Welcome to Spiraling Shape! (2/3)
Added 2025-03-03 08:00:10 +0000 UTCTrinity keeps talking, but the view gets a lot better if you like big things...
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MOAR LORE, lets go!
Bruce W. Liu
2025-03-04 01:46:14 +0000 UTCI do understand the contraints, especially on the time deadlines and the resources. Trying to create exactly what you want, using just the right tools, could make a project, as simple as creating a comic with digital assets, take months to years to complete.
Skippy Hugo
2025-03-03 20:08:38 +0000 UTCThanks for sharing the background and reasons for some of your choices. It all makes sense, and while epic complexity and visual overload is incredible to see, it's the story, characters and dialogue that carry the comic, for me. "Lean and mean," is fine if the story is good. My first introduction to opera was Wagner's 'Ring Cycle' (Yeah, start small and ease in into it. Hold my beer!), performed in Australia for the first time, in Adelaide. I was expecting to see one of the massive productions that are seen in Europe, with the Valkyries riding actual horses down ramps onto the stage, massive medieval sets, sword fighting in full armour and a huge chorus of singers. Instead, it featured a stripped back production with the characters in Georgian (period, not country) attire, virtually no props or sets - Donner's Mjolnir was a walking cane, not a hammer - just background lighting effects on a barren stage. I was disappointed at first at the lack of bombast and pageantry, but the music was insane (because Wagner and Adelaide Symphony Orchestra, plus another fifty ring-ins from around Oz) and the performances were so incredibly good that at the end, after four nights in a row, I was utterly smitten with the whole (lack of) spectacle. I think the lack of sensory assault actually made you focus more on the music, characters and story and the performances of all were good enough to carry everyone's attention. There were young, local performers filling out the minor cast and you could see they were obviously not at the level of the principal cast and were at their limit during the performance, but everyone did an amazing job and the principal cast were astounding. There are people who travel all around the world to watch every performance of the 'Ring Cycle', everywhere (because $$$), and the response from even those critics was very favourable (after having seen herds of armour-clad Valkyries descending from the ceiling on actual horses). In summary, this is your art and you need to tell the stories you need to tell in the way you need to tell them. You need to get the demons out of your head and onto the page/screen in the way that satisfies you and exorcises those particular demons (for now). The rest of us are just along for the ride, and cheering from the stands or playing on our phones, whatever the case may be in each scenario. It's good for us to understand why we can't have our pony and eat it it too. Thanks again for sharing.
Kaffeyette Lektor
2025-03-03 09:02:06 +0000 UTC
