#Behind the curtain

[comicaurora]

my current record for number of comic pages lined in one day is 12, set last night, breaking my previous record of 11. today my goal is to hit 22

[princedevitt]

[gluzzo]

We have a couple of companions who are out right now on an errand, but they will be joining us here shortly, I assume.

[keyblack]

We recently hit ONE MILLION VIEWS ON Behind the Curtain!!

Thank you guys so incredibly much!! Here are a few drawings from a recent three-part Off the Cuff special, featuring project director and writer @kaleidraws as cohost, as we celebrate by answering some of the questions we've received about the project! Go check 'em out!

Also - for all you folks curious about the assets used in Behind the Curtain, there's a special download of ALL BTC ASSETS - rigged models, textures, 2D assets, you name it - made available in the description of part 3!! Don't miss it!

[gameraboy2]

Behind the Curtain by Elbert McGran Jackson

[cheesy-dragon]

I CANNOT stop thinking about GeneCo’s hypothetical corporate pride line of rainbow organs. “Because pride is what’s on the inside”.

[gooobley]

[cassiebones]

As they walked back to the high school together, snow began to fall around them. Rio had given back Agatha’s hoodie that morning, apologizing for having spilled the contents of a breakfast burrito on it, and opted for a fur-lined denim jacket instead. It didn’t look nearly warm enough for the below-freezing, snowy weather they were having. Rio’s hands clutched the hot chocolate like a lifeline, her fingerless gloves doing absolutely nothing to keep the blue from creeping down her fingers.

“For Goddess sake,” Agatha huffed, unwinding her scarf from around her neck and reaching out, tugging on Rio’s arm to keep her from walking any further. Rio frowned down at her in confusion. Without a word, Agatha winded her deep violet scarf around Rio’s neck, sticking the ends down the open collar of her jacket, then immediately marched forward, taking a sip of her matcha. When she didn’t immediately hear the other girl’s footsteps behind her, she rolled her eyes, looking over her shoulder. “Are you coming?” she asked. “Or have you officially been frozen solid?”

- Behind the Curtain by Cassie Bones, chapter 6 (on AO3)

It’s not entirely accurate to the scene I wrote, but I like how it came out. They’re so cute and gay 🥰💅🏻

[quinngefail]

Oh yeah here's how the idea for that last comic was written out in my notepad LMAO

JUST THOUGHT IT'D BE FUN TO SHARE........

[a-bold-departure]

#Repost @/alextimbers

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Some @/beetlejuicebway workshop rehearsal photos taken by composer @/edmundperfect 🕷️

[comicaurora]

I’ve repeatedly seen you say that you can’t read any Aurora fanfiction “for legal reasons”. I assumed this was a joke and you’d just resolved to yourself not to read any that might change where you take the story (understandable), but the more I see you say it, the more I wonder if there’s actually a legitimate legal reason. So forgive my inability to pick up on humor sometimes— is that a joke? And if it’s not, could you elaborate a bit on those reasons?

I am not a lawyer so I only have a layman's grasp of this, but as I understand it, if I read a fanfic, think "oh that's a cool idea" and consciously or unconsciously integrate it into my future work, that ensnares me and the fanfic author in a terrible tangle of mutual theft.

Technically, fanfiction exists in an extreme legal gray area, and in the early days of the internet, authors were very litigious towards their fans using their work. In the same way that Disney will get on your ass for putting Mickey Mouse in your work, any author has the same legal ownership of their characters, and they can choose to exercise it. Some famously have, like Anne Rice, but most nowadays do not. Fandom is understood to be a beneficial ecosystem for a creator to cultivate. Most creators Pretend They Do Not See It so it can continue to exist.

But suppose you wrote a fanfic about Aurora where something cool happened, and then a few chapters later, your story showed up in Aurora itself. Maybe even with some lines ripped verbatim, for even less plausible deniability. Oh shit - you've been robbed. But your story was fanfiction to begin with, only loosely permitted to exist with the understanding that you didn't own the setting or characters used. In this scenario, I stole your work, but it was work you made out of MY work in the first place. If you got mad and litigious, the legality of fanfiction itself would immediately take center stage in the argument. Do you have a right to your work when you made it out of MY work without permission? Do I have the right to take work that was made out of my work and use it without credit? The fact that I think fanfiction is a great and fun art form has no bearing on the fact that, technically, it is IP theft. And the fact that it IS IP theft has no bearing on the fact that me seeing a cool idea in a fanfic and going "mine now" would still be a shitty thing to do.

But things can get muddier. Suppose you write an Aurora fanfic where events A, B and C happen, and then over the next several chapters of Aurora, A, B and C happen. Did I steal ideas from your fanfiction? Maybe, but it's also possible that I had A, B and C planned out beforehand, and you put them in your fanfiction because you picked up the foreshadowing and prep I was putting down. You could still be mad about it, but there's a very real possibility that in this scenario the only thing I'd be guilty of was Good Foreshadowing.

In this situation, if you got mad and litigious about it, my best defense would be ignorance. I couldn't have stolen your fanfiction because I never read it. There is absolutely no chance that I was influenced by your work; I've never even laid eyes on it.

And that is why I don't read Aurora fanfiction.

[princedevitt]

Cody Rhodes - Wrestlemania XL: Behind The Curtain

[simsphere]

behind the curtain 💋

The SLV girls getting ready for a shift 🪩💸

Build by @sierrathesimmer ♡

[keyblack]

Some illustrations I've been doing for my new YouTube series "Off the Cuff!"

I'll be uploading videos tri-weekly about a variety of topics, including personal projects and various things I take inspiration from.

For the first seven episodes, I've been discussing various aspects of the production of "Behind the Curtain," ranging from the initial concept all the way to the final animation. Each episode is accompanied by a speed-art illustration related to the topic of the day!

Also, have a bonus one that I didn't get to use because the recording didn't work:

[freckleocalypse]

Had to make this after indulging in @keyblack’s Behind the Curtain video she just released.

[cliff-and-the-kid]

/long-suffering sigh

@anotherhumanpet being the RP friend in question:

Mud: He's a war criminal but he can still be baby

Tri: It Very much Depends on whomst you ask x'D

Mud: I ain't a coward Problematic faves are still baby

Tri: THAT I do not dispute Just that I'm not quite willing to include Canon G1 Buckethead in the same category

Mud: To each their own

(HIGHLY aware that sharing these means I'm likely to be outvoted by the general RP community, but what the hey, let's see how many of y'all come out the woodwork to defend crusty old Megs)