Another Object Comic Blog 2
Back at it again with another name change! This one’s probably the last one for a bit though.
A good amount of progress has been made on the idea of the comic since my last post in March. That is, I hunkered down with some buds and actually made a kind of rigid outline of how I want the plot to be structured. A good amount of ideas were leftovers from Exclusion Delusion but more fleshed out with a cleaner idea for a possible ending in mind, which makes me happy! Every time I’ve taken a stab at a comic like this I usually drop the idea because I don’t know how I’d end it, so having that in mind has been reassuring.
Here’s a mostly redacted look at the outline of the story, mostly for the sake of keeping things a surprise! Who doesn’t like a good surprise? I will leave a synopsis of the beginning of the story though, so here!
Objects of many different locations live on a planet with only them and are all aware of/ friends with each other. Ornament is the main character of the story, who on their (TBD)th birthday travel around the world in search of artifacts warning of an impending doom. After a year, the end of the world takes the form of a competition in which each challenge takes place on a different planet.
Unlike the plot, the biggest point of contention has been the actual characters to appear in the comic! Truth is, there’s been dozens of characters that have had the possibility of appearing in the comic. Some as main characters, and others as more comic relief side characters. Sizing down the original fifty plus characters has been no easy task, and I’ve joined a bunch of calls with some buds trying to decide which characters should stay or go has been a struggle. I’ll probably come to this decision on my own since these are my characters and only my most cherished of children will make it in..
The spreadsheet above was originally where I listed out all of my ocs and we went through them all and talked about how which characters could act and little quirks they could have. I’d be a liar if I said it didn’t help give me an idea on the characters I FOR SURE wanted in.
Ornament’s a character I’ve wanted in the comic since day one, they’re GUARUNTEED to be a main character. I used them in this enviornment as a test of how I’d draw backgrounds in the comic.
As another small experiment, I tried to go back to my last comic Sunburn and redraw it with the skills I have now in a style I might’ve liked back then, I’m pretty happy with how it came out!
Below is another character with a similar style. She’s also guaranteed for the comic, her name’s Inkwell!
More onto the look of the comic...
I’ve also been messing around with a potential style for the comic. It’s another one of those things that I’ve been putting a lot of thought into, but at the end of the day I think I have a good idea for what I want to do.
My biggest inspirations for this comic have always been my favorite object shows (ONE, Battle for Dream Island Again) and their saturated colors and simple designs, and Homestuck and the many many MSPFAS out there (Vast Error, A Guy Gets Revenge). Drawing objects in this style consistently has been a bit of a struggle, but I’ve found myself gravitating towards big and round hands, and tiny lil’ feet.
I don’t know if I’ll lean as heavy with the gradients and blurs though, since they’ve given me mixed results. I think I like the look of them when minimally used so I’ll probably stick to that.
Another art related thing I heavily debated on using was sprites. At first, I wanted to completely opt out of using any sprites for the sake of simplicity, but with the help of some really nice people I not only re-sprited old characters, but decided that I might go with this sprite style for the new characters. They’re so silly that it’s been hard for me to say no!
Another thing I want to note before ending this post is that just like all of my other comics, I do not mean for this to be the job of a crew where I’m only a writer.
This is my comic, and something I’ve wanted to make. Chances are that just like Sunburn, I’ll be writing a large part of the comic and drawing a large chunk of the panels. I wanna carry the weight of this because its my story!!! With that being said, anyone’s welcome to help! If you’re interested, feel free to DM me on Discord @sundSlime#2003.
TLDR?
Progress on the comic has been underway, but there’s a lot of stuff left to iron out. Hope you guys like what I have so far! Have a good day :)
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[ID: An interactive embed of an animated 3D pizza box. The box is mostly brown cardboard with corrugated edges and orange and white ink. The top reads "Slice of the Action!" over a graphic of a pizza slice falling away from the pizza it was cut from. Both pizza and slice shapes are simplified into wedges but with stylized goopy action lines showing their movement away from each other. The front panel of the box reads "here's your order, every last topping; we fit italian here." When the animation is played, the pizza box unfolds and refolds itself. There is no pizza inside, only grease stains. End ID]
An openable pizza box! With only one (1) terrible pun!
I took a break today to slap some branding on this box I made several months ago so I could publish it before all I saw were its flaws. Modeled and rigged in Blender, textured in Substance painter with assists in the labels from Illustrator (and Photoshop because the Illustrator paintbrush would not cooperate).
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THE TOWER: Now, you might be thinking, “you seem unprepared!” And to that I say, I’m waiting! For my boss. To tell me what to do. … Okay, uh, oh. Oh, that’s fuuuun!
The Tower chuckles to themself before speaking again, seemingly leaning close to their microphone.
THE TOWER: Let’s let our viewers choose what the first challenge is, hm? Getting some good-old audience participation up in here! Send some letters to the contestants too, why not? Just don’t read each other’s mail! Or else!
Between the two teams, a mailbox sprouts from the ground. Normal, inanimate.
The ask box is now open. Please state which character the message is intended for!
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