Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-11518342-20140308201629/@comment-10734109-20140708155114

@Totally, if we do decide on making a webcomic we will probably do it in colour anyway. It will be much more pleasant to the eye and more people will be attracted to the comic. Trust me; when it comes to the internet my eyes always glance over black and white drawings (especially when they are cartoons). Plus, the formatting would not be too difficult. We could use some simple forms of variety, such as the size of the boxes and stuff like that. As for the orientation, it would be left to right because that's how most people will naturally read it (since it was originally written in English) and it will not need specifications. For the layout, I was thinking something along the lines of this. As you can see, it's simply a bunch of boxes with a size variation, but it still adds interest to the layout. The variation is really good if we want to establish a setting or an important event, or if we want to show sequential actions done by the same character (as in the first 3 panels). Plus, this is a really good web comic in my opinion and I recommend that you all read it xD.

And Par, I think that we should try and work out all the details of the storyline before we even start drawing it. We can sketch out thumbnails and such, but we shouldn't necessarily begin on the finished product. If we start uploading at a steady rate and then suddenly hit a block and have to discontinue the project, the followers that we did gain would be very disappointed and the whole thing may have ended up being for nothing. Like AP said, we should think this out thoroughly as to minimize our troubles along the way.

Also, I agree with Birdie. We should do a lot more organizing, especially with the authors. We never got anywhere with the story because everyone had completely different ideas of what the story should be. However, there are some things that we would need to think of. First of all, what is going to be our target age range? Since DeviantART is probably our best bet, the story should probably be aimed at younger teenagers (13-15). Also, since we are probably going to do realistic fiction and comedy as the main story genres, we seriously need to make the characters act as realistically as possible (especially when they're being humourous). Most teenagers despise the Disney Channel effect. By this, I mean that the genre is realistic fiction and comedy, but the characters' actions are so overexaggerated and ridiculous that a lot of times the older kids will find it unbearable (this is also present in adult TV shows). If we decide that we want this story to include comedy, we need to write it with care. Instead of pulling ideas from television shows, we should look to mainly books and movies. Usually the sense of humour is more universal than it would be in TV shows. However, I am not excluding every single television show. The ones that were clearly meant to appear cinematic and are geared towards multiple age ranges (such as the newer series of Doctor Who) can be just as good of a source. I'm just saying that it's probably best to stay away from basing our story after most TV shows because a lot of the time they are either aimed at children or adults instead of both. We can aim the story at 13-15 year olds, but that's not saying that we can't make it enjoyable for 11 year olds or 18 year olds.