Brevity is the soul of wit. In essence, make anything the comes from your whelpling fingers be succinct, and that you don't overstay your welcome. Writing for too long can...
Not because of any especially difficult animation, mainly cause of several tests and stuff.
Prompts used were the countless people asking for Grape to be relevant.
Good job, you unleashed an insane purple feline assassin on our heroes.
More on that next episode. Feel free to submit prompts, for any of the characters. Thanks for taking the time to read through this. Thanks for following this silly thing in general. I love you all.
Furrymoan: @Dahooligan: Mix of both, really. Also add the fact that gifs are small, and unless I start using flash (which I don't intend to do anytime soon) there'll be a limit in not only the filesize and my own skill, but the amount of shaded colours, the resolution itself, and the limited amount of text I can cram into this shit.
Also my own overall idea of the storyline is pretty finished. Naturally prompts will influence it, and maybe a REALLY good prompt will turn it on its head, but the gist is there. And more characters would convolute this almost immediately. Let's face it, one guy making gifs is hardly HBO level material.
Furrymoan: @picartosux: Yeah, sorry guys. The only characters that MIGHT get added to the roster are other artists, like Ch'marr. But even then, this is such a tiny format, it's hard enough to give these few characters stuff to do and things to say.
Furrymoan: @Pronin: I'm good, cheers. Involving too many random online people in a project like this rarely turns out well, and in any case, it really isn't the end of the world if one shitty pixel animation arrives a few days late on some furry webcomic.
Furrymoan: @picartosux: I know, right? It's actually comfy as shit, though it's a bit small. I've been using it to play morrowind at school too, because I don't wanna pack up my proper gaming mouse every morning for half an hour of killing cliffracers and drawing cat people; surprisingly comfy.
Furrymoan: @picartosux: Thank you so much! The style is a necessity because gifs are such an outdated format, doing this in proper colour would have resulted in some gross compression. So I went for the whole Super Metroid look, and I think I'll stick with that, for now at least.
Dramatic Descriptions
It's definitely not the WORST fursona out there
thanks grape, youre alright mate
sorry for making you a purple fruit juice based feline person
Anonymous_Person, I don't know, I guess Alkosh made me this way
Mhauhz: command bomb all over my body bb
* Finish it properly before Katia:Inflitrate
* Make it popular enough so that somebody makes a mod where I can use grape-based magic in Skyrim/Oblivion/Morrowind/whatever
* Successfully distract Prequel's readers (including myself) from the gaping hole in our lives that has gone unfilled for mear on two years
* Get acknowledged by everyone in the comic (not including GRAHP, rest in peace friend)
So far none of these seem unrealistic and that makes me really happy
Not because of any especially difficult animation, mainly cause of several tests and stuff.
Prompts used were the countless people asking for Grape to be relevant.
Good job, you unleashed an insane purple feline assassin on our heroes.
More on that next episode. Feel free to submit prompts, for any of the characters. Thanks for taking the time to read through this. Thanks for following this silly thing in general. I love you all.
that's interesting, thanks mate
also go back to hell i'm still working on the update focused on you
Also my own overall idea of the storyline is pretty finished. Naturally prompts will influence it, and maybe a REALLY good prompt will turn it on its head, but the gist is there. And more characters would convolute this almost immediately. Let's face it, one guy making gifs is hardly HBO level material.
And PDN isn't AS bad. It has layers, it was pretty much what introduced me to pixel art. It got worse though.
Thanks for the compliment though
Also the amount of positive reinforcement here is amazing. Love you lot.
Though the backgrounds of the sidescrollers and the entire weird first MS Paint thing were done with a mouse, as well as some of the text.
And thanks! Though I'm saving up for a cintiq.
(face was edited in SAI using a bamboo)
Who knows, maybe there'll be grapes of some strange sort in it anyway..?
Fuck, I meant:
Bonus:
http://i.imgur.com/LIQVJgX.jpg
Guess I'll have to comply. Next update will just clear up some of the hero stuff here, and then we'll have a look at what the big bad is up to.
The commands used were everyone asking for plot. Also thanks to the people in disqus who helped me design AMthiccsune and Unidentified BirbA.
As always get them prompts ready
Next update will probably feature less text because christ do you know how much work it is painting individual letters onto frames in photoshop
and about 1-3 hours by now, most of it is just copy pasting layers and writing individual letters
Prompts were taken from @Mhauhz (Contact AMKitsune) and @GoodIdeasAreOverrated (Tell Unidentified_BA that phase 1 of the plan is completed).
Please leave more prompts so I know what to do with this, if we defeat Ebil Kazerad before Prequel updates I'm making my own webcomic
Srsly though next episode will contain an actual prequel character stay tuned
And I'll do my best to make at least fifteen episodes, I have a whole Starwarsy plotline planned out, but we'll see what the prompts are
I don't know if this is legal or not please dont ban me
edit of Makimb0's edit of Cider's artwork