1-281 Goodbyes
June 28, 2016
|By Dwaas
The circle is slowly but surely being closed…
Reaching the end
Now that we are getting to the end… I’m getting a little anxious. Hopefully the new story will work (The script is not finished yet). At first I never thought this story would end, at first I set it up like Bricks of the dead. At some point I saw it had to end… and I’m not a great storywriter (like Balinabricky)… yet. Luckily there are some lose ends in his story, so there can be enough reasons to make Barry and Darryl return to Eno… or make one or more Eno-folk go to One (Brickearth)…. I would love to see what would happen if Venator was set loose on Brickearth… maybe 🙂
I thank you for the compliment, kind sir. I do believe that you developed a top-notch story here and a vibrant world with an interesting history. Your comic story arc is not like any of the others I’ve seen brick comics do. I kept thinking this would have made a cool movie (I don’t mean a Lego movie, I mean a movie movie).
My vote is for the next story to take place on One. Our earthlings got to have an adventure in somebody else’s sandbox, and so it’s only right that some Eno folks should see ours. (Perhaps finding and returning Venator might be the catalyst.)
Or…and here’s one…there’s a mixup and the lot of them get returned not to Brickearth, but to EARTH. You’re good at photographing minifigs against real world settings, and that might be a way to go. A little bit of Honey I Shrunk The Kids, if you know what I mean…
PS – Not to make you jealous, but as of today, I have the next 58 episodes of Ballinabricky already complete and loaded into WordPress for automatic scheduled publishing, so I’m just cruisin’ until mid-January. 😉
Oh these are really good idea’s! I will keep them for future reference. The next storyline is basically ready and is a completely new story, with new characters and all, but I can imagine I’ll return to Eno one day!
The movie-comment is really nice of you. I’ve recently been reading a lot of books on story and script developing though… they disagree with you haha. But it’s a great compliment to get! Thanks!
PS… you really ARE making me jealous here 🙂 58 episodes are about 70-90 hours of work (not counting building-time) for me. OMG… reading the numbers like this is kinda confronting.
Well, remember that my building time is divorced from my production time since I build my models throughout the year and never take them apart.
Let’s see, for the 40 episodes of the story to come, I took 247 photographs. It took maybe an hour to set up the town model and an hour to pack it in. I was actively shooting photographs for probably eight or ten hours (I do them all in one go). I’d say another six hours to get the 40 strips made out of the photos and then loaded individually into WordPress. I did the whole thing over the course of three days (two days just for the photographing — I had to stop twice to recharge my camera battery).
Between now and mid-December, I have to write the next script and build anything new that will be required, and then between the end of the fall semester and New Year’s, I’ll have to do all the shooting so I can have everything ready to go after 1/17/17. Because my work hours are so long, I have to do all my heavy lifting during the short breaks between semesters.
Creating a story on the go is quite an achievement. Of course story telling need technics, just like building sets of shooting and image treatment. But for a first shot at a brick comic, I’d say you did an awesome job!
You were on schedule for 95% of the time, let’s not forget that. Pretty amazing for a 280+ episodes comic.
Now I prefer comics with an ending. Sometimes it’s hard to figure out where some comics are heading, so I’m fine with your story ending soon. Make sense to me.
So, still thinking something will happen (even I know it won’t), but I’ll be happy to see this great adventure come to an end also, and read it again in one single shot!
Thank you again my friend. Now the end is in sight I am kind of looking forward to it to be honest.
Oh…. and I again, I don;t think anything will happen…. well…. maybe 😛