Hello everyone!
This page marks the end of chapter four! We would like to thank all our amazing readers and we look forward to starting the fifth chapter and reading your comments :)
Until then, we are going to take a short break, as we usually do at the end of every chapter, but this time it will be for two weeks. This means that the next page will be up on January 6th, 2014! We might have some guest pages, but I can't guarantee that, what with the holidays and the new year coming up.
To those of you who celebrate anything this time of year: Happy holidays! And to everyone: We hope your transition into the new year goes smoothly and have a wonderful week! We will still be posting on our Facebook and Twitter pages, so check in once in a while!

Hello everyone!
Not much to talk about again this week. Although, I do want to mention that we are almost at the end of this chapter! Once this chapter is over, we will be taking a short break as usual and maybe post some guest pages.
Until then, enjoy this week's page and have a great week!

If you were on the fence about purchasing a Project: Velyria Founder's Pack, now's your chance! All Founder Packs are on sale for 20% off until December 6th! HURRY!
Be awesome and support us by becoming a founder!

Hello everyone!
For those of you in the U.S., we hope you had a great Thanksgiving and a, uh, not-too-terrifying Black Friday!
Still working on getting stuff done so no announcements just yet. Soon, though!
Have a great week :D

Hello everyone!
Not much to say this week, we've been really busy and, hopefully, we will have new stuff to announce soon!
Have a great week! :)

Hello everyone!
I would just like to point out that from now on, Aikonia pages will be posted on Mondays around 1PM EST rather than at midnight EST on Sundays!
Have a wonderful week!

One of my favourite parts of working on a comic is doing little bits of body language for each character, tiny things like Kat sticking her tongue out (which she's done in past pages), or the way Yegir pulls up a chair and lounges in it with his hair flipped over the back while Wall hunkers down cross-legged on the floor (also recurring). Trying to think about how a particular character takes up space and moves.

There was a page a while ago that I had a really fun time with in this regard -- Chapter 4, Page 29 -- where there was a panel with everyone running, and I tried to give everyone a different style for their run. If we'd had this neat blurb system back then, I would have commented at the time, but hey, why not -- I saved an in-progress shot from that panel, so here it is! Kat's almost done getting her inks cleaned up, Yegir still has his sketch showing under the in-progress inks, and Wall's all sketch. You can see where Kat's even changed a bit from sketch to inks, with her arms and legs stretched out further for a bigger contrast from Wall, who's more tucked in -- her sketch is faintly visible still. Anyway, thought folks might find it interesting to see!
Check out the panel!

Hello everyone!
I don't really have much to say this week, but I've got some really exciting stuff to announce soon so keep an eye on the site and Project: Velyria!
Have a wonderful week! :)

Hello Aikonaughts!
Just want to tell you about a Game Development tutorial I wrote: How to Use BSP Trees to Generate Game Maps
Check it out and let me know if it's helpful to you!
Later!

Had a ton of fun with this page, especially with the backlit business in the second panel. Also a fan of Kat's knee strike in the first panel, and the overall progression to sunrise.
It sounds like folks are enjoying the emotion system -- glad you like the little portraits! I had a really busy week and hadn't had a chance to respond to all the feedback in the comments, but I do appreciate it, and it helps make the comic better. Thank you!

Hello everyone!
I don't have much to say this week, but I do suggest you check out the comment system, as I've implemented the emotion system back in with brand new illustrations by Ira! The emotion you pick will show up next to your comment, similar to how our avatars appear next to our own comments and blurb entries.
Have an amazing week!

It's always pretty fun working on dimly lit pages (I like how the second to last panel came out lighting-wise), but I want to give a shout-out to Tim for the middle panel here, as the layout was his idea. I rather like how it came out!
In addition to this week's page, I've also been working on emoticon avatars! Probably the badass one is my favourite, but I like how Enceladus's shy one is facing away from all the others, too. Those were interesting to work on, and I hope y'all have fun with them!

Hello, Aikonaughts!
Just want to let you know that I'll be at the Saint Louis Science Center's First Friday event again this coming Friday (November 1st) from around 6 pm. I"ll be showing off some games for people to play (Space Chase, Blasting Agent), and discussing Game Development with anyone interested.
So if you're in the area, come over and say 'Hi'!

Science Center's First Friday

Really excited about the new design!
I had a lot of fun working on the new portraits for the awesome new cast page, and actually wanted to show a couple of the sketches from the process. My sketchwork is pretty messy, and I'm always pretty awed by those artists whose sketches are so expressive and clear. I thought Yegir and Malleck's sketched looked pretty cool though, so here they are!

Malleck's Sketch
Yegir's Sketch

Hello everyone!
As you can see, there is no new page this week. But, instead, you get a completely updated and newly designed website for the first time in three years! If the site looks wonky, make sure you clear your browser's cache!
You will also notice that we can now post more than one blurb entry on each page! Ira, Tim, and I (Andrew-David) will be posting our own individual thoughts every week from now on :)
Thank you and have an amazing week!

Hello everyone!
For those of you in Canada, happy thanksgiving!
Not much to say besides that. We've been pretty busy working on a couple things, including changes for the Aikonia website! Hopefully we'll be able to talk about them next Monday.
Until then, have a wonderful week!

Hello everyone!
We'll be doing a few small changes around the site this week, so keep an eye out for that.
And, for those of you that don't follow our blog, we suggest you check it out and read up and all the announcements we've been doing lately! We also launched Founder's Packs on Project: Velyria for those of you who would like to support us :)
Thank you all and have a great week!

Hello everyone!
First off, to those of you we met at Edmonton Expo: Thank you for dropping by, it was so awesome meeting you all :D
Second: We have so many announcements to make! We launched the new Project: Velyria website and unveiled a trailer along with it! You can watch the trailer here!
We also launched Space Chase and release a new Me and My Dinosaur 2 website!

Edmonton Expo was awesome and we really look forward to doing another event where we get to meet more of you awesome people! Thank you all for supporting us so far and have a magnificent week! :D

Hello everyone!
This is the final reminder that we're going to have a booth at this year's Edmonton Expo! If you're in or near Edmonton, you should drop by booth 201 in the exhibition hall!
We're going to have some huge announcements and release a bunch of new stuff, so make sure you check in often during the weekend and next Monday so you don't miss out on anything!
We look forward to meeting more of you at Edmonton Expo! Have an awesome week :)

Hello everyone!
Not much to say this week, still super busy working on getting everything done on time for Edmonton Expo. Don't forget to check back on Wednesday for a preview of next week's page :)
Have a wonderful week!