the new Godfeels chapter has been out for a few days! while it's not the first chapter to use images or spritework, it's the first that I think really shows off a lot of what we want to do moving forward. the new chapter can be found here if you haven't read it yet:
so one of the things we've talked about a lot in the Godfeels work server is wanting to develop our own language and techniques to push Homestuck spritework forward formally. we're thinking a lot about the camera placement within more detailed and experimental sets as a storytelling tool. so, rather than sticking to Homestuck's traditional slightly-off-orthographic perspective, @girlpillz put together this amazing expansive set of the park that bends back in a sort of fish eye perspective. this let Sarah move the sprites around and resize both them and the camera to get more dramatic effects.
but it also had some interesting emergent formal properties that resulted in some pretty good gags: (spoilers for the chapter under the cut)
i sketched every panel in the traditional frame size, but then janet extended certain panels where it felt appropriate to her and when i put them in the formatting it was like, oh! this does something really interesting! all the panels were preceded by a =//=> initially, but the exact formal affect zoe describes was so immediately palpable i had to cut them. i love this story, i love my collaborators, i love how often we just find these things almost on accident
