Ethereal Fein [10:47 PM]: Hello
BigNasty4Life [10:47 PM]: Yo
Ethereal Fein [10:47 PM]: I was wondering if you were free for the interview at the moment
BigNasty4Life [10:47 PM]: You got everything you need?
Ethereal Fein [10:47 PM]: yes
BigNasty4Life [10:48 PM]: Then I'm good
Ethereal Fein [10:48 PM]: alright
Ethereal Fein [10:48 PM]: ok,
Ethereal Fein [10:49 PM]: I know a great deal about regular comics, however, I know very little about web comics. I was hoping you could entail some of the processes required in order to make a web comic.
BigNasty4Life [10:53 PM]: Well, a few of the biggest issues would probably be time, idea, and patience. I often find myself trying to cook up good ideas with each of my series (except for Sweet Revenge, I already got that one planned out). Then I gotta set aside time in between myu job and my Art Institute lessons.
BigNasty4Life [10:53 PM]: Forgive any typos.
Ethereal Fein [10:53 PM]: no problem
Ethereal Fein [10:53 PM]: What kind of job do you do for a living?
BigNasty4Life [10:54 PM]: Currently, I work at my local supermarket. Not the most glamorous job, I know, but it pays (I currently make 7.98 an hour).
Ethereal Fein [10:54 PM]: (you make more than me)
Ethereal Fein [10:55 PM]: What kind of career are you studying for at the art institute?
BigNasty4Life [10:55 PM]: It's kind of a home study thing. They send me the lesons. Each lessons involve everyting....er...artsy (laughs). But I'm more in for the cartooning aspect.
Ethereal Fein [10:56 PM]: alright
Ethereal Fein [10:56 PM]: What inspired you to do web comics? For example, what inspired The Rogue's Gallery?
BigNasty4Life [10:59 PM]: The Rogue's Gallery itself has been with me for a long time, even before the webcomic. I did different things with it before the current works. You could say it was kind of a different series everytime. When I started using my characters to parody famuos games and anime for kicks, everyone loved it and it became my main thing to do with the series. Before my webcomic debut, I did it mostly for fun and I had a few fans. As for inspiration for webcomic-ing...
BigNasty4Life [11:01 PM]: I was introduced to webcomics through a spritecomic I found by accident called "Pocket Theater". I don't believe it's up anymore, which is a shame, because it was really funny in the early goings. From there, I found "Bob and George", and decided I was going to make my own. Drawn, of course :p. I knew crap about HTML (still do, not as little any more thanks to Jen Irwin), and someone over at the GameFAQS Message Boards pointed me to Geocities...
BigNasty4Life [11:03 PM]: I decided to put up a few old comics and drawings I made and kinda ended up with a little art gallery of sorts before applying a more "webcomic-ish" look to it. Put my comic in the likes of the Top 150 Comics list and OnlineComics, submitted a few of my FLASH works to Newgrounds, and after all that is when I started to accumulate fans.
Ethereal Fein [11:04 PM]: that's cool
Ethereal Fein [11:05 PM]: Aside from being on the internet, what is the key difference between a web comic and a regular comic strip that you'd find in the newspaper (excluding censorship, red tape, and all that nonsense)
BigNasty4Life [11:09 PM]: Hm.....I'd like to think there isn't really that mcuh of a difference. I mean, just recently (more like a few months back) a few of the newspapers at my job started printing a comic that I never saw before then called "Lucky Cow". I think it all depends on what passes for entertainment value in the eyes of some. Also, not many webcomics have completly, totally original aspects to them (having other people's characters like Sonic and Megaman and such) these days. Those who do have a REAL talent....
BigNasty4Life [11:09 PM]: I fully admit being guilty on that charge and often think of what I'm going to do when it comes time for me to make TRG mainstream.
BigNasty4Life [11:10 PM]: But more times than often, some people just out and out make webcomics for the fun of it. I know that's why I do mine.
Ethereal Fein [11:10 PM]: Ok
Ethereal Fein [11:11 PM]: What programs do you use in the making of your comic? Do you initially draw it out on paper using penci and go over it with ink, or do you use ink immediately? Or do you use some other media?
BigNasty4Life [11:14 PM]: First, I draw it out using old fashioned pencil (mechanical) and paper. I used to use some of the India Ink the Art Institute sent me before my pens broke. After that, I decided to do the next best thing I could think of and 'ink' it on Photoshop 7.0, my choice graphics program and what I use for the fancy stuff on my comics. After doing a lot of the comics that way, I've developed a better "mouse hand" than I ever had before." After 'inking' I add the shades of grey (or color, depends on what I'm doing)...
