Intro
The OS-Tan Comic is a in house comic drawn written and produced by the members of OS Tan collections. In this thread will be listed the current project team listings, project heads, to do list, and current short term and long term goals.
If you want to join a team, become a department head or have a goal or the like you would like to add, either post in the thread, or PM the appropriate department head.
For storyline discussion or artwork please visit the corresponding threads.
ATTENTION: We now have a Title!! Digital Complex! Digi Con for short. Thanks to Mechzawa for his submission to the title contest!
The Team:
Project Chairman: CaptBrenden (My Idea to start with, but I hope to phase into just an artist/writer)
Art Department:
Comic Artists:
CaptBrenden
Concept Artists:
Capt Brenden
Background Artists:
None
Photoshop Artists:
CaptBrenden
Writting/Plot Department:
Conceptual work:
CaptBrenden
Storyline Writer:
CaptBrenden
Fireshadow185
Creative Input: (anyone who has assisted in anyway or put in thier 2 cents. Id like to move more of them up to actuall conceptual work...)
CaptBrenden
Tsuteto
L33t4g3nt
Agelu
Zixaphir
ShinraKenshin
Mechazawa
DarkLord
spysweeper
newyinzer
General Admin Dept:
Web Master:
DarkLord
Advertising:
DarkLord
Research:
None
Fans/readers...yet
none
GOALS
Nothing gets done without goals or deadlines. Its a sad but true fact. Fan based stuff is always great, but its speratic and slow often grinding to a stop. The highly motivated and dedicated project heads will help keep the process moving along by working with their teams trying to work around their schedules and special skills, dividing tasks and spreading out the workload to ensure the goals are met and the comic gets worked on! Come on guys, the girls are depending on us!
Short Term Goals:
Get a starting project team.
Decide on an overall concept.
Concept Drawings for all Major Characters (dec 7th for pencil sketch model sheets)
Long Term Goals
Create character profiles for each character.
Write general storyline
Write First Issue
Release Pilot Issue
In the future Id like for the goals to have a projected time for compleation.. but right now staff is too limited to do such. For now, lets work on getting a team and a story concept. Nothing goes anywhere without them.
Thank you,
Project Chairperson,
Capt Brenden
Wow. This looks very official. Good job. You know me, im (over)fully interested. How much is the minimal people that you are expecting to do this work? Also, you should recopilate the ideas we already have posted, and let us choose from them...
As many as I can, but Ill keep working even if no one else helps. It is more likely to sucseed with help tho...
Story work, recaping ideas and such will all be done under the Story thread.
I'll put ads on others site i manage as soon as we'll have something to show. I can also provide a mailing list for ostan since i don't think there is one. If you need a developpers ML, it's also possible.
Indeed a good thing to have a clear thread about this ;)
oh and if you need private or public place on server, tell me also :P
Hey thanks, Ill keep all of that in mind. A private area wont be needed for now.. not untill we got a decent team. Public discussion is going to help keep it alive for the time being..
Im going to drop you in the Advratizing area for now too then..
okeydok.
if you want me to drop some pms about this comic just ask ... but that could bring some unwanted ppl too so i don't think it's a good idea atm...
Alright
Project chair person here (I need a new title...) with an announcement here. For the next month or so I will be in training (for my real job -.-) So I will be for the most part out of contact. I might be able to check email, I dont know. Therefore, Im going to set a few things up for that month so we can keep things moving.
Art Department:
Well I guess this is just me currently... While im out there Ive packed my new OS tan dedicated sketch book and all my doodle supplies and my tablet. I will work on getting the starting model sheets for each character done (well the main ones at least.)
Writting Department:
Agelu and Q4(V) Write stuff!! The starting thread.. story writters needed.. Its got most of our major Ideas written in it. You can either work on compiling that into a more definate um.. thing.. Or, just write random extreamly short comic ideas. I mean like a comic short about.. say... 1-2 pages (comic pages) long, possibly advertizing the new comic. Those will give me something to sketch up as a Pilot or Teaser comic when I get back, giving you more time to work on the main story.
