to Valentine's Dei in honour of the day we recorded on. If you want your own theme by Gunwallace, help up by contributing to our Indiegogo campaign and pick it up as a perk!
Episode 257 - Accents in Comics
Feb 8, 2016
Using accents and different languages in comics can be a challenge, or at least a challenge to represent. Some people will actually have their text IN a different language or even a made up language in the case of aliens, and they'll have translations in a footnote. Some will use pointed brackets to represent the different language, some will use different fonts, and some won't bother showing that there is a different language being spoken at all. We spoke to Tantz Aerine and Pitface about this because that's something they both have to tackle in Brave Resistance and Tantz's solo comic Without Moonlight because it's very central to the plot: Tantz uses different colours for the languages. Pitface phonetically represents different accents in her comic Putrid Meat quite expertly. However, there can be challenges to phonetic representation when you get it wrong, most frequently in the case of Irish and Scottish accents! This was inspired by a newspost by Hippievan! Listen ad enjoy Gunwallace's audio interpretation of Aidana. VERY Pink Floyd!
Episode 256 - Using and creating weapons in fiction
Feb 1, 2016
Tantz Aerine, Banes and Ozoneocean discuss the topic of using and creating weapons in fiction and some of the pitfalls involved- all the things you can easily do wrong and do better! Stuff like using overly specialised weapons in too general a role, like giant swords where they'd be next to useless, or tricked out assault rifles with way too many things hooked onto them so they're oversized and weight a ton- also copying ideas and tropes about weapons usage without understanding why the exist and in the process making many of the same mistakes as others have in the past.
Episode 255 - Drunk Duck Improvement Drive
Jan 25, 2016
We're trying to fix up Drunk Duck, adding the the comic statistics back in, fixing forums, adding notifications to PQs and MORE, but we need money to do it. In this Quackcast, Ozoneocean, Banes, and Pitface talk about the improvements we want to have on DD, and what YOU can do to help us out. Please consider donating to our Indiegogo fund-raising drive to help us pay our programmer: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/drunk-duck-webcomics-improvement-drive/x/4410947#/ There are a LOT of cool perks you can have including your own Quackcast interview all about YOU, original art from The creator of Modest Medusa, Charby the Vampirate and others, a 126 page Modest Medusa comic for only $10 and much more! If you can't spare any change, please consider spreading the word to your readers. Remember, these fixes are for everyone, by donating to DD you're helping yourself. :D
Episode 253 - narrative order and the flashback
Jan 11, 2016
Doing stories that start with the climax, then flash back, tell what happened to get there: the old narrative style of switching the first few chapters around to make a more interesting story. Sometimes it works GREAT because it throws you right into the middle of things and you have to work your way back to that point… It works very nicely in The Hangover for example! Often it's used very badly- in anime particularly, where they use it for foreshadowing and a tease to try and get you interested in the rest of the story- but anime story structure is so formulaic that all it really does is give you a cheap spoiler. Other times it doesn't work well is when the writer isn't very good so the viewer loses their way in the plot… If the writer is GOOD though you end up with Pulp Fiction. You'll love Gunwallace's theme here- a super funky jazz track for the comic Nothing Important Happened Today. Enjoy!
Episode 252 - Wish Fulfilment
Jan 4, 2016
Happy new year! In this first Quackcast for 2016 we have Banes, Pitface and Tantz Aerine along to talk to us about Banes' neswpost topic of Wish Fulfilment in writing. It can be a good thing in that it makes the writer more interested and passionate about what they're doing as well as creating a very relatable ideal for readers with similar tastes. The negative side is that they make their world too perfect and too specific to themselves so that the whole thing just looks like an exercise in boring, pointless ego stroking. Gunwallace's theme this time was for Professor Herbert and GEO, which was also the featured comic! It sounds a bit like the theme to an '80s cartoon, which exactly what the comic looks like it should be O_o
