The storyboards, mostly. Gaze An Eagle Blind has an unusual set up for a webcomic, and I'm committing extremely hard to the bit, so I don't have a personal gauge on how to anticipate audience reaction. Comparatively to a standard comic, I have a lot of experience to understand what to expect from readers.

Creating storyboards as a comic rather than an animatic also comes with some complications like how to control timing/pacing when the reader can click through at their own speed, as well as how to indicate audio/vocal cues like if someone is speaking offscreen or SFX. Screencaps don't have dialogue bubbles to indicate who is talking. It's been a bit of a puzzle and this adds to it being an untested format.

That said the characters are also something I don't know how to predict! It's basically a cast of shallow selfish assholes, and the protagonist is a bipolar drug addict who works as a human trafficker. He is very difficult to root for lol and I'm sure down the road will be responsible for a lot of discourse.

As for what's most challenging - really, the whole thing. Before starting this I have zero experience with storyboarding and despite drawing like one, I am emphatically NOT an animator, so I'm full of anxiety hoping it isn't obvious to other animators I'm completely bullshitting everything and embarrassing myself. I remember testing out finishing the first couple of frames over a year ago having absolutely zero idea if I was doing anything right. I've definitely grown and learned a lot since the beginning of this, though. I joke to Alex that I feel like I'm making student film for an animation class that I never signed up for.

As for an assistant - a godsend. It would've taken me 500% longer without one helping me with environments, not a joke. Krad has been absolutely essential to the project, so much so I'm crediting them as a co-artist for BG design at this point. It's been just so much fun working with them too.

And as for the process itself -- I don't know if it's that complicated. I thumbnail the storyboards in Toon Boom Storyboard Pro, export the frames in a PDF, then create photoshop files of all the frames to polish/render/color. Once I set up the files properly I send them over to Krad, who workshops the environments under my direction, then passes them back to me as I progress. I aim to finish about 4 frames a day -- sometimes it's just one, other days I can bang out up to 6. My current record is 9.

Feel free to ask more I'm happy to share or explain what I'm able.