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2016-10-29, 02:18 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Goblins XVI: Corrupted to the Kore
Pretty sure that's not cannon to the comic, it's made to balance the card game, not to explain what's going on in the world. he COULD be lelvel 15 in the comic, but the card game is based in alternate realities on principle, so "Our" Kore may be different.
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2016-10-29, 09:14 PM (ISO 8601)
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2016-10-30, 04:32 PM (ISO 8601)
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2016-11-01, 12:27 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Goblins XVI: Corrupted to the Kore
The revised version of the artwork has been posted, but we don't see the corruption affecting the panel borders. An oversight or is Tarol not bothering to show that anymore?
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2016-11-01, 06:46 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Goblins XVI: Corrupted to the Kore
Oversight. Thunt tweeted about it awhile ago, he was so focused on detailing the page her completey forgot the corruption stuff.
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2016-11-07, 05:02 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Goblins XVI: Corrupted to the Kore
Thunt also twitted a few days ago that he wands/needs to change the art in order to make it faster to draw and have a better update schedule.
I'm on the fence on this. The update schedule doesn't bother me much, but on the other hand, I care more fot the story than for the art.Posting from France
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2016-11-07, 05:32 AM (ISO 8601)
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2016-11-08, 12:23 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Goblins XVI: Corrupted to the Kore
Big question right now is Did Minmax learn Grinnorarcen's name back in the Maze of Many?
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2016-11-08, 12:27 PM (ISO 8601)
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2016-11-08, 03:23 PM (ISO 8601)
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2016-11-08, 07:07 PM (ISO 8601)
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Minmax has the same name in each. So did Kin
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2016-11-08, 07:11 PM (ISO 8601)
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2016-11-14, 05:45 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Goblins XVI: Corrupted to the Kore
I've been having a glance at Thunt's twitchs and...
Well, I'm not an artist(*), but, isn't he drawing very, very, very slowly?
The last video is 3 hours long long for the inking of two panels.
Okay, the drawing part on this video is not 3 hours long at all, but still...
I got drawings made by authors of comic books I read, and I've always been amazed by how quickly they can draw something on demand. In 10-15 minutes, I get very nice full page drawings, and this from different authors (with a notable exception of a korean mangaka taking way too much time for any drawing).
First crayon drawings, then inking, on paper!
I remember asking for a barbarian character once (she's a little girl, I asked to have her drawn as an adult), and she was drawed with her hands in pockets. I was disappointed because I would have liked her with her axe. The drawing was almost complete, but the author managed to draw her axe fixed in her back with a strap. Easily. It was very impressive.
So considering what I see from mangakas (one chapter of 10-12 pages per week), from french comic authors (usually 6-10 pages a month) or from live drawings I've seen, I'm really surprised by how slow Thunt is.
Am I just used to pros that go unusually fast?
(*) For once, a sentence starting by "I'm not" is true.
Edit: For instance... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4s-3jrkqJ8c
Obviously took more than 5 minutes, but I guess it's pretty fast anyway.
Another drawing from same author: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAwifOfzfb4
Only 20 minutes for the drawing part.Last edited by Quild; 2016-11-14 at 05:51 AM.
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2016-11-14, 06:33 AM (ISO 8601)
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I think it depends on many things. Some styles might be faster, some might be slower. Manga faces tend to have a very clean outlook and few lines, so I guess that makes them faster to draw. There are some of the early strips of Tex in which Galep was clearly in a hurry to draw as fast as possible and reduced detail to a minimum, letting the eye of the reader fill out the detail; he could do this because of a rather realistic style. Goblin doesn't give much room in this direction.
The other thing I can think of is that many, if not most, published comics are the result of a collaboration of penciler, inker, colourer, and letterer, with possibly an external figure as screenwriter. So a single person going full page may be slower than expected.
Finally, some hands might be faster than others.
I don't really know what he does, since I never follow his live drawing. But if I read some of his anxiety correctly, part of the slow output could be due to the fear of screwing up the story, and making a lot of rechecks with what he has projected.Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien, 1955
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2016-11-14, 10:45 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Goblins XVI: Corrupted to the Kore
he is trying to remove some time consuming details to speed up his drawing a bit. so don't be surprised if a few things appear differently in the next page.
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2016-11-14, 10:49 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Goblins XVI: Corrupted to the Kore
Thunt is pretty obsessive. I don't know if he still does this, but the classic summary of why Thunt takes so long is...you know how most of the characters have sorta pointillistic eyes? Yeah, he would fill all those points in individually.
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2016-11-14, 11:48 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Goblins XVI: Corrupted to the Kore
The thing is, that on the last stream (here), he was only inking a page.
If you check for instance what he does between 1h30 and 1h55... I find it just ridiculous. The result at the end of a page is really good, and I really find the art of a finished page very nice, but it almost hurts me to see what Thunt has to go through to make a page.
Heard that before and I thought he wasn't doing it anymore, but you can see him doing that around 57 minutes. Guess it was worse and longer before.Posting from France
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2016-11-15, 08:41 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Goblins XVI: Corrupted to the Kore
Just to add a bit to the conversation out of nowhere, because I have a thing of efficiency and comic drawing:
Even as a slow artist, I feel like he is often moving in slow motion. There are reasons for it, I think. He doesn't seem to ever concentrate on drawing, as his wife is there, he's streaming and chatting with people, eating, hanging out with his children, etc etc. It will take me 15-20 hours per page, but I shut absolutely everything out to get it done(and I am slow). Assuming he is working 8 hours a day every day on just this, it must take him something like 60-100 hours of work per page. No amount of obsession would normally account for that, particularly given the character designs(in that it's a cartooned style and it is hard to tell when a goblin doesn't look right), and amount of experience he has doing this.
