:yay: List of Story Guides + Tutorials + Art Shops + Background and Overlay Drives :yay:

Hello Wonderful Episode Community! :sparkles:

Recently I’ve noticed that many new writers are struggling with story writing + directing help + art help etc. and so the list goes on.

In this thread I’ll be posting all the threads made by our amazing community to help others and also were super helpful to me when I was struggling with directing and story writing.


Story Writing Guides

Writing an Episode story 101 - The key to success

📚 How To Plan A Story Part 1 📜

📚 How To Plan A Story Part 2 📜

Tips to plan out a story!

For new writers, or writers in general

Tips and tricks on how to improve your Character(s) And Story

Long Character Sheet for New Writers!


Directing Tips and Tricks

Episode Tutorials by Joseph Evans

Episode Tutorials by Joseph Evans

Dara Amarie’s Website

Mata's Guides - for new writers and old ones

➿ HOW TO: animate GIF in INFINITE LOOP

📂 HOW TO: LAYERS - characters and overlays

✴ HOW TO: Show character points WITHOUT if/elif/else - the simpliest method 😍

📛 HOW TO: let reader choose whether they want to keep the default name or enter a new name - and how to have the original name be displayed in small caps

⏱ HOW TO: TIMED TAPPABLE choice

📱 HOW TO: phonecall with two backgrounds - split screen, facetime

👊 HOW TO: animate the punch bag

🚙 HOW TO: MOVE OVERLAY AND CHARACTER SIMULTANEOUSLY - HOW TO DRIVE A CAR

How to: cool night to day scene

HOW TO: Blur Backgrounds ✧

TIP: Rotating Overlays <(^.^)>

Moving mouth script template here

WESTERN old camera retro EFFECT

A Long List of Directing and Coding Tips I Wish I Knew Earlier

All About Spot Directing 🎬 :blob_sun:

📱 HOW TO: Phone - Text messages


Script Templates

Lana_Epi_Templates


Art Shops

🌼 Mimi's Art Shop 🌼 (Free!) (Open!)

V.H's Edit Shop [CLOSED] [Temporarily taking requests]

Jpassen's and catniss Magic of Wonder ART SHOP Now Open

𝑪𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒓𝒚’𝒔 𝑬𝒅𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝑺𝒉𝒐𝒑 <3

Alima’s Free Editing Shop (Free, hiring and open!)

The shop is closed

🐧 Penguin Art Shop 🐧 (Open and Free) (Hiring Open For Limited Time)

🥀 Art Shop of Roses 🥀


Backgrounds & Overlays

**OFFICIAL** Overlay Sharing Thread

Official Background Sharing Thread

:yay: Samson’s Edited Episode Bgs, Props & Ols :yay:

💜 Marysol.Episode's - Google drive! 💜

🌷 FlowerGriefer's Backgrounds 🌷

Limelight Limbs & Episode Prop Overlays

Episode Prop Overlays

Episode Overlays, Free Use

Free Drive Shout Out file

[UPDATED!] FREE drawn overlays & backgrounds! 🌸

🫧 AmarandeDL’s Background & Overlay Thread 🫧

@amepisode has a background and overlay drive! You can click on her bio and find the drive link!


Other

HOW TO: Create your own overlays and backgrounds

🌙 HOWTO: Make a night version of backgrounds!


A huge thank you to are beloved community members for making threads and sharing their work and helping others! You guys are the best! :pleading_face: :heart:

Anyone is welcome to mention their own thread and I’ll update!

Hope everyone finds this thread helpful! :blob_hearts:

That’s about it folks! Have a great day/night! :sparkles:

:yay: :blob_sun:

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Hey for backgrounds and overlays, you should add my free use episode overlay link – I took all the un-usable Episode backgrounds and created overlays from them to make them usable :slight_smile:

here’s the link: Episode Overlays, Free Use

This is such a great idea! :heavy_heart_exclamation:

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Will do! Xx

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Awesome :slight_smile: Hope it helps people. I try to keep it updated regularly when we get new backgrounds without overlays-- thankfully, the last few updates have added proper overlays :slight_smile:

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This is really helpful! Thank you so much! :pleading_face: :blob_hearts:

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Thank you so much for sharing my free drives!

I also have a paid drive through Ko-Fi which has 3000+ backgrounds & overlays for a one-time fee so feel free to check that out in my Ko-Fi shop link :sparkling_heart:

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Of course! :sparkles: :heart: Thank you so much for your wonderful work!

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Thank you for including my thread in your post! :blush:

I’ll link some more of my stuff here in case anyone needs it:

GUIDE: Navigating Your Portal
GUIDE: Carrd Co :open_book:
GUIDE: Finding Background/Overlay/Folder Owner (Google Drive)
:llama: Samson’s Free Backgrounds & Overlays :blob_turtle:

I have more resources here too:

https://schittwriter.carrd.co/#newauthor


Edit: I’ve been thinking about creating an art shop as well lately where I can just casually do pfps and things like that whenever I have the time but I’m not sure yet. :face_with_peeking_eye:

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Your welcome! And thank you! :sparkles:

Ohh you should! Your work would be amazing!

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Thank you for adding my western effect to your list :purple_heart::purple_heart::purple_heart: hope it’ll be helpful :smile:

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Feel free to link my templates page, I’ll be making more soon.

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Thank you! :sparkles:

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Hey Mimi. I just wanted to ask, if you could add my art shop to the list? :see_no_evil:

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It warms my heart that you took the time to mention my thread here. Your kindness is truly touching. Thank you! :pleading_face:

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Thank you for sharing mine! :smiling_face_with_three_hearts:

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