RationalGoblin
2008-04-05, 06:47 PM
Hello, everyone on the Arts and Crafts forum. It's been a long time since I've been here.
I come here once more because I have an urge to make a webcomic, but as I am no artist, I require assistance.
A few of you may think you remember that I was once trying to create a Pokemon webcomic. You are correct. I am restarting the effort to make it once more, but I need help.
Instead of in PMs to one person, who, a little while after I send him/her the PMs, drops off the face of the earth, I will plainly state the details of the webcomic in this thread, so that a caring people can help me. (Mostly, I'll just copy-paste PMed questions and my answers to them, but anyone can ask questions if they want)
Maryring's questions (Keep in mind, this is from 9 months ago)
1: What kind of world is this? Is it similar to the games, the anime or the manga. Do humans and pokemon coexist, do they live separately or are they more like enemies? Can a human just walk past a charizard as if it was a kitten, or should he actually be careful?
Probably a mix of mainly the manga, (though I don't know much about the manga) then the game, and the least influence in the anime. (I depise the anime because it's too light-hearted (I.E. generally nothing bad ever permantly happens, the characters don't seem to have an influence on the world), it's jokes aren't even funny, the voices are annoying, and etc.)) 'course, comedys always good, so we need to come up with some humor. Perhaps a comic relief character or a running gag involving the main character and pain? (I'm being intentionally vague, as I can't think of a good starting point for humor.) This comic willl be darker then the anime, but not too dark.
Humans and Pokemon will co-exist, sometimes peacefully, mainly not. (For example, Mewtwo or a Mewtwo-like character, and humans who hate Pokemon) The Charizard will most likely try to eat the human passing by, though, so the human should be careful.
2: Do pokemon speak, or only those intelligent enough or none of them? Will there be a translation for the readers?
All Pokemon will speak, but the less intelligent ones will interject there name into random sentences. The most intelligent ones will use big words, and only state their name when they are asked to.
3: What's the gender of the protagonist? Is there only one, or is there several protagonists?
There will be three primary protaganists, one female, two male. I have plans for the protaganists, but if you (anyone helping me) want, YOU could basically insert yourself as a fourth, but still important protagonist.
4: What is the protagonist? A pokemon trainer, catcher, breeder, researcher, specialist etc.?
The main primary male protaganist will have mainly psychic and dark pokemon, starting with Ralts, and be a researcher, the female will have mainly rock/ground pokemon, starting with a low-level Onix, and be an (almost) normal trainer, and the third protaganist will have all different type pokemon and a Ghastly (important to the story), and his profession will be a gym apprentice down on his luck.
I'm aiming towards the psychic user to be a sort of sarcastic, if "nerdish" character, the female to be a happy-go-lucky scavenger type, and the water user to be a rather depressed and mysterious.
3 Questions by Dispozition
1. Any idea of how long it would run and how often would it update per week?
It would run pretty long, as I have a massive plot that Maryring (EDIT: ME, as Maryring seems to have dropped off the face of the earth) has the details of. Probably updated twice a week, (EDIT: ONCE a week) Tuesday and Friday. (EDIT: FRIDAY)
2. What style of art is it? Tradition manga style, chibi like, realistic?
Whatever you (EDIT: This is a question for the artist) want, but I'd prefer a mix between manga and realistic. Honestly, the style you like will be fine.
3. Where would you be hosting it?
Smackjeeves, a site for hosting comics.
Finally, a more recent question from radialskippy:
Hi there, I'm interested in your webcomic about pokemon, and I'd like to give you a suggestion, if you'd like it, for a strip someday...
Have you ever tried to catch a pokemon with more than one dozen pokéballs? Have you ever wondered what happens with the used pokeballs? Does the player just leave it there, as garbage, or are they recycled someday? Because even if you didn't catch the pokemon, your balls number gets reduced...
How about this: Each pokeball is a pocket dimension that can hold any amount of weight. However, due to unknown properties of the pocket space, it has to "attune" to something, and only one thing. It also has to hit the thing with the little button in the middle of a pokeball. Objects that it hits, but not with the button are still "attuned", but cannot carry the object. For some strange reason, the only things the pokeballs can attune to are Pokemon.
By the way, the Webcomics title is Pokemon Nightmares, and any further detail on the plot that is needed will be given to whoever becomes the co-creator of the webcomic.
