Cartoon Death Trap!

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Rough AI TRANSCRIPT:Cloud Town Tuesday Part 7, comix commentary with friends

[00:00:00] So this room is the future studio of Bean Can. Assuming it gets emptied out. Stop, no, there's glass, you're gonna kill people. This is not, this is a trap, death trap. Welcome to Cloud Town Tuesday. The day where I share a page from my graphic novel, Cloud Town, and um, tell you about the process of making it.

It's like a, um, editor's commentary on a DVD. Here it is, let's go, let's do it. We can do it. Oh no. Alright, this is not how you carry an iced coffee in a room full of books. Okay, so this is the dedication page. The dedication page? This, I don't know what this is. This is some other page. Okay, yeah. Dedication page.

So I drew this later. It had a little bit of a narrative. I have that small image there from the last page. Uh, I think we looked at that. And you used that to be a composition for this page? Yeah, because I wanted these characters to [00:01:00] run into this duck. Or, not duck, I think it's an ancient murrel. But I wanted that conflict to happen, so.

Um, I think also in the background of this page, there is a pen. Pen's family's house will appear in the background. And the dedicated to anyone who has ever hurt or been hurt by a friend. That's kind of, um, a theme in the books that I wrote. Like my first book, a film about Billy, I had dedicated to anyone, uh, who has ever died or loved someone that has died or will die or something like that.

Literally everyone. Why'd you look at me when you said will die? Won't you? I'm, uh, I don't know. Kirt's on his last legs here. I feel like it, man. After his Death of Power series. On huge success. Oh, it's all over. It's all downhill from here.[00:02:00]

So, also, I do chapter titles by trying to incorporate the chapter in the scene. So, later, chapter 7, I think, is written on the back of their house. So I still wrote chapter there. But I kind of hid it. This is like a new chapter page? No, but there will be a new chapter page later that is that house it, it's going to say chapter.

It's going to say chapter. Oh, like, oh, right on the, so yeah, on the siding, like this never gets put into detail, but um, like they're pretty poor. And his, her dad Fix's phone freelance and he just like nailed garbage together to make their patio, his office, you know, not, he's on their back porch. They have a chicken coop and stuff.

This is, like, influenced by one of the houses I used to run the writers co op in. Cyberpunk Apocalypse Writers Project. Looks pretty similar to that house. Oh, cool. And then these little creatures, yeah, they used to, I think I talked to you guys before, but they had a kind of Where's Waldo secondary barbarian story happening in the background of the [00:03:00] first version of the script.

Oh, that's funny. But it got edited out. Because, in script format, it was really disorienting and confusing. Like, why, why do you keep changing your attention to this story for no reason? And then they were like, oh, actually, I like that, you should put it back in. But all of, like, the beats that made it functional, like, were gone.

Were already edited. So, it was, yeah, it was very hard to retroactively reinsert it. But that's something I'd like to do, still, in a future story. Have, like, a secondary Where's Waldo style story that you could find if you were a big nerd. Do you have it as like, tiny little characters in the background of a panel or their own panel?

So that'd be kind of like a Sergio Aragones type mad magazine. Yeah, it'd just be hidden. Yeah, you wouldn't know unless you decided to look for it. Yeah, okay, that's rad. So the plot for this was a crow takes one of these guys away, and then his like, brother goes hunting the crow in like, armor made of trash.

And they find just his [00:04:00] shell in the It's a, it's an epic. But then, but yeah, but then, but then you see like the, out of the shell comes like a, just the head. He can regrow like little arms, so now he's just a short version of the snail. And then, and he trains the crow and starts flying the crow. And then he's like the cool guy that teaches them all to catch birds and fly the birds.

And at the end of the climax when they're fighting the giant monster, they're also kind of swarming fighting the monster. And then he like punches like the foot of the monster with his spear, like in front of all of his compatriots. It's right as the main character punches it in the face with a giant robot, so that all of, all of the scrapper snail people think that he did it.

Damn them, you've got that in like a worst Waldo format. Oh, that would be awesome if it, you know, is in the background, like in the gutters of the book. Yeah, or just like, you'd just be tiny. And then it slowly forms into, like, into the book, you know, like maybe [00:05:00] there's like, you know. It gets more and more prominent throughout the time until it's like the main story instead.

For like one or two pages, not for the whole thing. I do love the shells being like beanies. It is so cool. This one looks like an army hat. That was the whole, that was the whole one of this video, so I feel like we can do a couple of these real quick. Oh really? Yeah, I don't know, so exactly, so like the last video we watched took forever, this one took me five hours.

But it's a five minute clip. But it's a five minute clip. But that means I'm getting way faster at these. The texturing, uh, looks really cool. I like the motion lines a lot. Yeah, I bought True Grit. And, uh, you know what? A friend of mine, uh, respectfully was like, You know, there are always these new technologies in comics that, um, that make you think, uh, it's really cool at the moment, but you'll super date yourself.

You know, you don't have to, but I, I toned down a bit of it, Hey guys. This video is brought to you by my [00:06:00] free newsletter comic. So if you've read cloud town already and you're enjoying it. Sign up to my newsletter. You get four pages of new comics every two weeks. , in the cloud town universe. And oh, yeah, I've done like a bunch of episodes already, but I've never told anyone to like, and subscribe.

I'm a cartoon. It's not a YouTuber. So if you like it, like it and subscribe to it and follow it and all the stuff people do. Okay. So I guess I'll show you this.