BigNasty4Life [11:14 PM]: ...effects, whatnot, and post it up.
Ethereal Fein [11:18 PM]: ok
Ethereal Fein [11:18 PM]: I've noticed that every 100 episodes you do an animation for the comic you're working on
Ethereal Fein [11:19 PM]: aside from Photoshop 7, what other programs do you use?
BigNasty4Life [11:19 PM]: The only animation program I use is Flash MX, which is prolly an old version of the softwere by now, heh heh.
BigNasty4Life [11:19 PM]: *software, my bad
Ethereal Fein [11:20 PM]: it's ok
Ethereal Fein [11:20 PM]: ok
Ethereal Fein [11:20 PM]: last question,
BigNasty4Life [11:20 PM]: Wow, that was quick
Ethereal Fein [11:20 PM]: what inspired the characters that you use for your storylines?
BigNasty4Life [11:20 PM]: What, the Rogues?
Ethereal Fein [11:20 PM]: sure
Ethereal Fein [11:20 PM]: yeah
Ethereal Fein [11:21 PM]: <---duh, yes. Don't mind me, I'm not feeling that well at the moment
Ethereal Fein [11:21 PM]: sorry>_<;
BigNasty4Life [11:21 PM]: It's cool.
BigNasty4Life [11:21 PM]: And I'm gonna put them in segments, okay?
BigNasty4Life [11:21 PM]: Now then...
Ethereal Fein [11:22 PM]: ok
BigNasty4Life [11:23 PM]: "Big Nasty" used to be the character that represented me in my old comics, if you couldn't tell with him sharing my name. The nickname isn't what it's supposed to sound like, rather it's a name that was given to me a lot by some of my buds in my neighborhood a while back. After repeated use, it stuck with me. It didn't have any significance, nor was it an insult. It was just a kind of tag, really.
BigNasty4Life [11:25 PM]: After makeing B.N. and myself seperate characters, I found myself being able to do a lot of things with him that I couldn't do before without being accused of kissing up to myself, so to speak. Plus, I was able to give him the hair he has now. Before, he had a fade haircut, but you couldn't tell because, much like these days, he was always wearing something on his head, be it the bandana or not.
BigNasty4Life [11:27 PM]: Believe it or not, I kinda came up with Nala Navilos in the fifth grade, after realizing that her name was mine backwards. I just never gave her a form until I started one of the old variations of TRG, which was actually named "Big Nasty Alan Solivan" after my character. She went through some changes herself, mostly the hair. That was the thing that changed the most.
BigNasty4Life [11:28 PM]: When Nala first started out, she had wore a blue cap backwards and let her hair down. Imagine the Nala in the first few episdoes of TRG with that cap on and you'll see what she looked like.
BigNasty4Life [11:30 PM]: Kitty was made for several reasons. 1. I wished to give Nala a sister, and Destiny already had one in Fayte, and 2. I kinda grew attatched to the whole 'catgirl' thing before creating her. I struggled with her design a lot, mostly her hair. In a lot of her early sketches, she didn't have those four strands of hair. I can't exactly remember what made me throw them in, though...
BigNasty4Life [11:31 PM]: The one thing that remained the same about her was the sweater. After finally making her, I kinda dedicated her to my little cousin, Vivian, who enjoyed the character a lot as I was making her. Truth be told, THIS TRG is Kitty's first comic ever.
BigNasty4Life [11:32 PM]: Jorge is the typical 'ladies man" character yo see in a lot of animes these days.
Ethereal Fein [11:32 PM]: k
BigNasty4Life [11:32 PM]: I'm not done
Ethereal Fein [11:32 PM]: I know
Ethereal Fein [11:32 PM]: Just letting you know that I'm still here
BigNasty4Life [11:33 PM]: Sorry, someone else was just getting my attention with something. Being wo I am, I get a lot of AIMS at one time, heh heh. Luckly at the moment, I only have you and another.
BigNasty4Life [11:33 PM]: Anyways, Jorge...Jorge...
BigNasty4Life [11:34 PM]: He did more of what has been expentant of him to do back in my old comics. Plus, when I first drew him, his beard was a lot smaller than it is these days, plus he had a ponytail that went down to the middle of his back.
