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Nvm I figured it out lol

Oh dear lord I'm trying to write a heist scene for Ex Machina: Origins and for the fucking life of me I do not know how to write one.

Everything else is perfectly written. Yes, you heard me.

All the other chapters are written and saved.

But this?

Fucking.

Nothing.

I can't post the other completed chapters until this one is done.

Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck

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Oh dear lord I'm trying to write a heist scene for Ex Machina: Origins and for the fucking life of me I do not know how to write one.

Everything else is perfectly written. Yes, you heard me.

All the other chapters are written and saved.

But this?

Fucking.

Nothing.

I can't post the other completed chapters until this one is done.

Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck

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guys look out when you're on cybertron's surface, i heard there's a cougar on the loose

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"Slutting it up sloppy style" is a sentence that has now forced its way into my vocabulary. Thankyou.

Accident sparklings are still hilarious as a concept to me but especially when the parents aren't someone you'd expect accident sparklings from. Like, imagine Ratchet gets smashingly drunk and decides to relive some of his Party Ambulance days, has a wild orgy he barely remembers the details of, and then a month later learns he got Drift, Rodimus, and fucking Megatron all pregnant. I think he would briefly consider believing in Primus because theres no way that this isn't some sort of divine punishment for slutting it up sloppy style

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Work in progress for Ex Machina: Origins

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Oh man, this is gonna be harder than I thought lol. But I really really do appreciate the breakdown!

Sorry to just kinda creep into your ask box like this but you know your shit better than I do.

So I ask you like the awkward goblin I am if you have any advice for someone trying to get into making comics? Cus like, I'm lost af and I vaguely remember you mentioning that you learned to draw from comic books.

quick correction, i got into drawing from a comic drawing WORKSHOP so i've specifically worked with professionals for whom comics are an art form and full time job.

SO! Lets talk about comics!!

comics are complicated. it's about as close to animation as you can get on a still page, so it's an art form that follows similar principles! some things to keep in mind as you read comics that may help you in your endeavors are:

-panel placement -pacing and -story

I've just flipped to a random page in this issue of mtmte (thank you alex milne) as an example

So lets break it down.

In our first panel, drift establishes the action (we are in a fight!) and he's posed in a sort of triumphant mid swing after icing two cons, taking up the majority of the panel to convey both his speed and importance. this tells us we are likely winning this fight. This also tells us drift is on a roll.

but AHA! the next panel has rodimus grappling someone. we're close in, the tension is high, this could go either way, you're leaking in to read his text, and ah, he's struggling, oh no-!

BUT THEN! SHOCK! An action has disrupted our expectation, drift has stabbed this guy in the face!! payoff!!

aaaand ahhh... release. the action is over, drift has won, the page is paid off. we take a step back, and the framing here is clearly comedic. They are standing over a corpse griping over who's kill it was, so the framing makes them feel smaller and stupider, because this is objectively a stupid argument.

see what im getting at here?

The first and last panels are splash panels, they introduce us to the action, as if we're zooming in on a shot, then zoom us out to move on to the next scene, but in the middle there are two panels that draw us into the scene, invest us in the action, because they're so close up.

when you work on a comic, consider how a reader would consume this page. is this page one they're meant to linger on? or one where the reader should be on the edge of their seat prepared to flip to the next one?

when you place the panels, you set the pace and emotion of the page like a pathway for your readers to walk down, so its up to you how the pathway is laid out!

happy comicking!

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Working on a full body version for Z

This is the sketch so far and may give a hint into some of his origins

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david kaye rules dood

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Fortnite is a good game sometimes

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Whirl

Specifically because whirl looks like a bird and ravage is a cat

Whirl has no clue

Who would the funniest person for Ravage to have one sided beef with

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So I'm thinking about the Shattered Glass version for my continuity I'm working on and omg it would be so fucked because the idea for why Megatron hates Optimus so damn much was because he was under the impression that Optimus followed in Sentinel's footsteps.

In shattered glass it becomes true.

Fucking

Wild

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Eeeee did a final draft of D16!

His shit is crooked but idc!

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tarn begs for backstage passes to see his idol

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How do you feel about TFA Optimus Prime x Prowl?

To me it's a crack ship

I'm a Prowl x Jazz /Prowl x Bumblebee shipper

But I can see the potential chemistry between those two.

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Got bored and drew my fave pole dancer lol

Not the best but hey, I was listening to one hell of a song and he came to mind immediately

Song in question btw

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What happens if a bot gets stuck during transformation, and I mean REALLY stuck

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Formal design for Orion

Less derpy and I really vibe with the optic style I've got going on