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Episode 262 - DUCK Radio 3

Mar 14, 2016

tags: Banes, DrunkDuck, D.U.C.K. Radio3, DUCK radio special 3, featured comic, Gunwallace, Gunwallace music special, Ozoneocean, Pitface, podcast, QUACKCAST 262, Satan Ninja 198X, Tantz Aerine, Webcomics community

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WELCOME to the final part of the Radio D.U.C.K. trilogy! This is where we put all the rest of Gunwallace's amazing songs AND a special treat for you as well listeners: Jimmy's Folly. Our radio DJs have gone just a little crazy this time… the brutish, hard rocking Jimmy Storm, demonic Anastasia Ravendale, and dried up old Rhet Blanket battle it out over the on air turf in the strangest way possible… BRINGING THE THUNDER! Gunwallace's amazing comic themes meanwhile are just as juicy as ever.

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Topics and Show Notes

Episode 259 - Drawing Crowd Scenes

Feb 22, 2016

tags: Banes, by Gunwallace, Drawing Crowd Scenes, featured comic, Gunwallace, kawaiidaigakusei, music for Phineus Magician for Hire, Ozoneocean, Pitface, podcast, Quackcast 259, Tantz Aerine, The weird adventures of Armless Amy, Video

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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 257 - Accents in Comics

Feb 8, 2016

tags: and different Languages in Comics, Banes, by Gunwallace, Drunk Duck, featured comic, Gunwallace, kawaiidaigakusei, music for Aidana, Normal, Ozoneocean, Pitface, podcast, Quackcast 257, Showing Accents, Tantz Aerine, Video, Webcomics community

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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

tags: Banes, by Gunwallace, Drunk Duck, featured comic, Gunwallace, music for The Understanding, Ozoneocean, Pitface, podcast, Quackcast 256, Using and creating weapons in fiction, Video, Webcomics community, XTIN

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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 252 - Wish Fulfilment

Jan 4, 2016

tags: Banes, by Gunwallace, Drunk Duck, featured comic, Gunwallace, music for Professor Herbert and GEO, Ozoneocean, Pitface, podcast, Professor Herbert and GEO, Quackcast 252, Tantz Aerine, Video, Webcomics community, Wish Fulfilment

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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

Episode 251 - Year end Christmas wrap up

Dec 28, 2015

tags: Banes, by Gunwallace, Drunk Duck, featured comic, Gunwallace, kawaiidaigakusei, music for Willgun's Dragonet, Ozoneocean, Pitface, podcast, Quackcast 251, SWALLOW Vamps in the Big City, Tantz Aerine, Video, Webcomics community, Year end Christmas wrap up

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Merry Christmas and a Happy new year!!! For Quackcast 251 we have a year end wrap-up episode. Tantz Aerine and Pitface join Banes and I to talk about the year as it was, what happened with DD, comicing, and what movies we're looking forward too!- Star Wa… ZOOLANDER! Yes, Zoolander 2, it better not be a disappointment. Gunwallace's theme this week was for Dragonet! A very sober and majestic sounding piece, like a royal funeral march.

Episode 249 - Bad Drawing advice!

Dec 14, 2015

tags: Bad Drawing advice!, Banes, by Gunwallace, Drunk Duck, featured comic Two Hearts, Gunwallace, kawaiidaigakusei, music for Caggage, Ozoneocean, Pitface, podcast, Quackcast 249, Tantz Aerine, Video, Webcomics community

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All too often we try to give out GOOD drawing advice and USEFUL tips on how to do art. Well that all changes here: this time professors Ozoneocean, Tantz Aerine, Banes, and Pitface (our throbbing Head of department), come together to tell you the very worst ways to produce artwork, with the help of a few of our contributors. The advice will help you to become the most horrible artist ever. Gunwallace's theme this week is a creepy sounding classical piece for the creepy classic comic Caggage!

Episode 246 - Characters: Fictional Love vs Real Life Hate

Nov 23, 2015

tags: Banes, by Gunwallace, Characters Fictional Love, Drunk Duck, featured comic Apothecary Supreme, Gunwallace, kawaiidaigakusei, music for Jesus 2016, Ozoneocean, Pitface, podcast, Quackcast 246, Real Life Hate, Tantz Aerine, Webcomics community

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Characters you would love in media but hate in real life! In this Quackcast, once again we have an ensemble cast of Banes, Ozone, Pitface, and Tantz Aerine, but THIS time we were also joined by the talented and studious kawaiidaigakusei! We wanted to talk about fictional characters we love in fiction but would hate if they were real. It was sort of an extension of last week's Quackcast topic, with that fiction VS reality vibe. Gunwallace's gospel themed theme for Jesus 2016 is hilariously great!