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Water Trainer Woes

Added 2025-04-20 19:04:55 +0000 UTC

I wonder where Jessie is keeping her other Pokémon? Actually, where DID Lana hide those respirators?!

This author's notes section is gonna be a long one guys, so be prepared!

I started this comic all the way back on August 1st. I found my motivation to work on this piece coming and going constantly. Originally I was going to have it done in a video format, with music playing the background, similar to a slideshow. Actually, it would have been very similar to my friend Lisa Ming's content, also known as Imagin8ive ENF Studios! (Minus the voice acting) Here's a link to her works btw, she's an amazing artist and you should definitely check her out.

https://www.patreon.com/c/Imagin8iveENFStudio/posts?redirect=true

https://www.deviantart.com/imagin8tiveenfstudio

Anyways, dreading that part, combined with taking care of/worrying about my dad and then later dealing with his passing, all motivation for this work pretty much stopped. I didn't wanna scrap the project, but I wasn't sure if I'd ever get it done. Once I finally did get my mojo back, I decided I might as well finish this piece. He wouldn't have wanted me to stop doing what I love just for his sake anyways. The story also ended up being waaaay longer than I intended it to be. This was supposed to be, at most, 60 panels, but ended up being 94 instead. So yeah, it was already hassle putting it together as a comic, but as a video when I have very little knowledge of video editing as it is? Forget about it! At least for now anyways lol. Maybe one day I'll cut out individual frames and actually put it in video format for you guys to watch. May be exclusive to certain other platforms, as some aren't the best for long-form videos, but we'll see.

Highlights and specific notes:

So there's a few key things to go over for this one.

1. Rather than leaving the exploration scenes without any dialogue, I opted to include the Rotomdex from generation 7 to give small facts about Pokémon, but I didn't want to have one for every, as I feel it would have taken away from the overall experience. Plus, some of those facts I made up, rather than getting them directly from the games themselves, but at least they sounded like real Poké Facts XD

2. I tossed around the idea of the wild Gyarados helping Misty and Lana out by hyper beaming Jessie and destroying all the clothes in the process, but then that might have destroyed the Pokéballs too, and I don't think anyone wants to think about those dark implications...

3. I'm super proud of how Psyduck's eyes turned out when using confusion. I didn't think they'd look so good, honestly! My post render editing skills are just getting better I suppose!

4. Giving bones to better maneuver Seviper and Arbok was very annoying, especially for Seviper. Arbok basically sits on it's own tale and makes it easy, but Seviper looks like a stretched out slinky, making it harder to position.

5. Lana was actually supposed to attempt to fight Jessie head on, only to cower behind Misty when Jessie insinuates that Lana is completely flat, but I chose to cut that scene due to time constraints. It also doesn't quite feel as in character for Lana, as she doesn't seem shy about her body, she's just not keen on boys seeing her in that state though.

6. Finding stages for this project was definitely one of the hardest parts. A combination of KH1 Atlantica and random sea based backgrounds really brought this project together for me.

That's all for now though guys! Thanks for reading! Until the next post!