Post by Ma on Feb 1, 2018 2:02:06 GMT
this is something i would really like to know and discuss with people.
what first got you into webcomics?
this isn't that serious of a conversation so i posted it in general and not questions.
i personally got into webcomics from being a commission artist for video games, and it was absolute hell, the people i worked for just had no respect or understanding of the effort it took to make the detailed animations they asked for.
so for a change i decided to take a commission for a comic, and the writer like actually understood me when i was talking about the technical details and for a major bonus he actually knew what he wanted from me.
this got me interested in pursuing more comic commissions instead of game ones, so i did some research into webcomics and found some major issues with the ecosystem when i compared it to the indie game ecosystem i was used to, webcomics had a real uphill battle that i knew could be improved. indie games had a big twitter retweet scene which made it really easy to get people to at least see what you were posting and at the time there wasn't really anything like that for webcomics (there was stuff for indie print comics however)
a few months went by and i thought if i don't do the bare minimum and have a twitter account that would just retweet posts made to #webcomic and #webcomics with no prejudice then how could i expect anyone else to, so i made the WebComicNetwork as just a small side project i had for the greater good. and it quickly surpassed anything else I've ever done in popularity.
i have a problem where if anyone asks me for help i'll drop what i'm doing and help them, so when people started asking me to do more for this apparent community i had made i just did it, i now spend most of my time fully immersed in webcomics, if i'm not reading webcomics for research i'm writing something about webcomics, and it's not that different to the things i was doing before honestly, the major change is just all the positive feedback i get.
i probably went from 0 to 100 a bit fast with my involvement.
although i appreciate indie print comics, i feel their pretty much covered when it comes to support, maybe not perfect but they have people doing the things i do for them already,
so i solely focus on webcomics because i believe they need more people in their corner.
i'd really like to hear other people's stories
what first got you into webcomics?
this isn't that serious of a conversation so i posted it in general and not questions.
i personally got into webcomics from being a commission artist for video games, and it was absolute hell, the people i worked for just had no respect or understanding of the effort it took to make the detailed animations they asked for.
so for a change i decided to take a commission for a comic, and the writer like actually understood me when i was talking about the technical details and for a major bonus he actually knew what he wanted from me.
this got me interested in pursuing more comic commissions instead of game ones, so i did some research into webcomics and found some major issues with the ecosystem when i compared it to the indie game ecosystem i was used to, webcomics had a real uphill battle that i knew could be improved. indie games had a big twitter retweet scene which made it really easy to get people to at least see what you were posting and at the time there wasn't really anything like that for webcomics (there was stuff for indie print comics however)
a few months went by and i thought if i don't do the bare minimum and have a twitter account that would just retweet posts made to #webcomic and #webcomics with no prejudice then how could i expect anyone else to, so i made the WebComicNetwork as just a small side project i had for the greater good. and it quickly surpassed anything else I've ever done in popularity.
i have a problem where if anyone asks me for help i'll drop what i'm doing and help them, so when people started asking me to do more for this apparent community i had made i just did it, i now spend most of my time fully immersed in webcomics, if i'm not reading webcomics for research i'm writing something about webcomics, and it's not that different to the things i was doing before honestly, the major change is just all the positive feedback i get.
i probably went from 0 to 100 a bit fast with my involvement.
although i appreciate indie print comics, i feel their pretty much covered when it comes to support, maybe not perfect but they have people doing the things i do for them already,
so i solely focus on webcomics because i believe they need more people in their corner.
i'd really like to hear other people's stories