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Finish Line! Thank You!
Creators are now revealed at the fffx 2020-21 collection. You are welcome to share what you wrote or drew far and wide.I want to thank everyone for taking a chance on an exchange with unusually high requirements for works, on an unknown mod, and on various of my more experimental ideas. I am especially grateful to pinch hitters, to treaters, to people who consumed canons thinking about treating or pinch hitting, to betas, to commenters, and to the other Triple Crown moderators for conceiving of similar events that could complement and support each other. Three people took on pinch hits before assignments went out. My friend made me such a gorgeous icon. Just LOOK at that Godzilla with a clipboard. You're all stars.
Although I was wibblesome at the time of reveals, I think fffx generally worked and would like to run this again. So I'd be grateful to hear your feedback.
Feedback
ArtI am glad we included comics and would be happy to do that in future, so this can be the Five Figure Fanwork Exchange indefinitely. I would be happy to hear from artists about whether the minimums/requirements worked or could be tweaked.
Schedule
The 2020 schedule was:
Nominations start: 14 July 2020
Sign-ups start: 24 July
Sign-ups close: 7 August
Assignments out by: 14 August
Assignment Swap Week: 14-20 September
Check-in Week: 16-22 November
Assignments due: 30 January 2021
Works revealed: 27 February - delayed to 12 March
Creators revealed: 13 March - delayed to 26 March
How did it work for you? Should 2021-22 be similar? Should the check-in be at a different point relative to the overall schedule?
Assignment swaps
I liked having this option. Checking my notes, eight people asked to swap their assignments. Does anyone have any feedback on this aspect?
Letter deadlines / Mandatory optional details
I know it causes a lot of stress in exchanges when people are waiting on indefinitely incomplete/locked letters. I'm not sure if my threat of deleting letters that were incomplete past a certain point was helpful for this situation. I deleted three people's letter links.
Other
?? DNWs? Pinch hitter prompt promotion? Handling of nominations? I might give slightly fewer nominations next year but only SLIGHTLY. There were a lot. But I want people to be able to request and offer what they want, and matching wasn't a problem, only sorting.
Triple Crown
In the next day or so, I will provide the Triple Crown Committee with a final list of people who have participated in this exchange in such a way as to qualify for Triple Crown prizes. (See![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png){kind=small}
triplecrownofexchanges for cool stuff!) That will not include anyone whose work is orphaned or anon or anyone who has not commented on their gifts. So if your work is anonymous (the TCC have other ways around that too, you can talk to them rather than me) or you have reservations about commenting on your gift(s), you're welcome to get in touch with me at mod.modzilla@gmail.com.More Triple Crown
Editing to add the reminder that prize claiming for Triple Crown starts on April 2! Enjoy the fruits of your labors, magnificent completionists.
triplecrownofexchangesMuch love.
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Date: 2021-03-27 06:54 am (UTC)Although I didn't exchange anything, I was glad the week was there to have, in case things hadn't worked out. I also wanted to say, I was very happy with the option to split works and receive "two" assignments to fill for the same person, so I think that worked really well.
(Also, that icon IS amazing and deserves all the love!)
Thank you so much for running this!
(no subject)
Date: 2021-04-02 01:47 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2021-03-27 11:38 am (UTC)And even though it didn't affect me personally, I like the deletion of incomplete/unlocked letters rules in general.
Thank you for hosting the exchange! I had a great time, and I hope it'll be back next year (well, this year, technically). :D
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Date: 2021-04-02 02:16 am (UTC)Glad the schedule worked, too! Since July this year isn't so good for me, I might tighten the overall schedule up slightly, with nominations beginning late July instead of mid July. I might also put the due date one or two weeks earlier - with reveals projected to be at the same time, the end of February.
I agree that sometimes people don't know if a story/comic is going to work out or not until late in the creation period. But I think I need to balance that against giving pinch hitters enough time - the check-in week produces a bevy of pinch hits, between people who've taken the no-penalty easy dismount (which is what it's there for - no hard feelings!) and people who have simply forgotten. And of course the actual deadline produces a bevy of pinch hits too. I'd like pinch hitters who pick up pinch hits after deadline to have plenty of time to work, especially since sometimes it's the same people picking up mid-exchange pinch hits and post-deadline pinch hits.
