Automaton Works

I’m just about done with the script, if you can call it that, for Breath. Untitled just didn’t suit it, you know? As strange as this may sound I love going to Dictionary.com and Wikipedia and looking up random words or articles. I’ll jump from one thing to the next until something catches my eye, like the word pneuma, and then pieces start falling into place. Of course, calling it Pneuma seemed a bit on-high to me and saying it aloud made me feel kind of stupid. I like breath because it looks neat, beause it sounds borderline normal, and because it doesn’t have a silent P.

I’ve got another 17 pages to go before I’m allowed to call it done and BK lets me take a break. After that she’s chaining me to my desk again to write Wake Odyssey. I’m very excited. Writing Breath as been a lot of fun for me, and it’s given me the chance to get one of my oldest stories off my chest. I wish I could tell you when we’re putting it up, but I have no real clue. After Naka-Kon… This year? Yeah, pretty soon I think.

We’re coming along smoothly withour comic goodness. Both Breath and Starcrossed are being storyboarded so we can get a better feel for the pages, but they both have scripts for the first section of story. bratkitty will be redrawing the teaser page of Breath that you see on her dA and the news page here as well. I wish I had a better schedule to tell you, other than eventually, but I don’t suspect it will be much longer before either of these comics goes up for your reading enjoyment.

Introducing Nadia Amano. A senior at Brunner High School who misses the first month of school due to an accident that occurs before the story of Breath takes place. Lots of rumors spread through the school about her before and upon her return, some due to a rival of sorts and some because of her best friend Cassie, who’s crazy anyway. :) She is often seen as intimidating and uncaring on many levels by her peers, but friends will quickly say otherwise.

Nadia is a member of the girl’s volleyball team–they had a crushing defeat at state against Ft. Osage last year–but shies away from most other after-school activities. She is the middle child to parents Shin and Jenna, who she feels pressure her to be as good as her sister. Claire Amano is currently studying abroad in Japan. Her brother, Hideki, is an eigth grader in junior high whose only purpose in life seems to be inventing ways to get into trouble.

With all of the attention going to Bratkitty’s Starcrossed these past few weeks we decided to take a small break and spruce up the home front. The changes on the viewers end isn’t that much yet, but the backend has undergone some very drastic transformations. A few of those changes made things much easier for us to update and add media, others have sped up the site in various ways, etc. Hopefully, more of this stuff will become more evident as we continue to use the site. Also, if you have a Gravatar it will now show on the comments you make.

Not to leave the community out, we’ve got a great one forming on the forums. I’d like to encourage anyone to join because it’s been great talking with everyone. In some instances rocking has occured. Besides all of that, we’ll be filling out the rest of the site as we go. With Starcrossed Vol. 1 nearly done we’ll need to get a place up for it and begin finishing what’s left on our to-do list of sitely things.

The purdy little graphic above says drawing’s complete. Don’t get too excited, this just means I’ve moved on to the tedious task of toning. I’ve done the first couple of pages and am now scaling it back a bit in order to get it done in a timely manner. I’m hoping to have it done soon. Right now I have to take the week off from it to get some work done for school.

I have an exam on the 14th (my birthday) and a paper due on the 15th. Blech. Rest assured I’m not blowing off working on the comic to party.

More info coming up soon!