Jay Eaton

Runaway to the Stars: Rough Pages 29

Talita's considering it.

Some changes happening this coming week: I'm fast running out of pages that I can share from Runaway to the Stars (this book) as according to publisher contract NDA. In order to transition Patreon content from these pages to Terranaut pages (scud comic), starting next week I will be posting two RttS rough pages a week and two Terranaut rough pages a week. I'll be ...

Runaway to the Stars: Rough Pages 28

I'm quite pleased to announce that the plot has finally arrived.

WIP Animation: Talita Bends the I-Beam

EDIT: Finished animation here!  

I'm having way too much fun with animating, someone please take my tablet away from me. I HAVE OTHER THINGS I'M SUPPOSED TO BE GETTING DONE!

I really wanted to do the last half of this scrib...

Runaway to the Stars: Rough Pages 27

Another set of pages I had trouble writing. There's more I'd like to change, but at this point it's more important to just move on to the next ones.

Gillie is impressed by Bip's sheer audacity. I foresee them getting along well.

August Stream Requests

My beginning of month Twitch stream will take place at 12pm PST on Sunday, August 7th and run for no longer than 5 hours. That's next Sunday at time of posting.

If you are in the Above and Beyond tier, please request now in the comments or DM me. If you can't make it to the stream, don't worry, I will st...

Talita and Bip Animation

I don't normally do public posts here, but I already posted this as a gif to social media and Patreon seems like a nice place to drop a polished full-rez video and talk more at length about animation.

I don't animate very frequently these days, but ...

Shyam Animation

me: Now that I figured out how to animate with layers in CSP I can do the centaur respiratory system and hexapodal run cycle, like I've been planning to for months!

also me: heehoo lesbians

Runaway to the Stars: Rough Pages 26

I've lost the funny dramatic lighting from the original version of the first page! Oh well, I'll make do.

The gang has mixed reactions to the criminal supercomputer speaking through Talita's tablet.

Talita Animation

Got distracted last night trying to figure out the animation tools in clip studio paint, made this instead of completing the comic pages. Pages will go up later today.

Edit: Pages are up. Gonna boot this out onto social media.

RttS: Talita's Growth Timeline

Centaurs start small and don't stay that way. 

Talita was left as an infant on the Nexus Jovia youth foster care facility doorstep in a cat carrier, and chaos ensued. The facility was not prepared to deal with an infant alien in any way, and they tried arranging to send her back to her homeplanet but the Jovian embassy on the centaur homeplanet quickly informed them that would be a d...

Runaway to the Stars: Rough Pages 25

Not too much has changed on these pages except Talita's in formal wear and she's not terribly surprised to hear that the phones are stolen. 

I need to sit down and make a more thorough design sheet for the "rules" for how Bips's icon looks. It's essentially a tweened/puppet style flat animation.

RttS: More Shyam and Talita Scribbling

Still no visdev artwork to report, so another selection from the hoard of scribble comics. People seemed enthusiastic about seeing these two kiss on social media, so Patreon gets an additional kiss scene. It just makes sense.

Though, this particu...

Runaway to the Stars: Rough Pages 24

Haha... anybody getting deju vu.... 

Also, wow, I'm late again, redrawing this Bip introduction scene for the third time is shaping up to be way more frustrating than I anticipated. I've spent so much time here already that it's triggering my per...

Runaway to the Stars: Rough Pages 23

Religious geography and cosmology gets complicated when your local geography is in the cosmos.

Don't @ me about the Nexus Jovia, it's going to get a more in-depth design later. It's the largest inhabited space station in Jovia, the human polity (mostly) scattered throughout the outer solar system. 

Next week, a familiar pointy pixel face appears.

RttS: Talita and Shyam Scribble Comic

More scenes from the book I'm not supposed to be writing right now.

This one is the spiritual twin of this scribble comic. Talita handles getting a crush with significantly less dignity than Shyam, and nobody has told Shyam that Talita emotes pretty much exactly like a human. They remain obli...

Runaway to the Stars: Rough Pages 22

Talita is neeeeervous about about having the magnifying lens turned towards her body and abilities.

RttS: Shyam and Croc Scribble Comics

No visdev art to post this week, so I'll share some of my hoarde of scribbled printer-paper comics instead. 

I've been spending my free time getting ahead of myself and drawing scenes from a book I'm like 6 years out from writing, because, I guess I've been in a bit of a maniac mood. Writing characters is a lot of fun. I might post these to my social media later, maybe if I make a co...

Runaway to the Stars: Rough Pages 21

Coming in hot a day late (I am still catching up to my own schedule, rip).

Finally an explanation of GMH and Gillie's deal. Most of you are probably already familiar with the core concepts of this universe, but I hope watching the characters gripe about the bad deal I've given them is fun.

Runaway to the Stars: Rough Pages 20

Ah, nothing makes me more nervous than dialog heavy pages where the characters are just sitting around. This one covers a lot of new topics too-- I really try to write dialog for brevity and show rather than tell, which is part of why I draw these pages on paper smaller than they will appear in the book, because that way there literally isn't enough room to ramble.

Also, this is Idrisah a...

Patreon Goal Get!

Very exciting, we hit the pledge goal for streaming twice a month:

Starting this month I will stream general artwork on the third Sunday of the month at 7PM PST, in addition to streaming Patron requests on the first Sunday of the month at 12PM PST. Hopefully the evening time means more of you around the world can m...

RttS: Character Identities

An excuse to draw some iconography and talk about aspects of the human and human-culture-adjacent characters I never bring up because it's not super worldbuilding or narrative relevant. Somehow this story ended up as 'oops, all lesbian odd couples' but you write what you know, I guess. 

All these characters go by she/her except for Bip the they/them. Talita is actually unusual as an ...

Runaway to the Stars: Rough Pages 19

Catgirl reveal! People who have haunted my worldbuilding blog since the dawn of time will know why Gillie hides her ears in public, everyone else has to wait for an explanation later.

Also, more spacer food culture. Meat is for special occasions. 

RttS: Personal Computers

In spacer culture, personal computer technology tends to be extremely modularized and customizable. A given phone (the smallest kind of PC) usually has at least a monitor, camera, battery, and CPU module, but the user might swap these out depending on their personal needs. 

Since computers are so much smaller and more powerful in RttS than they are in our modern day, their shapes ten...

Runaway to the Stars: Rough Pages 18

Thanks for your patience last week, everybody! I have gotten slightly more of my life in order and worked out a bunch of energy I had for other parts of this setting, if you couldn't tell by the flurry of social media posts. Finally got a new and better scanner too.

Also wait, what do normal human teeth look like again?

July Stream Requests

My monthly Twitch stream will take place at 12pm PST on Sunday, July 4th and run for no longer than 5 hours. That's next Sunday at time of posting.

If you are in the Above and Beyond tier, please request now in the comments or DM me. If you can't make it to the stream, don't worry, I will still do any re...

Running Late on Comix

EDIT: Ugh, well, this is embarrassing. On account of life, rewrites, and concentration issues getting in my way, I'm throwing in the towel on updates this week. RttS rough pages return next Monday.

Hi, I'm running late on this week's RttS pages because I was out of house all last week and I've had to juggle a bunch of other chores and projects recently. Hoping to finish today's pages ...