My journey has also recently taken me back here, now I am working dilligently on my first serious black and white comic/ manga project with my very wise best friend and we both love it so much, it is giving us so much fulfillment! We both feel we have unlocked new parts of our creative souls, and cant wait to share our work with others soon. And yeah, as a voice actor who has worked on many well known projects, I see simple new directions or unique experiences as the way of the future. Thanks, Trent🙏💪
I’m so excited to see the next generation of comic artists that have grown up reading manga with American comics. Really interested to see the stylistic fusion. Been trying to do this myself
I have seen a few comics in the last few years have a QR code in a page, sometimes intergrated with the background. You scan the code and it would take you to a YT video or their website where a song would play. Effectively playing the soundtrack the creator wants you to hear as you read the comic. I thought it was quite clever way to introduce sound to a print medium.
I'd say thats a pretty great idea. I also wonder if some comics will just have their own website, with a music player that auto changes tracks depending on the scene. I guess that kinda thing gets close to just being an animated comic though.
I have been working on a simple program to incorporate sound and sound effects into a web-based comics reader, it seems very doable in custom ways, from my early tests as an amateur programmer... This QR code idea gives me lots of related ideas to try out! 👍
Your Twilight Monk comics is what made be into manga a couple years ago. I picked them up mostly to see a your art in a physical print. But a scene with horizontal panelling where a character thorn apart blew my mind. I was flipping pack and forth this sequence with a dropped jaw. I learned how powerful manga could be for story telling.
I agree a lot of colouring in comics puts me off to, only time I like coloured comics when they are either traditionally painted (like alot or European comics) or flat colours
I definitely get this. I always loved to draw as a kid but the Marvel/DC comic universe/superhero genre never appealed to me and made me think that the comic world just wasn't my thing. It wasn't until recently (in my 40s) that I encountered Urasawa's manga and it lit a fire under me. It made me realize that comics as a whole weren't just the western superhero style but that there was such a larger comic world out there. It also encouraged me to learn to draw in a serious way and now I'm taking classes and seeing the real product of my own personal art.
I recommend reading a manga called The Seven Deadly Sins. It's style of art and action is quite similar to Dragon Ball. MangaLife is a good place to read it.
I'm french and i discover your work with your videos ! i wishlisted your game but as an apprentice comic book artist i would love to read your work !! (i tried to buy your artbook of twilight monk but, unfortunately, the shop canceled my purchase few times because of the distance) But, i love your work, and your advices about art and mindset i really wish you the best for all your futur wishes and creations !
I started out watching Inuyasha anime, but it was the manga Hana Kimi that got me into branching out to other series both in manga and anime. Now I am a huge fan of anime style gacha games. 👀😅 I always wanted to create my own manga someday.
I really enjoy the web series "Urasawa Naoki no Man-Ben" (lit. "Naoki Urasawa's Manga-Study") since it shows the actual processes of manga veterans. Many of them use a conventional way of drawing inked pictures but there are also plenty of episodes where you see them doing something really surprising. I realize my own capacity for comics is probably going to limit my ambitions to doing strip-based toons with limited illustration. But that's fine. I'm keeping up a little comic diary and it's helped to keep me in the habit. Words and pictures and panels. Do some of all three repeatedly and you've got a comic.
I just couldn't find time to work on my manga (American/English) due to my limited time with full time work as an art teacher and parent of four little boys (and honey-do lists) so I created a visual novel and a light novel. I found it easier to write a screenplay and converting it to a light novel format. It's on amazon and ready to go just know way of knowing how to market it.
If you like One Piece, as a big fan of it myself, you’ll REALLY like Gachiakuta. Its literally like reading graphic novels like SCUD but in a manga format and its sooo detailed
Love comics. Picked up Creed 1&2 (Hall of Heroes) not too long ago actually! I love anime also, manga I have mixed feelings about. Though I did just pick up some original weekly Jumps in Japan last month, first My Hero Academia and Demon Slayer. So much different than American comics but still really cool.
I really enjoyed this talk, I really appreciate this kind of content! I haven't finished many manga's, but I do really admire the work that goes into them. Would love to see more graphic novel stuff of course PS: Kind of sucks that they would only want to read your big story once it's finished. I'm sure there are plenty who would love to get their hands on it even when it's just a work in progress
I’ve started preparing a reprint of the CreeD omnibus . But I don’t have a planned window of time for release. Glad to hear that it’s still something you’d want!
@ Can’t wait! My cousin and I have been big fans of yours for decades. I have the Creed Chromium poster framed in my home office! Would it include Re-Imaginary?
I humbly recommend a couple of manga for you and your viewers check out. 1st- Dragon and Chameleon, it's about 2 mangaka who trade bodies. It's a creative way to show how manga is made. 2nd- Gachiakuta, it has an amazing art style and is an engaging read. I hope you like them as much as I enjoy your videos! Thank you! ✨️🌟🏆💯✏️✒️🖌🎨👍
(Psst...It's pronounced like "mahngah".) Happy for you! Yeah I love the artform too and how one person can just sit down with a pen and paper and create a whole visual story world.
