Okay, if we're looking at breaking down roles, what roles do we think are needed? My suggestions: Web Space Provider - self explanatory. Web Page Creator - Takes pictures and creates pages for the comic. May be the one who decides relative sizes for multiple pictures on one page. Writer - dialog, plot. Editor - checks spelling, continuity (names, locations, etc.) Director - breaks down story into sections (either pictures of pages.) Costume/Props Master - Keeps track of costumes, sets and props for later use. Helps track down new props. (Also makes sure that we aren't accidentally using commercial props improperly.) We might want to have a list of people who can make/modify props/costumes, etc. so we know who to beg for items. Artists - Oh, yeah, almost forgot them. ;-} We could have a web page with a list of story sections and props/costumes needed and let people sign up to do that section. If we want to get professional, we could even post deadlines. Again, this is a suggestion. I don't know how how structured we want to get with this project.

I can help somewhat with editing; I'd love to do more, but I keep getting myself involved in stuff that takes WAY too much of my time, and can't commit to anything else at present.

Posting Chapter six tonight. chapter seven tomorrow.

A name..... Clan of the Magnet? (After Traveler, since it was his idea). Made a Vamp animation. See it at http://www.angrymob.net/animation.htm . Wish you could see it full screen. Has audio track. Pretty spooky. 500 frames. Getting a cable modem Monday, so will start posting stuff in hi rez RealPlayer7. Butch, hows about listing characters & brief description. Then we can begin assigning character creation. After that we need to assign set creation for each scene. We need to make a storyboard.......

check history. Has character sketches of main characters so far. Have about three more to do over the week end. The history and story so far, up to chapter six is at the onelist site. Check earlier messages for address. Can't wait to see the animation.

Been reading the message and we seem to have a good thing going. I have several more chapters to do and the first part of the story will be done. After that, we need to figure out where to go. Over the next few chapters, you can expect Diana's powers to grow and a major Demon lord makes his appearance. Lillian's feelings for Diana continue to grow, Master Li gets more mysterious. Diana has to starting fighting or at least avoids the shadow league. I don't want to give too much away, till I can write it. Let's kept the flow going, we are doing good stuff here. thanks butch

whoops, forgot to add, mail me direct if you wish. My email address, is butch@rabun.net

If this is going to be a vampire story.. can I donate my characters? You don't have to use them, but if you want to you can...

Pack, just check out the animations, Loved the Vamp and the super car. It rocks! The vamp would be great opening scene, Diana walking down the street, hears footsteps and ! tlaubach, I seen your characters and they would be great. I've pull all the messages in this string and going through them. We got a great team of some really talented people judging from work that I have seen. I'm going to post Names and what ever one wants to do. Also I have started to work on a story board. Never thought that I would use the stick figures in Poser! How do yall think the layout should look? A typical comic book format, with multipile panels per page. Or maybe one or two panels per page, with a page of text setting up the panels? Let me know what you think. Pack, what about this for our name? Lodestone Virtual Comics? Butch

I don't really know, I am just writting the story, background history maybe directing the comic. I am personally hoping high quality renders. I think the comic should highlight the possiblities of the 3D programs. If we use sketch part of Poser or someother program, then all we are doing is creating another comic. I know and hope that some of the people, like Pack is going to animate some of the action. It maybe beyond us at this time, but I would like to take this to ulimate Max, a full scale animated movie. Of course that is well beyond the scope of what has been discussed, but the possibities are there. Why think small? Right now the way the group stands, we each have an area that we all like to do and are voluteneering those talents. This weekend, I am working on a roster of what talents we have, jobs that people have said that they wanted to do and jobs that still need to be done. If you want to help then welcome aboard. Check out the website. The first part of the story and the background history is posted. This is going to be a lot of fun for all us and I hope that all of us will enjoy it as much as I am. Butch

DaFerret, that sounds like a very cool but totally different idea than this, I THINK. A kind of Round Robin story?

That's what it sounded like to me. It is completely different from what we are doing. The problem with Round Robin stories, is that it is up to the whim of the next person. Even with outlines and guides, they still take a plot well away from what the orginal idea was. It would make it very hard, i think to design and do such a comic, because keeping the logic flow going in the same direction would be impossible. I worked on one once, and it was a mess. We had the sets done for a city and all of sudden, the characters were in a cave, and then an ocean liner. It is something to think about though, but let's get this project up and running first. butch

check the website Da Ferret. The story and the background history is there.

Sorry group that I behind on where I said that I would be, but I picked up some sort of stomach bug and I have been laid load all weekend except for checking the mail. Hope to be running at full steam in a day or so. thanks butch

Finished another chapter, will post it tonight after I check it. I starting to develop a script for us to use and for the artists to use get started on their side. I have two more chapters for this section, and It will be complete. What do you guys think? butch

All you have to do is sign up, it's free. It is just easier for me to have everyone go there than trying to email various chapters and the stories to everyone. The website is the work site. If you want to help, you will have to sign up. To the group: I am finishing up the last part of the first section now. I still have about 8-15 pages to go. I still have to edit and correct it. By this weekend, I should have made a good start on changing the story into a script that we can use to actually get started on the art stuff. I'll keep you posted. butch

Just finished the first section. I plan to write the story in roughly three parts. The first part, introduces the characters, action and location. That's done now. I am going to post it tonight. I would like some feedback over the week or so if possible on what you guys think, before I start putting into script form. It would much easier to make changes now than later. Let me know what you think and any changes that you think that are needed. email me directly at butch@rabun.net thanks butch

Just posted the complete section or act 1, on the website. It is in text format so that everyone should be able to download it ok. I said that I was going to do it yesterday, I know, but my internet connection was down for most of the day, except for brief periods. I am going to try to get the assignment list of what everybody volunteered for up either today or tomorrow. Right now, I have this little problem of another story rolling around and want to get some it on disk. It's about a smuggler who has an all girl crew, and they have these really nasty aliens after them.....

Whoops, forgot to tell you that the file is Vhuntercomplete. Let know what you think

Sorry that I have done anything more for the last week or so, but I had a death in the family, had two other projects of my own that I wanted to get a start on, and horror of horrors, poser crashed big time. I have spent the last two days, loading it and all the downloads back into my computer. I still have somewhere around 345 megs of stuff to load. I plan to start again at the end of next week. This weekend and the first part of next week is rather full. After that, I will have more free time. By chance anyone read what's up yet? I could really use some feedback before I start doing the script. For example, what layout should we use? A panel a page? Two, Four or more? Do we want text pages with poser panels showing the action, similar to book with illustrations or a more straight forward comic layout? Let me know what you think. Butch

Butch, Looks like it's just you & me Bud. I'm up to doing everything if necessary, but there's gotta be some potential gold at the end of the rainbow, if I'm putting that much work into it, ie this will need to become a commercial venture. We can take this private unless someone else is still interested.......... Pack

Hey, Pack Sounds good to me. I'll help anyway that I can, but my talent seems to be in the writing and creation part. But I really want to do this bad. I agreed, some gold is definetly called for. Commerical venture works for me. I didn't really realize how hard this might be, but I am loving it. Email me directly and we will start talking details butch@rabun.net Butch