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Dark Pascual at 10:56PM, April 3, 2009
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A small group of fugitives try to reach one of the last civilized cities while they try to survive the different threats that wait for them in the Wastelands...

Shaman Quest is the result of almost a year of work between writing, drawing, 3D modeling, and messing around with Poser...and a few months more to do everything again because my computer crashed...

It's a work that Im quite proud, so check it out and give your feedback, advices, death threads and everything in between...

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last edited on July 14, 2011 12:07PM
Saillestraife at 8:12AM, April 4, 2009
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It's really great art but you seem to have made quite a few basic spelling mistakes that litter the comic and really drag the quality down, it doesent say anything on your profile about english being a second language but you did say in one of your author comments that spanish is your main language so it is understandable you might make these mistakes. If you are ever writing in a second language you should try and get a person who can speak it fluently (in this case an english person obviously) so he/she can proof read it and show you the mistakes that way you will learn how to write english much better. You also said that you tried to use "cool" sounding english phrases, again only use these if you have an english person to proof read them to make sure you got them right.

However the art is really good (a couple frames seemed really dark though) you seem to like to use blur alot and I mean alot (during the first fight scene), but over all I think it's obviously had a lot of effort put into it and you've spent alot of time on it but you need to be careful in the last stages of making the strip that you dont get lazy and forget to proof read them (as these may be mistakes that you yourself can pick up on). Also some of the dialogue looks as though it's too big for the speech bubble which I will assume is because of the change from spanish into english so I cant really complain there but if you are trying to retranslate the comic, you may want to think about doing two versions where the comic bubbles are different sizes for the different languages but i understand that that would take a lot of effort and time that you may not have.

I think this comic is a good read and made to a very high quality and i highly
recomend it, the dialogue is pretty good and the charachters seem interesting and I genuinley want to read more! Sorry for the uber long rant!

PS you could probably ask someone on the forums if they could read your scripts it would only take a few minutes and it would definitley up the quality, the comic is very good already but it just needs a little buffing here and there!
last edited on July 14, 2011 3:17PM
Freegurt at 11:27AM, April 4, 2009
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I agree with Saillestraife, the spelling errors really mess with the flow of the comic. So just like they said, proof read it or find someone who could help you with the translations.

On another note, I do like the set up of the comic, and the overall design. The colours are nice and the ambiance is apparent.

The main thing I would like to point out is the fact that you've done it in Poser. I do commend you that you've taken so much time to work with 3D (I've never done it before, but I'm sure it takes a lot of work).
The problem with Poser though, is that the characters usually look like scary, lifeless mannequins shaped into a position. And for me, that's a major turn off when it comes to reading comics. The characters are very stiff and unnatural in their poses.
I'd like to suggest looking at photos of people in various arrangements. Try to make your characters more natural in their stances. (Here, if you haven't already seen it: http://www.drunkduck.com/community/view_topic.php?tid=41263&cid=238 )

For example, we're not robots. Robots have perfectly straight backs all the time and move like machines, with claw like hands and blank faces. People don't. We slouch and hunch, we poke out our bellies and bend our knees. Our joints aren't made of metal so we have to rest parts of our bodies.

I'm sure you don't want to waste your time on a webcomic. Although, just taking that extra moment to add some extra detail and patience really makes the difference.

One more thing, just try lightening up the comic. Everyone's screens are different and may be too dark for them to read.

Otherwise, it sounds like a good story and I do like the character designs. Keep on truckin' buddy!

Peace-
last edited on July 14, 2011 12:31PM

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