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dev_chieftain) wrote2012-01-13 02:58 pm
dev_chieftain) wrote2012-01-13 02:58 pm
I am excited about a project!
So, with encouragement from Danny and, additionally, his assistance in determining and confirming the extent of what I'll need to change that was D&D specific to the original story, I'm going to make a project of turning the Tiamat-centric D&D game into a comic. Tiamat will be more like her mythological self- a naga- and her people will consequently be nagas, as well. I feel like that ties in well with the stones of power, too.
Going to get to work on this as soon as I finish cooking dinner tonight (on the menu: Quinoa and fajitas!), starting with a little supplement for what races the story has, a supplement about the geography, and character studies of the main cast. Then I'll get to storyboarding the intro, and try to figure out what sort of length this project will have. I'm totally jazzed! I already have partially finalized character designs for most of these characters (some more than others), and the story is complete. The only hard part will be deciding whether to embellish certain elements along the way. There's something kind of neat about keeping the original characters as intact as possible, too. If it weren't for the fear of infringing on copyright, I'd keep the D&D specific stuff the same, but in the interest of making sure not to do so, I'm willing to change the details that didn't come straight from us.
I do have a question for those of you who follow my journal: if I posted updates for this project here, would that drive you totally bonkers, or would that be neat / nice / otherwise dandy? I'm debating the merit of updating at a personal site AND here, or just at a site devoted to the comic.
The only way I see myself actually successfully doing this is if I learn more about anatomy, though, so practice sketches to get a feel for that will be filling my head soon.
Going to get to work on this as soon as I finish cooking dinner tonight (on the menu: Quinoa and fajitas!), starting with a little supplement for what races the story has, a supplement about the geography, and character studies of the main cast. Then I'll get to storyboarding the intro, and try to figure out what sort of length this project will have. I'm totally jazzed! I already have partially finalized character designs for most of these characters (some more than others), and the story is complete. The only hard part will be deciding whether to embellish certain elements along the way. There's something kind of neat about keeping the original characters as intact as possible, too. If it weren't for the fear of infringing on copyright, I'd keep the D&D specific stuff the same, but in the interest of making sure not to do so, I'm willing to change the details that didn't come straight from us.
I do have a question for those of you who follow my journal: if I posted updates for this project here, would that drive you totally bonkers, or would that be neat / nice / otherwise dandy? I'm debating the merit of updating at a personal site AND here, or just at a site devoted to the comic.
The only way I see myself actually successfully doing this is if I learn more about anatomy, though, so practice sketches to get a feel for that will be filling my head soon.