EVERYONE: TITLE TITLE TITLE! This shouldnt be hard, but Ive gotten myself an Idea.... Bwahahahaha. ...ahem... A contest!! Im going to make another thread for it... Everyone comes up with a possible title for the comic, and we all post our Ideas there. Come mid month (while Im still gone) Darklord, or who ever makes the polls posts the Ideas and we all vote on them. The polls will close dec 7th when I return, we will make a banner and a logo for the comic and that will alow us to advratize!
Now how is this a contest you ask? Thats easy, PRIZES! Or prize as the case may be (sorry no runner up for this one...) Winner gets a free sketch of their favorite OS Tan, in any way they want. You want 2k cosplaying a cat? You got it. You want xp swimming in a vat of macaroni and cheese? You got it.
And this is open to ANYONE! None project team members or non OS Tan Collections Members may still participate (tho... why would non members read the forums anyways?) The Title picked is the winning condition.
Darklord... If you could post the contest up as a news post on the main entry of the site it would probobly help.
anyhow.. that is all.
I will check back in on this tommarow morning before I head off to the feild.
Chairperson
Capt Brenden
well about the the story writing i think it should one big story so it continue on with the same main character if there is one, but with some one off story.
wait looking back some where u already said this ... don't know where ...
I would like to write, maybe both concept and storyline if possible
Look for my new Post, this IS GOING to be real, as far as i can
Mechazawa Is added to story writters, go ahead and read through the old posts to see what we are working with, and see what you can come up with! its all concept work right now..
Im alive, amazingly so concidering the last few days events. Just popping in to let people know im still out here, and I am working.. I just dont have a connection fast enough to upload anything... so it will probobly be about 3 months before i return to the states and off load all my built up work.
also another interesting little thing, I may be going to live in japan shortly after i get back, cool no?
can i join your team^^
im from the philipines i would like to join
i have here a sample of my work its a little old but i hope it will do.
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SOUSUKE!!!!
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ehem
I'm not part of the team, but I just needed to reply to this. Awesome sample junichi, I really like It.
Let's see If the Capt. gets online soon ;010
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Oh, Btw Welcome to OS-tan Collections.
You can introduce yourself in the "Member introduction thread" (general chat), and start posting!!!
QuoteQuote from : junichi
can i join your team^^
im from the philipines i would like to join
i have here a sample of my work its a little old but i hope it will do.
Wowsers, if thats old, then you got me beat o.O You could teach me more then a few things. If your still interested yeah Ill sight you right up :D Ill be back from Iraq here in about a month and Ill be kicking it back into high gear on the art fron (right now im doing mostly paintings for my unit.. to include a mamorial for our fallen marines.)
We have a new writer! Fireshado185 A collage english student, so he has to be good! :P Hopefully this will get us back on track
capt can i ask wht ur do for the first comic like no1 come up with a story for the issue 1, is it goin to be abt the user or abt the os tan, it just i don't see any story for the first comic
Repost from topicless thread for its releveance.
Other news, Im not sure you are all aware but the comic project that had pretty much ground to a halt for a time is movign again, slowly but more surely. Got a new motivated writer that has compiled and assembled more writting so far then we did the entire first year of the project (tho that aint sain much) even so far as to have already started scripting out issue one. hopefully there will be at least a rough draft of the comic of it by new years.
Further on that note, I just picked up Manga Maker 3.0 debut. Ill say yes it was a gamble but so far it has PAID OFF. I was worried i was just shelling out the money for some cheezy paint knock off or something of the sort, but it turns out to be an extreamly useful program thus far. Perfect for what it claims to do! It combinds the elements of photoshop, publisher, and opencanvus in a similer style but it has unique tools spicificly for comic artists. on top of that it has a massive computone archive! This should seriosly help me out.
With all that being said, there may still be parties interested in joining the project. My messangers can be found on my profile, message me and let me know, otherwise you will miss out. the public discussion and such works for general ideas and discussion but lets face it work dosent get done very fast when your waiting for posters to reply in thier own sweet time. thus from this point out the manga team will be working behind the sceans posting mile markers such as compleated scripts, drafts or issues, but not as much of the work inbetween. Most of that is going to be done by messanger programs. More artists are always welcome, but currently our big unfilled team position/project is creating a portion of the site to post the comic, cus lets face it, neither the forum or the gallery currently is a very good fromat for displaying any form of cronological comic. If there is anyone with web site skills that has the time to make a simple comic friendly web page design that can be attached to the forum like the gallery currently is they would be a valuble member of the team. We would even lovingly call you the webmaster. Might even be some groveling.
