#stage & scripted

[you-know-cchio]

my favorite type of scene is when all four of them are onstage but two of them are having a conversation for the audience to hear and the other two are silently stagecrafting whatever they want.

bonus: luke playing two characters at once while the other three play ping pong in the background

[stump-not-found]

more excerpts from comiccc yay lalala

[captainmaxatx]

Hugh Jackman is gonna keep playing Wolverine because Ryan is gonna keep asking him and he’s not gonna say no

[dragonskulls]

some character concepts + finalized refs for a small comic im planning 😁

[indelen]

The way this adaptation hit all the big lore and plot points but also made time for the tiniest details that spoke so much about the characters was honestly so great to see, the show creators obviously had so much understanding and respect for the original source material, which is so rare nowadays.

[charmac]

Sunny doesn’t have a New Years episode I can spam about today, so instead I’m sharing the cold open I wrote for my idea as to how the Gang do New Year's Resolutions:

In essence, my idea is that the Gang do Resolutions by writing down something that's either achievable by them (or something they would like to do) that's difficult to achieve (or would be seen as unpleasant to do) by every other member of the Gang. They draw the "resolutions" at random, so there's a chance they get their own and have fun with it, but obviously there is a greater chance that they get tasked with someone else's. They draw at midday and only have until midnight to complete their resolution, or they face public humiliation by every other member of the Gang.

[heretherebeturtles-comic]

How long does the process take you to get one (or more) comic page done? I love the idea of making comics but i suck at structure, you know with the script and posting/layout. I was wondering if you had any tips or what you wish you knew before you started.?

Sorry if this had been asked before

OOOooooo a fun question for me!! I love talking about comic creation :D

I do my best to keep the full process under 2 days (or 12-14 hours of work) per fully coloured page. I'm trying to get faster, but speed comes with time and experience.

Hmmm as for tips and things I wish I knew... so many things... I should let it be known that I am an artist and not really a writer, but your questions are focused on script/planning/structure, so I'm going to focus the advice on that.

Start with something small - Learn about making comics and find a comfortable style through making a couple smaller comics and then try your passion project. Writing and planning smaller comics with fewer pages takes a different kind of puzzle solving and thought process. Smaller page limits can force you to try new things which you can then apply to larger projects to save time; limitations breed creativity after all. Every attempt made (even an unfinished project) is knowledge gained that you can apply again for future projects.

Study comics! - It's hard to create if you aren't feeding the mind and giving it things to learn and create from. Read comics made by professionals and study how they handle pacing. How many pages are they dedicating to each moment? What do you think of their pacing and what would you change? Take a sketchbook and make small rectangles and draw out the panel layout from that comic. What are they doing that works and what don't you like about it? How would you do that differently? ... I think this is me assigning homework... i am so sorry.

Set a hard page limit - Try to get your story told within that limit, and then add more pages if necessary. More pages = more time you have to spend working on it. Most standard single issue American comics are roughly 24 pages. I try to work inside that limit using a rough 5 page per scene structure.

Condense or Cut - I struggle so hard with this one, but comics aren't written in the same way as a novel is. They have a slightly different plot structure and a much more limited amount of pages to tell the story in. Obviously it depends on the story being told, and what kind of scenes are important to that genre of story, but in general, unnecessary scenes should be cut out. examples...

CUT! Having the characters go out to get ice cream is cute, but you don't need to show them each ordering their ice cream unless the flavour they choose is an important plot point. Skip to the last one receiving their ice cream and turning to the others who already have theirs and are having that deep discussion. OR skip that scene entirely and have a quiet panel of them sitting in the park at sunset, already holding their ice cream, before delving into the deep emotional conversation they will be having.

CONDENSE! You can combine two scenes if you need to. If you have one scene where two characters are having a casual conversation and another where they are sneaking into a building? Stick them together. They can sneak AND talk and now you've only used up 5 pages instead of 10.

Comics take a LONG TIME to make!! - you have to make peace with that _(:Ⅰ」∠)_ Comics, especially full colour ones, are an extremely labour intensive and time consuming way of telling a story. If one page takes 1 day (8 hrs of work) and you have 24 pages, that is 24 days of working on one comic.

Thumbnails! - Draw the pages small and rough first! It's easier to plan things and mess around with the layouts when you don't have an emotional attachment to how the art inside looks. Once you have a layout you like, you can then draw it again in full page size and work on it from there.

