Ah, my wonderful peeps!

SO i apologize for the lack of updates, and want to assure you RcW was just on hold whilst i started my job (I’m back at the Fort) and got ready for Calgary Comic Expo! So i started back up on my pages again last weekend, and gee dangit, my computer that i do my inking on broke! (I ink on Easy Paint Tool Sai on a PC tablet and colour in PhotoShop on my mac with a cintiq) I would normally just go an ink it PS, but my line quality for inking is rubbish in PS compared to Sai, and I really want to deliver the best quality pages possible!

I have taken my tablet in for fixing, hopefully they will get back to me asap with a diagnostic, and worse comes to worse, if it’s too expensive to fix, I will go ahead and do the lines on the cintiq, while i save up for a new PC tablet. (they need to make sai (with pressure sensitivity for mac, seriously!)

SO, keep an eye out for updates! hopefully by mid-week next week I will have a new page up!

In the mean time, if you haven’t watched this you should… If you have, I’m sure you’ll enjoy it again.

Thanks for a great year on RcW! Not only did the site do well, and the first chapter was finished, but i even got the first chapter printed and it’s slowly catching on and i haven’t even marketed it! (which is in the plans for next year!)

A new page will be up tomorrow! (sorry for the late update, I’ve been pretty sick the last couple weeks looking at the computer doesn’t last long)

http://jetpack.me/annual-report/41762259/2014/

Head on over to Redcoat West’s STORE!  You can purchase the Chapter 1 book and there are currently a few prints and buttons available!  I’ve added a button on the sites top menu bar!

I just want everyone to know that this was SUPER hard.  Every-Single-Entry was flipping amazing!  They were all so well thought-out and so creative! I had 4 judges and myself, and one of my judges even went and got feedback from her coworkers! Even they had a hard time choosing!

We judged entries based on over-all effect, not just “quality” per say, but the thought behind the entry, the creativity and the reactions we felt to each entry.

Again everyone that entered will be getting a .pdf of the final draft of Chapter 2!

AND NOW

Drumroll Please!

1st Place!

All of us really loved this.  Not only are the frames themselves extremely well done, but the emotion and the story and theme behind the image is so powerful!! Subtle details too, like Haunt in the background are great! The sequential work is also very well done!!

2nd Place

We loved the character expressions in this! Like what is that expression on Jasper’s face suppose to be? Is he annoyed, is he subtly glad? We liked the slight mysteriousness of it!  The composition of the whole image is amazing!  And the background and lighting is absolutely beautiful!

3rd Place

  
This is so creative and funny!  Right after I wrote the entries journal I went and checked the mail and received the actual doll. HILARIOUS! The creativity of the doll itself is great! But the whole entry process with the parcel was amazing!! (go check the sta.sh image for all the details)

SHARE DRAW 

So the contest has come to a close! 

It’s been a great turnout!  Thank you all who entered and shared!  I’m hoping to have the Chapter 1 Book for sale online within a week or two! Chapter 2 is in the process of being scripted and boarded out! Exciting!  I’m hoping to have it on a regular updating schedule by the end of the fall! 

I will be be going through entries and getting some other judges and should have the results for the contest by the end of this week or the beginning of next!

I want to thank EVERYONE for their amazing enteries! I’m so excited that RcW has such creative and talented fans!  You guys rock!  

As a thank you for entering, I will be sending you a final draft of the script for Chapter 2 to all those that submitted an entry!! So you will get a sneak peak for the next chapter! yay!

Thank you again! I hope you all have a great rest-of-your long weekend! 

IF! I have forgotten your entry PLEASE forgive me! I tried to get them all and may have missed it.  I tried to follow my notes/emails/and tags. 

Enteries!

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