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that's as far as i have gotten so far. can't tell if i'm starting to feel burnt out, but maybe posting my progress will help motivate me to not abandon this

It's kino
>>123118
>>123119
This has a lot of emotion in it, but how did she survive while naked inside a container in the winter?

Is that Asher? I wasn't sure I recognized him without his goggles or his sword, but "fjellrev" is Norwegian for "Arctic fox."

Also,

>we

I assume Asher is there as a representative of some organization, then.  Perhaps it will be made more clear what's going on.

General impressions:  hmm, is that a Ljungman AG42 he's using?  Probably not, it had a reciprocating top cover and it would have been very difficult to mount an optical sight.  Gewehr 43 with a ZF4, maybe?

He comes across as competent.  I assume the humans were just criminals and not soldiers.  One of them just saw his buddy get shot and he just stands there mindboggled, pointing his gun off into the distance until he gets it too.  You'd think he'd have had the wit to seek cover or at least concealment, but maybe he didn't.

Our hero doesn't seem to have made any efforts to hide the bodies or otherwise conceal his activities.  But I suppose the snow is going to cover the bodies shortly, and the footprints too.

>>123126
>how
The magic of collie floof.

>>123122
have you thought about combining all the frames into a gif/video?

maybe you could add some sound effects and ambience

also its very kino and 'boo pilled

>>123126
thanks!
>how did she survive while naked inside a container in the winter?
she has fur, though i think she would still freeze given the situation so you have a point. i'm realizing how many flaws my story has, and i have made quite a few changes already
>>123131
i should clarify, that is NOT asher
>is that a Ljungman AG42 he's using?
yes, and fluff i should have watched a video of it firing first. it's a side rail, though i guess he could drill something into the side of the wood. i really liked the look of a scoped ag42
i'm not answering the other questions because i think they will be answered soon
>>123133
maybe, but i want to focus on drawing first and foremost, given my tendency to get too ambitious with projects

>>123115 (OP) 
>>123122
scandi fox saves a collie lady from her human captors, taking her to his hideout where his group will help her

my current curiosity is regarding both who the scandi fox's group is, along with the Grey Khanate, who I assume will be the major antagonist (instead of just being mentioned once and never again)
the main questions I hope get answered (through the comic, please) are: why (do they do this)? followed by how (do they get people to work for them)?
I think the interactions between groups/characters are where the story will be most interesting (versus, say, shooutout scenes)

the only critique I have is: use a different font per character, please, to easily track who is talking
I think it's silly to critique imperfections in the lineart or story as this is the work of one man and not that of a team, and as long as the panels convey a coherent story, then even scribbles could be fine, though that is your choice to experiment with, but I think a high level of detail should be reserved for a few critical panels only to reduce burnout

>>123133
do not unexpand the images, and just continue scrolling down as you click each panel
at least I think this imageboard format reads nicely so far

excellent work I am excited for the rest of it

Mate. This is incredible. Wow.
I was trying to figure out for a second how best to read this. I turned off thumbnails in the settings then downloaded each into a folder and opened them up fullscreen in my image viewer then flipped through each frame. Almost felt like a movie actually, especially with the snow particles. These frames so far would convert very nicely into a GIF or video. They actually have solid cinematography.
The opening frame confused me a bit though. Looks like a feline eye but I guess we're looking through the scope from the muzzle end of the gun.
Now I'm wondering if this trafficking group is related to or the same (or in the same universe) as the one that captured Lily.
A10 kino. Keep going, please. Take breaks if you need to, though. I'll probably always be here to pester you into continuing trust trust <3

>>123133
I can do this (if you don't mind, Mike) minus the audio: convert this into video/GIF format, I mean.

Effortpost.

Awesome.

Fantastic.

>>123158
*downloaded the images

>>123126
She is a vampire. That is why cold can't harm her. It's also why she hesitated to enter the Fox's Den until he invited her in. She knows he thinks he saved her, and is trying to help her.

>>123215
... and that is why she looks so sad at the end. She is going to kill him and drink his blood, but she's going to feel bad about it.  Calling it now.

effortrald

gemmy

>>123150
i will hopefully get far enough to answer those questions, but i feel i will leave out a lot, especially since i plan on this being a fairly short comic. though short might be subjective given how many frames ive made
>>123161
i don't mind at all

and thanks to everyone else. i didn't want to reply to each and every post but i'm glad you guys like it so far

>>123287
60 seconds?

