TOD I was thinking too (and you are a guy who can either agree or disagree) that with comedic stuff it becomes less work because you are constantly haveing fun (I know this is how I feel but when I did "Serious" diostories years ago I felt that"work" thing everyone speaks of).

Just wondering your thoughts on that. To me its just fun to laugh even when its just snapping pictures.

I'm currently working on my next chapter. They take a while. With my lab set, there is gonna be at least 4 Scenes from my new dio take place in there, to include the destruction of the Lab. I wanted to get the other three scenes out of the way before I shot the destruction scene. I took about 75 shots. They came out really dark and some were blurry. Then I adjusted my Camera the next night and a slight change in the apature setting and "WHAMMO!" the pics were near perfect! So, guess what? I had to reshoot those 75 shots again! ARGH!!

When I'm done with this set, I'm gonna take it apart slowly and do a "How-To". I also know how I want my dio to run from begining to end, as far as story and dialog, but what kind of sets do I need? I'm thinking of building an Armory/indoor Range/A training Area. And I need one other site. The whole chapter is going to take place in the Coils secret base. I need to decide where and What I want to happen at which location in that base!

For a while there I was cranking out a dio every 6-7 months....now I try to take a little more time and perfect the look of them. Some of the newer members here have set the bar rather high and I hate to come off looking like a rookie! LOL. It IS a lot of work. And sometimes it gets to be a chore, but hearing people's reactions to my stories makes it all worth while!

I have my timeline planned out for the next dozen chapters or so....my limitations are having places to shoot. And I'd like to do ONE BIG battle, but I need to find a place to shoot it at and be able to get all the toys there! :(

My dios are gonna keep coming....I just want to take my time and put out quality stuff like Blizzard software....LOL!!Rather than rush and put out crap!

Hard to say, I haven't done any serious dio stories yet. (I have a short story planned out, just need to find the time.) When it comes to writing, I think comedy is harder to do. In a serious story, if the Joes need to enter a Cobra base you can always have them shoot their way in. With a comedy story you need to think of new and funny way to do it.

For me GI Joe itself is fun, whether I'm doing my humor comic or deadly serious JoeDios shots.

I have to agree with that statement! I thought the sets were going to be time consuming (and they are) but living in a desert its hard to find convincing pine forrest or jungle!
I also feel bad that part one is a lot of build up, but to tell the story, and everyone after it, it its necessary!
when I get overwhelmed with it, I too do a stand alone and it gets me itchin again. Thats why on the weekends I try to always do a weekend warriors pic just to stay grounded in the fun of what I am trying to achieve!

Yeah, I know that feeling about the Desert. When I was at 29 Palms, it was easy to find places to shoot....as long as I was shooting desert. Here at Camp Pendleton, there are loads of swampy areas, but most of them are off limits as wildlife preserves, Areas near ranges, etc., or the water level changes so fast, as soon as I decide to shoot in an area it's either underwater or bone dry. And a lot of the places to shoot around here that look good are MILES away from my house. A small team Dio wouldn't be much problem, but going all out and doing a full scale war would be hell.

The other Issue with outside shoots is TIME! You get everything set up, take a shot, move everything for the next shot, take a pic, by the time you do 4-5 shots, the sun is going down or at least you can tell it's later in the day! then what do you do? Leave your stuff set up and Come back the next day? If I was to make a full scale battle, I'd Have to take 6-7 days to get the whole thing done, and I'm NOT leaving my toys out in the wild!

Another issue I am having with outdoor shooting right now is temp! It was 108 today and heading for 116 this weekend! It's impossable to concentrate, or breath let alone set up a shot!

It's been around 104 F recently. Fortunately (in this respect) I don't have any locations to shoot. So will have to rely on making sets and CGI.

Taking my time on it to shoot the whole story instead of installments. If it draws out too long, it'll never get finished, so might as well release it complete.

I'll get back to mine eventually. Maybe the story is just too big or deep. I don't know.

Update
 

Ok,
I've not been well the last 2 1/2 weeks. Things have been real difficult just making through 24-48 hours. I've not been keeping food in and as a result i've been overly fatigued and not had any motivation as a result.

I'm at the hospital in about an hour from now, my hopes are that I'll get the meds i need to bring this back under control and i can eventually kick on with my projects.

What do I have goin right now?
My contribution to Craig aka Outrider is up. Both Parts 1 & 2 are finished.
3 & 4 are written but no shots for them yet. I'm hoping this will be soon rectified but that depends on above.

I also have other projects.
Street Work - which focuses around the development of a street scene diorama i'm working on, whilst telling a story about the scenarios and problems making the set it also acts as a brief how-to on making the set.

Brothers In Arms - This is an A-team story i'm doing, this is actually going to be completed right after project street work.

Pirates of GIJOE - Zanzibar's adventures on how he takes down GIJOE. Even with his primitive spear :o

I also have a cobra bunker i'm working on, it's not a dio story but a project involving gijoe.

I'll update you all when theres any developments.
Rich

hope you get well soon man. this zanzibar story is the one im looking forward to most.