Post by Jeff on Dec 29, 2003 17:41:52 GMT -5
Ep 04: Ouch!
Fun with pain! Part of the humor I wanted to include in ACT was the idea that the Autobots weren't heroes. They weren't on a quest for any noble, selfless cause, they had questionable morality, and they got their butts MAJORLY kicked in combat. And there's no way a toy with Trailbreaker's articiulation should be kicking any kind of butt in a scrap, either.
This was the first episode in which I actually had to show action, and I quickly learned I had no idea how to do that. If you look at most toy web comics out there, they're just toys talking to each other. They rarely actually do anything physical. I had a couple of arm movements and "bam" and "biff" written on the images, which wasn't much better. Fortunately, by the time of the next story arc, I'd learn to be a little more creative with posing and with the usage of silly putty.
This was a particularly difficult episode to name. "Ouch!" may very well be my worst title to date.
Episodes 4, 5, and 6 were all made and posted on January 11, 2003, only one day after the first three went up.
Fun with pain! Part of the humor I wanted to include in ACT was the idea that the Autobots weren't heroes. They weren't on a quest for any noble, selfless cause, they had questionable morality, and they got their butts MAJORLY kicked in combat. And there's no way a toy with Trailbreaker's articiulation should be kicking any kind of butt in a scrap, either.
This was the first episode in which I actually had to show action, and I quickly learned I had no idea how to do that. If you look at most toy web comics out there, they're just toys talking to each other. They rarely actually do anything physical. I had a couple of arm movements and "bam" and "biff" written on the images, which wasn't much better. Fortunately, by the time of the next story arc, I'd learn to be a little more creative with posing and with the usage of silly putty.
This was a particularly difficult episode to name. "Ouch!" may very well be my worst title to date.
Episodes 4, 5, and 6 were all made and posted on January 11, 2003, only one day after the first three went up.