THE BOO IS BACK BABY!!!

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Cinema. This would be really cool with audio, yes, I think so, and little effects too but I think those can be added in post once all frames are complete, assuming you concur, of course, Femcelanon.
Took me a while only because I was busy and I couldn't stop obsessively fiddling with the pacing (which I'm still not entirely content with). But hopefully this illustrates how nearly movielike this project is so far. This is really, really kino. I mean it, Mike.
I spoilered the GIF only so it doesn't autoplay. It shouldn't loop.

>>123413
gem

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>>123413
wow, good job

ou shii he cookin up sum soop gabions🔥🔥🔥

Best thread here

that's all for now. i'm tired, and i probably won't be able to make any panels tomorrow
>>123413
nice work! i have no issue with people making videos or adding audio

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>>123495
I am impressed and amazed by the amount of work you've put into this.

On a completely unrelated note, does your world have crocodile Nazis?  This is an old doodle of mine I found and if it belongs anywhere, it belongs here.

>>123495
ok mike goodnight cop a sleepzzz ev&o I'm like 7 hours late oops

I think I'll compile these every 10 panels or so from now on.
If anyone wants to make these for themselves in between or change the pacing, I've attached the tools I've used to make these, as well. You just need to download all the images into a directory with no other PNGs, then make sure they're sorted in order (by adding leading zeroes to the first nine, for example). Download these two files into the same directory and rename compiler.txt to compiler.sh. Set the duration of each frame in durs.txt (in centiseconds), then you just run ./compiler.sh (inspect it first, don't just trust me blindly) and you should now have output.gif.
You may need to replace convert in the script to magick depending on what's installed on your system (Linux btw). Then convert the GIF to video if you'd like.
There are no validity checks in the script so the number of lines in the duration list must match the number of frames exactly and contain only one integer per line, otherwise it'll probably fail.

>>123516
>does your world have crocodile Nazis?
i mostly draw mammals, so probably not
>>123559
neato! reminds me of the time i made a script to grab all the images from gnollquest and put them into a pygame slideshow

>>123820
What is gnollquest? Now I'm curious because a cursory search reveals nothing except some stuff about World of Warcraft and EverQuest.

>>123820
Noted.  Someone is going to draw a crocodile wearing crocs, though.  It's a moral obligation.

>>123833
I can't think of gnolls without thinking of Nurse Verity.  You ask me, I blame 4chan.  Maybe Gnollquest is about escaping from her.  Or meeting her, if you like that kind of thing.  She was a character /tg/ came up with around 2008-ish.  She is a gnoll.  And a nurse.  Which makes her a gnurse, or something.  The running gag was that she is not especially competent, she likes bad puns, and she usually speaks with a bad phony German accent for some reason.  Some of the art was cute but more of it was guro/shock black humor stuff.  https://www.furaffinity.net/view/2235614/

What were we talking about again?

>>123833
>What is gnollquest?
tried looking it up again today, and it seems completely memoryholed. it was a 4chan interactive quest about a gnoll man trying to prove himself, get a gf, etc. it got abandoned, but had some pretty interesting lore as the story went on. and i think the artstyle influenced mine somewhat. i originally found out about it from the soy booru of all places
still managed to find it tho:
https://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/qstarchive.html?searchall=gnoll+quest

>>123881
>get a gf
That is short for "gnollfurriend," right?

>>123287
>>123905
a former spotter's uniform clothes the collie lady, and with fish stew served, the scandi asks about her origins
she reveals her ancestry as a british islander but refuses to elaborate on how or why she was captured and taken across the north sea
despite offering the bed, the night ends with her staring at the stove, eventually sleeping, along with the scandi grieving the loss of his woman, an arctic fox like him
in the morning, they venture out of the bunker

my main curiosities are regarding her hesitation when asked about her capture. I presume it is to avoid remembering bad memories, though it also makes me wonder why her small village was targeted in particular... something special either about her, or her connections with the people she lived with, assuming she's not an anti social personality
a spotter that no longer wears his uniform... dead? or elsewhere?
the loss of a close relationship can hurt.. whatever happened to his woman, I wonder if it will affect how attached and protective he will be to the collie lady, or even if it could affect his judgement later on as emotions supersede rationality
the plain question of, where are they heading towards as they leave the bunker?