I come here once more because I have an urge to make a webcomic, but as I am no artist, I require assistance.
A few of you may think you remember that I was once trying to create a Pokemon webcomic. You are correct. I am restarting the effort to make it once more, but I need help.
Instead of in PMs to one person, who, a little while after I send him/her the PMs, drops off the face of the earth, I will plainly state the details of the webcomic in this thread, so that a caring people can help me. (Mostly, I'll just copy-paste PMed questions and my answers to them, but anyone can ask questions if they want)
Maryring's questions (Keep in mind, this is from 9 months ago)
1: What kind of world is this? Is it similar to the games, the anime or the manga. Do humans and pokemon coexist, do they live separately or are they more like enemies? Can a human just walk past a charizard as if it was a kitten, or should he actually be careful?
Probably a mix of mainly the manga, (though I don't know much about the manga) then the game, and the least influence in the anime. (I depise the anime because it's too light-hearted (I.E. generally nothing bad ever permantly happens, the characters don't seem to have an influence on the world), it's jokes aren't even funny, the voices are annoying, and etc.)) 'course, comedys always good, so we need to come up with some humor. Perhaps a comic relief character or a running gag involving the main character and pain? (I'm being intentionally vague, as I can't think of a good starting point for humor.) This comic willl be darker then the anime, but not too dark.
Humans and Pokemon will co-exist, sometimes peacefully, mainly not. (For example, Mewtwo or a Mewtwo-like character, and humans who hate Pokemon) The Charizard will most likely try to eat the human passing by, though, so the human should be careful.
2: Do pokemon speak, or only those intelligent enough or none of them? Will there be a translation for the readers?
All Pokemon will speak, but the less intelligent ones will interject there name into random sentences. The most intelligent ones will use big words, and only state their name when they are asked to.
3: What's the gender of the protagonist? Is there only one, or is there several protagonists?
There will be three primary protaganists, one female, two male. I have plans for the protaganists, but if you (anyone helping me) want, YOU could basically insert yourself as a fourth, but still important protagonist.
4: What is the protagonist? A pokemon trainer, catcher, breeder, researcher, specialist etc.?
The main primary male protaganist will have mainly psychic and dark pokemon, starting with Ralts, and be a researcher, the female will have mainly rock/ground pokemon, starting with a low-level Onix, and be an (almost) normal trainer, and the third protaganist will have all different type pokemon and a Ghastly (important to the story), and his profession will be a gym apprentice down on his luck.
I'm aiming towards the psychic user to be a sort of sarcastic, if "nerdish" character, the female to be a happy-go-lucky scavenger type, and the water user to be a rather depressed and mysterious.
3 Questions by Dispozition
1. Any idea of how long it would run and how often would it update per week?
It would run pretty long, as I have a massive plot that Maryring (EDIT: ME, as Maryring seems to have dropped off the face of the earth) has the details of. Probably updated twice a week, (EDIT: ONCE a week) Tuesday and Friday. (EDIT: FRIDAY)
2. What style of art is it? Tradition manga style, chibi like, realistic?
Whatever you (EDIT: This is a question for the artist) want, but I'd prefer a mix between manga and realistic. Honestly, the style you like will be fine.
3. Where would you be hosting it?
Smackjeeves, a site for hosting comics.
Finally, a more recent question from radialskippy:
Hi there, I'm interested in your webcomic about pokemon, and I'd like to give you a suggestion, if you'd like it, for a strip someday...
Have you ever tried to catch a pokemon with more than one dozen pokéballs? Have you ever wondered what happens with the used pokeballs? Does the player just leave it there, as garbage, or are they recycled someday? Because even if you didn't catch the pokemon, your balls number gets reduced...
How about this: Each pokeball is a pocket dimension that can hold any amount of weight. However, due to unknown properties of the pocket space, it has to "attune" to something, and only one thing. It also has to hit the thing with the little button in the middle of a pokeball. Objects that it hits, but not with the button are still "attuned", but cannot carry the object. For some strange reason, the only things the pokeballs can attune to are Pokemon.
By the way, the Webcomics title is Pokemon Nightmares, and any further detail on the plot that is needed will be given to whoever becomes the co-creator of the webcomic.