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Wayrift Blog, Anniversary, Etc.

by Aywren on March 14, 2010 at 12:30 PM

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Wayrift will be celebrating its 8th birthday on March 26!

How’s Daylight’s Saving Time treating you this year? Meh? Yeah… me, too.

I just wanted to post a few updates about things happening around Wayrift right now. I don’t have everything quite sorted out in my head, so bear with me!

First, some of you may have noticed the quiet migration of the Riftblog back into the Wayrift website. While I loved the layout and feel of the blog, I wasn’t updating it as much as I would have liked for a stand alone site and decided to (once again) combine the blog into Wayrift itself. At this point, I don’t foresee breaking the two up again unless something super profound happens as I’d really like to focus my efforts on building up the base of the Wayrift site into more than just a Webcomic.

I’m also pondering ways to re-start the FigPress section in the future as that was a lot of fun for readers and myself to write to! This will all take a bit of organization and time, so I’ll see how it goes. Just know stuff is slowly in the works for the blog portion of the site.

Also, Wayrift will be celebrating its 8th birthday on March 26! Syn and I have to get together some ideas for what kind of game or contest we want to sponsor. Winners will, as per usual, get a prize from the Sygnus store. Any ideas for contests or games you might think would be fun and easy to run are welcome!

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Sygnus Fans Group on Deviant Art

by Aywren on February 16, 2010 at 12:10 PM

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Following up my post yesterday…

I have been thinking about creating a new DA group for Sygnus-type projects, especially to showcase artwork created by friends and fans… so I finally did last night!

I’ve been sending out invitations to those I know have DA accounts and have submitted Sygnus fan art in the past. If I missed you somehow, just go ahead and join the group and I’ll put you where you belong as a contributor. Contributors are free to add works to the group without prior approval.

Members and watchers are quite welcome to join! And don’t be surprised if I add your art to our galleries out of the blue as well!

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Wayrift Comes to Deviant Art

by Aywren on February 15, 2010 at 6:51 PM

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While I’ve had an account at Deviant Art for six years, I have never posted actual Wayrift comic pages up in my gallery. I suppose I just never really considered it! Lately, I’ve seen more and more webcomic artists posting their pages there and finally decided with the start of Chapter 40, I would bring Wayrift updates to my DA account as well. It IS art, afterall.

I also decided (quite quickly) that I would NOT be going back and posting old Wayrift pages. There are just too many (1,000+) to archive on there. Not only would it take way too much time, but would also inflate my account and probably make all my friends unsubscribe from me! *laughs*

So here’s the link to the Wayrift folder gallery on DA!

I’m considering making a Sygnus group on DA… not sure how many of you guys would be interested in joining if I did..? I already have lots of Sygnus fan art from over the years to add to it!

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Upcoming Changes for Wayrift in 2010

by Aywren on December 22, 2009 at 11:37 PM

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Well changes are actually starting next week. But close enough!

A few years back, I inherited Syn’s Intuos 3 tablet… and it changed the way Wayrift was created and looked forevermore. This year, she upgraded her technical arsenal to include a Cintiq and I was gifted with her Fujitsu Lifebook Tablet PC! Needless to say, there will be more changes to Wayrift in method of production as well as format because of this.

Firstly, I’m proud to say that Wayrift will be going 100% paperless starting with next week’s update! This has been something I’ve wanted to accomplish with Wayrift eventually — I’ve always done my best to be environmentally conscious about my online projects. All roughs were always drawn on the backs of used sheets of paper, for example. And I have always recycled where I could.

But this year, with the Tablet PC, I will be working on learning how to do all steps of comic drafting digitally so that no paper is involved at all. I’ve already roughed and inked one week’s worth of comics this way and I feel with a little practice, you guys will never know the difference. ^_~

Secondly, due to the fact that pages are going to be inked and roughed digitally, the format of Wayrift may go through some changes as I try to figure out how everything works. Lately, I’ve felt that some of the newer pages felt a little too cluttered in both number of frames and amount of text. In the next few weeks, I’m going to be experimenting with this.

Next week, you may notice that the dimension of the page feel a little shorter than what you’re used to — more square shaped rather than rectangular. This may or may not become the standard. But fewer, larger frames are easier to draw directly to the screen and easier to produce at the rate of three pages a week. Fewer frames per page may also allow me more time per frame, meaning more detailed frames than what I’ve been doing recently (especially background wise).

So that’s the end of 2009 news for Wayrift. Hope everyone is having a wonderful holiday season!

Forward into 2010!

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