Tuesday, March 31, 2009

Five months, and the first update since is about one of the characters

With character creation, I usually just write quick notes about their appearance, their age, likes, dislikes, and some things about thier history. Such as with Namiko, she started off as a character called Natsuko, her age at 19, and a more depressing history than Namiko has. After scrapping the story that Natsuko was in, I noted that she was more interesting than the main character of the story, and then while putting together the characters for Fortress Avalon, I really wanted to use the Natsuko character for a story, so she was used as a template for Namiko. I wanted to resurrect the story that Natsuko was in sometime in the future, so I changed the name, I noted that Namiko meant "Child of the waves", and I honestly do know why I chose the name, but I think that it would be interesting to see what the readers make of it. I also changed the character history to make a change from Feudal Japan to fantasy. Namiko's history is a lot less depressing than Natsuko's, and I'm kinda spilling the beans on Namiko's history, while with Natsuko's I wanted to make her a mysterious character, so no one will be seeing her history up here for quite some time.

Tuesday, October 21, 2008

First!

Well, the first six pages of the Fortress Avalon webcomic is up now. I know that I should start off with only one page, but the first five were available as a preview, and there were people who had been shown the first five pages as well...so we have six pages up with one new page. Initially Fortress Avalon was to be a printed comic, but stuff with the printers fell through, and my artist and I have decided to put it up as a webcomic on Webcomics Nation.
Concerning the weekly updates, as the artist is currently going to school, and we have a limited number of pages that we had done ahead of time, the current updates will be on Fridays only but as soon as she is out, there will be a Monday, Wednesday and Friday update. I'm not going to lie, and say that we'll meet all three days. Truth is that there will always be stuff that will have to be dealt with before the comic. The only issues that we'll really be putting ahead of the comic would be family issues, work issues, and the occasional artist/writer's block. Fortunately the writer's block won't be coming any time soon as I've got at least a hundred weeks' worth of page scripts done.