(Also, unfortunately, right after Christmas / early January is a bad time for me personally to be doing modding things, as I participate in Yuletide and Chocolate Box.)
tl;dr about letter deletion - don't feel like you personally need to respond to this! I'm more writing it out in case other people want to weigh in...
It's good to get feedback about the letters policy. I am unsure if it's effective either as a motivator to get people to complete their letters (EVERYONE starting a letter assumes they'll finish theirs, so people don't expect this to apply to them) or as a solution when that doesn't happen (does having the link go away reassure a creator who's been waiting that they have official permission to stop checking? Or does it just make it harder to access a link they were going to keep checking anyway?) There were one or two people I contacted, warning them I was about to delete their letter link, who did not realize their letter had been incomplete and so fixed it - a positive outcome. And I felt more comfortable contacting people about that than I would have if there had been no policy. But, compared to many mods' approaches, it is micro-managing, and checking was tedious. I wonder if I should incorporate it into into assignment swaps or check-ins and make people state they have completed their letters then. "I would like to swap my assignment, and I affirm I have completed my letter." It's a bit late to be useful by check-in.
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Date: 2021-03-27 12:59 pm (UTC)Regarding assignment swaps: I think I would've preferred having two weeks for that? I know that I can look at an assignment and have a lot of initial confidence in my ability to write it, and having an extra week could give that enough time to cool down in the face of starting to actually write something. I'm still not sure I would've swapped (it's a new concept to me! I'm still sort of confused about how it works on your end!), but considering the length of the exchange, one week feels like it might be a bit short.
Regarding check-ins: I agree with
Regarding letter deadlines: It didn't effect anything for me. I'm very neutral on the idea, as a result. If it's something that helps you as a mod, go for it! (Mandatory optional details is great, though; I think that for something this long it's very important to have something for creators to go on.)
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Date: 2021-03-27 02:33 pm (UTC)I think this needs to account for people who have a different writing process. Not everyone drafts at all, or works with an outline, or writes chronologically. Phrasing the check-in differently in the way you suggest (and perhaps that's what you mean by a 'soft' question about drafting) isn't an issue, but I'd strongly argue against actually being required to show any progress at check-in.
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Date: 2021-03-27 04:10 pm (UTC)I was more thinking about how if the question is more like "how is your work going? are you on-pace to finish?" (with a suggestion of "it's half-way through the writing period! maybe aim for being half-way through by this check-in?" or something along those lines) instead of simply "are you still committed to this exchange?", it would help split the writing period into two smaller mental chunks instead of one vast endlessness that only feels Real at the end.
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Date: 2021-04-02 03:06 am (UTC)I'm not quite sure how two weeks would work for assignment swaps, but I wasn't very clear about how it would work in the first place, sorry! To recap from my side: I originally conceived of it as a week-long period, but when carrying it out, I realized that didn't make any sense. Really, the time you have to decide about swapping your assignment is between when you get your assignment, and whenever the arbitrary deadline is (in round 1 it was September 14), meaning that it's four weeks. So do you think you'd prefer it were five weeks between assignments going out & the assignment swap date? I also might say that you could swap your current assignment for an outstanding pinch hit after that time, maybe all the way to the end of the year.
Thanks! I put more thoughts about letter deletion in a reply above, here.
It's interesting to me that you suggest a second check-in. It might be helpful for me as a mod to structure fffx with two check-ins, but I got the impression that many participants find a single check-in acceptable, but already burdensome. Plus I would want to keep the default-with-no-penalty cut-off at the earlier check-in.
