Important: Page Rules [Modified on July 10, 2007]

[Modesty]

Artists drawing pages must keep in mind the following guidelines for making pages.

Content

• Keep content at a PG-13-ish/Teen rating.
  
• No Pornographic Material/adult themes
  
• Mild Swearing allowed. dag yo! , hell, sh!t and such are fine. We ask you edit the F-bomb. Use strong language sparingly and only in-character.
  
• No material meant to degrade anyone's particular race, religion/creed, or person. And by race I don't mean elf, demon, Anielf.
  
• No use of illegal drugs. Alcohol use and Smoking is allowed if characters are of age.
  
• Some Violence and Gore permitted.
  
• Romance is allowed, keep it mild. No fondling the bathing suit area. Keep it at hugs and kisses.
  
• Romantic advances between characters is only allowed if both creators have agreed on the relationship.
  
• No yaoi, yuri, or any other japanese term that means same-sex couple situations.
  
• Censored nudity is allowed when appropriate.
  
• This should be pretty standard and common sense. Just be respectful.
  

Artist Expectations

• The minimum page per round is one. There is no limit to the maximum number of pages you can create each round.
  
• If you're drawing during the current Round, please make sure you take a look at the forums in case any rules have changed, and for updated story ideas.
  
• Please email a page-by-page explanation of your pages when you submit your pages.
  
• If you are having trouble meeting the deadline or something suddenly comes up, please notify the admin if you can. You can get extra time if necessary.
  
• If you fail to complete a round without notifying admin of a problem, artists will be blacklisted and unable to participate until make-up art is created.
  

Graphic Guidelines

• Finished pages should be sent to Modesty's Email
  
• Since pages will be displayed online, save them as .JPG No .PSD files, etc.
  
• Keep page widths to 650px.
  
• Use a readable font for dialogue or Print nicely. Try to use correct spelling.
  
• Don't forget to sign the pages YOU created. ^_^
  

Other Notes

• Try to keep characters true to their creator's personality. But feel free to add your own flare to it. You will have to assume a lot.
  
• If someone totally misinterprets/misrepresents your character, you can make note of it, but the artist who drew it is NOT required to go back and edit.
  
• Pages can be made in any medium. You do not need to have digitally inked, fully colored pages. Just pencils are fine. You just have to be able to scan and send it.
  
• Feel free to experiment with styles. Impromangas are a great excuse to practice a new technique.
  
• You are not obilgated to stay with the project. An artist can leave at any time. It would be nice if you mention it, but if you do not show signs of activity for more than 3 rounds, you will be assumed off the team and your character may be written out of the plot.
  
• Please enjoy doing this. It is a lot of work and requires a lot of time. The results are always rewarding.
  

Moderator Powers

• Moderators act as editors and may alter your pages. This only occurs if we find a typo, dialogue inconsistancies, or inappropriate images.
  
• Moderators reserve the right NOT to post the pages you send if they fail to meet content guidelines. This does not count against graphic requirements if you send us .PNG files instead of .JPG. We can change those and will post them.
  

[Sass]

Changes made on March 1, 2007:

1. Pages must be saved in .JPG.

The reason is that the comic updater that is being used on the Sass Studio site will only read .jpgs. I tried other files but they wouldn't appear. So far, all the pages are in .jpg. They don't look horrible, so saving all your pages in .jpg shouldn't affect the quality too terribly.

2. Please save your files at a width of 650px.

It's hard to read a comic where the page width varies all the time. It neither looks nice nor organized. Plus it's not a hard thing to do because all you have to do is resize your pages once you're done. You can keep the original sizes yourself, but please submit the resized ones for uploading.

Your efforts would be much appreciated.

Cheers.

[Sass]

More changes made on March 2, 2007:

1. If you're writing/drawing during the current Round, please make sure you take a look at the forums in case any rules have changed, and for updated story ideas.

Pretty self explanatory.

2. Please email a page-by-page explanation of your pages when you submit your pages.

I noticed when I rereading our team's pages, I was confused even though I had scripted them XD. So please email an explanation when you email your pages.

[Sass]

A new addition: March 30, 2007

1. Moderators act as editors and may make changes to your pages if a typo is found or anything is deemed inappropriate or inconsistant with the storyline being discussed in the Plot Discussion and Spoiler Threads.

This IS a little bit of micro-managing to help keep the storyline more consistant based on Plot Discussion in the forum. Only in extreme cases will we edit the actual artwork (we don't want to work harder than we need to.)

An extreme example: Artist A draws a scene of Daixx smoking pot with a cheap prostitute. Since our page guidelines deem such things inappropriate (illegal drugs and adult themed), moderators may cut images out or alter them to be more appropriate.

This is an extreme example of what we might do. Most editing will involve correcting typoes and script. We will send you an email if we are going to suggest major changes to your script and have you make the changes.


2. Moderators reserve the right NOT to post your pages if they deviate from the guidelines.

Again this is in extreme cases if you draw something completely offensive or derogetory. I don't think we'll use this right, but just so you know, we do have this right.


3. Romantic relationships between characters is only allowed if BOTH creators have agreed to it.

This happens more in RPGs but can happen here. It's to prevent harassment in a way.

[Sass]

Changes made July 10, 2007:

1. Artist expectations: Artists who fail to complete pages during a round will be blacklisted and unable to participate until make-up filler art is created.

If you volunteer to a round and claim you are available to do it when asked, you are expected to finish by the deadline. Not finishing without contacting admin/team-mates with a reason, will put you on the blacklist which means you are not allowed to participate until filler art it made. Failure to meet a deadline causes progress to stall and delays story progress.

Understandably, life happens and you may be unable to contact admin/team-mates because of computer/internet related problems. If you are able to turn in pages a few days later, you will be taken off the blacklist. A week late, the next artist will have already started so your pages will not be accepted and filler art must be made instead.

Cheers.