Round (D)one - Thanks and Feedback

[modzilla]

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

Art
I 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 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. triplecrownofexchanges

Much love.

Comments

[eggsbenedict]

Thanks so much for running this! I had a lot of fun and some really amazing works came out of it; it was so cool to see all of the different art styles. Thank you for considering and then deciding to keep art as an option.

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.

[modzilla]

Hello! I apologize for such a late reply. I'm glad all these things worked for you (and I'm definitely glad we went with art).

Thank you for the digital comic dimensions information! I hadn't thought about how people would design for infinite scroll.