Tales of Revelia: JRPG-styled Fantasy Webcomic

[MoleMage]

Originally Posted by Kyrian

So I clicked on the banner in Mutant Sheep's signature, started reading, and have really enjoyed what you've done. I loved the Tales references!

Wow, I did that exact same thing.

[Teutonic Knight]

Thank you Mutant Sheep. Now I can't disappoint. Working.

SCHOOL!!!

[araveugnitsuga]

Originally Posted by Teutonic Knight

Thank you Mutant Sheep. Now I can't disappoint. Working.

SCHOOL!!!

Do what I do, do OoTS at for school projects.

And use those projects to further artistic skills.

[Mr_Saturn]

Doodle a comic while taking notes in class. It always works out for me.

We still love you TK.

[Mutant Sheep]

Originally Posted by Teutonic Knight

Thank you Mutant Sheep. Now I can't disappoint. Working.

SCHOOL!!!

Yay! *tries to sigify this* Time to try to guilt you into ignoring your schoolwork and post more!
Yes school sucks.

[Teutonic Knight]

FINALLY! New comic 18.

The prince is here. I wasn't taking a long time because of designing him. I finalized about a week ago. But man, school work, like 4-5 hours of sleep a weeknight, kept from designing the comic itself. Luckily, I have more time to actually sketch out comics, so I have the layout/storyboards for the next three comics or so, as well. Maybe they'll come out soon.

Plus Ben's pants came out ok.

Also now that his name has been released:

Originally Posted by araveugnitsuga

Eagerly waiting for the appearance of the Belcastian prince. Stereotype dictates he either is an annoyance to existence or he is unbelievably humble and nice. Also, his name will either be John or Bill or the most incredibly pompously complex conjunction of European Medieval Names.

You were so close. Thank you Felyndiira for the names. Though they are not the name you suggested.

Their original names were going to be Aurelie and Benoit. Yep. French.

[memnarch]

Good to see a new update.

[Elder Tsofu]

Damn your cliffhangers.

[Mutant Sheep]

This prince is too competent. Make him act like Zelos or something! Will he be using *insert Symphonia magic here*? Weak Lighting or that stone blast thing? How about Nurse??

[Mr_Saturn]

Yay1!!

The pants look fine as of now. No intense action scenes with the Prince so far. As long as there isn't any scenes with Ben flying through the air with a spinning-jump-kick-magic-casting slash, there is nothing to worry about.

[CoffeeIncluded]

I rather like those pants.

[Dusk Eclipse]

Holycarp the prince has pants!!!!

[araveugnitsuga]

UPDATE! and cliffhanger...

Finally do we see the nice and humble-ish prince.
And he is a magician (I'm guessing Fire Emblem Radiant Dawn influence).

Is it just me or does his hair have a weird thing on the front center?

[Teutonic Knight]

Originally Posted by araveugnitsuga

UPDATE! and cliffhanger...

Finally do we see the nice and humble-ish prince.
And he is a magician (I'm guessing Fire Emblem Radiant Dawn influence).

Is it just me or does his hair have a weird thing on the front center?

Not really, more of a magic knight, which is sort of rare for a JRPG protagonist (don't go proving me wrong now).

As for the hair, it's like those anime characters that have a different colored fluff of hair in the front of their head. Examples are out there I just can't find them.

[blackjack217]

Originally Posted by Teutonic Knight

Not really, more of a magic knight, which is sort of rare for a JRPG protagonist (don't go proving me wrong now).

As for the hair, it's like those anime characters that have a different colored fluff of hair in the front of their head. Examples are out there I just can't find them.

So a swordsmen who casts healing magic? Paladin, duh.

[Teutonic Knight]

Not necessarily just healing magic.

To answer Sheep and anyone who has played Symphonia: Up to Medium level magic artes. I haven't decided which elements he can use yet, but I'll be using Symphonia's elements.

[Mutant Sheep]

Originally Posted by Teutonic Knight

Not necessarily just healing magic.

