I was talking to a friend of mine the other day about the long abandoned video game demo, P.T, a PTSD inducing horror teaser that went on to be scrapped by game publisher, Konami, before the project had gotten on its feet. I was arguing that the real horror behind …
Pixar has had one of the most dedicated story teams in the business. Here are the Pixar rules of storytelling. I find them to be powerful and sensible! If you haven't seen this list before (I hadn't), here they are!
1. You admire a character for trying more than for …
Filaments a KerBop Story is a beautiful technicolor landscape awash with painted imagery that depicts the Universe. KerBop is a student currently enrolled in a school for Angels, but on this particular day of sitting in class lectures, KerBop warps into a cosmic portal to study Galaxy filaments up close …
DD member Furwerk Studios posted in our forum about how annoying it was that movies try and do an 80s retro thing often get things totally wrong and end up looking dumb …
The 2020 Drunk Duck Awards has a tie-breaker to vote on this year and needs the community to vote on the final four nominees. Please use the link and vote for your Top 4 Comics!
A core principle of the works of horror mangaka Junji Ito, is the mundane and everyday only backwards. This concept is perfect for short stories as there is no need, or time, to explore lengthy explanations for the uncanny. Events are as they appear which renders them all the more …
I'll give an example from the 2000's version of The Hills Have Eyes (spoilers ahead).
There's a scene early in that movie, when the family is stranded but they haven't realized how much trouble they're really in. The husband of the oldest daughter seems to be …
A funeral is a sad, grim occasion for most people. For Hel it's something else: work… hard work. She's there to correct a wrong, to send an unearthly creature back to where it belongs. She's a woman with a thousand years of history behind her. She has long experience at …
Aren't genres great? They're so useful for categorising what we like and selling our work. Today we're chatting about all the genres that are popular in webcomics now, that we know of. …
Congratulations, Tantz Aerine for designing the winning awards trophy! 🏆
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Greetings, Fowl Fiends. It is I, the spectral lamentation known as PIT-FACE! I have been torn from my lurid sepulcher to inform you dreadful Ducks that your votes have been cast! Behold your ill-fate! The theme for the Drunk Duck anthology is:
For better or for worse, we are creatures of categorizations. We love to label things, and to sort them into neat little boxes so that we are absolutely certain we know what to expect when dealing with each one. It is that sense of familiarity that we are looking for, …
As you might be aware, the voting for the Drunkduck anthology theme is coming to a close. If you’re reading this, and have missed the vote, never fear, for that means the next exciting stage of the project is coming and that, my friends, is preparing for your potential …
Many stories feature some kind of underdog in the beginning. This is a standard approach to a Protagonist. They may be very capable and bright, but have a lower status or disadvantage of some kind. This helps make them relatable and helps people root for them to win. Most mainstream …