some other thoughts: the darkness of the night is capable of hiding the stove's smoke plumes, but if they are presumably being hunted down, then cooking during the day would have likely outed their location
the presence of the gas mask is interesting... presumably will be useless if they only spend their time in open air, but potentially could change everything with underground warfare... could just be nothing, but it's amusing to think of the gas mask alike to Chekhov's gun

I think avoiding lore dumps so far has been good... letting one's imagination run wild is far stronger than answering questions outright and giving definitive answers that kill imagination
I'm curious regarding message you intend to deliver or make readers think of... heroism seems to be the clear theme, though every interesting story always makes some sort of indirect commentary about a topic
a possible idea is showing that nothing is black-and-white in the real world... nothing is purely good or purely evil, and everything has both their good and bad sides, and likewise, every good character has their fatal flaw... the traits that one must grow out of lest they succumb to it and lose everything
a good story makes you think... makes you feel

>>124050
She looks like she's pretty fluffing far from okay.

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Maybe every 20ish frames is better. Very kino.

finally we have our own weekly slop wear nothing ever happens 🤪

>>124110
My most used phrase on the internet

>>124123
What are you talking about?

>>124087
I have two of your kind on my chest.

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i should really proofread my script when i make changes to it

and man i have to be the world's slowest drawer. only 1 panel for today, sorry

>>124265
1 cake instead of multiple is still 1 cake

>>124265
My drawers sometime refuse to open at all because they're full of worthless junk which frequently snags on the frame. Don't beat yourself up over it :)
>>124307
Something like that, yeah.

>>124264
did they storm the beaches dday style or what

>>124417
Worse.  They stormed the beaches Diddy style.

>>124417
guy that thinks that every amphibious assault is d-day because of muh saving private ryan or something

>>124264
>>124436
sounds like a viking raid

>>124417
>we had hardly anything to fight back with
>dday
>>124437
that is actually kinda the inspiration for this event

>>124657
>>124671
so are they gonna hatch a plan for vengeance?

Is this really what the balkans are like?

>>124695
blue nyagga

>>124691
suicide bating foid moment
smh...

>>124695
No.

>>124695
yeah pretty much

>>123816
I've been thinking about how species and race work in this universe especially since it's both low fantasy (set in an alternate copy of IRL Earth, presumably with a similar geopolitical history) and coinhabited by humans and anthros. Does this imply that Great Britain is entirely composed of collies (or they're at least it's native population)? Or do human Anglos continue to exist in this universe? Or have you not given that much thought (not that there's anything wrong with that if the story's scope doesn't extend that far)?
I'm guessing some nations are almost entirely pure both species(ally?) and racially, while others are mutted to fluff and back like the US. And then others are somewhere in between (mixed racially only, but not really across species lines). I also imagine there are some entirely fictional nations mixed in with the real-world ones? That also makes me wonder-- I know you disapprove of it-- but is interspecies breeding nonetheless possible in this universe? I'm thinking maybe India is like the HMOFA capital of the world in this setting and you can just fill it up with all sorts of horrid mutt abominations. idk. fef.

>>125214
>I'm thinking maybe India is like the HMOFA capital of the world in this setting and you can just fill it up with all sorts of horrid mutt abominations.
Don't give him any ideas like that.

>>125215
Yooo Mike! This nyagga just gave me an Einstein-class idea. What if India is also the HVAC technician capital of this alternate universe. It just makes too much sense. Think about it. Trust. 
My little gay short story is in the proofreading phase now btw if that even matters lest you think I just up and gave up on it

sorry about the hiatus. i wanted to take a break, but it also looks like i might be busy too now, so sorry if updates come out slower. fml
>>125214
i'm undecided on why anthros exist in this story, i may not ever get around to answering it. i've already come up with a lot of lore that will not fit into how short i want to make this comic
>>125215
india is just amofa. to call them human would be inaccurate
>>125220
oh shit lemmie check my email then

is this related to the game you made by any chance or is it an alternate universe with the same characters?