If you are an artist of any kind, I believe you have some fundamental respect for each artist’s individual original work. I have that mindset, as such I never had any interest in American comics. It’s all about different artist(s) and different writer(s) creating a ‘run’ for characters and worlds created by other creatives before them. At least that’s the case for the majority of the industry for the last few decades. It’s a shared universe and legacy characters centric industry that are endlessly recycled. It’s really off putting and a turn off, I would much prefer to see each artist create their own individual worlds and characters. It’s not that manga industry doesn’t have its issues that would affect or stifle creative process, but by comparison it’s infinitely more interesting than artists and writers are just hired hands to come up with something for existing characters and worlds.
It's sad that I knew that in their culture when I saw a video on how you placed your family first and into life into it. Highest way discipline, and I was right and better you get and books out like one month or less. I see why technology is going fast in all these details of stepping stone that if Japanese aloud the artist to push a little faster to publishing out the life and like a vow on pursuit your talent in as a sort of slave... I think it's something that's all I got-ink pen paper, repeat!!
hm. Maybe you just have to log out and log in again? I don't know. Its the first Ive heard of that issue. It let you post a comment on this video, and your username has a member icon. So you're clearly registered as a member. LMK if it doesnt work after a day or two.
What an awkward situation: I can't seem to make money making art, so I can't support you making art... :^) :^) Just kidding, I try, have at least half the box sets and all the novels except Return of the Ancients in hardback. Unfortunately I can't do Amazon reviews, feels like it makes a new excuse every time I meet the prerequisites.
Really love your traditional inking Trent beautiful work
Thank you for sharing! I’m so happy we have you on TH-cam!!!
My journey has also recently taken me back here, now I am working dilligently on my first serious black and white comic/ manga project with my very wise best friend and we both love it so much, it is giving us so much fulfillment!
We both feel we have unlocked new parts of our creative souls, and cant wait to share our work with others soon.
And yeah, as a voice actor who has worked on many well known projects, I see simple new directions or unique experiences as the way of the future.
Thanks, Trent🙏💪
Reading Berserk this year has been a great motivation for drawing lately.
I’m so excited to see the next generation of comic artists that have grown up reading manga with American comics. Really interested to see the stylistic fusion. Been trying to do this myself
Check out Joe Mad, he's an OG, the first pro comic artists to fuse both mediums
I have seen a few comics in the last few years have a QR code in a page, sometimes intergrated with the background. You scan the code and it would take you to a YT video or their website where a song would play. Effectively playing the soundtrack the creator wants you to hear as you read the comic. I thought it was quite clever way to introduce sound to a print medium.
I'd say thats a pretty great idea. I also wonder if some comics will just have their own website, with a music player that auto changes tracks depending on the scene. I guess that kinda thing gets close to just being an animated comic though.
I have been working on a simple program to incorporate sound and sound effects into a web-based comics reader, it seems very doable in custom ways, from my early tests as an amateur programmer... This QR code idea gives me lots of related ideas to try out! 👍
Your Twilight Monk comics is what made be into manga a couple years ago. I picked them up mostly to see a your art in a physical print. But a scene with horizontal panelling where a character thorn apart blew my mind. I was flipping pack and forth this sequence with a dropped jaw. I learned how powerful manga could be for story telling.
it's so nice to hear you talk about something you're so passionate about! just good vibes!
I agree a lot of colouring in comics puts me off to, only time I like coloured comics when they are either traditionally painted (like alot or European comics) or flat colours
This video has great timing. I'm rereading Scott McCloud's "Making Comics" and loving it.
Great book!
Trent is a OP fan? i could never imagine that and it makes me happy!
What is OP?
One Piece
Absurd, literally the most famous manga. Unbelievable
I definitely get this. I always loved to draw as a kid but the Marvel/DC comic universe/superhero genre never appealed to me and made me think that the comic world just wasn't my thing. It wasn't until recently (in my 40s) that I encountered Urasawa's manga and it lit a fire under me. It made me realize that comics as a whole weren't just the western superhero style but that there was such a larger comic world out there. It also encouraged me to learn to draw in a serious way and now I'm taking classes and seeing the real product of my own personal art.
Re-watching and reading Dragon Ball has re-ignited the fire in me.
I recommend reading a manga called The Seven Deadly Sins. It's style of art and action is quite similar to Dragon Ball. MangaLife is a good place to read it.
Comics and manga are part of my childhood ❤❤
I'm french and i discover your work with your videos ! i wishlisted your game but as an apprentice comic book artist i would love to read your work !! (i tried to buy your artbook of twilight monk but, unfortunately, the shop canceled my purchase few times because of the distance) But, i love your work, and your advices about art and mindset i really wish you the best for all your futur wishes and creations !
I missed out on Creed as a kid in the 90's. I'm 40 now and just starting my comics journey, for better or for worse. Anyway, love the content.
I started out watching Inuyasha anime, but it was the manga Hana Kimi that got me into branching out to other series both in manga and anime. Now I am a huge fan of anime style gacha games. 👀😅 I always wanted to create my own manga someday.