Page and panel layouts are my favourite part of the whole process, I could talk forever about it, but I do not have the energy for it right now. I'll save panel/page layout for another time.

It doesn't have to be perfect!!! - IT DOESN'T HAVE TO BE PERFECT!!!! (shouted with excitement btw). Panels can be boring! A page can be extremely simple! The art can be messy! The dialog can be simple! The plot can go nowhere! In fact it is really really fun to make a messy imperfect comic on purpose. Destroy the perfectionist in you, because they will always and forever hold you back from actually creating things. "what if it's bad?" what if it's fun? what if you learn cool things?

Anyway, those are my tips/advice, idk if I actually answered what you were asking... sorry about all the time commitment ones, that is something I really wish I had figured out a few years ago lol.

Comics are fun to make and a lot of learning how to make them is just jumping in, encountering a problem, and then learning how to solve it.

[juniemunie]

"Why am I still doing this?"

"Don't you get it?"

"This is all just a show... and we're playing parts~"

[lexxieannie]

thinking about how the first person simon calls out to when having a fit is ralph…like we canonically know that jack and the other choir members have been there multiple times when he faints/seizes (and at least some of them try to help him) and yet he yells out for help to the boy he just met meaning ralph is prolly the only one he rlly trusts and feels safe around and likely didn’t have anyone pre island given he didn’t even speak out when he was about to collapse in chapter one in this essay i

[mangosaurus]

a little late sharing this but DreamWorksTV asked the cast and executive producers of JWCT what their favorite JP/JW moments are 🦕 lots of great answers here!

[shirozora-draws]

This entire chapter was so hard to write AND draw... until you grasp that one thought and pull hard on it. Envisioning Nevarro like you're a gunslinger, an outlaw, wandering into a town clinging to the frontier really helped me crawl past artist's block.

My second thought after "guess I know what scene to conceptualize" was "Kendrick Lamar in the 'Humble' mv" and when when I dove into Shotdeck's archives for "beam of light", the very first image was from Kendrick Lamar's Humble mv. Are you shitting me.

I think I could've done more to emphasize how alone Din is in this chapter, but I may have played it too safe with the setting and that put limits on my ideas of what feelings I wanted to capture. Still think I nailed it, though.

I'm so excited for the next chapter, though. I sat on how I want to write and draw it for almost as long as I sat on how I wanted to write and draw chapter 7, so hopefully I'll have a much better time with that one.

[secondarysefikura]

The party decides that they should come up with a plan to distract Sephiroth while their trying to get the black materia, and after discussing a few ideas on exactly their supposed distract Sephiroth, Cloud sarcastically says that he could just wear a dress, lay seductively on the ground, and something like how he wishes his husband would come and care for him. And everyone thinks that’s a great idea, and Cloud wishes he kept his mouth closed.

A couple of hours later the party hears Cloud’s bloodcurdling screams in the distance, and that’s their sign that the plan worked.

Cloud, dryly reading from a script: Oh no, here I am in the middle of nowhere, feeling so alone. If only there was a big strong man who could come and take care of me.

Sephiroth, appearing out of nowhere: Alone, you say?

Cloud: What the fuck-

Sephiroth: Don't stop now, keep going.

Cloud, sighing as he continues to read: If only I had someone like a husband to look after me. Then I would no longer be in distress and I would give my husband a--*looks at script with disgust, making a note to himself to slap whoever wrote this for him*--I would give my husband a big kiss as a thank you.

Sephiroth: Very well, I suppose I will help you, since you're offering to give me a "big kiss as a thank you." *picks Cloud up bridal style and flys away with him*

Cloud: *terrified but also very angry screaming*

[project-sekai-facts]

The text on the book in Tsukasa's trained Star Melody 4* card is a translation of the opening lines of the Pianist Named Torpe play from On the stage of dazzling light. It is slightly different from the official English translation later provided by Hatsune Miku: Colorful Stage.

[coffeegnomee]

Mapicc overheard Zam talking about the minecarts under the tree trap?!!?! Actually scripted (/j) holy moly we don't deserve such beautiful content.

It was the one and ONLY time Zam ever talked about making a trap this season. And Mapicc freaking caught it on video. Actual work of art.

[ingravinoveritas]

I mean...

[akkivee]

KUUKOU DOES THE HAYAMA SPIN 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