Usual stuff is up. We got some more music on the way (character themes) the remaking of the first chapter is coming along with a few pages done so far. As for the wallpaper it will be up within the week. Moving on let's do a recap on the artstyle and how it has changed so quickly within 3 months of the site being up.
As you can see we began with an anti-aliased style to sort of vaguely reference a sort of video game pixelly aesthetic and to also give us an unique look to other comics. I did about 20 pages of this and then we uploaded it to recieve feedback. The result wasn't really positive so I decided to shift into another style, plus it was looking a bit too similair to Vickybit's Side-Quest Story and we didn't want the wrong thoughts to arise from that. So at the 26th page mark, I went for an aliased pen from a vector pencil, got rid of the half tones and replaced them with a layered grayscale for smoothing and in the next couples of pages you can see the Backgrounds losing their line-art and softening into minimalistic shapes. Lazy? perhaps, But the overall feel is more focused and has a better degree of clarity. Then after I did the first flash animation I felt the need to continue improving. I now implement a Marker tool to sometimes give a more seamless grayscale and the Airbrush tool to give off glow and darkening to various lightings. If you wondering why the comic isn't in colour, It's because this is deliberate for a narrative ploy. Stay tuned to see where i'll be going with that. We hope you continue to read Ripchord and be an avid fan!
Edit: Also heres a look at the first page comparison with the ramade page and the original page.
As you can see we began with an anti-aliased style to sort of vaguely reference a sort of video game pixelly aesthetic and to also give us an unique look to other comics. I did about 20 pages of this and then we uploaded it to recieve feedback. The result wasn't really positive so I decided to shift into another style, plus it was looking a bit too similair to Vickybit's Side-Quest Story and we didn't want the wrong thoughts to arise from that. So at the 26th page mark, I went for an aliased pen from a vector pencil, got rid of the half tones and replaced them with a layered grayscale for smoothing and in the next couples of pages you can see the Backgrounds losing their line-art and softening into minimalistic shapes. Lazy? perhaps, But the overall feel is more focused and has a better degree of clarity. Then after I did the first flash animation I felt the need to continue improving. I now implement a Marker tool to sometimes give a more seamless grayscale and the Airbrush tool to give off glow and darkening to various lightings. If you wondering why the comic isn't in colour, It's because this is deliberate for a narrative ploy. Stay tuned to see where i'll be going with that. We hope you continue to read Ripchord and be an avid fan!
Edit: Also heres a look at the first page comparison with the ramade page and the original page.
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