Munch Chunky Issue 8b

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this issue makes me feel a lot better about going back a few issues and starting over. 

the size of the cast at this point ( 9 teams ) and their interactions really allow me to 

make the world of Munch Chunky seem full of life. and that's the kind of story telling I like.
C:

all of the characters have motivations that will be revealed and rivalries that will bubble over

as the game gets more intense.

this is the first round. technically the elimination round.

it's built so that the most teams get eliminated at this point, than at any other point in the match.

what am I doing... 

I'll let the characters in the actual story explain it to you as the series goes on more.

Diddle is filled with this info. ha ha.

  

Munch Chunky issue 8b preview

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a preview collage for issue 8b. 

 big eye'd bots, feathers and flan.

Makaroonatiks and Jelly Juggernauts

i'm totally a week behind on the latest issue of MC... that's upsetting.
but it's for a good reason.

i'll talk about that in later post, because it's for something both related and unrelated to MC.

in the mean time... I'm going to post AAAAALL the character designs for the team members that will be playing against team Munch Chunky in the grand gourmet.

i'll definitely post all of those up to the next issue as well as showing the designs i created for all the teams different ships.

a couple members of Team Makaroonatiks

 Name: Precilla Pistachinos
 Team: Makaroonatiks 
 Position: Striker
 Rank: Cinnamon 
 Region: Hard

 Name: Larry Borshtenstien
 Team: Makaroonatiks
 Position: Chef
 Rank: Cinnamon 
 Region: Hard

 two members of Team Jelly Juggernauts

 

 Name: Greggori Javander
 Team: Jelly Juggernauts 
 Position: Mugger
 Rank: Cinnamon 
 Region: Gumi

 Name: Oliver Clovercrest
 Team: Jelly Juggernauts 
 Position: Striker
 Rank: Cinnamon 
 Region: Gumi

  by next week i'll have all the turnaround sheets for every member finished, coloured, and posted to the site and my dA account. and then i will start adding them to the MC databook and fill out more of their personal info. but not too much or it would be a major spoiler.
more characters on the morrow

Munch Chunky issue 8a

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Season 1 has begun.

as fire works fill the sky, all the teams are at the starting marker ready to set out 

on their grand voyage, representing an entire region in the Grand Gourmet.

but you know I couldn't start off the tournament without tossing a little 

mystery monkey wrench into the mix eh?

ha ha!

this is going to be fun.

i can tell.

Munch Chunky Issue 7b

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chase scenes.

I love a good chase scene. 

more so foot chases versus car chases.

I have absolutely no problem believing Bojo can run as far, for as long as he does.

he's a farm kid, all he did was run around outside, you know?

anyhoo...

this is the issue i originally wanted to bring the series back with.

this was going to be 7a...

i think it's a strong issue, but i felt the real need to explain a reason why things were happening the way they were.

(this is me trying not to be spoilery, if you're reading this before reading the comic)

I've almost finished designing and colouring all the team players that will be competing in the Grand Gourmet tournament with Team Munch Chunky. haha

I have like three more to go... or is it four?

well, next week...

familiar faces, and new rivalries in the first leg of the GRAND GOURMET!

wooo hoooo!

Munch Chunky issue 2b cover (speed art)

a speed art edit of me colouring and making the cover for Issue 2b of Munch Chunky
fun! :3
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The music is by Mobal Sute which is essentially just me C:

but you can check it out at http://mobalsute.bandcamp.com/album/munch-chunky-ost
where you can listen to the full version of the second song used in this video called Exit Strategy.

it's fun kinda' 8-bit chiptunesy music.

Munch Chunky Issue 2a?

Munch Chunky Issue 2a isn't going to come out this week.

it will come back on April 8th.

the reason isn't that I'm going on a hiatus, 

but because I'm working on a Kickstarter campaign for the other series I work on Goblyn.

If I thought I could do both I would. but making comics is a full time job.

and like all full time jobs it doesn't really allow for much else to get done while you're doing it.

I've been trying to get everything in order to get the Goblyn KS campaign up and running, 

for a few months now. 

(it's a long and boring story) 

But now I finally have all my ducks in a row, so I have to push away from the table this week so I can actually get this thing finished and out the door. 

I'll keep updating the news blog, and posting Munch Chunky related artwork. 

I've finally started working on the development blog and about sections of this place. 

look forward to that.  it'll be fun.

C:

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so, introductions to all the major protagonists of the series have been made.

rivalries have been set in stone.

now that, that's out of the way... 

we can really get this avalanche of adventure 

rolling over people and causing all sorts of chaos fun.

this issue definitely went over my 50 to 55 page rule.

but I really had to get the rest of this part of the story out.

so... justifiable self rule breaking?

idk...

the set up for the entire series is always the tallest hill to get over.

everything else from that point is just letting the story flow through you.

time to flow.

live, love, & eat fruit.

Munch Chunky Soundtrack...

So back when I was trying to do Munch Chunky as an animated series, all by myself. 

(a foolish endeavor if ever there was one)

I had created an actual musical score to run in the background of the episodes.

Most of them were each of the main characters themes Bojo's theme, Turtles theme, & Diddles theme, or remixed variations of those.

but then I realised i couldn't do the animated series the way I wanted in the time allotted to me.

but I still had the soundtrack, and the need to express Munch Chunky in music.

when I see this art I hear songs, and I've been building a little library of those songs for a few years now.

I'm not proud of them all, but most make me very happy, because they capture the spirit of Munch Chunky 100%

from Munch Chunky issue 2b on, with each new half issue ex. 2b, 3b, 4b, 5b, and so on... I will add a new track from the Munch Chunky OST collection on my Mobal Sute Bandcamp page. 

you can listen to them and if you like them, download and collect them.

I've added an original sound track section here to listen to the OST tracks that are being uploaded to Bandcamp.

I just thought it would be fun to share a bit of the music I hear when I work on Munch Chunky.

live, love, & eat fruit.

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So I’m finally going to tell this story. 

Not in the way I had wanted to a few months back 

(which was animated) 

but the way I had originally conceived the project in 2001, as a comic book.

I learned a lot about storytelling and pacing when I decided to make Munch Chunky into an animated series. 

I could get away with things that would fall apart in a comic book scenario. 

Because of that, I had to change the beginning of the story 

and the way it plays out for the comic.

Another of my problems was my limitations in animating. 

I only know how to animate so many things, and I often hit walls 

I couldn't get around. 

In comic book form I hit a lot less walls with the images being fixed. 

It’s hard to explain, but what it came down to in the end wasn’t the expense of animation, 

but the time. 

I’m able to commit the same amount of time to the comic form as the animated form, 

but i yield more story from it, 

for my effort.

and ultimately I just really want to tell my stories, 

and I can’t let the process of building the body of that work be 

the part that breaks down the ability for the story to be told 

consistently and fluidly.