SPC Fan-made serial comic

[vonhorz]

since im stuck to my sketchy way to draw i dont really need gimp...only if a decent outline is needed...however...i would like to participate as well...but its my final year(which means the same work plus final-exams within a 2 month shorter year) so it might be that i have to skip from time to time

[Razgrizblaze1]

since im stuck to my sketchy way to draw i dont really need gimp...only if a decent outline is needed...however...i would like to participate as well...but its my final year(which means the same work plus final-exams within a 2 month shorter year) so it might be that i have to skip from time to time

Well, we'll try and work a week for you when you're not so loaded. Try and let us know if such a time comes up once we get going.

[sans soul]

MSPaint can indeed be awesome. I used to mouse all my old works in it before all the big names in graphic software were created.

Anyway, I'm doing some promotion for the Impromanga on Deviantart. I'm posting in my journal and calling on all the SPC artists I know across the site. As of now, there are 10 confirmed artists, and more who are interested but undecided. I feel like if I had more information about it to throw around, it'd be easier to talk to people about it.

Does anyone want to agree on a set of guidelines for the comic pages and order of artists so that I can let everyone on dA know as well? I don't want to move forward on this until I know we're all in the same boat.

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[edit] link to my dA page w/ journal, and there's a few SPC doodles down the bottom in the comments ^^ http://astercrow.deviantart.com/

[Purrcat]

Uhh.. This is suddenly picking up steam. And I just brought it up since I wanted to see how the previous one fared and ended

Anyway, this might be a good time to think up some general plot. I'd say it'd be easiest to place the story somewhere within the general story arc of the series and make it a "monster of the week" episode. That might not be very ambitious, however there's plenty of room there to improvise a fun story around it. Now I don't suppose this is enough of a plot; a little more and it'd be a sound foundation.

If you all like the idea of a no-queue random artist selection for next week's page, I'll start programming it. I was thinking to interface it with the EE forum to prevent lots of nonsense registrations which could (would) mess up the system, however after reading Aster's post, I think it'd have to interface with both DeviantArt and the EE forum. So: you log in with your EE or DeviantArt credentials and are then able to register for next week's page.
I estimate it'd be a couple of days work to have it fully working, but it'd be a fun distraction from normal work. However, I'd love to know if you all do NOT like the idea since I'd rather work on fun distractions that actually get used

If you've already got 10 people interested (which is great btw!), a 20 page comic might be a bit on the short side. How about 30 pages?

[KageReneko]

It sounds great, I'm a bit rusty now and this would be a good way for practicing a bit...

[sans soul]

Monster-of-the-day-episode scenario seems perfectly fine to me.

I think we should probably find out how many artists want to be involved before we choose how many pages long it should be. Usually the shorter the better (because then it has a better chance of getting finished). Plus you never know if someone who said they will do it drops out, and others might not want to contribute more than one page.

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[edited so as not to double-post]

Nyanki has informed me that he has a few pages already drawn for a comic he was going to write. They don't have text yet, and he was wondering if he could contribute them to the Impromanga project if we wanted him to start it off. I told him that I would at least pass along what he said:

"Like I mentioned, it doesn't have the text yet, but I could have 6 pages ready to go pretty quick. First page as a sample.

http://www.deviantart.com/users/outgoing?http://img227.imagevenue.com/img.php?image=296471633_ts1_122_493lo.jpg

Basic plot is that Vi "has nothing to wear", so she hosts a fashion show with a prize for the winner, and Big Cheese enters. He wanted to model the clothes himself, but Jerry talks him into letting a special Ninja Crow robot designed to appeal to Vi be the model. The Pizza Cats show up to see what Cheese is up to. And that's about where I left off, so anyone can pick it up from there."

Maybe we could use one or two instead of all of them if you guys wanna go in that direction. But, I told him that we were were probably going to stick with the previous Impromanga's guidelines.

*shrug*

[Purrcat]

That's a very nice page! It'd probably be best to just use 1 page I suppose. Or all artists would have to create a few pages. Which is a fine format by me, but might be too much work for others. To be clear: I'm all for equality here.


Off-topic:
That "without text" gave me an idea.. Probably a bit to extreme to actually do, however here goes: there could be the 'drawing' impromanga project and a separate 'texting' project, where the pages produced by the drawing team, which would be without text, would be appended with text by the texting team. A double-impro manga so to speak. Very "SPC", however I think practically impossible to execute properly..

[Violet]

6 pages ready to go (almost ready at least), I say take it.  No one should feel obliged to draw more than one page, but if someone wants to do more, then by all means do not hold them back.  The more the better.

I do kind of like Purrcat's idea, of using the un-texted comic and letting other people add text, (sort of like TSW Deluxe) but, I have the feeling that unless it was coordinated very well it would just end up as a bunch random stuff and not really make a story.

[Purrcat]

Heh, sometimes I become too fixated about a detail; on second thought, allowing all participants to submit 1 or more pages is, of course, just fine.

