I'm curious about how different teams chose to work together. Some divided art and writing cleanly, others shared art chores; some seemed to go back-and-forth from panel to panel, others did alternating pages.
What was your method?
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Chris López and Dan Hess
Let's see now... I came up with the plot, Dan scripted it. We both did about half the layouts. I did pencils/inks and Dan did colors/post (word balloons, page layout).
My "team"?
My right hand used the pen and my left held the paper in place.
Then to switch things up a little, my right hand operated the mouse while my left hand sat idle.
Terror: remind me never to tick you of :)
As for Thompson and I it was real lax. We went back and forth for pretty much the whole deal. Back and forth on the concept. He came up with the text. I did the art and some editing while putting it together.
He had some unfortunate technical difficulties (faulty 'net connection) but as far as I know he was cool with how things went.
I scripted, drew and coloured it and freakymist lettered and came up with a title
With Lucas' approval of an idea, I wrote a script, scene-by-scene instead of panel-by-panel. Lucas then penciled, inked and colored the panels to follow the script (and he did a darn fine job of that), and I added text balloons and sound effects.
I wrote a script with a narrator character telling a story, which meant I could draw the narrator and my partner (Rao!) could draw the flashback panels.
He drew his panels and sent them to me, then I printed them out and drew my stuff around them. Scanned the whole mess back in and punched his colors through using Photoshop. It worked really well!
Miguel and I are were a little mystified as to what to do with my characters, so we wound up basing the comic on his current continuity. I wrote some rhyming verse, he penciled and inked, and then it came back to me for colouring and lettering.
It was a learning experience, and being that I'm usually wearaing the drawing pants it was kind of cool to be someone's colorist (though I haven't quite got the hang of it yet) :)
Sahsha was patient with me while I cobbled together 16 panels worth of text; once she got that from me, she made magic happen. :D
Will wrote the script and did the layout for the comic. I did the backgrounds and my own characters, then sent it back to Will so he could add his. That was about it.
Eric and I hashed out a plot together, I did a preliminary script, he wanted to do the art, and that being one of my weaker areas, I said,
"Sure thing!"
He sent me two samples of the first page---one done entirely in his cartoony (but deligthful) style, and one done more realistically, in a sort of compromise between his style and mine. (The cover was done in the same style.) He asked which was better. I said it was no contest, to keep to his own individual style, and he was free to take liberties with my characters as needed.
He changed some things, to the better...it was he who had the CAre Bear's head explode when he tried to read MM's mind, I just had a hackeneyed line about how it was "like trying to swim the Atlantic". His was much better... and the afterwards with Wolfman and Uberwoman was all his. I did what little coloring there was, and I wish there had been time to do more.
Suggestion for next such "event". Give it a month instead of two weeks. Keenspace was down during part of the time, so Eric couldn't even read my comic, which delayed us, and I think Eric spent a day home finishing the art.
And I hope there IS a next such event. It was EXTREMELY fun.---Al
I tried to contact my first partner, he never replied. With about a week before the deadline, I whined to my new partner. Then my computer died again. Then I contacted my new partner again. He took pity on me and asked me to help. Then my computer died. Then I brought it back, then I got my submission in, but we only had a few days to do it.
And it still rocks everyone's faces.
-Beckerson
Well, the way we did ours was that my partner came up with the idea and the overal flow of the story. I'm the worst equipped to do any kind of a romantic story, so this was probably all for the better. :-)
Past that, I cleaned up the story a bit and did the art bits. Kinda couldn't help but add in a bit of my sense of humor as I drew.
Of course, this was after I got hung up on a few things in class and such and finished it barely behind schedule. :-) My partner was amazingly patient, though.
The end result? A Blind Date comic. So now you know the rest of the backstory!