Welcome to DCTL Redrawn !! Read the pinned post to learn more about this project. Join our Discord server if you want to help !! https://discord.gg/PcxY944GRH Hosted by @salpho
Welcome to our humble blog !! Here, we plan to archive and catalogue everything to do with the DCTL Redrawn project.
Read this post to learn more about it !!
Join our Discord Server to join the project !!
If you want to join the project to help with art especially later down the line, send an ask to this blog and your @ will be added to a list !! This list will be used when we make a proper call for artists.
Current Plan- (transcribed under cut and tag directory)
Tag Directory -
WARNING - SOME REBLOGGED POSTS MAY HOLD OUTDATED BELIEFS OR INFORMATION. I will try my best to add tags to the reblogs here to correct anything, but stay weary !!
ဗ #reblogs - Reblogged posts relating to the project
ဗ #asks - Answered asks
ဗ #host reblogs - Reblogs of @salpho's posts, the project's host
ဗ #dctl redrawn - All posts relating to the project (for visibility in search)
ဗ #sillies - Posts about jokes and funny things in relation to the project or server
ဗ #project update - Any post regarding updates to the project, be it moving along the plan or changing something else
ဗ #other - Simple asks and posts that feel too empty to reblog with the above tags
Thank you for reading through !! Hope to see you join us soon.
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ဗ Step 1- Summarise all chapters to help in later stages.
ဗ Step 2- Filter through chapters/scenes/pages and figure out which to omit.
ဗ Step 3- Use the summary to find where characters are described, then design them.
ဗ Step 4- Decide how much flexibility artists get and start storyboarding.
ဗ Step 5- Post an artist call, make a google form and update the server.
ဗ Step 6- Choose artists, assign roles and get to work drawing !!
ဗStep 7- Write the foreword, get fan comments and string the PDF together.
ဗ Step 8- Share the finished product !!
I will admit, I've been procrastinating on this project for a WHILE now. I want that to change !! However, I'll also be going to college soon which means things may be a bit harder to organise time for, and using my phone instead of my trusty pc can cause some issues depending on apps and focus issues.
HOWEVER - PART 2
So far, we've been gathering notes for character designs and tried our best summarising every chapter so we could then look through and pick out which ones to keep, shorten, or exclude entirely from our graphic novel. After a very long time of people struggling with finding the time or energy to add to both documents, we're going to host a VOICE CHAT on our Discord server, read through the book together and note down everything we find. We don't know when or how we'll do this just yet, but we WILL make a plan and follow through with it eventually !! As for now, we can always use more members to help us plan and brainstorm for this project !! Anyone is free to join, even if not an artist, to help us out (and have fun in the server - it's a lovely place !!)
Also worth mentioning, the host lives in the UK which unfortunately is implementing censorship laws (stuff like giving your ID to view content deemed "inappropriate" aka nsfw stuff and things deemed a political threat to our government) and have a good chance to worsen with time. If anything DOES happen that prevents me from hosting the project, I'll think about either postponing it until the laws potentially get repealed, or handing over the project to someone in a country that's unaffected. We sincerely hope nothing of the sort happens, but I only say this here just in case something goes wrong.
We're starting to gather character descriptions on the side of finishing our book summary, so if you remember any official (books) or canon (games and elsewhere) bits and pieces about characters found in DCTL, please comment !!
This can be page numbers, quotes from the book, Sammy's Hot Topic Takeover, things from the games, from Meatly or Mike himself, etc.
If you can't find a source, no worries !! We'll try and find it. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
@wynandcore's reblog got me thinking about the colouring in the graphic novels. So, I tried to see if they were right.
We all know the usual "piss yellow" of the original novels, as well as their gradient shading, as seen on the left. It doesn't compliment the lineart at all, the white on the yellow looks jarring and in general, it looks poorly thought out.
What I did was used a wider range of yellows and browns. I used cel shading and removed the gradients. Already, it compliments the style better !!
Below cut is the lineart for this so you can try colouring yourself, too !!
In order from left to right-
Full page with shading, first panel without shading and first panel with shading.
Tag me if you do this, I wanna see what the community does !! Let's do justice for Alex Arizmendi's artwork !!
This graphic novel also pissed me off so bad WHY DID THEY RUSH THE ARTISTS SMMMMM !!! WHY WAS HER EYE LIKE THATTTT!! bUT ANYWAY i went for a real world approach rather than the cycle color palette... Might not look the prettiest but i hope its at least better than the original product.. especially when it came to the og eye ;;
@wynandcore's reblog got me thinking about the colouring in the graphic novels. So, I tried to see if they were right.
We all know the usual "piss yellow" of the original novels, as well as their gradient shading, as seen on the left. It doesn't compliment the lineart at all, the white on the yellow looks jarring and in general, it looks poorly thought out.
What I did was used a wider range of yellows and browns. I used cel shading and removed the gradients. Already, it compliments the style better !!