[Tigriss]

Basic plot is that Vi "has nothing to wear", so she hosts a fashion show with a prize for the winner, and Big Cheese enters. He wanted to model the clothes himself, but Jerry talks him into letting a special Ninja Crow robot designed to appeal to Vi be the model. The Pizza Cats show up to see what Cheese is up to. And that's about where I left off, so anyone can pick it up from there."

That sounds pretty fun. If we're going to combine our project with this one, I've been thinking of ideas for the robot and came up with the name "MetroCrow 3000". I can't decide if it's too cheesy, or just cheesy enough as far as SPC is concerned.

I do kind of like Purrcat's idea, of using the un-texted comic and letting other people add text, (sort of like TSW Deluxe) but, I have the feeling that unless it was coordinated very well it would just end up as a bunch random stuff and not really make a story.

Yeah, that might get a little confusing, but it did give me an idea for a project separate from the Impromanga. It could be, like you mentioned, a "They Said What!?" caption contest, but with fanart. One person creates a short comic without text, people enter their ideas for what the text should be, and the winner gets their text added to the comic. How about that?

[Razgrizblaze1]

Alright, the entries have come to a grinding halt so I think we have our grand cast for the impromanga. They are...

Aster Crow
Romero Anchovy
Mechadon
NoName
Expresso
PizzaCat
SulanaJay
KageReneko
Von
Myself

So...I suppose we should move on to the next phase. Any luck with a script Purr?

[Purrcat]

I don't have DeviantArt and as such didn't register, but you can count me in also provide some art. I doubt I'm the last to say I'm in though.

But ehh to make something clear; somewhere along the way it got from hypothetical ideas that might make one more successful than the last (and I don't consider the last a failure; the community is fairly small) to something like "we can almost start drawing"

The message I tried to give off was "please expand the script a bit to make it enough to work with," not "I'm almost done with it," sorry if I wasn't clear about that. I've got time this week to create the site and registration stuff though, more on that on wednesday or thursday.

[Razgrizblaze1]

The message I tried to give off was "please expand the script a bit to make it enough to work with," not "I'm almost done with it," sorry if I wasn't clear about that. I've got time this week to create the site and registration stuff though, more on that on wednesday or thursday.

You're getting confused again Purr...by 'script' I mean a logic script for randomizing the artist selection.

[sans soul]

So we're adding InsaneCrayola to the list of artists as well, and Burkey is interested in contributing some writing. I told him that he collab with me for my page(s) since it's kind of hard to insert non-visual artists at this point without being speculative over the possibilities.

Are we gonna start with Nyanki's first 6 pages and go from there? That would definitely get the impromanga going and give a starting point story-wise.

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[Violet]

6 pages is a good start.  That would get things started and may get other people interested.

[Purrcat]

The site is almost done and ready to be shown, I expect to be able to link to it later today (it's a quarter past 8 in the morning here now). I'm not that much of a website designer, but I'd say it looks adequate enough to at least start out with.

[Purrcat]

When I said "almost done," I somehow forgot about Internet Explorer.... IE6 is really ancient history so I'm not supporting that, but IE7 might still be in wide use... It's crazy this thing read CSS so differently from any other browser, or well, compared to current browsers might be better put.
Anyway, head over to http://www.edoropolis.org/impromanga/. It still doesn't look like much, but considering most text and other elements at least overlaps the space I want them to occupy, it's a real improvement as it is.
I've disabled the ability to login for now; what's behind that isn't finished.
Also, the pages you see on that site now aren't going to be used in the real impromanga; it's just stuff I tested with.

DeviantArt blocked access to their login authentication stuff from edoropolis.org while I was testing (suppose I made too many logon attempts, maybe too many failed) and DeviantArt isn't providing tools to interface with them 'the right way' so I can't offer DeviantArt integration after all
You'll need an EE account to be able to participate. Is this a problem for anyone? The first time you login (disabled atm), the Impromanga will copy some info from your EE profile, for example your avatar so it can be shown alongside your contribution. If you've got a homepage, the location will be copied as well and a link to your site will show up in the Links section.

Anyway, please comment on the general setup of the site, it might be better layout yet. If you were going to say that it's ****-ugly, that's fine but also provide a complete set of images and all to replace the current theme with

[Someone who does Something]

Comic: I like where it's going, while the first page doesn't look drawn well, it sorta adds to the charm of it, and I like that.

Site: The site layout is OK, I wouldn't say great, but, it works well enough.

Anyway, I am of no use, and my brother wouldn't participate, even if I begged him to.

[Purrcat]

Comic: I like where it's going, while the first page doesn't look drawn well, it sorta adds to the charm of it, and I like that.

Sorry to say that those 2 pages aren't going anywhere, it's just there to test the site with (I ripped them from the previous impromanga).

[Razgrizblaze1]

I like the direction this is taking. Much appreciation for the effort you're putting in for this Purr. Also, saw your DA account...emptyyyyyyy...