Saturday, November 5, 2011

Sneak Peek #23: Chapter 8 PENCILED

OH HAPPY DAY! The pencils for Chapter 8 are completely finished! Dance party commences in 3... 2... 1...

Hmm. That never seems to happen the way I imagine.

But anyways, we’ve passed a nice milestone on V3 production, and if you wade through all my yammering here, there are pretty pictures to prove it.

I imagine some may be wondering just how close we are to finishing not a chapter, but the damn book. After all, it’s not like you guys get to curl up with new material every time I slap myself on the back for hitting a milestone. Well, to give you a snapshot of our progress, I made… A GRAPH! …No, it’s not boring. This graph is extreme. Note the rad text and exclamation points, please.
So as you can see by the bro-tacularly intense graph, we’re not out of the woods yet.

…Though I will mention that the end of Chapter 8 is already 89 pages in to Volume 3 - and Chapter 9 has a good 43 pages in and of itself waiting for me to get rolling on. Volume 1 was 98 pages total - so a part of our production time is due to the fact that V3 is big. Just friggin big.

There’s still a stretch to go - but since the commercial was finished this spring, our production has been going at a great rate!

Speaking of the commercial… AAAAUUUUGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHBLOODCROWSHAMMERFINGERDOORSLAMFLOCKODUCKS!

…Mildly frustrated. Turns out the work of animating every frame was actually the easy part. Now that it’s done and ready to roll, hunting down a venue is proving bizarrely difficult. Sales reps and ad execs quail at my approach - e-mails go unanswered, phone calls vanish into an abyss, and… A 3rd item here would make for a nice rhythm to my complainy sentence, but I haven’t actually tried using a telegraph.

I never imagined it would be so hard to get people to take money and do their jobs. Perhaps those I previously contacted weren’t serious about hosting the commercial, and instead wound up losing an office bet when I actually came through with a finished piece to air. The world will never know.
Meanwhile, I feel like a kid with a loaded shotgun in front of a pinata - EXCITED - but then the thing keeps inexplicably firing blanks. I just want to take my damn shot.

…I do think I’ll track down a venue for this thing pretty soon, but experience has taught me not to announce anything that relies on other people until after they‘ve actually delivered.

There - now that you’ve been forced to taste the bitter sting of my disappointment, it’s time you were rewarded! Here are some teaser images from Chapter 8 so far.




Though the pencils for Chapter 8 are done, they were completed in an obsessive haze at the expense of a lot of other tasks. As a result, I’ve got a run of miscellaneous things to sweep up before ripping into Chapter 9:

Getting caught up on e-mails and the poor, poor, utterly neglected art account comments, 3rd quarter records and taxes for Vivid, the Prelude que is dry and needs refilling, need to get rolling on Commission slot #3 for November, of course get started making the Halloween beads for the winners this year, and if I’m going to at least attempt a new forum, now’s the time to get that rolling as well, before I fall into the sweet oblivion of endless Chapter 9 sketches. Also - I should possibly think about doing the dishes.

I’ll need courage for that - everyone please wish me fortitude.


8 comments:

Dustin Bridges said...

Good luck on those dishes. I've heard of people who've left...and never come back...

Geo said...

It's great to get an update on all the goings on. It looks like V3 will be quite spectacular, so just keep up the good work and I'm sure you'll reach the finish line no problem.

As for the inability to advertise, I suggest a new strategy R2. Let the wookie win.

Watchit said...

Good Luck :D

Vicky said...

That graph is awesome! Easy to read and informative at the same time. Truly it is a work of graphic art.

Good luck on the chores and such like.

Avo said...

Good luck and ... :o
Shiny graph!

Where was I? Ah ducks, just throw them and tell people "duck".

Also whohoe, some more preview pictures ^^

Anonymous said...

Yay! I love graphs!

Keep up the good work. You have a high concentration of awesome.

The library and Theophanies panels look like they're going to be fun. Now are those picketers followers of Sacrare or Serapis? How about the Grim Reaper statue? Must know more...

Anonymous said...

I'm pretty sure those Picketers are for Occupy Walstreet. :) Just kidding.

Keep up the great work!

Anonymous said...

This is great news! everything about dreamkeepers? i adore it. i love it! it's great, and i hope you continue to employ the virtues that separate you from the mainstream, because they are just some of the reasons i find this comic so enthralling! of course i have come to hate it as well - the fact that i can't read new content every day strikes at my impatient side, but luckily for my sake that thirst is quenched by the unfathomable mspaintadventures ;). so by all means, keep up this fantastic work, because i am looking forward to buying volume 3! :D