To answer Sheep and anyone who has played Symphonia: Up to Medium level magic artes. I haven't decided which elements he can use yet, but I'll be using Symphonia's elements.

Happy days are ahead. And Zelos isn't a protagonist now? Could have fooled me. Alternate dimension protagonists, AWAY!

[Oppolo]

Originally Posted by blackjack217

So a swordsmen who casts healing magic? Paladin, duh.

If you've ever played the old Lufia series of games, it might be similar. The hero was the primary healer of the group. It didn't mean he wasn't also the guy who equipped swords and did damage.

I think the pants look really good, obviously they fit in with the extra detail you've given to the other clothes. It did make me notice, though, that his feet face in opposite directions while Aria's both face the same direction. Turns out that applies to most other characters too, the pants just drew attention to it!

[Teutonic Knight]

Originally Posted by Oppolo

I think the pants look really good, obviously they fit in with the extra detail you've given to the other clothes. It did make me notice, though, that his feet face in opposite directions while Aria's both face the same direction. Turns out that applies to most other characters too, the pants just drew attention to it!

The second bit could be clarified by saying that Aria's battle pose is more straight, her hips are only slightly bent, while Ben stands more horizontal in our view, so his legs, instead of Aria's looking like this _ --, Ben stands like | \ while turning sideways. (Right foot, left foot)

Originally Posted by Mutant Sheep

Happy days are ahead. And Zelos isn't a protagonist now? Could have fooled me. Alternate dimension protagonists, AWAY!

He's not Lloyd, if you were talking about in that context. He is part of the party of protagonists, yes.

[Elder Tsofu]

I got an sudden dislike for Ben when I saw his banner, I don't really know why but it has something to do with the way he held his sword behind his back, sort of half-concealing it in an nonchalant way, had that smug look on his face and the way of speaking which I've come to associate with teenagers being haughty/pompous/complacent at adults.

Sure I immediately jumped to the worst possible conclusion, and I missed that he held his sword in a more useful fashion than I thought. He seemed more sympathetic on-screen.

[Teutonic Knight]

Dang, I did a bad job drawing his arms in front of his waist. I was so sure that you can't hold a large sword like that behind your back in that way. I can see what you mean though, and will be fixing that up later today, because it's 3 in the morning.

Also, I always assumed that my banners didn't have the character's character in mind, given all the fourth wall breaking to things outside the Tales universe as opposed to commenting on the games' system. I can see what you mean though, and will make my banner characters act more like their in-comic characters, because banners are a representation of my comic to people who have not yet read it, and I would like for that first impression to "Ben does not equal Belkar".

LOT to FIX.

[Elder Tsofu]

Hands in front of a character can get tricky, that's why I try to avoid it unless the character has some sort of armour on their hands*.

And now when you mentioned it I see the similarity to Belkar - hadn't done that before. Hehe.

Keeping characters somewhat in character might be a good idea too, be a bit free about it though and don't let it restrain your ideas too much.

*Which they never have, and brings its own set of delicious troubles when they do. -.-

[HalfTangible]

Originally Posted by Teutonic Knight

Dang, I did a bad job drawing his arms in front of his waist. I was so sure that you can't hold a large sword like that behind your back in that way. I can see what you mean though, and will be fixing that up later today, because it's 3 in the morning.

I got it =/

[Mutant Sheep]

Originally Posted by Teutonic Knight

He's not Lloyd, if you were talking about in that context. He is part of the party of protagonists, yes.

He is the other worlds version of Colette but the hero of world so more like Lloyd with a popular-Colette status and blah blah hes a protagonist. So is Regal. Of their own stories. Which they tell you. Lloyd swears too much to be a primary protagonist anyway. Its obviously Genus whose the main character!

[Mr_Saturn]

I have an especially devious idea for this webcomic.

Advertise Tales of Revelia on the GitP forum!



I wonder if that would conflict with the forum rules...

