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The Drunk Duck Quackcast

The QuackCast is a theduckwebcomics.com podcast hosted by Ozoneocean, Banes and Tantz Aerine who run DrunkDuck, the oldest Webcomic hosting site on the net! They chat about all things webcomics, writing and art techniques, social and cultural issues, pop-culture, and a whole variety of interesting subjects!

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QUACKCAST 468 - Online communities

The Drunk Duck Quackcast ·

2020/03/03

The nature of online communities and making connections with people you meet in them is quite different from what happens with “social media”. The connections are deeper and longer lasting while social media is more about communication, staying in contact, and finding out what's popular at the time rather than sharing creations and forming strong bonds. The topic of today's conversation was triggered by learning that one of our valued members, Lonnehart, had died two years ago. We always loved his

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01:20:07

QUACKCAST 467 - Adaptions and Transmogrification!

The Drunk Duck Quackcast ·

2020/02/25

The process of adaptation is quite interesting. Stories go through all sorts of changes when they're transferred from one medium to another. A lot of the time we bemoan that as “not staying true to the original” or “the book was better”, but there are many times where the adaption is really interesting in its own right, even though it's quite different from what it started out as. A straight out bad adaptation (in my opinion) is Peter Jackson's “the Hobbit”. Instead of simply transforming the story

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01:01:43

QUACKCAST 466 - And then What?

The Drunk Duck Quackcast ·

2020/02/18

What happens to characters after the big action scene or climactic moment? This could be anywhere in the story but it's usually close to the end. Do they process any of the things that have happened to them to lead them up to that point or do they just forget about everything and simply act as if nothing except the last 4 seconds matter? The later seems to be the trend in a lot of badly written fiction, and it's a notable trope in 80s style action films. Death of family members or lovers are

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58:33

QUACKCAST 465 - Planning Vs pantsing!

The Drunk Duck Quackcast ·

2020/02/11

There are a couple of approaches when it comes to making a big creative project: planing it all out or working things out as you go i.e. flying by the seat of your pants. Well in reality it's a spectrum and those are the two extremes. Most of us work somewhere between those two, sometimes with more or less planning etc… I've tried a lot of different mixtures myself! Improvising as you go can be thrilling, it can really keep the creative juices flowing. It works best when you have a really good idea

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59:08

QUACKCAST 464 - The current digital art landscape

The Drunk Duck Quackcast ·

2020/02/04

I recently had to upgrade my main computer because Windows isn't supporting Windows 7 any longer and I don't want to install Windows 10 on the perfectly functioning old one in case it ruins it and my main programs can't run any longer… SO I had to get a new PC. This got me thinking though: The barrier to getting into digital art is lower now than ever! Back in the day it was hard to get into and very expensive! Getting a powerful enough machine with all the programs and hardware wasn't cheap. Back

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01:15:11

QUACKCAST 463 - Sexposition is not a new thing

The Drunk Duck Quackcast ·

2020/01/28

Sexpostion is sex plus exposition, it's exposition with sex on the screen. Tantz Aerine addressed the topic of sexposition in an article last year, but what we're doing here is talking about the reason it even exists, why it isn't a new trend, and why it probably won't last. Basically, movies and TV shows always get more and more sex and nudity in them when broadcast standards are relaxed. Sex and nudity draw in viewers so they're always popular tools. Back in the 20s during the early days of

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QUACKCAST 462 - Jessica Schab, Studio animation,...

The Drunk Duck Quackcast ·

2020/01/21

Today we have a special guest! Jessica Schab. Jessica works for Mainframe entertainment in Canada, one of THE premier digital animation companies! Before things like Pixar they were THE CGI animation people! Behind the Video for Dire Straights' Money for Nothing video back in the 80s, Transformers Beastwars, Octonaughts, Babrie, and my personal fave: Reboot! Jessica is an interesting person. She's in charge of production design on an upcoming show for Dreamworks, which involves a particular kind of

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01:04:43

QUACKCAST 461 - Top Comic making 5 tips!

The Drunk Duck Quackcast ·

2020/01/14

Today Banes and I chat about our top tips for doing a great comic page: What is most important? I mainly focus on art and Banes is talking about page design and writing tips. Bellow are our top 5s for ways to make better comics! We expand on these and explain them in the Quackcast. Banes' tips for making a comic page: 1. Page layouts 2. Economical wording 3. Vary the camera 4. Don't always hide things you can't draw 5. Don't eat the ink off your brush! Banes writing tips: 1. Avoid too much

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01:14:54

QUACKCAST 460 - Enough trope to hang yourself with

The Drunk Duck Quackcast ·

2020/01/07

Happy 2020 all you lovely people who listen to us! What we're talking about today are tropes in fiction that bother us because they don't exist in reality: they ONLY exist in fiction pretty much. In the cover pic we have an image from The Witcher: he has two big longswords on his back. In fantasy people always carry longswords on their backs. This is a trope that only exists in fiction because you can't draw a sword longer than about 60cm from your back. So people just didn't carry swords like

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02:31:09

QUACKCAST 459 - 2019 Year in review!

The Drunk Duck Quackcast ·

2019/12/31

It's been a great year! DD has continued to grow bit by bit, we've been stable and a great host for many many webcomics. DD is one of the only truly independent community focused webcomic hosting sites left. Most of the rest are commercial hubs that are not community centered. Part of our commitment to the community on DD is showcasing our best webcomics every week, which we've been doing for 17 years now, and I've personally been doing that for about 13. Kawaii and I continually search for new

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01:18:47

QUACKCAST 458 - fave Christmas stuff?

