Friday, January 9, 2015

Ringing in the new year with more comic planning

Hello and happy new year.

It has been a busy and difficult couple of months.  I came down with a bad cold in early December, that turned into pink eye and then a sinus infection. And then, while I was vacationing with my family, I caught a stomach flu, which I just got over earlier this week, and now I have a cold again.  All of this, of course, means that my recreational activities have been rather curtailed, including working on my upcoming (planned) web-comic.

However, I did not stop entirely. I am still working on concepts for the web-comic,but I have changed the idea for the theme yet again.  If you've read my past ideas, you'll note that this is the third concept I have come up with.  Why have I been so fickle?

Well, the #1 reason has been that my ideas have often been overly ambitious and this has led to stories that will be unworkable in terms of the DAZ resources and creating the art for the panels.  I started with a thousand-year-plus old character, but found that the resources did not exist to do all the flashbacks and historical scenes I needed.  I then shifted to an Asian-themed martial arts idea, which had some better support in DAZ. However, there still were not enough resources to pull off the idea that I had come up with, and I became frustrated by having to constantly compromise my creative vision because of the lack of 3D resources.