EDIT: I mean, who wouldnt want an ad like this:

[Teutonic Knight]

I can see the conflict.

You are on Giantitp, it redirects you to Giantitp. At least GenGame is hosted somewhere else, but I already know that I will never host anywhere else in a formal webcomic manner. I like the forum discussion feel. Plus I'm not popular enough to warrant an ad.

Wait until I get more characters out, or at least one major boss that's not the first one. Actually, according to how I've planned it out... at least 10 more strips until the next major plot related stuff happens. Of course a splash page of all the characters would be nice. So far, I've got 3-4 character designs finalized, two of which you have already seen.

About characters too, now that Ben is out, I can post my hand-drawn version of him. I'll ink it sometime and post it this weekend.

[HalfTangible]

Originally Posted by Teutonic Knight

I can see the conflict.

You are on Giantitp, it redirects you to Giantitp. At least GenGame is hosted somewhere else, but I already know that I will never host anywhere else in a formal webcomic manner. I like the forum discussion feel. Plus I'm not popular enough to warrant an ad.

Wait until I get more characters out, or at least one major boss that's not the first one. Actually, according to how I've planned it out... at least 10 more strips until the next major plot related stuff happens. Of course a splash page of all the characters would be nice. So far, I've got 3-4 character designs finalized, two of which you have already seen.

About characters too, now that Ben is out, I can post my hand-drawn version of him. I'll ink it sometime and post it this weekend.

I'm writing something i'm planning to make a webcomic, and I've got character designs in my head, but I can't assign a fitting name to either of the characters...

It's really quite annoying to think of the female necromancer as... the female necromancer

[Mutant Sheep]

Originally Posted by Teutonic Knight

I can see the conflict.

You are on Giantitp, it redirects you to Giantitp. At least GenGame is hosted somewhere else, but I already know that I will never host anywhere else in a formal webcomic manner. I like the forum discussion feel. Plus I'm not popular enough to warrant an ad.

Bad struggling artist! Self pity is for the guy who writes Questionable Content!

Originally Posted by HalfTangible

I'm writing something i'm planning to make a webcomic, and I've got character designs in my head, but I can't assign a fitting name to either of the characters...

It's really quite annoying to think of the female necromancer as... the female necromancer

Meh, depends if the character is memorable and does cool stuff with an interesting backstory and *insert important details here*. A good name does mean alot though, if Belkar was called Theadore Pellington the 5th, I don't think he'd be as popular.

[HalfTangible]

Originally Posted by Mutant Sheep

Bad struggling artist! Self pity is for the guy who writes Questionable Content!


Meh, depends if the character is memorable and does cool stuff with an interesting backstory and *insert important details here*. A good name does mean alot though, if Belkar was called Theadore Pellington the 5th, I don't think he'd be as popular.

The problem is that i can't think of a name i can keep in mind longer than an hour or two...

[Mr_Saturn]

Originally Posted by Teutonic Knight

I can see the conflict.

You are on Giantitp, it redirects you to Giantitp. At least GenGame is hosted somewhere else, but I already know that I will never host anywhere else in a formal webcomic manner. I like the forum discussion feel. Plus I'm not popular enough to warrant an ad.

Wait until I get more characters out, or at least one major boss that's not the first one. Actually, according to how I've planned it out... at least 10 more strips until the next major plot related stuff happens. Of course a splash page of all the characters would be nice. So far, I've got 3-4 character designs finalized, two of which you have already seen.

About characters too, now that Ben is out, I can post my hand-drawn version of him. I'll ink it sometime and post it this weekend.

And you're already swamped with school work. If it were the summer you would be able to meet the desires of the "ravenous" readers. I understand your pain. I just want you to be more popular.

You don't have to be more popular to have an ad. You create the ad in order to BECOME popular. I'm just trying to do you a service TK. Fellow asians gotta help each other. (I actually made an account on project wonderful.) <___<

Anywhere else my efforts could be used on?