Why Does The Anime Samurai Have The Most The Most Unhinged Songs?

Goddess Madoka. A little old, but I still love it!

Here is my ghost oc Ari! She's a graffiti artist who died in 2005 by falling off of a building. Her hobbies include parkour, refusing to move on, and out running the grimm reaper.

I love how almost every single major character in The Magnus Protocol is giving off death flags.

Sam? He's looking into things he shouldn't be while refusing to believe Gwen and Alice. That's gonna bite him in the ass eventually.

Alice? Until recently, she's been covering her eyes and hoping everything will be fine. Hopefully, it isn't too late for her.

Gwen? She's too proud to let go of a job that has almost killed her. She can't keep getting lucky.

Celia? She knows too much. That fact alone puts a target on her back.

Colin? Haven't heard from him in a while. There is literally someone on this website counting how many episodes he's survived.

Freaking Teddy? The guy who left the hell hole that is the Office of Incident Assessment and Response in episode one? He keeps coming around the office because he mysteriously can not find a job since the one waiting for him after OIAR fired him almost immediately.

Everyone besides Lena feels like their one wrong move from dying.

Sweetheart. Love her desgin. Hate her personality.

Shitty Madoka doodles made while waiting for a college project to render.

If you ever are self-publishing or illustrating a paperback, an absolutely essential tool is this page, which gives you the exact pixel count of a book spine based on its page count, and/or a template you can use for the correct width/height ratio.

I re-watched Gregory Horror Show recently. I forgot how good it was!

I might color these later.

How I save time on backgrounds as a full-time webcomic artist

Hi! I make webcomics for a living, and I have to be able to draw a panel extremely fast to keep up with my deadlines. I draw about 50 panels a week, which gives me about 45 minutes per panel if I want any semblance of a healthy work-life balance.

Most webtoon artists save time on backgrounds by using 3d models, which works for them and is great! but personally I hate working in 3d... I went to school for it for a year and hated it so much I completely changed career paths and vowed never to do it again! So, this is how I save time without using any 3d, for those of you out there who don't like it either!

This tactic has also saved me money (3d models are expensive) and it has helped me converting my comic from scroll format into page format for print, because I have much more art to work with than what's actually in the panels. (I'll touch on this later)

So, first, I make my backgrounds huge. my default starting size is 10,000 x 10,000 pixels. My panels are 2,500 pixels wide, so my backgrounds are 4x that, minimum. Because of this, I make them less detailed than I could or that you might expect so it doesn't look weird against my character art when I shrink portions of it down.

I personally find it much easier to add in detail than to make "removing" details look natural at smaller sizes, but you might have different preferences than I do.

I also make sure to keep all of my elements on separate layers so that I can easily remove or replace them, I can move them to simulate different camera angles more easily, and it's simple to adjust the lighting to imply different times of day.

Then I can go ahead and copy/paste them into my episodes. I move the background around until it feels like it's properly fitting how I want.

Once I've done that in every panel, I'll go back through the episode and clean up anything that looks weird, and add in solid blacks (for my art style) Here's a quick before and after of what that looks like!

This makes 90% of my backgrounds take me just a few hours. This is my tactic when I'm working in an environment that an entire scene, or multiple scenes, will take place.

But many panels will inevitably have a location that's used exactly once, and it would waste time and effort to draw a massive background for those. So in 10% of cases, I just draw the single panel background in the episode. I save all of these, just in case I can re-use it later (this happens more often with outdoor locations, but I save them all nonetheless!)

I generally have to draw about 2 big backgrounds per episode, and 3-5 single-panel backgrounds per episode! At the beginning of an arc/book the number is higher, but as the series is continuing and I'm building up an asset library of indoor and outdoor elements to re-use for the book, the number generally goes down and I save more time.

My series involves time travel and mysteries, so there's a lot of new locations in it and we're constantly moving around. If I were working on a series that was more consistent in this aspect, this process would save me even more time!

Like I said earlier, this also saves me a lot of pain and gives me a lot more options as I'm converting from scroll format to print format!

panels that look like this in scroll format...

can look like this in print!

because I drew the background like this, so I didn't need to go through the additional effort to add in the extra detail to expand it outwards at all.

Anyways, I hope this helps someone! As always if it doesn't help, just go ahead and disregard. This is what I do and what works for me, and I feel like I only ever see time-saving tips for comics that involve 3d models and workflows, which don't work for me at all! I know there's more people like me out there, so this is for you!

Enjoy!

Also obligatory "my webcomic" if you want to see this in action or check it out!

Love this post. I've only seen two games try the TV show route (Find Love Or Die Trying and.....the other one which isn't worth mentioning) but I really hope more come out.

Also the idea of a slightly morally grey psychological experiment where at the beginning, the participants are told: "you will be lied to and deceived" is such a good set up for a vn.

Immediately, I thought of an isolation experiment where a group of people with extremely diverse backgrounds are forced to live together for an extended amount of time only for things to go south quickly and the people in the "experiment" to lose touch with the people back at home base. They don't know if this is all part of the experiment or it something actually going wrong and they have no way of contacting or getting to the outside.

"Could YTTD be a real psych experiment?”

I always think of what would happen if studies like Stanford and Milgram never happened. We’d have a lot less rules on what can be a Psychology Experiment and what can’t be. Also, we’d lack a lot of important information we know now. Or like if Phineas Gage never worked with railroads. We would never know about different lobes,, however What I thought about most, is, could games like Danganronpa or Your Turn To Die reallllllyy become a real life thing? Well, illegally of course, anything can be done illegally, but legally, potentially.  The laws on psychological experiments is that  “Ethical Guidelines for Research With Human Subjects Participation Must Be Voluntary. Researchers Must Obtain Informed Consent. Researchers Must Maintain Participant Confidentiality.” So, basically, everyone involved must of consented legally, and there must be proof of consent (ex, signed form), researched must keep confidentiality, eg, not using this outside of agreed terms. I think there is also an other rule of full knowledge on what will happen or say “you may be deceived in the test” to avoid the Milgram hack, (using actors to feign death). Which would mean, you cannot legally do a death game in a psych experiment, because you cannot actually kill people, and if you must be clear and transparent about actors, well.. how will you get the reaction to death if there is none? However,, there is a way around that. However you may not be able to do a study on real people in a real setting. You can make a tv show.  See TV shows don’t follow these rules, you can recreate unethical studies like Milgram and Stanford legally if it’s a TV show. Which is horrifying to know but for sake of argument. Great for crazy people who want to make a killing game! Of course you cannot actually kill people, but you could hire actors alongside your players to fake being murdered, you could even lie and say the tv show was fake. Aslong as you make them consent to being in the tv show, anything goes really… So who wants to get a high school girl a button to save her friend..??

HE'S NOT DEAD

Goodbye charles martinet