In Quackcast 118 Banes and I approach the subject of Photoshop, attempting to give a quick intro to the dark, mysterious, primordial creator god of webcomics... in our own rambling way, well in MY own rambling way since I'm the on bumbling through pretending to know what I'm talking about while Banes asks sensible questions to prod me along onto the correct lines again. We chat about layers, setting stuff to "multiply" and what that means, mention short-cuts, pallets etc. One of the conclusions we come to is that good old Photoshop is such a gigantic behemoth that as a webcomic artist you don't really need it anyway since it's massive overkill and there are many specialised art programs that are more streamlined and more clearly focussed on the art skills you need, BUT if you really MUST have a pro photo-editing tool like Photoshop hopefully this gives you at least some brief info on it- as much as you can without screen-shots and stuff. :)

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Featured comic
Dreams of a Dark Hunter - http://www.drunkduck.com/Dreams_of_a_Dark_Hunter/

After Bravo1102 mysteriously vanished from his remote, smelly, shack in the wilderness, Banes and I were thrown back onto our own not inconsiderable resources in an attempt for a replacement topic! That was provided for us serendipitously by Skoolmunkee and her fantastic newspost about figure drawing! So Banes and I go into detail about the importance of drawing models from life and about some of the tricks of the trade- i.e. shorter poses tend to be more dynamic than the longer ones, and other helpful tips like using movies for reference as opposed to photos if you want to get better poses, scenes and see how clothes and fabrics work... The topic of this weeks Quackcast has inspired us to tackle more technical subjects, so next week: Photoshop!

Topics and Show Notes:

Featured comic
Runnin With a Gun - http://www.drunkduck.com/Runnin_With_a_Gun/

Links:
Skoolmunkee's figure drawing newspost - http://www.drunkduck.com/news/2013/mar/10/today-in-my-newspost-im-gonna-talk-about-life-drawing/
Banes, the man of last year - http://www.drunkduck.com/user/banes/

Summary:
This week Banes and I speak to the dangerous, paranoid, recluse known ONLY by the mysterious call sign: Bravo1102. We tracked this fearsome wildman down, deep in a dark forest, living alone in a lonely lone shack, feeding on squirrels and noodle flavoured earthworms. It was from this flawed mastermind that we gained fascinating insights into creating comics with photography, plastic action figures, painstakingly constructed sets, and hand built models. For Banes and I it opened up a whole new world... but at the end we realised that we'd only barely scratched the surface, so next week we plan on retracing our steps back to the lonely shack in the deep dark forest and once again confronting Bravo1102 and pumping him for all he knows!

Topics and Show Notes:

Featured comic
Clockwork Atrium - http://www.drunkduck.com/Clockwork_Atrium/

Links:
Bravo, the man of the hour - http://www.drunkduck.com/user/bravo1102/
Banes, the man of last year - http://www.drunkduck.com/user/banes/

Bravo's comics:
Go a Viking - http://www.drunkduck.com/Go_A_Viking_The_Sword_of_Kings/
Battle of the Robofemoids - http://www.drunkduck.com/Battle_of_the_Robofemoids/
Attack of the Robofemoids -http://www.drunkduck.com/Attack_of_the_Robofemoids/
Mask of the Aryans - http://www.drunkduck.com/Mask_of_the_Aryans/
Interstellar Blood Beasts - http://www.drunkduck.com/Interstellar_Blood_Beasts/

Skool has temporarily reformed from her evil ways to come onto the Quackcast with Banes and Ozoneocean to talk about some changes to the newsposting and feature schedule.
*With slightly less traffic to the site we think it’s better to give one feature an entire week’s focus and spotlight to get as much attention as possible, having it on Wednesday makes sense because it’s the middle of the week, Skool and I will both try and give a bit of a take on the week's feature, if not in the blurb, certainly on the Quackcast! And please remember to give us your feature suggestions!
*Monday Newsposts are now Skool’s space: Monday will be her place for posting her unique brand of skoolness...fun, interesting personality blog posts, not just standard news posts necessarily!
Skool is in charge of our Tublr thing, but she also posts a whole lot of her own stuff in her Tumblr accounts. She can bring some of that picture flavoured magic to the newsposts instead to entertain with her personality, give the site more of a face.
*Thursday's newsposts will be Ozoneocean's pale reflection of Skool's magnificent greatness.
*Friday is a normal newsposting day, but we're going to widen what can go up for DD member newsposts! NOT just 25 page milestones. now we'd like you to tell us about uupcoming projects, news about special things like a comic being published, or comic having special coverpages or crossovers or other newsworthy stuff so we can get the word out and advertise your work for you! Even things like New character introductions, Introductions of new comics that’re just starting, Clever ads for long running already established webcomics or related items like comic Facebook, Google+, Tumblr, Youtube, twitter accounts etc. As long as it's not spammy we'd like to know about it!


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Featured comic:
Cave comic DD: -  http://www.drunkduck.com/cavecomicdd/

 
DD Awards Discussion:
 - http://www.drunkduck.com/forum/topic/175464/
The DD awards time is upon us again where comics are awarded for their greatness by the community. But first people have to decide how that will happen. If you want to be a part of the behind the scenes process of the DD awards then you’d better me a part of it now!
Niccea looks to be the head again, but they welcome volunteers and anyone who wants a say on how things should go (at this moment in time).

Crossoverlord Retrospective:
Neil Purcell Says: A bunch of us who did the Crossoverlord got together and recorded a retrospective on the series. We're looking for ways to get the word out, and were hoping you might be able to mention it on the next episode. The video is hosted at YouTube and runs 105 minutes.
Here - http://youtu.be/vPUEGM8ynEc
Corssoverlord on DD - http://www.drunkduck.com/Crossoverlord/
Neil's comic on DD - http://www.drunkduck.com/Dasien/