Graphic Novel vs Manga?!

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I need your help determining the art direction of this project people. Which do you prefer based on style alone, then imagine a whole book with it.

Pro Manga

  • Pages take less time.
  • Screen tones are texturally appealing.
  • Focus more on story, less on art???
  • I always thought this story would be a manga

Con Manga

  • I got done 8 pages this year and normal manga has like 200 pages, wtf!
  • The format is small, so the characters will always look….less good and be less consistent
  • I don’t totally enjoy working with tones and stuff

Pro Gfx Novel

  • Its got sweet colours and I’m better at colour then tone.
  • The format is bigger, so I can focus on art more and really nail the character appearances.
  • Books range from 60+ pages, so less the effort per book.

Con Gfx Novel

  • Pages take slightly longer to finish.
  • Perhaps my style is too clunky for bigger formats???
  • I would have to redo pages 2-8 again.

So theres a few things to consider when looking at these two comparatively. I have a few more, but it unbalances the arguments. I’m just a bit biased towards one of them (not saying which). So please let me know which you prefer and for what reasons. Cheers :D

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New Pages!

Well, if you haven’t heard the word, there’s new pages up! There are 4 new pages over at the pages page. So enjoy those :D

Also, did some art for the story, which you can see below. Click to full view it.

 

Also, the FE:RPG rules book is still in development. Its updated a little bit, but I still haven’t had a test game. That should happen soon. You’ll hear more about that as we go though.

Enjoy!

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FE-RPG

I know its been a long time updating this site, but in my absence I’ve basically written a good portion of the Fates End Role Playing Game book. Basically its kind of like D&D, but with its own rules and stuff. Its not based on D&D, but that’s the closest comparison to describe what its like.

The book describes the races you can be, character classes, skills up to level 5, items, actions and soon it will have a set of premade monsters and enemies to reference. The game is yet to be play tested, and is in an ugly draft form at the moment. So I wont release it here just yet.

Look forward to it though!

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Pages to look at

Page 3 is now finished, so I’ve uploaded the finished pages to the pages page. So head over to there to check it out. Going to get to the 4th page very soon. Enjoy!

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Chamba: Burn Bust

Chamba's awesome rendition of Burn

Hi everyone,

An artist I look up to a lot is doing $50 commissions of characters for the Japanese Relief and I couldn’t resist to get one of my characters done. The artist goes under the name of LastScionz on deviantArt but I think everyone calls him Chamba. You can find his profile here.

 

Over to the left is Burn as you may know, done in his style and cool shading. I’m pretty happy with this piece! The fire looks awesome. His eye’s are suppose to look brown but in the picture’s I sent him for reference they looked red, so no biggy.

Hope you enjoy it too!

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WIP: Page 1

WIP FE1-1: Click to enlarge

Apparently I have 30 subscribers for this website! Despite how little content is here. So since we hit 30, here’s a sample of whats going on so far. This is page one, minus a few things and currently not in the right size format (dammit…) but almost done!

Meet Burn on a bounty hunting night as he bumps into a new character I haven’t mentioned yet on this website! Mystery mystery.

In any case, I hope you guys like whats there so far and hopefully it gets heaps better as I go along. I can only go up. Enjoy!

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Early days

Well, this is moving relatively slow compared to that of my other projects. That’s because I’m still figuring out format sizes and things for the pages for printing and I haven’t had decent time to spend on this with moving house and all. Page two is laid out, but I might redo a few of the panels because I think I would like to practice those characters facial expressions a bit more. I want to bring more then just a standard manga styled manga, I want more life and emotion in their faces and actions.

Well, once page 1 is laid out nicely I might chuck it up here so you guys can have a look. Not that it will say much, being one page. But what can you do. In the background of my mind I’m still fixing and editing later parts of the story. The first 3 chapters however are pretty solid and just need drawing up. I’ll get onto all that soon. I promise!

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Rival: Wolf

Chibi version. Need new big version...

Wolf has grown up in Hope City under the armies Lieutenant General. His original father passed away in the war before he was born and his mother died shortly after birth. Since he entered the world alone, his adoptive father named him Wolf.

Wolf grew up with close rivalry to his brother. Both were forced to train and join the army at a young age. Wolf’s older brother always hated him as Wolf was born with a rare genetic trait, which allowed him to excel at most of the training. Wolf has half the reaction time of a normal human and this can be seen easily by his purple eyes.

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Hero: Burn

Can you dig it?

Welcome Burn, the main character to Fate’s End. Burn is one of the many bounty hunters working and living in Hope City. Obviously Burn isn’t his real name, but its always safer to assume an alias. One of his bounties coined the name ‘Burn’ and it stuck as an alias ever since. This is because Burn has the ability to manipulate the power of fire. Abilities aren’t common in this world and for the most part he keeps it secret. Thankfully people are skeptical of people who can ‘wield fire’ and assume its just a nickname.

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Hello world!

Well my names Matthew Carr, and am currently working on the manga series Fate’s End. I registered this site name not to long ago. Seems like this site used to be some sort of MMORPG. I’m not sure where its moved to though.

Well… If your bored go to www.cratemonkey.com for some amusement.

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