2: Scribbles
I suppose you’re all feeling Samantha’s frustration right about now with the once a week schedule. I know I’m already getting impatient.
When I wrote the script I had envisioned releasing entire chapters at once with quite a few pages every week. And perhaps there will come a day when I can do that seamlessly, but for now this is what we are working with.
If I had waited until I was able to post that much at once consistently, I don’t think I would have been posting at all for a few more years. I’m sure I’ve said stuff like this before but I think it matters to stress the finer points of it. At this current rate of one page per week I currently have pages created up until the end of the month, and pages scripted up until the middle of April. That seems like a lot but if I were to release twice a week, that would cut my buffer in half and require me to meet deadlines for each scene in half the time. There’s not really any level of incremental control here. So I won’t be moving the speed up until I’m significantly ahead, even if I’m not satisfied with this pace any more than anyone else would be.
In all seriousness, lots of jobs are boring if you watch people do them. They also have a previous arrangement that involves lunch. Arrie shouldn’t brush that off. Way to avoid obligations. 😛
I wouldn’t worry about the pace! Plenty of comics do 1 page a week!
(The real torture for me personally is the comics that update with 1 page every other week. Now THAT’S torment.)
I can’t help but worry about the pace. I know this script, and it’s gonna be a while before we get to the meat of the story at this rate. I can’t help but see it as a problem to be fixed.
I’ve been quite driven as of late, and I’ve been making pretty good headway the past few days. From the start, the idea of doing a comic in 3d was a way to front load the design work and produce content quickly. So if that drive and progress hold out, I’m definitely going to convert that into more content, I just wanna be certain that I don’t do that before it’s safe to do so.
I once ran a sprite comic ages ago that updated five days a week, despite doing it on the side on top of actual school work. Mind you it was absolutely terrible, but it’s an experience that made me more inclined to spread my work through web comics rather than try to get picked up in some other medium. And though it’s been a long time, I think that old breakneck pace of that lousy sprite comic is hanging there taunting me. Heck the first run of Suppression is taunting me. I know I’ve got more in me… and I’m even doing the stuff that having that “more in me” entails, but all that’s been posted so far is two pages that I had done before Christmas that I was debating with friends and family if I should start posting then or wait till new years.
Basically… speed is a goal right now.