Regarding the suggestion below about people aiming to be halfway through their work at a half-point check-in: I'm not sure that works for me. I don't expect people to space out their work evenly through the creation process. Some people might have a huge busy period in their lives in Sept-Nov and be planning to start canon review in December. Some people do a lot of overlapping exchange and set THIS fortnight aside for Exchange 1 and THAT fortnight aside for Exchange 2, even though the exchanges have writing periods that are much longer than two weeks. Tl;dr - I'm cool with people writing 90% just before deadline as long as they don't make it my problem or their recipient's.
At the check-in, I just want people to think about whether anything has changed in their life that jeopardizes their existing plans to create a work. (Do you still have access to canon? Have your offline commitments changed so drastically you cannot do the thing?) It can be a wake-up call for people who haven't started reviewing a long canon or who are hand-inking and can only physically draw so much in a day, etc. But I don't even need to know what someone's plan looks like. Just whether they still have one.
I like to hope that a mid-way check-in reminds people that the exchange is Real (I definitely know what you mean there - it's next year, how can it be urgent?) but not sure how to achieve that otherwise.
Would happily explain more about how the assignment swap process works if you like! Don't want to tl;dr you further without invitation, though.
(no subject)
Date: 2021-04-02 11:49 am (UTC)To recap from my side: I originally conceived of it as a week-long period, but when carrying it out, I realized that didn't make any sense.
Ah, that'd be why I'd misremembered the timing. xD; I think that a month is plenty of time; I just don't think I'd remembered/realised how much time there was for it.
I also might say that you could swap your current assignment for an outstanding pinch hit after that time, maybe all the way to the end of the year.
Oh, that'd be fascinating! I think I would've been interested in that. Even though it's essentially the same as defaulting + claiming a pinch hit, it feels different somehow?
Would happily explain more about how the assignment swap process works if you like! Don't want to tl;dr you further without invitation, though.
I'd love to hear more about it! I think that it being a new concept and me not being sure how it worked contributed to me not even really considering it as an option. :)
(no subject)
Date: 2021-06-15 10:03 pm (UTC)Yes - you're right that the technical process on swapping assignments is no different from defaulting and claiming a different pinch hit. Though for me and I think some others, there can feel a difference between pressing the default button yourself and instructing the mod to do it for you. Anyway!
Since you mod things yourself, you've encountered the need to double-assign people at the start of an exchange, right? Where you're left with some people without creators, and some people without recipients, and then the first group get assigned to a temporary account and sent to pinch hit, and for the second group, you pick recipients for them, which means that their recipients actually end up with two creators.
(And once assignments are sent, those double assignments hang around all exchange. If a recipient has two assigned creators and one defaults, the system doesn't go "yeah, but one person's still creating for them, they're covered" - it just shows the defaulted assignment in the Defaulted tab. And similarly, you can't generate new assignments outside of purging & regenerating them all.)
But, back to matching phase - sometimes, when the matching algorithm runs, you may notice that it's possible to massage matches so that there are fewer pinch hits and fewer double-assigned recipients than the algorithm would give you.
This exchange instead goes the other way and, after matching is run, artificially manipulates the matches so as to create four separate assignments for every recipient. If you want to know how to do it yourself, it's time-consuming but I have a document I can tidy up.
But anyway, what this means is that all through the exchange, there's a "bank" of assignments held by the mod account. Say someone's already creating for you, and someone rocks up to my mod account saying "My assignment isn't working out, I want to create for Shadaras instead." Because the mod account is holding onto a hoard of extra assignments, I can easily assign that person to create for you, just as if you'd originally had two creators and the first had defaulted. On a technical level, that's exactly what happened, except, basically, you started out with four creators and three of them were the mod.
I'm not sure if that answers your question or a lot of questions you didn't ask /o\ but I hope it helps!
(no subject)
Date: 2021-03-27 01:28 pm (UTC)The schedule worked very well for me, and I probably wouldn't have been able to participate in a shorter time frame, due to rl busyness around the holidays. Check in and swap weeks were useful, but I could see them working well at other times.
I found the deleting letter links very useful, in that it gave me a set date where I could stop worrying about a recip updating and just focus on canon review until then - honestly, I'd be happy to have it moved up some!