BigNasty4Life [11:36 PM]: Also, he had a total white shirt. I think one of my favorite moments with Old-School Jorge was one part in a graphic novel that took me my entire Senior Year in high school to draw out.
BigNasty4Life [11:38 PM]: That one was Sapphire's debut, and she looked NOTHING like she does now., she wore a trenchcoat and somewhat of a thonged jumpsuit. As she and the other villians of the comic were searching for him to bait the Rogues, he was trying to sneak away behind them, but stopped at Sapph and started to have dirty thoughts. After knowing that it would get him killed, he lifted up the back end of Sapph's trenchcoat, shouted something stupid, realized he was busted and ran for his life.
Ethereal Fein [7:22 PM]: lol
BigNasty4Life [7:23 PM]: Destiny, at first, was one of those well-meaning kidders. In the series I used her in, she'd always mess around with Nala because of the obvious suspision that Nala had something for Big Nasty. And she had the powers back then as well.
BigNasty4Life [7:24 PM]: As one would guess, she looked different, too. Her hair was bunched in a ponytail, she wore a short purple jacket, a miniskirt, and these large grey boots.
BigNasty4Life [7:25 PM]: Before I created Fayte, I had wanted to do the same thing I would later do for Nala and give Des a sister. Only dif was that DES would be the younger sister.
BigNasty4Life [7:27 PM]: Fayte's original design was based off a girl in my Driver's Ed class. I remember her name, but I'd better not post it. So Fayte's old design was that he had short hair (think Clover from "Totally Spies", don't know if you've ever heard of that show...)...
BigNasty4Life [7:28 PM]: ...a grey sweater that had a play on the Independant logo (which is also those logos on Fayte's sleeves in her current state), and these baggy jeans that had a hole in the left knee. If you look at Fayte in one of the Ranma episodes from Season One, I kinda accidentially threw that in.
BigNasty4Life [7:30 PM]: Sapphire was the first actual villian that I ever made. She made her, what seemed to be, only apperance in that Graphic Novel I told you about. Some of her was inspired by Sephiroth of "Final Fantasy VII", more his theme anyways, "One Winged Angel"...The way the graphic novel worked was this...
BigNasty4Life [7:32 PM]: Sapphire had had a long grudge against Nala's bloodline for generations, because, unbeknownst to Nala, they were the keeper of a power that was the only type to defeat her once and for all if fully unlocked. No one had done it before Nala could because full potential couldn't be reached until the person's eighteenth birthday, so Sapphire had to destroy THAT indiviual if she hoped to ever have no threat to her existence...
BigNasty4Life [7:33 PM]: As the story goes, she failed and met her end. But, I had grown attached to her and, seeing how THIS TRG is in very short relation to any of my old works, I brought her back, changed her to the Sapph that everyone knows now, and compared to the typical villainous version she started off as, I like this one better. And she's obviously a hit with the fans.
BigNasty4Life [7:36 PM]: And as for O.M.A., obviously, he's my avatar. Before him, I never knew how much of a cardinal sin it was to bring the creator of such works into the fold these days, but no one seemed to mind my inclusion. And heck, "Excel Saga" has both it's original creator AND the director as characters and their just as popular. The only reason I regret doing so was because 1. it's cliched and 2. People started giving me fanart that had nothing but HIM in it...
BigNasty4Life [7:36 PM]: Which is why I rarely appear in any of my drawn works these days.
Ethereal Fein [7:37 PM]: I see
BigNasty4Life [7:38 PM]: Anything else?
Ethereal Fein [7:38 PM]: nope
Ethereal Fein [7:38 PM]: I think that's it
BigNasty4Life [7:38 PM]: *nod*
Ethereal Fein [7:39 PM]: Thank you for your time, and the interview of course.
BigNasty4Life [7:39 PM]: Thanks for wanting to interview me. I've always wanted on of these. *laughs*
BigNasty4Life [7:40 PM]: Hope it's good enough for your poject.
BigNasty4Life [7:40 PM]: *project
Ethereal Fein [7:40 PM]: :-) You're my favorite web cartoonist, so of course I'd have to ask you. Besides, my boyfriend would be sad if I asked anyone else
Ethereal Fein [7:40 PM]: this is the kind of stuff I needed for my project. Thanx
BigNasty4Life [7:40 PM]: Heh heh, not a problem at all. I appreciate it.
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