Thursday, September 23, 2010

Yet Another Project

Here's a little background on how this one started, and I'm not going to mince words with this post like I usually do on this blog; I've had a pretty shitty but good week, and I was 90% certain that I was going to lose my mind. Here's a list of things that went wrong, but went right almost right after.

1: After Laurel broke up with me (trust me, it was actually for a reason that made perfect sense in the long run), I'm pretty sure that my depression has kick started again, though not as severe.
But... I did find out that there is someone interested in me... buuuut, she's engaged. I am not going to pursue someone who has no idea what a relationship, especially since I'm a little busy with school right now. Good thing most of classes are easier.

2: That would be good if my car didn't decide to be a pain. Tuesday, Binkie, Jenna, Patty, Yuki, and I went to see Devil. Pro-tip: Don't. Anyway, my car stalled every time I started it. Wednesday roles around, and it won't even start. After my parents and apartment manager helped, my parents gave me a ride to school, and Jim picked me up to pick up gas for the car, and hopefully get it running. Luckily, the car was only out of gas, backfired once it started, but now runs beautifully. I mean, better than when I first got it. Also, as a result, I found I had a lot more money in the bank than I thought I did. The car thing did make it so I couldn't get poster board for my class, and because I was concentrating on working on three school projects, and studying for a psychology test, (and because the teacher never reminded us), I didn't know about a Photography quiz today. I did horribly on it, which is funny, because I know what I'm doing... most of it was getting my steps mixed up. Better on a quiz than in practice, but still.

3: In speaking of school, and while waiting for Jim, I sat in the Student Union working on a logo for "Subject 30" when this beautiful young woman caught my eye. I sat there for a minute, thinking, Dear God, if I was anyone else, I could talk to her no problem. As it was, I made myself sit in my chair, thinking I wasn't good enough to talk to her, because of the crappy events going on. After talking to Jenna about this (including the fact that she would stretch and adjust her hair occasionally, while looking at me), Jenna smacks me upside the head and says, "You dumbass! She was trying to get you to talk to her!" You live you learn, I guess. But, that does get better, too. I get to school this morning to find the same young woman talking to Yuki, of all people. And, from what I've gathered from Yuki (damn her coyness) is that I didn't completely blow everything.

Needless to say, it's been a roller coaster, and an idea stemmed from it: The Tease. It's going to be more simple than Muzzle and Goria in the sense that its only one story line. What it's about is one man starting a new stage of his life, and nothing seems to want to go completely right or completely wrong. The bad leads to the good that leads to more bad that leads to more good... to the point where he doesn't know if he's going crazy (not literally) or if the Powers That Be don't know what to do with him.

The trick to it is how I'm presenting it. It's going to be more monochromatic than most of my other comics, and the narrative is going to be more free-verse/prose with a rhythm than a straight narrative. I'll have some samples of it up here (as well as Muzzle) when I get some writing done. Right now, I need to sleep.

Wednesday, September 15, 2010

Announcements About Muzzle, A New Concept, Goria, and School Updates

I know I've been away for a week, at least, but I've been a little busy. School's going pretty well. My color theory teacher reminds me of a female Walter Bishop. One of the old Kaplan Photo teachers is my Photo 1 teacher, and I think my Psychology teacher thinks I'm too smart for my own good. I'm slowly getting integrated into the school, and I seem to have made fast acquaintances with the "nerds," (I mean that in a good way, I'm a nerd, too) an Arab med student, and a Japanese art student.

I'm changing a bit of "Muzzle." There has been some interest from some unexpected places about the "Wounded/Nobody Took Your Pride Away" two part story line that will affect the characters of the strip in some way. Due to that, I'll probably skip "Who Needs Sleep?" and possibly come back to that at a later time (mainly due to the fact that my new neighbors next door are nearly as bad as the old ones). We're currently working on the script for the two part (both me, and the subject of the story), and I'll say this, right now: It's not going to be an easy read, especially if you've read my old Deviant Art Muzzle strips. It will be a lot more serious (this story), but, it does have humor. It's just that the humor isn't meant to be "funny," more character development than funny (for example, showing that Patty is trying to expunge the situation from her mind by making references to TV shows). After that storyline, Muzzle will go back to its drama/comedy roots.

I'm working on Muzzle Wallpapers, as well as concepts. Below are the ones I'm currently working on:

WP:

Patty
Binkie
Jim
Heather
Kevin
Ben
Laurel
Alexis

Concepts:

Jenna
Joe
Tim
Laurel (casual)
Jim
Binkie (After Attack)
Yuki

On the Goria front, I'm tossing a few ideas around. I am still going to introduce Mimic, but that won't be until later on in the series. She is, in fact, an extremely good foil for Goria, and there is going to be a story based on just that. Where it gets tricky is, once again, Jillian Dyer. SPOILER ALERT! She eventually gets possessed by Succubus, and is the third, and most dangerous, incarnation of the demon. Herein lies the trick: how is Succubus going to be driven out of her? But, I'm sure I'll think of something.

I also started tossing around a new idea. Entitled, Subject 30, the story is about a man in a mental institution who is being experimented on. One day, his "handlers" are attacked by creatures while he's being transported to a lab, and he starts to escape, only to find that the experiments that are being done to him and the other patients aren't meant for humans. He also finds out that he himself is a psychologist.

That's all for now. I'm going to talk about some pretty good game design choices here a little while though. Stay tuned!