What are the basic steps for creating manga?

Question

Is this the right order for these steps?

Script-writing

penciling

inking

lettering

color/screen-toning

Answer 1

That's a good general layout...

First off you need Passion - you need to WANT to do the story.

Second, you should have a general synopsis written of the characters, the story, general design notes, where you want to see the story go, how long you think it will run - or if you want it to run forever, or just be a one-shot.

Finally, make some character sketches. Get to know your own characters. Sometimes getting what the characters will look like is 90% of the work to be done.

Once you have this done, try making a short 1 pager. This will be the demo for it all. Introduce your character. See how it flows drawing everything. Ink it. Letter it. Color or screen tone it. Do it all.

Once you are done, find out what part or parts of the whole process you like, and what parts you dont like. Find people to do the parts you dont like for you.

When doing volume production work, what usually happens is the creator makes the original script and usually pencils the whole thing.

The there is usually one person each who handles: inking, lettering, toning, coloring.

This way the manga is not held up during the creation process, and the author can bang out the story without creative thought being broken.

If you want to do it all yourself, then pencil it all first, and then do the inking in bulk, and then do the lettering in bulk, and then do the screen toning/coloring in bulk.

Some GREAT software to help with this is Manga Studio from eFrontier. This is their catalog page for it. You can quickly get going with their Basic version for under $50. They also have Anime Studio, a program that lets you make animations.

http://www.contentparadise.com/us/user/home.php?cat=1578