These are really good point. I think a lot of authors don't realise how tiny changes can add or nulify tons of work from their artists. Graphics and vids require days of searching for a fitting pre-existing source to edit, often outside of Merlin canon, and then incorporating it in the art coherently. An seemingly incongruous change in the final can mess with all that work. As far as I've been able to ask, it's rare that artists were able to read the whole of their designated story before it was posted. I've been informed that that is sorely the responsibility of the authors, but I think that formally encouraging all parties in a Big Bang to consider the other's deadline more (and saying why, like your comment) would go a long way.
If the artists could be guaranteed a couple of weeks or a month after their base was done, I do think we'd see more art done for the finale or overall of a story, and it'd give them more time to beta it. It'd also give them time to exchange with their author without fear of bothering them when they are rushing to their own deadline, and ore time to plan on how and where this collaborative effort would be posted.
For the support comm for artists, this is something friends and I have brainstormed about before, but I felt that it might accomplish more if art events were siply more held on the already existing support comm paperpushers. There's a lot of artists, authors, betas and cheerleaders issues that other people also working on the same big bang project don't know about. I don't think that a lot of authors even know that artists can have betas, so it's logical they wouldn't think of that when planning their schedule. If they could see that sort of post go up on the support comm though, they'd know for sure and be able to adjust their views. As an artist beta, I've needed time to review people's works, and as a cheerleader I had to be included in conversations from an earlier point than I would have imagined. Last year, I really enjoyed working with both the author and artist as a beta and cheer for both, but that required a lot of communication and gentle poking. It's not something I had even imagined before it came up in a conversation with the author, but it's something I think others might be interested in doing - sharing the same support group, if everyone is willing.
For us all, it could make us realise all sort of factors for other participants that we had never thought of because we've never been in that position.
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If the artists could be guaranteed a couple of weeks or a month after their base was done, I do think we'd see more art done for the finale or overall of a story, and it'd give them more time to beta it. It'd also give them time to exchange with their author without fear of bothering them when they are rushing to their own deadline, and ore time to plan on how and where this collaborative effort would be posted.
For the support comm for artists, this is something friends and I have brainstormed about before, but I felt that it might accomplish more if art events were siply more held on the already existing support comm paperpushers. There's a lot of artists, authors, betas and cheerleaders issues that other people also working on the same big bang project don't know about. I don't think that a lot of authors even know that artists can have betas, so it's logical they wouldn't think of that when planning their schedule. If they could see that sort of post go up on the support comm though, they'd know for sure and be able to adjust their views. As an artist beta, I've needed time to review people's works, and as a cheerleader I had to be included in conversations from an earlier point than I would have imagined. Last year, I really enjoyed working with both the author and artist as a beta and cheer for both, but that required a lot of communication and gentle poking. It's not something I had even imagined before it came up in a conversation with the author, but it's something I think others might be interested in doing - sharing the same support group, if everyone is willing.
For us all, it could make us realise all sort of factors for other participants that we had never thought of because we've never been in that position.