Overall, it was an amazing exchange and I'm looking forward to doing it again!
(no subject)
Date: 2021-04-02 03:10 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2021-04-02 02:14 pm (UTC)Re: working it into swaps/check-in... I think check-in is too late, especially for anyone who wants to start writing earlier, and swaps would be good, timing wise, but not everyone swaps their assignments. Honestly I'd be fine with a rule/guideline that was honor based, but since letters already aren't binding, I'm having trouble thinking of how to phrase it.
I just liked having a hard date to stop checking for an updated letter!
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Date: 2021-03-27 01:43 pm (UTC)- I thought the schedule worked really well, and I'd be okay with shifting things in the time from assignments to deadline ± a month if needed. I might advocate that one less month in the time between assignments out to assignments due, and adding that time to assignments due to works reveal - speaking personally, I really appreciated those extra two weeks for editing!! I also really appreciated the full two week period between works reveals and creator reveals; if this were much shorter I don't think I would have been able to comment as widely.
- I'd be perfectly happy having fewer noms next year; I seem to recall the tagset had been reopened for signups as well for a few extra noms! That helped me too.
Thanks so, so, so much for this exchange, mod :D It was a lot of fun, I had a blast writing and reading, and I'm really happy to see so much appreciation for longfic. 💖️ I hope whatever stress it might have been for you as mod was ultimately worth it, because I'd dearly love to see this exchange back next year!
(no subject)
Date: 2021-03-27 07:52 pm (UTC)My modified suggestion on this, as a PHer, is that we keep the adjusted versions of this year's work reveals and creator reveals times, and shove assignments due back to mid-January, to give at deadline PHers a full two months in which to do canon review, plot, and write 10k or more. I don't think pushing it back any further than that would be great because that would just mean running up against all kinds of things due right at the end of the year, but two months seems like a viable window that might PHs for more unwieldy canons less likely to linger!
(no subject)
Date: 2021-03-28 01:32 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2021-04-02 03:46 am (UTC)Some of the schedule constraints are fixed by other commitments and events. Late December and early January are not great times for me because of Yuletide and Chocolate Box, and similarly, although everyone was very gracious about the delay to fffx this year & it had benefits for some, those reveal dates weren't ideal for me because they overlap the start of fandom5k, which fffx is meant to be complementary to. There is also a chance that I would set the official reveals time to mid-March, and then outstanding pinch hits would cause me to delay the reveals so that they really overlapped with fandom5k.
I also suspect that if works are due, say, early Jan, and works are due to go live in March, the deadline becomes unreal to many - it's essentially another check-in, but a check-in where people have to show proof of work. Since showing proof of work at a check-in is unpopular, I'm reluctant to build it in, even if it's under another name.
I would like to stretch the time between deadline and reveals a little, since it seems there's more willingness for that than I thought. Maybe deadline either Jan 15 or Jan 22, and reveals at the end of February again.
(no subject)
Date: 2021-04-02 03:36 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2021-03-28 05:38 am (UTC)I don’t know if my feedback is going to be be much helpful, since the exchange worked fine for me like this, so I don’t really have strong opinions about stuff one way or the other. But I'll list what I could think of.
Maybe, an earlier works deadline, or a works reveal permanently pushed back, could help to prevent unclaimed pinch hits from lingering for so long as they did this time?
Someone also mentioned that could be helpful to include the one safe fandom rule that also Heart Attack had, so maybe that would also help with post deadline lingering pinch hits?
As an artist, the minimum requirements worked just fine for me. Yay for you keeping the art option! I’m already excited to signup to the next round! ♥
I’ll admit that outside from drafting an outline for my story (that I’ve even scratched later) I wasn’t able to work on my assignment until a lot after the check in, so I agree that a late December/early January check-in (or second check-in) could be useful? Especially for people who need the early period to canon review or other and don’t have a clear idea about what tbey're going to do yet.
I haven’t used the assignment swap option, but I think it was a cool idea and I’d like for it to stay.
