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Community => VOID Characters and Comics => Topic started by: PyrasTerran on Feb 04, 2017, 03:44 PM
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A while back, our very own Angieness set up a boot camp to help members who need a push with getting their comics completed on time.
The boot camp is now being re-opened under new management with Angie's blessing (and some of her writing lifted and recycled)
Pyras' Boot Camp
Have issues meeting deadlines? Need a push in the right direction with your work ethic? Want your very own editor for a project that'll kick you in the pants to get something done?
In the 8 years I've roamed these lands I have never defaulted, and even my most incomplete of comics have a comprehensible beginning-to-end. I work a very involved job in video post production as an editor/motion graphics artist, sometimes my weeks hit 60+ hours, and I have to juggle time spent with friends family and loved ones when I'm *not* working, so believe me when I say I know the struggle of battling life when making these comics. Now this dinosaur is ready to share his crazy methods with direct 1-on-1 coaching for the drawing duration of a comic on Void.
Instructions
1) Sign up on this thread or reach me via any messenger software we share about the type of comic you would like me to coach you on.
2) When I reach you, we'll iron out a formal schedule with a set of mini-deadlines.
3) Once ironed out and drawing begins, your task is to meet each of the mini deadlines and have a complete comic by the time the deadline hits. I will be contacting you regularly to monitor your progress and keep you on task.
Sample Schedule:Bob wants a beyond battle with a 4 week deadline, he wants the whole thing to be in color. So we structure his schedule like so
May 1st:script and thumbnails due
May 8th:complete pencils due
May 15th:complete inks due
May 22nd:complete project due
The schedule will be structured differently for each person and built around how you work, if you do a page at a time that's cool, if you do everything in steps like the above that's cool too. The only thing that will be unacceptable is "I'm going to do everything in the last week", that's a waste of a long deadline. You are free to do more within each deadline so if you want to move ahead and do some coloring when you had only inking scheduled for the week, that's fine.
Rules
-2 people at a time. This is to keep myself from burning out, I'll post when I'm available again. You are free to sign up at any time, you will be added to a list. In the event there's an actual line and you want to pull out, just let me know.
-5 week maximum deadline.
Penalties
-If you fail to meet any of the mini-deadlines (including the actual deadline you are booted from the boot camp!
--[If you failed at a beyond battle/artist comic, you can sign up again after having completed a full comic on Void. If you failed at a comic battle vs an opponent, you are perma-booted from the boot camp!]
---[Forgiveness and reinstating may happen on a case-by-case basis]
-Being booted from the boot camp a 2nd time is a perma-boot! You can no longer sign up for coaching
-Belligerence, rudeness, aka "Being a Douche" will result in a perma-boot!
If you have any further questions please feel free to ask
Signup List
1) Rikun
2) Energy [GRADUATED]
3) Shen
4) Scarywaves [GRADUATED]
5) MrPr1993
6) Astro Sean
7) yarnwitch [GRADUATED]
8 ) The Bent One [BOOTED]
9) Radji [GRADUATED]
10) Orion
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...yeah okay I need this. I've only defaulted once due to unfortunate events, and I don't feel like repeating the experience.
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Me I sign up =D
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Okay, I'll do this for a comic battle. At least 3 weeks.
Considering how last year turned out, I really don't want history to continue to repeat itself over and over again.
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Sign me up yo. I really REALLY need this.
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Ps I'm just kidding don't not sign up coz you think I took your spot LOL Pyras is cool though y'all should go for it =D
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I've been having tons of troubles with schedule. I gotta eliminate that problem.
SO I'm in.
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Having decided when they want to begin already, Energy and Scarywaves will be the first up~
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ah shucks, I missed the sign ups
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You're free to sign up for later!
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ScaryWaves' boot camp has begun!
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Congratulations to ScaryWaves for graduating bootcamp!
ScaryWaves has completed a 7 page fully colored comic in one week
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Congratulations to ScaryWaves for graduating bootcamp!
ScaryWaves has completed a 7 page fully colored comic in one week
I honestly couldn't be happier with the end result. It was a rough week, but I've learned so much during it and the end result is my best work yet. If you're on the fence about trying this, don't be. It is 100% worth it.
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Energy's bootcamp has now begun!
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Congratulations to Energy for graduating bootcamp!
Energy has completed an 8 page fully colored comic in three weeks
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congrats energy
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Wonderful positive response so far!
I'll have to keep an eye open for sign ups once they open up again. Definitely wanna try this now and get my 1 week battle skills goin'!
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Sign me up, please! i need storytelling help. Or reprogramming.
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I feel like this would be good for me, since I'm seriously considering coming back to the site to strengthen my skills.
I would like to add my name to the list.
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Can I subscribe for boot camp for my current BB? since i began doing a collab with rhimwill, i wanna put my bb on hold on first focus on my collab, and THEN do my bb with bootcamp
i've had a problem lately with finishing my comics
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if I understand what you're saying, you wanna sign up for a BB which will happen after you finish a collab with Rhim; that's fine and on the board you go~ reach me on DM when you can to schedule
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Congratulations to yarnwitch for graduating bootcamp!
yarnwitch has completed an fully (traditionally) colored comic in one week + learned digital color correction with a 3-page-max special rule
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Radji's bootcamp has begun!
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Hello! I would like one bootcamp please.
I haven't fought in a year. My last battles were improvements but still incomplete and I ended up canceling my last one because I got too complacent in making it.
I would like to find a way to break me of my creative complacency and just start->make->finish a comic and do that repeatedly, forever.
For now I will settle for hitting deadlines.
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added~~
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Congratulations to Radji for graduating bootcamp!
Radji has completed an improvement-focused 5-page beyond battle
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I've been a little busy, just checking to see who's up next. Pyras, I assume you will shoot us a PM when it's our turn?
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ATM it's first come first serve; I know for sure Shen has one in July and I can handle 2 at once, so you gotta hit me up when you're ready
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The Bent One's bootcamp has now begun! He will be drawing a 5-page artist comic with a 4 week deadline
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The Bent One has been booted from bootcamp!
Remember than even though enterVOID should not be on the top of any regular person's priorities, the exercise of time management and balancing void in your hierarchy of other priorities is essential for success on the site and is good practice for time management of professional artistic endeavors in the future. But also remember that void is not for everyone; think about whether you really want/need it in your hierarchy at all
Since this was an artist comic, The Bent One can apply for boot camp one more time
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With so many comics going up in the past weeks (and not all have been 100% complete for various reasons), I'm dropping a friendly reminder that this service is still open and available for all who wish to make use of it, in fact there are some artists on the list that have yet to start a battle in bootcamp mode
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seeing as i've had many difficulties lately with comics, I might redo a bootcamp soon...
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Is this still a thing? :0