Zodiacstuck - The Goodbye to End It All

I'll focus on text modifications for a while. In the meantime, have a cute fanart of my Zodiacstuck moonfurries.

And now, the third part of this mini-arc. It's about 5 pages on Office, but it's a FUCKING SQUAD LOG WITH 11 PEOPLE TALKING AND THEY'RE NOT EVEN CHATTING AT THE SAME TIME so please do not complain you know what your skype logs look like

The art will be re-done too.
Next in line is one of my favorite arcs; Gallia: Reveal plan, which is Ryudra's escape. I maybe won't re-do it, save for a few panels.
And I will definitely change the way she's scribbling the code. Give her a piece of chalk or anything, but writing with her nails using her own blood, causing her feet to look like sliced meat, is a little too much.

I'll also change what she's writing. I'm thinking parts of the Book of the Dovahkin, in her red 'accent'. Yeah, it's quite the equivalent of Complacency of the Learned. But in, like, very awkward poetry. No correct rhythm, only rhymes, and simplistic verses.
Kinda like how Karudar speaks, in fact.

Also, I've added a poll, so if you could please check it out...

Starting from tomorrow, no new updates. It will last up to one week, but this might change. I'll try to stay active, but I can't promise.

I love that darker Ryudra panel.

Alright people.

From Monday 18th to Friday 22nd, don't expect anything. I'll be taking a week off without my laptop, and I'm not even sure there'll be internet.
Now, you might say, "But Carmine! Why bother taking days off if you're not even doing anything right now?". Well to that I can say that I have others projects than Zodiacstuck at the moment (do you know how much time it takes to write a chapter of my Skyrim gay Argonian friends-to-lovers fanfiction?), as well as the fact that I am a lazy fucker. I've passed the "Introduction arc" art milestone and I think it's alright for now. Of course, there are many things that still need polish, but for now they're mostly aesthetic so bear with them.
Maybe I'll leave some of the old panels, but that'd be very inconsistent. That's why I need to re-do them all, and that takes time.
After the Introduction Arc is what I call "Starting arc", going from Gallia: Reveal plan to End of Act 1, and is about 40 pages long. It includes the beginning of Sgrub and the first appearance of the Yalia. Then is the Intermission, which is paper-panelised and already had text corrections.You know I can't do much about paper panels, except maybe finding a scanner but I don't have one. Then there's another paper arc, simply named "Paper Arc", which goes until Ferren: Go fetch. (and in case you ask, no I'm not going to re-do it. You want to kill me or what? Watch it with subtitles on.) The page right after is the "Past friends arc", starting with Benkan's self-questioning, and then the "Players Arc" which starts with Nibber. Here's my current priority order:

Intro Arc: Done
Starting Arc: Next on my list. Needs art correction and text modifs.
Intermission: Done
Paper Arc: Well, not like I can do much more about it. I mean I could, but this would be unnecessary work.
Past Friends: Marks the level of what I deem "acceptable". Couple of paperised scenes could be remade.
Players: In Progress, temporarily paused.

In short, all 46 pages from August 2013 to November 2013 need to be re-done. And that's a lot.
Do you need to stop expecting new updates until then? I wouldn't say that. They're not my current priority, that's all. Zodiacstuck won't be put on hiatus, let's just call it 'maintenance work'. I like the term.
I don't know how much time this will take. Probably months. With college starting in September, that might hinder my progress. I'll see once we get to that point.

Thank you, for following the development of Yandere Sim- I mean, of Zodiacstuck.




(and, because i know you'll be many to wanna peek at said fanfiction: it's over there.)

Hay, I'm back. I might post an update somewhen, so that's that.
Hey.

Sorry, I guess it's a thing I do. I guess I need to say what's going on, so you know I'm still doing it. I wouldn't want people thinking I've quit or anything like that.
I know I haven't updated my Tumblr in a long while, or anything at all for that matter. It's a gloomy life period for me, plagued with depressive thoughts of "Why bother? They'll stink think it's unoriginal" or "Changing the art won't change the level of crappiness" that stop me from progressing. I need to find the motivation to work, and it isn't easy at all. I feel that, on break or not, I don't do any progress. My main goal to change #FromDoodlesToRealArt is 90% done, and I often look at it and say "meh, that'll go" even though my work still sucks so bad. (worst is, i know it's alright and people like it, but my depressed ass keeps coming back smacking me over points nobody cares about, pushed by a constant YandereDev syndrome and a need for mind-blowing perfection that I'll know i'll never achieve but try to strive for anyway. don't ask.)

Also, I have other projects at the moment, including Forumstuck, which will likely take most of my time. That and life going on, I think I might stop updating this thread altogether. Sometimes, works come to a point where they're more of a hassle than anything, and you wanna do something about it but can't find the energy.
Now if you excuse me, i have to go. It's half past crying in a corner time and i don't want to miss it.

Edit: And because my schedule is as much as a mess as my mental state, here's a panel to prove myself I'm not a wreck.



It's painful.

You've never felt so alive.






((guess who managed to find a last spark of motivation?))

Here is some further maintenance work.





There are some parts I doubt I will re-do. Currently, all naming panels are put on hold, because giffing is hard.

Only some of the guys did enter. There've been entrances way after.

For the rest, it's because I haven't finished polishing the story. I might entirely re-do some pages so the story is a bit clearer, so please be patient. But, as I've explained up somewhere, the rush can't eventually be slowed down, because of technical difficulties.
That's why I'll ask you to look at the pretty graphics and be distracted while I keep on the maintenance work.

I'm thinking of re-doing Ryudra's escape.