I really enjoy the web series "Urasawa Naoki no Man-Ben" (lit. "Naoki Urasawa's Manga-Study") since it shows the actual processes of manga veterans. Many of them use a conventional way of drawing inked pictures but there are also plenty of episodes where you see them doing something really surprising.
I realize my own capacity for comics is probably going to limit my ambitions to doing strip-based toons with limited illustration. But that's fine. I'm keeping up a little comic diary and it's helped to keep me in the habit. Words and pictures and panels. Do some of all three repeatedly and you've got a comic.
I just couldn't find time to work on my manga (American/English) due to my limited time with full time work as an art teacher and parent of four little boys (and honey-do lists) so I created a visual novel and a light novel. I found it easier to write a screenplay and converting it to a light novel format. It's on amazon and ready to go just know way of knowing how to market it.
If you like One Piece, as a big fan of it myself, you’ll REALLY like Gachiakuta. Its literally like reading graphic novels like SCUD but in a manga format and its sooo detailed
That one is on my watch list! Great cover art.
Fast-paced patience and lots of dynamic pose and cross hatching and spiral work.....
Love comics. Picked up Creed 1&2 (Hall of Heroes) not too long ago actually! I love anime also, manga I have mixed feelings about. Though I did just pick up some original weekly Jumps in Japan last month, first My Hero Academia and Demon Slayer. So much different than American comics but still really cool.
a re print of black and white creed would be awesome!
I really enjoyed this talk, I really appreciate this kind of content! I haven't finished many manga's, but I do really admire the work that goes into them. Would love to see more graphic novel stuff of course
PS: Kind of sucks that they would only want to read your big story once it's finished. I'm sure there are plenty who would love to get their hands on it even when it's just a work in progress
Would love to see a Creed Omnibus back in print! I have a lot of the original comics but would buy a big book on day one.
I’ve started preparing a reprint of the CreeD omnibus . But I don’t have a planned window of time for release. Glad to hear that it’s still something you’d want!
@ Can’t wait! My cousin and I have been big fans of yours for decades. I have the Creed Chromium poster framed in my home office!
Would it include Re-Imaginary?
Really awesome to hear another One Piece fan talk about its influence on themselves. Especially a person like you Trent!
read the bleach manga. its super good and its in the same big three category as Naruto and One Piece
I humbly recommend a couple of manga for you and your viewers check out. 1st- Dragon and Chameleon, it's about 2 mangaka who trade bodies. It's a creative way to show how manga is made. 2nd- Gachiakuta, it has an amazing art style and is an engaging read. I hope you like them as much as I enjoy your videos! Thank you! ✨️🌟🏆💯✏️✒️🖌🎨👍
As a fellow One Piece fan, I salute thee friend. 🏴☠👒 Glad you're enjoying that work among others. Manga is truly an art form of beauty.
❤❤❤
(Psst...It's pronounced like "mahngah".) Happy for you! Yeah I love the artform too and how one person can just sit down with a pen and paper and create a whole visual story world.
If you are an artist of any kind, I believe you have some fundamental respect for each artist’s individual original work. I have that mindset, as such I never had any interest in American comics. It’s all about different artist(s) and different writer(s) creating a ‘run’ for characters and worlds created by other creatives before them. At least that’s the case for the majority of the industry for the last few decades. It’s a shared universe and legacy characters centric industry that are endlessly recycled. It’s really off putting and a turn off, I would much prefer to see each artist create their own individual worlds and characters. It’s not that manga industry doesn’t have its issues that would affect or stifle creative process, but by comparison it’s infinitely more interesting than artists and writers are just hired hands to come up with something for existing characters and worlds.
It's sad that I knew that in their culture when I saw a video on how you placed your family first and into life into it. Highest way discipline, and I was right and better you get and books out like one month or less. I see why technology is going fast in all these details of stepping stone that if Japanese aloud the artist to push a little faster to publishing out the life and like a vow on pursuit your talent in as a sort of slave... I think it's something that's all I got-ink pen paper, repeat!!
What is your take on creating 2D animation? Twilight Monk in a 2D animation could be an awesome result ;)
It’s not something that I could do myself. But I could hire a team to do. Yes.
i can't imagine the type of person that would ubsub for that
It happens.
I just became a member, and it won't let me watch? Is there something else I have to do?
hm. Maybe you just have to log out and log in again? I don't know. Its the first Ive heard of that issue. It let you post a comment on this video, and your username has a member icon. So you're clearly registered as a member. LMK if it doesnt work after a day or two.
@TrentKaniuga All is good, I just logged out and back in, and it worked.
2:16 They where wrong tho
What an awkward situation: I can't seem to make money making art, so I can't support you making art... :^) :^)
Just kidding, I try, have at least half the box sets and all the novels except Return of the Ancients in hardback.
Unfortunately I can't do Amazon reviews, feels like it makes a new excuse every time I meet the prerequisites.
Oh man. I just appreciate that you take the time to comment. I hope you can start getting paid for your art soon.
THE ONE PIECE IS REAL AND TRENT BELIEVES IT
uuuugh... i hate manga... said nobody ... i think lol
You’d be surprised.