#the digital core

[caretakerofmyth]

I should be working on so many things.

Learning to drive a stick shift

Buying groceries

Finishing book edit

E-mail to boss

E-mailing my time

Cleaning up papers

Book Edit #2 - The Long Version

Digital Core Prep:

Designing Heimdalmon

Next round Digimon practice

Prescripting R6 bits

Digivolution (???)

Title page?

Best Partner CD covers

R2-5 fixups - bgs, inking, sfx, crappy panels...ugh, I shudder to think at all the fixups they need.

Extra bits - refs

Epilogue planning

Ultimately what I would like is for my TDC adventure to be like an FDD project, with its own space.  Very few people outside of the tournament have been enthused about it so far, but I haven't really advertised it at all. I've already drawn more than 250 pages for it, which is already double the page count of the winner of the last TDC, and I expect to hit around 350 by the end, so that's a ton of loving work; even if there are only six episodes (although if you add in the whole tournament and everyone else's comics, it'd be more like 48, a standard show run) most FDD projects are written. I'm glad that I have a lot of it St.ashed, because I'd re-release it probably when it looks pretty and not thoroughly ugly in terms of background, ughhhh.  And some of those panels last round, ughhh. I hate having to cut corners, I really do.

[caretakerofmyth]

So I Realized

Lavvy & Hronawmon = Gryffindor - loud, courageous, brash, attention-seeking, gung-ho 'hero' pair that charges into fights

C.T. & Candlemon = Ravenclaw - quiet, analytical, independent 'thinking' pair that plans and gains information

Rei & Taz = Hufflepuff - persistent, loyal, goodhearted pair who doesn't know what the heck is going on but will push through it with the best intentions anyway Erskine & Wadimon = Slytherin - Prooobably not Erskine so much, but Wadimon or at least her higher forms--prideful, ambitious, devious, and (based on her rounds at least) constantly flirting with the 'dark side,' SNAKE.

We are the four houses of Hogwarts.  ...Well.

(P.S. I can also do this with the four Valkyries; Valkyrimon Veroanmon Skuldmon Urormon, in that order)

[caretakerofmyth]

Now the Hard Part Starts.

Looking over my round, about half done, it starts. I start seeing things I want to fix. Panels I want to include. Dialogue that I want to go differently.  Additional points that should be addressed.  Confusion.  Lack of flow.

I look at these things and I just want to say.....gluh.  This is the hardest thing about OCTs.

OTL

[caretakerofmyth]

No, no, no, no, no >.< (Re: TDC)

My work just offered me an extra project that will net me a significant amount of money and make my parents and boss very happy (which is important of course).  But the deadline is Halloween.

We have a very short round for TDC--literally half the time of last round--and I have a necessarily huge story, even longer than the last one.  It's my best story so far. I wanted to do it so badly, and I wanted it to look good. I was already upset at how shoddy I'd have to make my sketches in order to get it close to done on time, and how I'd have to drop my favorite things, the digivolutions. But now?  If I take this on too, getting TDC done to any level of quality at all, even to the quality of that sketch I posted two days ago, by the deadline will be frankly impossible.

This story deserves good art...if I can't give it art of the quality that it deserves or that I would show other people, I feel like I just shouldn't bother.  But I wanted to do it so badly.  It's a good story.  It's what I joined the tournament for.  I was so excited about it.

I wish they'd never offered me this project >.<

[sheekns]

TDC Round 3, these are the few pages I managed to finish e_e.