Same about the letter deadline, sounds a good way to remind people to finish their letter (and besides if a gifter wants to check an incomplete letter anyway at a later time, they still have a link in their email).
I wonder if it would be helpful for potential offerers willing to check new canons, to get a post where they can ask canon/ship/character recs based on their preferences (space canon with a shippy enemy m/m dynamic requested; f/f with age gap smut requested canons; etc.), so that people requesting canons can rec the stuff they are requesting if it hits similar notes. But I don’t know if it’s helpful or if it can even get easily applied.
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Date: 2021-04-02 04:03 am (UTC)In jumbled order -
I wonder if it would be helpful for potential offerers willing to check new canons, to get a post where they can ask canon/ship/character recs based on their preferences (space canon with a shippy enemy m/m dynamic requested; f/f with age gap smut requested canons; etc.), so that people requesting canons can rec the stuff they are requesting if it hits similar notes. - You could do that on the canon promo post, and one person asked for recs that would lend themselves to interactive fiction! But I think I could be clearer about that use of the post, and encourage it a lot more.
I’ll admit that outside from drafting an outline for my story (that I’ve even scratched later) I wasn’t able to work on my assignment until a lot after the check in, so I agree that a late December/early January check-in (or second check-in) could be useful? Especially for people who need the early period to canon review or other and don’t have a clear idea about what they're going to do yet.
Could you expand a little, please, on how you would find that helpful? I'm not sure I understand how you would be using it. If I had multiple check-ins, I would still want no-penalty defaulting to stop at the first check-in. Check-ins also cause pinch hits, which is one reason I don't want to have a check-in too close to the deadline, which of course also causes pinch hits.
I feel cautious about making the deadline as early as some people have suggested in comments, as I think that the greater the distance between deadline and reveals, the more people treat the deadline as a check in rather than a hard deadline. But I would like to make it a little earlier than it was this year, since people seem open to that change.
All of of the last pinch hits in this exchange actually had short accessible canons that could be easily consumed. So including a safety fandom policy wouldn't have affected the first fffx round - but might affect it in future. For now I'd prefer not to have one but hopefully I won't be eating my words next February.
I'm glad the art minimum requirements worked! Thanks for all your detailed feedback.
(no subject)
Date: 2021-03-30 07:35 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2021-04-02 04:13 am (UTC)So far I'm looking at a similar schedule with nominations starting late July, deadline middle-ish January, and reveals end of Feb, but will put up a new schedule post here when that is confirmed.
(no subject)
Date: 2021-04-01 12:46 am (UTC)Things I really liked about this exchange:
- Promo posts. What a fantastic idea. I hope to see other exchanges consider this in the future because it was immensely useful for changing my tune on whether I could pinch hit for a new canon or not. Additionally, it's just fun to see what other participants are into / the possibility of treating for them.
- Comics. I signed up for this in particular. I do feel like ten pages is a small amount after I finished my twenty page monster. XD It's hard to peg a good baseline for comics because everyone draws/works so differently, but for an exchange with such a large window I feel like twelve to fourteen pages is fair to ask for. I think this allows for richer storytelling as a baseline, as opposed to artists trying to cram a story into ten pages and be done (which fair, longer stories require more planning and work, but that's kind of a significant part of this exchange!) Five panels was a good general rule.
It's very hard to determine what's fair for artists and writers but I don't think upping the page requirement would make for a huge increase in work. For an exchange with such a long creation period I would welcome a higher page requirement.
- Pinch hitting. Thanks for boosting pinch hits so regularly! This is what got me to pick up a pinch hit; I got curious about the requests I kept seeing. XD Others in the comments mentioned a longer pinch hit period -- maybe by pushing the deadline back earlier. Having a dedicated month / month and a half for pinch hitters to work in would provide some more breathing room? It makes for a long wait for reveals / creators will certainly be using that time to edit further, but it may help pinch hits to get picked up more quickly! Obviously if there aren't a bunch of post-deadline lingering pinch hits, this wouldn't be necessary.
- Assignment swaps. I didn't use this, but I loved it as a concept! It's a great idea, and I second bumping swap week up to two weeks. Gives people plenty of time to determine if they want to swap or not.
