Thursday, October 27, 2005

Notes: Dead Generous

We haven't been very organised here at BifSniff.com lately. It was always our intention to stockpile cartoons so that we would have a catalogue to choose from ahead of time. If I went on holiday or got sick, there would be a backlog of cartoons for Bif to upload in my absence.

It never happened.

And lately we have been doing the cartoons last minute. It's no longer only my fault though - while Bif always has a stockpile of ideas, he has lately been waiting until the last minute to refine and polish the ideas.

Heh heh heh, I knew I'd bring him around to my way of thinking! What this has meant is that the last couple of cartoons have been somewhat more collaborative than usual.

All the concepts are Bif's and, admittedly, the final wordings are all his - but I have been contributing to the shaping of them a bit more lately.

Take this week's cartoon for example: The process basically involved Bif Skyping me a cartoon, me explaining why I don't get it and sending him a different angle on it - which Bif quickly explains is badly phrased, lets the cat out of the bag too early and is way too obvious.

Bif then sends me the current cartoon. Which I think nails it.

I think my awful suggestions scare Bif's creative mind into coming up with the right captions...!