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Crikey Duck and all characters therein (c) Tania Walker and Vicki Eden.Gasp! It's sequential art! This is the first page of a page-per-week webcomic ~ blitterbug and I are working on. It's an ongoing story, character-based.
The comic has it's own website, located at CRIKEYDUCK.COM (www.crikeyduck.com), and I won't be uploading any future issues to DevArt, so if you want to follow the comic, please bookmark the website!
You might wanna zoom in to see this. Curse you, Dev! Curse you and your puny thumbnails!
Like a multi-limbed gestalt entity, ~ blitterbug and I share duties on this comic; we live in the same house, so doing these things is a very interactive process. Officially, we come up with ideas in group sessions, I write most (but not all) of the scripts, Vix does the ruff pencils, I do the clean pencils, Vix does the coloring and lettering, Vix designed the website, and I handle uploading and maintenance.
In reality, we work together on just about every stage; I'll make corrections to the ruff, she'll make corrections to the clean pencils, I get input into the coloring, and we both tweak the dialogue once it hits Photoshop stage.
I'm hoping I get faster and sleeker with the clean pencils, because right now that's the slowest part. We really want to try to get a finished page per week out, so wish us luck! Let life not interfere too much.
Should this experiment actually succeed, I'm hoping to print and sell yearly collections - roughly fifty comics per book. We'll see how we go.
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Comments: 82
XianJaguar In reply to ??? [2005-04-18 16:22:52 +0000 UTC]
Great layout and expressions! You do a good job of giving ducks a lot of expression and personality. I mean, they have DUCK BILLS! And yet, you're able to give them a wide range of emotion on their faces. Nice work!
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animator In reply to XianJaguar [2005-04-19 22:28:01 +0000 UTC]
Thanks! Vix and I have a lot of practice with duck bills. ^_^ Once you've got the structure pretty clear in your head, you can do just about anything with them. Front-on views are a little unattractive tho, and looking UP just looks downright weird, so there are certain things we have to avoid.
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TomatoDragon [2005-04-18 05:59:45 +0000 UTC]
Wow, this is really great. I'm definitely going to keep an eye on this.
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coralyoshi [2005-04-18 02:39:46 +0000 UTC]
I like it so far! *bookmarks* :3 Keep up the great work, you two XD
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Inspectornills [2005-04-16 22:13:57 +0000 UTC]
Heheheheh, awesome character designs. Kinda reminds me of the Mighty Ducks, but yours even more awesome!
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avencri [2005-04-16 19:27:35 +0000 UTC]
Oh, i don't think i had seen a comic from you, i guess things will become more interesting now.
By the way, i have heard the "crikey" thing many times, but i am not sure of how they apply it's use in Australia.
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ayonakari In reply to ??? [2005-04-16 16:46:45 +0000 UTC]
you're really good at expression~~wish u chould post more so i can have more reference^o^
cause beak is hard to draw, specially making facial expression(it's just me ToT)
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darkmane [2005-04-16 14:23:11 +0000 UTC]
Beautiful. It is amazing to me that it seems everyone is doing a webcomic, and I talked about doing mine like 2 years ago and still haven't done anything. You people inspire me, heheh. I procrastinate way too much. I really love the expressions and flow.
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bear-of-evil [2005-04-16 12:37:49 +0000 UTC]
Very nice. I like the use of transparent word balloons, something I always thought looked really neat.
And the character designs and layout is lovely...it's all good.
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rcoots [2005-04-16 07:32:20 +0000 UTC]
I must watch this comic. It looks like it's gonna be good. Heheh. Nice job so far.
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cidsational In reply to ??? [2005-04-16 06:33:55 +0000 UTC]
Very funny, well done you guys.
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deadrabbit [2005-04-16 04:16:05 +0000 UTC]
This is so awesome! Zakiya is so sexy XD
I must bookmark that site asap!
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shayfifearts In reply to ??? [2005-04-16 03:31:55 +0000 UTC]
YAY! Gotta keep up with this...its aweeeesoooome....
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andrewk In reply to ??? [2005-04-16 02:44:45 +0000 UTC]
YES! MY VISION HAS COME TRUE!
Keep at it! Looks great so far!
Are they in England or something?
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animator In reply to andrewk [2005-04-16 02:52:45 +0000 UTC]
Glad you like!
They're in Brisbane, Australia. We originally had 'Australia' in that first tagline, but took it off for space purposes. But yeah - that's where the 'crikey' in Crikey Duck comes from. It's an old Australian expression. *amused* ...which is still used by Steve Irwin. Oyy.
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andrewk In reply to animator [2005-04-16 03:15:47 +0000 UTC]
Yeah, I knew crikey was from Australia. I think anyone anywhere else knows that. They're just talking a little bit differently than usual, and I can't recognize the city name.
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Aliies In reply to andrewk [2006-03-28 03:19:47 +0000 UTC]
andrewk, why can't you recognise the city name when it's one of the major cities in Australia (Queensland), and crikey is jist a Steve Irwin thing; I don't go strutting around screaming, "Oi, Getta-load of this bewty!" most of us Aussies think he's an idiot on TV though an average bloke in real life!
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andrewk In reply to Aliies [2006-03-28 04:47:10 +0000 UTC]
I know all that! I just didn't know one particular name out of all the other hundreds of cities in the world! Am I supposed to?!
Forgive me if I amm coming off a bit rough, but it was a simple mistake. It was just something I was wondering about. I'm from Providence, RI, and have been to other parts from around there, but I don't know nearly any city outside of the country other than the most famous ones.
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Aliies In reply to andrewk [2006-03-28 05:09:50 +0000 UTC]
Sorry, didn't mean to be as an offensive gesture...
Should've added some smilies to show that it was in humor, like most of the garbage that flows from my mouth
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animator In reply to andrewk [2005-04-16 03:38:29 +0000 UTC]
Darrell's got a Southern accent, Ranger has a faint English accent, and Zakiya is just plain American - though with a sort of upper-class delivery. But all that'll come out in later strips. Introducing a character through comics is such a slow process. o_O;;
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Animadictsaiyuki [2005-04-16 01:59:28 +0000 UTC]
Xb; quite funny what she says in the last panel conserin about the gun and tooth brush.... heheheheh....
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dwilliams [2005-04-16 01:57:18 +0000 UTC]
So fun to see these guys in action. And I love that last line.
But you knew that.
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