Thanks again for running this exchange and all your hard work!! It was a joy and super satisfying to see all the awesome works that people made at reveals. I loved how flexible so many aspects of this exchange were. I hope this wasn't too stressful for you and runs again, because it was genuinely great and I would love to participate again! <3
(no subject)
Date: 2021-04-01 08:16 pm (UTC)It's very hard to determine what's fair for artists and writers but I don't think upping the page requirement would make for a huge increase in work. For an exchange with such a long creation period I would welcome a higher page requirement.
Just chiming in my own two cents as a fellow artist in this round (who also signed up for the comics! \o/)... I really liked the 10-page minimum and wouldn't personally want a higher requirement.
I participated in both HA and FFFX as a comic artist, and I appreciated that both exchanges had the same 10-page minimum (even though they had different panel minimums, with FFFX at 40 and HA at 25, I believe). My HA comics were 11 and 10 pages respectively, and my FFFX comic was 13 pages.
My thoughts are that... for me, 10 pages works really nicely as a minimum! If an artist is telling a story that needs to be longer than 10 pages, there is certainly nothing stopping them from drawing more, just as many fic writers wrote more than 10k words for their own story concepts in this exchange.
(Also, I will note that these were the first comics that I have been able to finish (ever!), so 10 pages felt like a nice approachable number for an artist who felt unsure about being able to complete a comic in the first place. xD)
I think that the longer creation period of FFFX grants creators (both writers and artists!) the time to create longer works if they so choose - but that the existing minimums feel very fair.
(no subject)
Date: 2021-04-02 12:36 am (UTC)Very true! I am being greedy and wanting more comics tbh. I guess there really isn't a need for a higher page count per say, but I feel if ten pages is acceptable as a minimum I just don't see much difference in adding two or four more. :p Idk. I think endlessly about what's equivalent writing wise for an artist and 10,000 words vs 10 pages minimum feels like there's a gap. But that's just me! I do both so I think about this a lot. Visual art is consumed a lot faster; maybe I just don't find it as satisfying and that's a personal thing.
Also, I will note that these were the first comics that I have been able to finish (ever!)
Yooo congrats!! :D
I do enjoy that the 10 page minimum is approachable for a lot of artists as you said! That's great! I loved seeing everyone's works this year and I hope more artists participate in the future too.
(no subject)
Date: 2021-04-02 04:54 am (UTC)I borrowed the concept of promo posts from other exchanges (Yuletide and Fandom 5k) but I think it was new to link to the promo posts when posting pinch hits. Next year I need to make myself an index of promo posts.
Good to know about assignment swaps - I had more thoughts on that in this comment. Essentially the swaps period was actually 4 weeks. But could be more.
I think I will stretch the time between deadline & reveals a little, but am wary of, say, doubling it because at that point I think it stops being a real deadline.
Re comics & minimums - I'm glad you're chiming in. I actually have a really silly question - please brace yourself. How do you actually measure a page? I assume if you're creating on traditional media it's an A4 page. Is that right? But how do people compare if creating digitally? I have struggled a bit with length/size requirements that make sense and can be universally applied.
It is a bit of a conundrum that 10,000 words can take far less time to create than a ~10-page comic, but also take longer to consume. I'm hesitant to increase the minimum because of the effort involved, and I think nowrunalong also has a good point about keeping the art minimums consistent between fffx & HA.
Tangentially, I loved seeing how many different art styles there were!
(no subject)
Date: 2021-04-12 04:41 pm (UTC)I borrowed the concept of promo posts from other exchanges (Yuletide and Fandom 5k)
I have not participated in either of these before, so I had no idea! It's great and I'm glad to see it used here.
How do you actually measure a page?
