He knew he could do better, and you need to give your team their best chance to shine. Thankfully, he’s also learned how to significantly increase his turnaround time. Over time, he was able to naturally progress to the original target, until we are where we are today. His skills improved and as time passed, he wanted to take more stabs at character design. It was his first team project too, and so neither of us knew how to build an optimized production pipeline. Yep, those of you counting may’ve noticed that Alex is currently on her eighth iteration, and you bet it takes time! When FoxFire and I first started on Forks, we had a specific style in mind that we never ended up being able to hit. If I wanted to have Alex work the lunch line in at her high school for one scene, I could just do it. Forks 1.0 used photos for backgrounds, so I was able to write a waterpark scene, roadtrip, and have ~15 shots of Red Glen Campus.

Lastly, the toughest story cuts all had to do with off-campus stuff.

Other characters, like Ryan or Mina, might be shown, but right now we’re focusing on who’s already drawn. We don’t have the time to make a huge cast (especially with everyone getting so many size portraits, that’s like 30 characters), so we’re keeping everyone close to each other. Secondly, all characters will be involved with the MC’s gain in some way. I also don’t know if life’ll make us have to take another break- thankfully it hasn’t yet!

It was a little jarring writing scenes for everyone simultaneously as they’re all different, but it’s gotten easier as their personalities coalesced.

Routes for Rea, Hannah, and Grace were always planned, but being the only writer, I’m not sure whether I’ll be able to slowly write them all at once, or complete one before doing another.

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