Welcome to the beginning of a very long day…
This wasn’t actually what I initially designed for this chapter image. It was initially just an image of the two leads. I don’t know where that drawing went to, it’s here somewhere because I don’t throw anything away, but it’s not that important. Just imagine the most generic image of Rasque and Dirj and you’ll pretty much have it. I wasn’t happy with that – I’ve mostly been fairly proud of the intro images in Rift and I didn’t want to break that streak. So I went back to the drawing board and came up with this, which I am far happier with.
…it should go without saying that since I didn’t come up with this first thing that there are no literal smoke monsters in this chapter. *waves hands dramatically* It’s a metaphor…
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So, unrelated to the picture, but I was looking at the Hall of Mirrors link you have here, and I can’t see any of the pictures. Are the pictures broken, or is it something on my end?
Oh! No, it’s nothing wrong on your end. The images are broken. Looks like the old filesharing site I used must’ve closed my account. I should probably just upload them here since I have the website now. 😀
Thanks for the head’s up! I don’t know how quickly I’ll be able to get to that, but yeah, I’ll update that as soon as I get the opportunity.
Any additional information you’d like to see added while I’m in there?
No problem. I was looking for some backstory about the elves too; I know they’re not your original creations, but I wanted to understand your thought process as to why they were there and how you chose to design them as they were.
I also noticed there was no mention of your first webcomic “Firefly Cross” in the other project sections alongside your Monkey Island LP’s. I might check that out sometime. Just seeing that angel dude at the final panel makes me interested.
Hm…that’s a good question, actually. Now I have to think back to how that all happened. 😀 I think the elves came in largely based on the design of the boetheri. The first drawing I did of a boetheri was just me randomly doodling in my notebook and I thought “huh. This thing looks kinda neat. I wonder what they and the world they live in are like?” It struck me that I’d actually drawn them with furry elf ears rather than some form of animal ears. So that sort of put the thought in my head that elves existed in this world too, and since they had this shared feature, I thought I’d add a bit of mystery to the boetheri origins and link the two communities. …I don’t think I really put much thought into the elves beyond that, though, since I knew they’d be the race we spent the least time with. They just sort of ended up as the stereotypical Tolkien elves (that is – the stereotype that evolved from Tolkien of elves as aloof, condescending, and decadent, less so the actual elves of LoTR) because then that was one less culture that I had to spend time developing. I decided to make an elf the instigator of the conflict mainly because I knew I’d be spending a lot of the comic depicting humans in a pretty bad light and I didn’t want to make it seem like they were the only ones capable of doing terrible things.
-Bit of trivia, Agneris was not the one I initially designed to be the primary elf character. That elf had a different name and had a much kinder and more understanding personality. I changed his character because I thought him being manipulative was just more interesting and fit in with the idea that everybody’s capable of doing bad things…and I changed his name because I forgot what his name was initially. 😀
I think I left FFC off that site because it was already linked from the comic…maybe…? I honestly can’t remember what my reasoning was there. Haha. I might’ve just forgot.
So, a fair warning with FFC, though. It was the first comic I ever made. I started it when I was a teenager. I don’t regret anything about it, really, because making it taught me a lot of things and I had a ton of fun with it, but it is what it is. 😀 A lot of teenage sensibilities in the writing. Some truly bad art at the start. And – I confess – a rushed ending because I’d just gotten a little tired of working on it. It’s finished, so that’s a positive, and there’s parts that I think are really fun, but I just wanted to give you a head’s up to some of the problems so if you decided to read it so you could go in informed.
…okay…that’s probably enough rambling from me for now. As you can see, it doesn’t take much to get me going about this stuff. 😀