After an issue or two is up, then it will be a simple matter of keepign it up and spreading the word about it. Newyinz and wiki would be a good one (its been a while since i read the article but im pretty cirtain there is a list of available comic sites on there too we could be added too...)
Another possible department *coughbaconbits-sancough* would be subbing, but in reverse! Translating it into japanese for our possible japanese audiance!
This is the captain, out.
*trot trot trot*
Don't mind me, I'm just passing through..... -v-
*trot trot trot*
is this operation stir things up with a stick?
btw, you asked me what I needed.. but what were you interested in doing most?
Yo Captain.
Just passing through,... poking stuff, but now that you mention it.... ^__^
Artwork of course, but I can do a little bit of anything. But I figure by now you already have a set script and cast, so don't worry about me coming aboard to change things left and right (although I do hope 3.11-sama is still a character -- I read somewhere that you wanted to nix her).
And you know of course that while I'm not an artist, I am a world-class forger so you can count on me to style-match. ^__~
.....
I cant belive you would even accuse me of such a thing...
No, i think what your referint to is that she will not be in the initial group that shows up... shes gonna one of the first story arcs.. shes gonna show up much like kanako to sabotage the other girls and so forth, but will eventualy join the group
Kanako, eh?
*kicks himself for watching the anime first*
So...how much fanservice are we talking about here? About the same as Love Hina, as much as Mahoromatic, or as little as Azumanga Daioh?
as where I liked the rest of the series... Love hina again in a word... sucked. In the manga its oone of the best parts! they condensed at least 6 eps worth of material into 3 eps. plus they totaly made kanako look like... just a villan. in the book.. she towards the end was as much a main character in the group as much as any of the other girls
I donno, asu lacks it almost utterly, but I dont think there will be as much.. depends on how the writer provides opertunitys for it. I denifly plan to put some in it. I dont think you could have the tans without it
then again.. I didnt think they oculd do an anime for negima without it -_-
QuoteI donno, asu lacks it almost utterly, but I dont think there will be as much.. depends on how the writer provides opertunitys for it. I denifly plan to put some in it. I dont think you could have the tans without it
Exactly my point. Azu had almost no fanservice (depending on your opinion). Personally, I believe a little fanservice sometimes goes a long way. Full Metal Panic: Fumoffu had some fanservice here and there, but not so much as to it being condemnable. So go ahead, include some. But don't get distracted from the plot. Otherwise, you're diluting the webcomic world with more ecchi. It's like listening to the Negima and Love Hina themes at the same time. It's...
*rambles on about ecchi, hentai, fanservice, Anna Miller's, Italian spring water, mirrors, portable DVD players, and cabbages*
Mmmm.... Cabbage. -v-
That reminds me, now that you have a motivated writer on board, how much has the story diverged from the bits and pieces posted on the story thread?
Good to hear 3.1-sama will be here and simply joining up later, but during the initial brainstorming sessions you were talking about more permanent villains/opposing -tans (e.g., Mac, Linux, other OS-tans).
The non Windows-tans are villains? ;__;
So, why is that and what are their motives in the story?
From what I can discern, the Captain started with a more traditional plot, based on using the characters that already existed when he started writing the story. That way he avoided time consuming character design and confusion for those who are not familiar with the new OS-tans.
I will release no further details to non staff -_- and I wouldnt really say the others will be villans.. more like.. antagonists. rivals and the like.... But anyways, the plot and work is gonna be done alittle more secretly now so that when the issues are released that they will still be interesting to read
tho I dont know if ive mentioned it.. but Digital complex will be coming out in issues of prolly 8-16 pages, releases all at once. so about once a month when things start going well.
the plot thread will more or less become a place for people to comment on the story so far, and talk about thinks that want to see happen or the like.. more like a fan feedback on the plot sortathing
But like i said before, there WILL be fanservice. Just we are aiming for well used fanservice that gets the most bang for its buck, not gretuedus fanservice that you get in bulk from costco
If the project is still a go then I would like to offer what assistance I can. I'm pretty good with photoshop but lack a tablet(or any art skills) so I could probably help with formatting, layout and cleanup. I'm also very concious of spelling & grammar so I might be able to help with any text related things.