I can't really think of an alternative for the Best Use of Medium (Traditional) category. It probably got so few nominees because the voting was very scattershot, with a lot of comics getting a vote but few getting multiple votes. The only fix for that I could see, would be breaking it back up into multiple subcategories, but then that becomes a judging nightmare and in some cases the nominee pools become too thin.
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Drunk Duck Awards 2020
Hi again.
I posted on this thread like one and a half month ago that I was looking for more stuff to do and that I wanted to volunteer for the awards. My priorities have changed. I would like to spend more time on my writing these coming months, so I hereby would like to withdraw my availability as a volunteer. It seems like you got plenty of people volunteering anyway, so I'm sure this will be great without me having an active hand in it. Cheers!
Andreas_Helixfinger wrote:
Hi again.
I posted on this thread like one and a half month ago that I was looking for more stuff to do and that I wanted to volunteer for the awards. My priorities have changed. I would like to spend more time on my writing these coming months, so I hereby would like to withdraw my availability as a volunteer. It seems like you got plenty of people volunteering anyway, so I'm sure this will be great without me having an active hand in it. Cheers!
The awards won't get going until June-July.
From my experience writing a brief awards presentation is a great writing exercise. Like how to present and explain a topic briefly, doing a whole story in a page and setting up a gag and a payoff.
Last time around I did a pile of presentations and doing the characterization and a story around the award show provided me with a lot of insight into the storyline of the comic I was doing.
I also had to do a couple last minute to fill in and that was a great exercise is working on a tight deadline. I feel like I really challenged myself doing all those presentations.
I'm sure it is, Bravo. But I'm just really, really into these scripts I'm writing for future stories. And when I get really into my writing process, I just really gotta keep that train going without interruption for months on end. But perhaps I'll give it a go next time you guys are doing one of these👍
bravo1102 wrote:
That's the point. You do a presentation page featuring the characters you're writing about to get to know them even better. It's a recommended writing exercise.
You really want me in on this, don't you? Alright, I'll guess my availability still stands, if the exercise is golden enough for you to recommend it twice.
So, I would like to make sure we have the categories hammered out. I'm open to forcing the age categories mostly because I have to chuck out several votes because the comics don't have the correct rating. And sometimes the comics that make the cut still might be good representatives of the category. (More common with E rated comics.)
And maybe we can tie the best community project award with the community achievement user award. I seriously don't know what projects are running more, and there are some projects that don't necessarily read like a regular comic.
The community thing sounds like a good idea, as does dropping all ages. I do think best adult is required though, for audience perception and showing DD is adult friendly and for the judges. Well unless we banned adult comics from the awards entirely but I think that would be a bad idea. Where are things on the best use of medium etc? best photo and best 3d were good for more niche comics, but I get why they were merged into traditional and non traditional and whatever.
They medium awards also wrapped in beast black anfd white and Best color. Combining those awards with 3D, photo, and sprite awards was done to cut down on awards. I can think non-traditional has been working well, but traditional, not so much. But we can drop traditional or combine the categories and just make it use of medium.
And I admit to not knowing how this will affect how much love some comics get.
I think it's possible that some may not get that digital drawing and coloring is considered a traditional medium for comics.
There is some great art in the comics on DD and they deserve recognition.
I'm the guy who helped to come up with the combo of categories that ended up as traditional and non-traditional. I'm really at a loss as to how you could still give proper recognition to work in ink, pen and tablet as well as 3D, photo, pixel and collage without the two categories.
I think we need both categories. Combining them might actually exacerbate the problem, since I suspect the reason Best Use Of Traditional Medium had so many issues last time was because it was too broad a category. If anything, the solution would be to split Best Traditional into two categories so votes would be more focused, like Best Use Of Traditional Art: Toon and Best Use Of Traditional Art: Realism, or Eastern v Western Art… but that would add categories, not to mention the line between traditional art styles is so blurred anyway. It's probably best just to leave it for now and see if last time was just a fluke.
I'm having a hard time even thinking of any currently ongoing community projects right now. There was Secret Santa… the Bikini Dodgeball thing seems to have fizzled out… It would probably be more useful to use that spot to promote and inspire future community projects, and give some kind of award/honors to all the current community projects while spotlighting their achievements.
Sorry for disappearing again. I'm a little "out of shape." I'm going to start accepting submissions for "For Your Consideration" pages. I'll accept them through early July. I'll get the exact dates up later. I decided not to change the schedule for the awards. And still keep them in the same general time frame we have every year.
For people new to the awards, For Your Consideration pages are for authors to showcase their comics and raise awareness of which awards they are seeking nominations for.
I'm going to make a unilateral move and provide an optional theme for these. I want to know how you characters have been coping over the past year. What did they do last year in lieu of the awards (we didn't have them last year)? Or do they have their own tips for surviving the current pandemic? The theme for the pages is optional and you can be as simple or complex as you would like. Keep it E - T so we can keep the awards accessable to a large audience.
Thanks.
So I lost track of some time with having two kids running around. Also, my boss keeps switching me from working at home to working in the office which throws of my internal schedule…
Anyways. This is the new schedule of events. Always subject two some flexing. We are running about two weeks behind from usual. Which isn't bad.
Planning ~ Now - July
Red Carpet Submissions Accepted ~ Now - September 1st
FYC Pages Accepted ~ Now - July 18th
The Drunk Duck Award Design Contest
Submissions ~ June 27th - July 4th
Voting ~ July 5th - July 11th
Drunk Duck Awards Voting Opens ~ July 12th - August 8th
Tie Breakers (as needed) ~ August 9th - August 15th
Finalists Announced/Volunteers Assigned ~ August 16th - August 22nd
Judging ~ August 23rd - October 10th
Emergency Wrap Up ~ October 11th - October 24th
The Ceremony Begins ~ October 26th
The ballot for the Drunk Duck Awards is now open. Vote Here!
For my people that have judged before, and have been on the Discord server. What is your opinion of it? I'm not able to get into the forum we use every year. I'm thinking about looking into Discord as an alternative. I think it might be able to get it to do what we need it to do, and it might facilitate real time conversation for the judges.
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