Below cut is the lineart for this so you can try colouring yourself, too !!
In order from left to right-
Full page with shading, first panel without shading and first panel with shading.
Tag me if you do this, I wanna see what the community does !! Let's do justice for Alex Arizmendi's artwork !!
Do you think the reason why the art for the GNs look so rushed is because of Scholastic? They were in charge with the FNaF GNs and they looked rushed. It would make sense.
Oh, it absolutely is. And seeing their newest fnaf graphic novel it's... quite dire.
Sneak peak at the upcoming "Bendy and the Silver Screams" graphic novel
They must be paying Arizmendi one mere cent per day because what Is this quality. The exit doors being copied over and flipped, the shadowy figure too, Andy (the protagonist we see) doesn't even look scared in the last panel.
Alex Arizmendi if you're being severely underpaid and/or rushed blink twice for help
I've got a question about this redraw project; outside of the first page/the forward, how are you going to go about making sure that this doesn't end up as a "here's the book you can read for free instead of buying the original", especially since Amazon's being weird about the paperback of the og book?
I get the idea of showing the dev team what for, but I'm not sure I understand how this isn't going to backfire and instead just hurt the people who worked on the novel & graphic novel as well as the artists who participate in this redraw, especially if the dev team catch wind of it and decide that legal action is the way to go.
Hmm, good questions.
I'm unsure if I can even avoid the "here's the book for free" thing, but I remember there being no action taken against the pdf that was leaked, so I have a feeling fanmade content shouldn't be too much of an issue either. It's a risk for sure but needed for this project to happen.
The forward should help with not hurting the artists. I want to include links to portfolios and other (quality) content made by both Chris and Alex, and will clearly state that the protest is against Joey Drew Studios (and especially Schoolastic) as they underpaid and rushed the artist and adaptor.
I was told about another redrawn project for a FNAF book that happened a few years back, so I feel like looking into that could help me navigate similar issues. If anyone has other redrawn projects that they're aware of I'd appreciate being told about them !!
Hello ! I read about the DCTL Graphic Novel fan version project, and I just wanted to know if I could be one of the people pinged when you eventually make the recruitment post ? I think I saw somewhere you mention we could ask for that
I don't know if I could be that useful, but I would love to help out with the organisation, writing for panels, files and stuff like that to help out the crew to put it together ! :] And maybe eventually helping with sketches but humans are hard
Also good luck on your projects !
You've been added, thank you for the interest !!
I was thinking I might need some help with organising things, so I might message or send an ask if I ever feel like I do !! All help is appreciated.
is there any way that physical artists (e.i can't draw digitally) would be able to join the project?
Yes, if a traditional artist would like to make a physical page they can participate.
However, it would have to be scanned and uploaded that way. This is to make sure quality is not lost due to camera quality or lighting, and so the page can fit.
Question: for the redrawn project, are we going to be using the old Ink Demon design or the new one? I'm mostly asking because the old one is what's described in the book, but I didn't know if we were using the new one since that seems to be what his design is in canon now :/
The DCTL redrawn project aims to be as accurate to the original book as possible, so it will be using the final BATIM ink demon design.
It's likely going to just be the in-game model, but I'll see about any creative liberties I may feel would fit the story.
PLEASE SUPPORT THE DCTL REDRAWN PROJECT PLEASEE READ THE POST. WE NEED TO BOYCOTT AND PROTEST THIS THING (see #dctl redrawn for more)
THEY REPLACED THE ORIGINAL BOOK WITH THE GRAPHIC NOVEL ON AMAZON. OUTRIGHT REPLACED IT. LOOK AT THE REVIEWS HERE THIS WAS REPLACED !!!!!!
THEYRE FORCING PEOPLE TO BUY THE NEW ONE HOW WILL PEOPLE GET THE OLD ONE !!! THIS BOOK ALREADY HAS SO MANY ISSUES AND NOW THIS ? REALLY ?? MAKING THE ORIGINAL INACCESSIBLE ON AT LEAST AMAZON ???
For DCTL redrawn, wouldn't it be great if everyone who participated had the chance to get a physical copy of the entire book ? There are services out there that can print personal books.
Only issues would be financing that and how many people can actually receive one. Any thoughts ?
I also want to specify the physical copy would not be available for the general public to buy, as that may infringe on copyright a bit too far. Only those who worked on the project would receive one as it would be their work too.
Will there be a deadline? Or is it gonna be like, when each artist finishes their panels.
I would also like to participate or help others in their part ^^
I'm still in the process of figuring out some stuff. I imagine that the deadline and amount of artists will be determined once I work out the proper plan for the project. I do have a feeling that most who offer to participate will help in some way at least though, we'll see !!
As for updates, I plan to start reading and noting down stuff like character and location descriptions, summaries for the chapters and more today.
And you'll be happy to know you're on the @ list for when I send out a call !!
