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My 24 hrs comic. Large Dump!
Xavi
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You guys might not be familiar with it, but the 24 Hour Comics Event is a challenge done across the world on a particular day. As you can imagine the whole idea is to draw a 24 page comic book in .. 24 hours. Al by yourself obviously. The local Comic Book shop will usually host the event and provide tables and food (if theyre cool)
For me, I had heard of this a long time ago but never thought myself capable of doing it. This year, a group of us from work figured wed try our luck, at least its more entertaining if youre gonna do it with friends, you know? The challenge started at 10 am on Saturday and ended today at 10 am, Sunday. I averaged about 45 minutes a page and holy shit am I tired. My hand and neck are completely numb, the longest breaks I took were 15 or so minutes and I barely ate.
But, I got done!
For me, I had heard of this a long time ago but never thought myself capable of doing it. This year, a group of us from work figured wed try our luck, at least its more entertaining if youre gonna do it with friends, you know? The challenge started at 10 am on Saturday and ended today at 10 am, Sunday. I averaged about 45 minutes a page and holy shit am I tired. My hand and neck are completely numb, the longest breaks I took were 15 or so minutes and I barely ate.
But, I got done!
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From a writer's standpoint, I'm assuming this is a pre-fab story you had kickin around in your head and this is the culminatation to a greater goal? Or was this also off the top of your head?
What about storyboards? Thought up ahead of time or play as you go?
I love the seen where the troll is falling from the sky and hits the ground a big BOOM kind of way, reminds me of Ninja Scroll the first episode. It looks awsome how the smoke is rushing off his face. The only real problem I can see is how you show action, or movment, some scenes its spot on, others I understand what happend it just doesn't looke like it has happend, one is where Sabin gets punced in the face, good, but you show right at contact. It would be nice to see him fly back a little, or if you still want that contact, show it at a different angle of his face.
But really dude. FUCKING AWSOME!
If I absolutely had to critique something, it would have been the shot where the troll's foot is coming down on the main character's face. It just seems a little flat and out of place among so many other dynamic shots. Just my two cents on that, you'd be lucky to get that kind of work out of me in a week!
In the second panel . . . the little sign that says "DEATH!" Those little touches make me happy.
For having cranked it out so fast your story telling and layouts are very nice even when some tiny problems with the characters looks pop up. I think you could afford to add some backgrounds to the more sparse minimalist panels since the thing is over and done with but I certaintly hope to see more and good luck carrying on.
Vez >>> thanks a lot! I was trying to be judicious and not work on pages in a sequence. First I did page 1, then jumped to page 12, then page 24. That way it made sure that I wouldnt get bored AND that the quality would be consistent
Celestial >>> I started thinking about the story a couple of hours before the event. The main two characters though, Ive drawn them before a bunch of times. By the time I started I knew what the beginning middle and end were, but the rest I just made up as I went
Pious >>> yep, youre right its too bad I had to ignore flaws like that in order to keep on an hourly schedle. Thanks for noticing though
edmangoodrich >>> again, I agree. I put that shot like that to give some comedic relief within the action, so im getting positive and negative comments because of it. Thanks for the input!
Mr. Inkswitch >>> those little touches make the insanity go away some
King Cobra >>> thanks!
multimoog >>> yeah, I think the guiys hair and jaw changes, on average, every 3 panels
Antibodies >>> well im not gonna touch these pages anymore per se, just to keep the integrity of the project BUT I am ging to redo this story with all the details I want to add (ie: BACKGROUNDS) Very glad to hear you liked it!
Again, thanks all for the great input!