I doubt anyone who knows of Andrew Baker could doubt his mastery of the webisode writing process, with a long list of credits including working at Stan Lee Media on the 7th Portal, The Accuser and The Backstreet Project.

Andy has done it again, writing an outstanding article for aspiring webisode-writers.   This time he gets very practical, showing what a webisode script is like "on paper", what the differences are between webisode scripts and normal scriptwriting, plus some of the secrets of getting webisode lengths and timing correct!

If you want to become very, very good at writing and scripting webisodes you can't afford to pass up this great article from a master of the craft!

Thanks to Antonio Properzi who has contributed the next two episodes of Spiderman Doom Control.

Several people have asked about tools for creating Flash animations which are cheaper than Macromedia Flash, and work on Linux.

There don't seem to be any.

So, I'm thinking about starting a project for a GUI for Linux coded in C or C++, to create Flash animations. There are several libraries available we can use, which are already available.

If you're interested in joining in, please email me!

We need people with the following skills :

• Team leader - technical skills
• GUI Interface designers
• Coders (C/C++)

We'll probably use the QT3 toolkit, so there will potentially be cross-platform work done, and hopefully platform-dependant assembler optimisations in the future.

I've been really sick for the last 2 months, and so the site became pretty sick too.  Now I'm mostly better and I've uploaded all The Accuser webisodes which had stopped working.

The Slam Girl webisode is here too, as are three of the Spiderman "Doom Control" series.  Thanks to The Vault Project for finding Slam Girl for us!

Also, one of our friends Mac has contributed 39 more 7th Portal Swimsuit Edition pictures which he had on his hard drive!  You can get them from here.

If anyone has any more of the Spiderman "Doom Control" series, please email me!

Andrew Baker, one of the staff writers at the now defunct Stan Lee Media, has written an introductory article (hopefully the first of a series) on how to write scripts for Webisodes.  This is a must read for all script writers who want to begin writing webisode scripts.

Rand has contributed one of the 7th Portal pictures, now available here.  If anyone else has more of these or the playing cards, please email them in!

One of our friends Laike, as well as offering to assist in scriptwriting, was kind enough to point out the links to the new Accuser episodes were broken.

These have been fixed, so all you Accuser fans can now check out the rest of the series.  We might want to think about continuing on with this series ourselves too!

On a side note, I've downloaded SWiSH 2.0 (a Flash animation program) and started going through the tutorials.  It's REALLY easy to use and do cool stuff with, so if anyone wants to get into Flash, I recommend it.  :)

If anyone can do decent cartoon pictures (I'm no good at drawing) of people and stuff, could they please email me a few?  I need something to practise with...

:)

+ RG

We now have a discussion forum where people can take a look at the ideas for continuing on the BackStreet Project series, and suggest things themselves, offer advice, etc.

You'll find it here.

Several people have asked if there will be new episodes of The Backstreet Project.  Sadly, this will not be the case unless some of us get together and create them ourselves.

So, if you would like to join in and have any of these skills (or would like the opportunity to learn the skills and make them useful) people email me :

• Script writing
• Drawing/Illustrating/Storyboarding
• Flash Animation
• Sound recording/editing
• Music composition
• A good voice, suited for being recorded!
• Pure enthusiasm :)

If enough of us help with whatever we can do, we can get a team together and do something awesome and positive!

Over the next few months this site will become a center for beginning and developing online comic artists to communicate, share, create and download material, tools, source libraries, etc.

To start with we have some of the material from the defunct Stan Lee Media series' The 7th Portal, Evil Clone, The Accuser, and The Backstreet Project.

More will be added as people contribute.  Please join in, email links to articles, tools, things you have done, etc!