The latest strips from the Val'Cielle comic. Updated mondays!http://valcielle.fragdev.com/rss.phpen-ushttp://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rssFragDev.com - RSS Divisionhttp://valcielle.fragdev.com/strip.php?id=200http://valcielle.fragdev.com/strip.php?id=200http://valcielle.fragdev.com/strip.php?id=200http://valcielle.fragdev.com/strip.php?id=199http://valcielle.fragdev.com/strip.php?id=199http://valcielle.fragdev.com/strip.php?id=199http://valcielle.fragdev.com/strip.php?id=198http://valcielle.fragdev.com/strip.php?id=198http://valcielle.fragdev.com/strip.php?id=198http://valcielle.fragdev.com/strip.php?id=197http://valcielle.fragdev.com/strip.php?id=197http://valcielle.fragdev.com/strip.php?id=197http://valcielle.fragdev.com/strip.php?id=196http://valcielle.fragdev.com/strip.php?id=196http://valcielle.fragdev.com/strip.php?id=196http://valcielle.fragdev.com/strip.php?id=195http://valcielle.fragdev.com/strip.php?id=195http://valcielle.fragdev.com/strip.php?id=195http://valcielle.fragdev.com/strip.php?id=194http://valcielle.fragdev.com/strip.php?id=194http://valcielle.fragdev.com/strip.php?id=194http://valcielle.fragdev.com/strip.php?id=193http://valcielle.fragdev.com/strip.php?id=193http://valcielle.fragdev.com/strip.php?id=193http://valcielle.fragdev.com/strip.php?id=192http://valcielle.fragdev.com/strip.php?id=192http://valcielle.fragdev.com/strip.php?id=192http://valcielle.fragdev.com/strip.php?id=191http://valcielle.fragdev.com/strip.php?id=191http://valcielle.fragdev.com/strip.php?id=191It's been awhile since anyone's posted a news entry, so I guess I'll do so! Character creation is a very personal thing, I feel like; you get to know them and craft them in any way you like, and the best characters have reasons for behaving so, and are plausible. From the slightly external viewpoint that I have with these characters, being that I am something of a secondary creator, for some reason I really like Toben, possibly the best. Maybe I feel like her motivations are the clearest, or that I can relate to her? Ooorrr, maybe I had a role playing character kind of like her in college. He was crazy like her, always rushing in first. No fear, no second-guessing. Maybe I was playing the person I wanted to be? No second-guessing... Or maybe that was the easiest character to play. Never having to worry about what his reaction would be in-charater, it was always "CHARGE!" Even when I knew it was a terrible idea, he was still running in, head of the pack. So anyway, even though she's got no magic and no fancy weapon, she's still all about getting shit done. Her group isn't the best at organizing things or planning, but whether they're in or not, she's going to first! Good job, Toben, on being brave and leading by example.http://valcielle.fragdev.com/newsitem.php?id=113http://valcielle.fragdev.com/newsitem.php?id=113Know what I forgot yesterday? Updating! Even though Seth made these really nice preview images. Automatic updates . . . would be so awesome.http://valcielle.fragdev.com/newsitem.php?id=112http://valcielle.fragdev.com/newsitem.php?id=112This is not a formally approved-by-Seth page. I'm just sneaking it up! Oh, it isn't quite Sunday yet either. BUT WHATEVER. Here is page one which will probably be subject to some tweaks. I really shouldn't get to far ahead of myself with pages before I have a chance to actually finish more and Seth and I can get in fistfights over them. Tentative page 2 update in two weeks. Next weekend IS Christmas afterall. I have things to do. I'm also toying with a new coloring style...http://valcielle.fragdev.com/newsitem.php?id=111http://valcielle.fragdev.com/newsitem.php?id=111The cover for next issue is up!?!?!?! I would like to give a (probably very ambitious) start date of two weeks from now for the first page. Haha, let's see how well that goes. O_O And jeeze, Jake, could you be a little less positive the next time you yell at me?http://valcielle.fragdev.com/newsitem.php?id=110http://valcielle.fragdev.com/newsitem.php?id=110Last night I assisted Anne in erasing the pencil marks off the pages of our next issue. While I doodle concept art from time to time, sketch the layouts of the pages, and quickly etch an occasional (terrible looking) stick figure during the drafting process, erasing the pencil marks from Anne's ink drawings has been the most directly involved I've been with the art of Val'Cielle to date. However, I was asked if I could draw more during the layout process. For almost the entirety of the comic, I've been giving Anne these super small layouts which really only show panel placement. Now I've been asked to expand those out to a full page and draw crude stick figures in the panels to help Anne's understanding of place, interaction, etc. I imagine this will give us a treasure trove of hilarious looking (i.e. awful) stick figure drawings to look forward to in 2012.http://valcielle.fragdev.com/newsitem.php?id=109http://valcielle.fragdev.com/newsitem.php?id=109ANNE WHAT THE BITCH. Get off your extremely productive, highly creative, do-ten-times-what-I-do-around-here ass and finish the next chapter! Also, I'll look into letting you delete things again. Hopefully I replaced your "Delete" page with a redirect to something funny, like a redirect to a video of a giant sea mammal.http://valcielle.fragdev.com/newsitem.php?id=108http://valcielle.fragdev.com/newsitem.php?id=108Someone out there should be like, "Anne! STOP PROCRASTINATING AND FINISH THE NEXT CHAPTER!" But no one is like that. I have to yell at myself. It doesn't work very well because I don't yell very loud. It's like a gentle chiding. I am going to aim for early december update beginnings. Perhaps the first weekend in December? I actually have quite a bit inked . . . it's just making myself sit down and finish the rest of it god dammit. Every page is at 50-75% completion inking wise. Geesh. Also, these are some sketches I scanned in from bench paper at work. They are small adorable winter mammals called florries. I may have posted florrie filler before. They will possibly appear as random creatures in some future background panel. We like them because they are cute. The last filler image never got an image uploaded from it, Seth just did the "preview". I tried to fix it after uploading this, but it won't fix, and APPARENTLY the webmaster has removed my deleting privileges. JAKE. THAT WOULD BE YOU. I know you're upset about that RSSplosion thing from a few months back, but come on. Sometimes I need to delete things. What is this crap.http://valcielle.fragdev.com/newsitem.php?id=107http://valcielle.fragdev.com/newsitem.php?id=107These were my ideas for Hexatoben and Grim's winter outfits that I sent to Seth for approval. As you can see, Seth accepted them completely as their canon winter-wear. My hand writing is pretty terrible. it gets worse on a tablet. And you can also see by the bottom question that once I have his attention, I take it upon myself to focus it upon other things that I still don't know the answers to. =) As an update on the next chapter, I am going on vacation soon for 2.5 weeks. Surprisingly, extended airplane rides are great for getting shit done, so hopefully not too long after that the chapter will be finished and we can start getting it posted.http://valcielle.fragdev.com/newsitem.php?id=106http://valcielle.fragdev.com/newsitem.php?id=106It would be so much easier posting things up if I remembered what I'd posted up last time. Today is the colored version of Grim.http://valcielle.fragdev.com/newsitem.php?id=105http://valcielle.fragdev.com/newsitem.php?id=105As work continues on the bext chapter, I'll be posting up some stuff for your enjoyment. This first piece is from another artist, c3rmen who does some fine dragons. I commissioned him/her for the most sparkly of the four Celestial dragons.http://valcielle.fragdev.com/newsitem.php?id=104http://valcielle.fragdev.com/newsitem.php?id=104