Not a silly question! Someone else answered this below as well, but I usually look only to measuring pages if it's something I intend to print later, in which case I look at the "standardized" comic measurements of A4, B4, etc. I believe these are American industry standards for measuring comics and/or used by print shops for determining how comic books should be printed (but it does vary by publisher/printing house/country so there's not really a true standardization, these are just common ones). For me in this exchange, because I worked traditionally and I wanted to create quickly I worked at a small 5 inch x 7 inch page size and scanned it at a high setting, and then just resized the pages down until they were comfortably readable. Part of the awesome part of not worrying about printing is that pages can be measured to fit the art instead of vise versa. It looks like everyone picked a similar format for this exchange.
But how do people compare if creating digitally? I have struggled a bit with length/size requirements that make sense and can be universally applied.
A lot of digital art programs these days either give creators the option of using pre-made A4/B4 etc measurements and/or the ability to create a canvas size via pixels or inches (whatever the country's measurement system is). So digital artists and traditional artists can more or less work the same way with page size! It's just a matter of traditional artists needing to have a good scanner for their work to avoid blurriness and low resolution. Tbh, I think for this exchange, the panel minimum was a good way to measure length/size requirements? Because as others mentioned, you can always add more pages/panels if need be. And it gives artists the flexibility, especially artists who may want to participate in making a comic but are completely unfamiliar with comics' weird and inconsistent system of measurements, the ability to simply focus on the work / keeps it low key. Alternatively, if I'm rambling and you're just wanting a simple measurement, I generally like my pages to be at least 1200 pixels wide when I'm uploading the final version for viewing purposes.
I was trying to find a link I could share that may answer your question better, but everyone has different opinions on the A4/B4 etc measurements and I don't use these unless I need to for printing purposes (these sizes account for a pages bleed, how the pages will be trimmed/cut at a print shop). I think what you're wanting is a measurement for how work should be presented when completed, and probably a readable work at 1000 pixels on one side of the page or more might be helpful.
nowrunalong also has a good point about keeping the art minimums consistent between fffx & HA.
I had not thought about that, but makes sense! I am just being greedy hahaha.
I loved seeing how many different art styles there were too. So much great work was made!! It's all a delight!
(no subject)
Date: 2021-06-15 10:05 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2021-04-02 08:06 pm (UTC)In terms of tagset nominations, it depends on which angle you're thinking of reducing. If it's reducing the number of ships/characters per fandom (I don't actually remember how many we got?), I don't think that would be a big issue, because people could at least nominate their very favorite ships (and it would result in less work for you). However, reducing the number of fandoms makes it harder for people to be able to offer things other than their requests.
Thank you so much for running this, and doing it with such seeming ease.
(no subject)
Date: 2021-04-03 02:00 am (UTC)Nominations were:
8 fandoms
5 chars/relationships/other per fandom
And minimum offers and requests were 4 unique fandoms each.
So I might make that 7/5. Or possibly 7/4.
(no subject)
Date: 2021-04-03 05:54 am (UTC)Art minimums - The minimums definitely worked for me, including having a panel minimum. For your questions to other artists about digital comic dimensions, I personally use comic software and will set up my file in whatever format suits the story:
1. A traditional page format for print. I'll usually use one of the standard templates (A4, B4 or A5). Panels per page vary depending on style and genre but I'd guess most artists' average over a work will be 4 to 8.
2. Webtoon/vertical scrolling format using pixel sizes; usually 1380 pixels wide x 20,000 to 40,000 pixels high. The pixel length varies because you don't have to fit your story into a the space of a set number of pages, it's finished when it's finished.
Schedule - The schedule worked for me, though I won't lie, the delay at the end really helped. I think having at least one check-in was valuable and I was fine with how you handled it but yeah, it does seem like some people just forgot they'd signed up.
Assignment swaps - I didn't take advantage of this but I thought it was a good option.
Letter deadlines/mandatory optional details - It didn't affect me but I thought you handled this well. Having more details really helps if I'm creating a comic.
Other - Everything else you listed worked for me! I had enough room for my nominations. I'm glad you included the option to opt in to two half-length works too.
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Date: 2021-06-15 09:51 pm (UTC)Thank you for the digital comic dimensions information! I hadn't thought about how people would design for infinite scroll.