The Drunk Duck Quackcast ·

2019/12/24

Hey! Merry Xmas! Happy Hanukkah! Merry Kwanza! Merry Festivus! Happy Yule! Happy Saturnalia! Winter Solstice and all the rest ^_^ In this Quackcast Banes, Tantz, and I chat about our fave Christmas stuff, from films to music, to what we like to do on the day and the popular Christmas traditions of our parts of the world- Australia for me Greece for Tantz, and Canada for Banes. What is your fave xmas movie, music, or activity? What's you fave things to do at this time of year? Do you have any

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01:17:21

QUACKCAST 457 - Religion in fiction 2

The Drunk Duck Quackcast ·

2019/12/17

2 weeks ago we discussed the topic of religion in fiction: basicaly how we use real world religions to inform the perspectives of our characters and make the worlds more real, how we use religion in fiction, and how we make up religions for our worlds. We had so many great responses to this in the forum and about the Quackcast that we thought it'd be great to feature and chat about them! DD is a community after all and we love our community members to be a part of the Quackcast! This week

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01:12:26

QUACKCAST 456 - Smackdown on Quackjeeves

The Drunk Duck Quackcast ·

2019/12/10

Smack Jeeves has been sold out from under its community to a Korean mobile content provider company NHN. The same company approached us last year but the deal didn't go through because we were too strict on retaining control of the site and protecting our community, SJ apparently didn't have those same concerns for the people that made the site so special and that is a huge shame. What's happened now is that NHN is streamlining the site, minimising the creative members who host their comics there

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01:22:26

QUACKCAST 455 - Religion in fiction

The Drunk Duck Quackcast ·

2019/12/03

We're talking about how religion is portrayed in fiction and a bit about WHY. This was a surprisingly fascinating topic. I came up with the idea while watching the old 2000s SciFi series Andromeda: one of the alien characters there is sort of a space Buddhist, and I felt like that was a pretty common thing in American TV Scifi, so I wondered about what other kinds of religious tropes exist in contemporary fiction, fantasy and other SciFi worlds. It turns out that there are many approaches, from

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01:06:01

QUACKCAST 454 - Are Marvel movies "despicable"?

The Drunk Duck Quackcast ·

2019/11/26

This week we look at the famous quote by respected film director Martin Scorsese that “Marvel movies aren't Cinema” and also the quote by fellow director Francis Ford Coppola that Marvel films are “despicable”. We try and look at the proper context of these remarks outside of the twitter garbage and social media outrage to see if either had any point or whether they're way off the mark and deserving of criticism. We've linked to the video where you can hear the full quote from Scorsese in its

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01:07:46

QUACKCAST 453 - Lost in Translation

The Drunk Duck Quackcast ·

2019/11/19

Where does your main audience come from? And how do you change your work to accommodate them? For a lot of us it's north Americans (mainly from the USA), which is interesting, especially for those of us outside of there because our cultures are slightly different. We THINK we totally understand each other but there ARE differences. So to make ourselves properly understood with the original intent of the story we often have to translate things slightly (much more in Tantz's case!). This goes doubly

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01:03:29

QUACKCAST 452 - Storytelling styles change!

The Drunk Duck Quackcast ·

2019/11/12

Storytelling styles change over time for various reasons: fashion, audience expectations, competition for audience attention due to increased choice and availability of media, technological limitations and abilities, and culture. We chat about the reasons for the changes and how styles have changed. Technology is the easiest factor to point to: with the rise of Netflix offering binge watching more and more TV series turned to long story arcs and minimised the episodic aspects. This in turn

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01:14:17

Quackcast 451 - Fans who criticise are are good fans

The Drunk Duck Quackcast ·

2019/11/05

“Toxic fans” is a bit of a catch cry now and that has seemed to turn into the idea that any fan who is critical of something or doesn't like it isn't a “true fan”, fans must should love everything. I find this a dangerously silly notion and one clearly driven by business interests with only a limited relationship to reality. It's quite similar to the idea that you're “either for us or against us”, the twisted idea of “patriotism” that says you must agree with and love everything your country and

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01:04:41

QUACKCAST 450 - happy Halloween horror franchises

The Drunk Duck Quackcast ·

2019/10/29

Tantz is dressed fabulously as a queen and I'm a skull faced monstrosity… I'm also wearing a costume, hahaha! Which you can see in our Patreon video ;) Queen Tantz Bathory and prince of horror Banes join me to talk about Horror movie franchises, what makes them work and what doesn't- as franchises rather than just a stand alone movie. The problems facing a movie series about horror are different from other genres and focus more on formula than just characters the way they do in most other types of

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01:12:50

QUACKCAST 449 - Star Wars 2 the franchise strikes back

The Drunk Duck Quackcast ·

2019/10/22

As promised we dive right into the second half of the Star Wars chat! We cover all the Star Wars stuff besides the original trilogy and the new trilogy. There's a lot to cover and we only touch on most on it: Solo, the Star Wars Christmas special, Droids, the Ewok films, Clone Wars, the games, the books, comics, Solo, Rogue One… For October we're having a look at various popular film franchises because understanding of them has a lot to offer webcomic creators. Last week we looked at the original

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