Well yes, there's that tale. But I have another, behind-the-scenes tale: Back in April, during some down-time after a Smurfs screening, I decided to put together a short story to use to update my portfolio. Diving into the archives of leftover stories I had from college, I found one about Merlin and King Arthur fighting over a girl, which seemed good since Smurfs was also set in Medieval Times. I wouldn't have to switch gears too much. So I moved forward fairly quickly, reworking the story, designing characters, and storyboarding. Drawing primarily while at work, I didn't want to save a copy of any of my story locally on my work computer, so my trusty ol' portable flash drive held all my data. But I'm no fool! I would come home most days and transfer the files to my personal computer.
Most days...
Turns out the flash drive is kind of old. And glitchy. I started to notice that I would try to delete a file or folder and it wouldn't allow me to. Or I could delete the contents of a folder and then not the folder itself. And then one day it started to happen...files were just gone. Back when I was also doodling the cute versions of Marvel's Avengers and Ninja Turtles, I had also done a Spiderman set of doodles that was unfortunately lost. But the worst thing...while trying to open it one day, I found out that the file I had been saving for storyboards was actually corrupted! No issue, I would just use the one I had saved on my computer at home.......the one I had just saved over with the corrupted file!
*BUM! BUM! BUM!*
Long story short, I went out and found a program that could "repair" corrupted Photoshop files, and it was actually able to recover the layers in one form or another. Some assembly was required, of course. I had to do some inversions, some rescaling, some trashing. It was rough and felt very unnecessary for something that I didn't really care that much about.
I never finished the final boards. But I did roughly reassemble everything with my rough boards. So the story exists below! I've since moved on to other things that I hope to share soon. It just felt wrong to never share it with the world. I mean, that's what the internets are for, after all!! So...