>>125315
it's unrelated

>>125313
>to call them human would be inaccurate
DO NOT REDEEM SAAR

>>125313
>sorry if updates come out slower
nah mike it's chill trust cop a break we don't deserve anything good in life trust trust 🫰 we're worms 😺
what you should do is announce when the next panel's dropping then just like not post it and make up increasingly ridiculous bs excuses i think that would be kind of funny
>i'm undecided on why anthros exist in this story, i may not ever get around to answering it.
That's fine. I think it's a problem most serious furry media runs into-- justifying the usage of anthros as opposed to just telling a story with human characters when the latter would work just as well. Most of the time it just breaks down into being used as a safe allegory for race alla Zootopia, I feel. I suppose you could take this question all the way back to those 19th century political cartoons this all originally started from. Why didn't those cartoonists just use humans to depict nationalities? I don't know. It's probably some kind of manifestation of veiled misanthropy, a sort of lamenting subtext beneath it all. Whatever. I'm not gonna shit up your thread with a mulletjak-tier essay. geg. sorry.
Like I said, as long as the scope of the story doesn't reach that far, leaving it unanswered is perfectly acceptable, I'd argue. It probably lends the universe an air of mystery, even.
>oh shit lemmie check my email then
About the story, you mean? You said I could just publish it immediately so I'm doing the proofreading myself since I don't think I know anyone I can harass with reading my dense drivel. I did reply to you with an idea for a commissioned illustration for the story. I thought you'd seen it and just found me too annoying to even bother responding to, which made me laugh, but that's also chill. I actually think the story might work better without it.
k. that's enough of me. sorry. good luck and best wishes and all that other shite! 🤗

>>125311
queue:
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none of you nyaggas even pointed out there was a typo in what was supposed to be a heartfelt panel!

>>125436
nooooo why did you delete it? how will we ever know what the typo was now?

>>125437
it was pretty embarrassing... all things condisdered

>>125436
I felt it would be rude to point it out as if I were pulling you down.

can't seem to keep any consistency with how they look dammit
>>125339
oh fug, i do remember you asking me to draw something, but i never replied i think and i forgot about it. i'm probably going to not draw it for now at least, since i have this comic im working on, and honestly its also subtracting from me drawing my usual random stuff. i already have a repertoire of ideas i want to draw
>>125439
that's fair

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just a hastily made panel for today, sorry. i spent what free time i had today reading shitskin freak's femcel story

>>125601
Does he really know if things will get better doe? I think it would be better if "will" was italicized since it would emphasis his confidence in that assertion. Just an incredibly small nitpick though.

>>125608
My interpretation is that he has orders to rescue her and bring her in alive, and he is doing his best to work around her current (understandable) emotional state.  He might possibly have an ulterior motive in the sense that he's not in any position to make that kind of personal promise to her.  But he can't just leave her there in the snow, either, nor can he pick her up and carry her the rest of the way back to his base of operations.  The fact that he's doing this kind of thing solo, without even a spotter, makes me think that he's working for an organization that doesn't have much in the way of resources.  A "proper" organization (one with nation-state funding, whether or not the people at the sharp end are aware of it) would have had him and a dozen more guys do a HALO insertion at 2am and come tiptoeing in with thermal night vision goggles and suppressed MP5s.  If she had become uncooperative, they'd have had a medic along who could sedate her, then bundle her into the chopper when it showed up fifteen minutes later.

>>125995
she will not be allowed to cry for the rest of the comic

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well... that's basically it for act 1. i'll be honest, i am starting to lose motivation, but then again i've been drawing around 50 panels of traumaslop, so i might be more motivated for the next part of the story. many of you have made some pretty great art and stories recently, so i feel obligated to finish this, though i have my doubts on the quality of this comic and its story
>>125998
(:

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>>125601
Oops. Sorry everyone.
>>126003
It's not traumaslop, it's traumakino. The only way I can be disappointed is if this work doesn't further my manic depression. Take all the breaks you need tho. I know you want to go back to the usual poop and nyaggers dying drawings which is chill trust (idk why i started appending trust to everything I don't talk like this irl trust).
This has been quality, Mike. We will support you through and through. I'm sure Averif(l)ag here >>125998 and I can cook up a Marvel-type capeshit inspirational motivational speech for you if you need that. trust.
This also gives me-- or anyone else who wants to give it a shot-- time to mess around with audio, if you still don't mind.
Okay, take care, volk ✌️

>>126003
The story and illustrations are nice, don't worry about that.
>>126074
Yes, you should stop with the 'trust' thing. I don't like the things it reminds me of.

>>126075
I find your lack of trust disturbing.