Thread 149427062

Considering how much you guys love comics and cartoons, you ARE making your own, right?
You're not just consumers, are you?

>>149427062 (OP)
Why should we?

>>149427073
without art, the world would be a very boring place

>>149427062 (OP)
>Considering how much you guys love comics and cartoons

>>149427111
wait, do you not?

>>149427062 (OP)
Video game, actually.

>why dont you just
I don't have the talent nor the patience to make my own cartoon, I do like to daydream about it though I guess.
I wish I knew how to draw/model on blender.

>>149427062 (OP)
Yes

>>149427062 (OP)
A bunch of industry pros in animation and comics DO post on /co/ but few are stupid enough to identify themselves here or talk about the board on xitter or some shit.

>>149427062 (OP)
I am indeed OP :3

I could make the time to work on my comics.
It's easy to think "oh, I'm too busy. I have other things to do." And then I spend 6 hours posting here.

>>149427062 (OP)
currently getting back in the groove with animation tests (also writing/boarding the next short film idea)
https://files.catbox.moe/3ebpfy.mp4

I'm a writer. A pretty good one, at that: I've gotten some short stories and some poems published under my own name.

But I can't draw. I've always thought it would be fun to team up with an artist to work on a comic or something, but I don't know how you go about finding such people. Not people who are willing to work for free, alongside me, until we hit it big.

>>149427625
That's literally me. I can write, but I can't draw. I wrote out a huge plot for a comic when I was in my late teens then nearly died and life and health issues got in the way, now I'm a middle aged man and has no skills or anything.

I have no creative cells in my body. Anything I would attempt to produce, aside from being extremely poor quality, would also be very derivative.
>>149427509
I love snickerdoodle.

>>149427625
>>149427645
Writers who wish they could draw a dime a dozen. You've got to publish some good shit or have good connections to get a good artist to work with you.

>>149427625
>>149427645

>>149427062 (OP)
Sorta. I've been building a world that I've been tooling around with for most of my life, and making projects with its characters, but I haven't quite had that "big, focused project" with it yet, even after writing a novella to detail the main story's beginning. I'm hoping the game I'm working on can help get an audience but it's pretty slow going

I'd love to make one but... I CAN'T DRAW

>>149427062 (OP)
I'm too afraid of creating another Lightbringer while fully believing I'm publishing the next Watchmen.

>>149427083
okay, but wherther or not the consumer makes anything doesn't deplete how much there already is.

>>149427062 (OP)
I'd rather finish my ideas then draw them.
>>149428151
Your story will never be as bad as Lightbringer. There hasn't been a webcomic that surpassed Lightbringer in 20 years.

I'd rather make my own game desu

>>149427625
Artist here. These kinds of projects are dying because audiences now have decided that destroying and humiliating artists is more fun than their art. It was kind of a flawed arrangement to begin with, but genius artists making entertainment for stupid normalfags who hate them is not functional in the current commercial system, let alone doing any of it for free.

>>149428527
Honest to Hypnos, the whole clusterfuck with Linkara is hard to penetrate for me. I know chan culture is kind of getting to the point where some of us are trying to advance beyond the dichotomy of Le Normalfags Versus Le Nerds in pursuit of something more meaningful, so I guess now is a good time to admit that I didn't actually think someone like Linkara was actually capable of making something as bad as The Lightbringer by accident. Not to imply he's being ironic, I've just always felt that those kinds of comics usually come from people that I would consider legitimately mentally handicapped. Linkara is a stock proto-internet nerd. Not really a genius like Andrew Hussie, but not stupid. It's confusing.

>>149427062 (OP)
Everyone creates in their own way. Some reproduce, some innovate, some curate and catalog, some review and critique. As long as you're doing something other than mindlessly staring, you're cool.

>>149428621
same reason I found it weird hearing him virtue signal for the addition of gay to children's shows, chastising them for taking so long
I'm like, aren't you from rural minnesota? aren't you a huge 20th century media nerd?

>>149428682
haha.. yeah...

>>149428621
It's been so, so many years since I read Lightbringer, but unless I'm remembering wrong, the story wasn't bad because it had crippling structural problems or colossal plotholes, it was bad because it was pretentious as fuck and the dialogues inevitably turned into glorified rants against strawmen. You don't need to be dumb to make something like that, just really full of himself with no one around to ground you.

>>149428703
could happen to any of us.
>>149428701
put it this way anon, when people gave you shit for liking things other than sports, what did you do? How did that affect how you imbibe your media?

>>149427062 (OP)
Nah, I'm not as passionate in drawing or animating, I like studying and creating music better.

>>149429263
dude that counts

>>149427062 (OP)
I mean I got a couple ideas for some comics, books, and games. You know, the usual daydream stuff.
I'm not really talented at art or programming and get discouraged by my lack of progress often to the point where I don't do anything for so long I regress back to nothing so it's probably not gonna happen.
It's also probably not gonna happen because I don't know how to write or have a "theme" in mind for them, I've just written outlines of what I think would be cool and fun to read personally.

>>149427062 (OP)
My ambitions exceed my abilities. Now if I lucked into a couple million dollars then I could hire people to assist.

>>149427062 (OP)
I tried to practice every day but I can't due university (I hate it so damn much) and have to take care of my cousins and help ar my local church. Everytime I have a moment for myself, I fall asleep like right now. I need to sleep

>>149427062 (OP)
I sure am!
Knock yourself out!
https://magicpowerball.the-comic.org/comics/637

>>149429729
wot's this about then? looks fun

>>149429772
Cute monster girls play magic volleyball.
Also, the monster mob is after them.

>>149427062 (OP)
Absolutely not. Drawfagging and musicfagging are big enough hobbies for me.

>>149429793
whoa, that sounds pretty unique.
>>149429811
those count!!! What are you guys thinking OP meant?

>>149427062 (OP)
I do make my own comic, but I would never dare to share it on /co/. It has underage characters so you know what would happen.

>>149429263
You shouldn't bother replying if you're not doing anything /co/ related.

>>149427062 (OP)
I doodle but I can't draw anything well or consistently, I can write tho

>>149427062 (OP)
Why would I waste my time doing that?

Why hasn't /co/ made it's own cartoon yet? Even if it's just one short episode...

>>149427625
Show us a sample and your contact info, brother

>>149430312
Cartoons by consensus never make anything. I learned this during a fan animation project. There were a hundred writers and only a handful of artists. I finally decided to animate, write, and direct a short myself just to make something happen. Had some help with the voice actors and other artists. That was the only thing our group ever did. Either team up with just one other person or pay a team. You're not getting anything done more complex than an E3 squilliam montage around here.

>>149430198
You should suck my dick

>>149430355
>implying the collabs aren't kino
https://files.catbox.moe/k9objo.mp4

>>149427062 (OP)
I don't have to be a chef to enjoy food.

>>149427062 (OP)
I don't have to do anything

>>149427062 (OP)

kinda