I'm probably a bad comparison, as it isn't what I do for a living, but compared to other professionals, he isn't even in the same universe when it comes to speed. As a reference, a friend of my is professional and produces 72 pages per month with, I believe, 3 or 4 assistants. I know, similarly, that the author of Cat's Eye was drawing that at a rate of 72 pages per month with 4 assistants. Obviously, the more popular comics will have more assistants.
Comic artist is a rough job here. Companies chew up and spit out artists at almost a whim. People who can't produce at least 22 pages per month by themselves simply won't make it. I would guess not having that hanging over your head would leave you not quite as desperate to get things out quickly?
He does tend to have more panels per page than a typical comic, BUT, there also tends to be less detail per page(for example, the previous three pages haven't had much background to deal with, and there are a ton of head shots).
All that said, why would he really want to draw faster? He's well-supported drawing at this speed. I guess people get upset with him about it, but without an editor breathing down one's neck, I feel like just about everybody would choose a slower pace and apologize as needed.
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2016-11-15, 11:12 AM (ISO 8601)
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This is something I've been thinking about, he currently makes 1.260 dollars per page. If he were to make one and half a page in the time he now makes one, or even double up, would people still be willing to pay that much for a page or would they start paying less per page, since the thing would get costlier? There must be a sweet spot somewhere where you get the maximum money per month.
I mean, let's suppose that Bunny First pays 1 dollar per page on Patreon. Right now, that's I think 1 and half dollar a month. Let's assume that Thunt suddenly does what I would do, which is: "If every page gives me a grand, I'll start mass producing them and become RICH!". Thunt, driven by greed, starts pumping out one page a week. Bunny is now paying 4 and half dollars per month. Bunny thinks, "I can take it, it's cool".
Thunt now thinks like an investor. He hires five artists, he does pencils and screenwriting, but he now has two inkers, a colorist, a shader, and a letterer. He's now churning out one page a day, which means 30.000 dollars a month, and can pay his employees 15 dollar per hour (it's a random number, I have no idea of wages for artists, especially in Canada).
After the first week, however, Thunt sees the support for his comic decrease, because people are paying him 30 dollars a month, and that's too much for them to afford. People who paid 5 dollars per page now have to downgrade or stop, because it's 150 dollars per month which they are paying. Bunny First stops paying altogether.
After some attempts at publicity, Thunt realizes that Goblins is a niche comic, and that the niche already is almost fully occupied, so there can't be many new readers: the comic is well known among fantasy enthusiasts and roleplayers.
In the end, Thunt has to settle for changing the setting from "page" to "monthly". He gains a bit more than before, but nowhere near 30.000 dollars, and only has one co-worker.
So I'm wondering where that spot is where you gain optimally from the amount of work you do. I don't know if he would gain more by doubling production.Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien, 1955
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2016-11-15, 12:47 PM (ISO 8601)
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2016-11-17, 06:21 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Goblins XVI: Corrupted to the Kore
My understanding from his blog and twitts is that he does want to draw faster and is not satisfied with either how long time he needs to draw a page, nor the schedule update.
Why? I don't know among the many reasons. But he still wants that.
I, for one, am not upset at all about the update speed. It's more for Thunt that I'm worried. He shouldn't spend that much time on such work (reading your own experience was very interesting by the way).Posting from France
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2016-11-17, 02:19 PM (ISO 8601)
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Thunt get paid per update via his Patreon account. Maybe he feels he needs more money?
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2016-11-17, 02:56 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Goblins XVI: Corrupted to the Kore
This is thunt, he has breakdowns over people being cheated from things only tangentially related to him. I doubt its about the money, and in fact would be willing to bet its that he thinks we are disappointed waiting so long between updates and that bothers him a lot.
"Interdum feror cupidine partium magnarum Europae vincendarum"
Translation: "Sometimes I get this urge to conquer large parts of Europe."
"If you don't get those cameras out of my face, I'm gonna go 8.6 on the Richter scale with gastric emissions that'll clear this room."
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2016-11-19, 08:01 AM (ISO 8601)
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Look, a page!
Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien, 1955
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2016-11-19, 09:24 AM (ISO 8601)
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i wonder if the cheifing ceromony would even work since it was already done one Dies Horribly. I mean, he was never actually made into a cheif, so it's possible?
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2016-11-19, 11:22 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Goblins XVI: Corrupted to the Kore
Wow, he can make a copy of oblivion sword. Wonder if it is as strong.
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2016-11-19, 02:44 PM (ISO 8601)
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"Interdum feror cupidine partium magnarum Europae vincendarum"
Translation: "Sometimes I get this urge to conquer large parts of Europe."
"If you don't get those cameras out of my face, I'm gonna go 8.6 on the Richter scale with gastric emissions that'll clear this room."
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2016-11-20, 12:31 PM (ISO 8601)
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But what if they tried that in real life?
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2016-11-20, 01:59 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Goblins XVI: Corrupted to the Kore
Judging from the the way Complains was yelling at him, Minmax's imaginary crown of plus a swillion charisma didn't seem to work in real-life. Minimax couldn't even convince Fumbles that the crown existed. Given that, I don't think we can expect that the second Oblivion sword would exist.
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2016-11-21, 07:53 AM (ISO 8601)
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Since Oblivious is powered by obliviousness, it would be fun if Fumbles could indeed summon it too without making a big deal of it.
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