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Comment on but Oscar said that all Art is quite useless by tym

tym — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 23:01:03 +0000

Yes! Exactly! Thank you, Grant.
All webcomics are essentially advertisement for the ancillary ventures, but the fact that it advertises nothing is especially true in this case. It ran on my site, where I have nothing to sell.

Comment on but Oscar said that all Art is quite useless by Grant

Grant — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 12:43:08 +0000

I love how its like a flashing sign on the strip in Vegas that is advertising. . . nothing.

Comment on Do I Get a Prize For Finishing First? by nvonflue

nvonflue — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 16:29:14 +0000

Yeah excellent comic Grant! If I had to come up with a crit, I’d agree with Tym that some of the animations could be stepped up by a second or so. But this is basically arbitrary.

The colors are great, and the drawings too!

and @ tym: Yeah sorry It’s been dead round here, i feel responsible. I’ve been way busy with our house and work, and I hear Steve’s been getting into his new job. So you and Grant are holding it down lately. I’m gonna start up a site design soon, so we can point the domain there, then get the blog attached. But it may be a week or so…

Comment on Do I Get a Prize For Finishing First? by tymmi

tymmi — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 20:55:54 +0000

We all chipped in and got you….
BRAGGING RIGHTS!!! (huzzah!)

I love this. The colors really make it pop. Nice job there. My only criticism might be that some of the transition animations feel a little sluggish (mostly when you travel down a line of panels rather than rotating.
Bang up job though!

Man where’re the rest of us? Things are dead here lately.

Comment on Do I Get a Prize For Finishing First? by Peyton

Peyton — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 07:28:55 +0000

i totaly dig it! for some reason im getting flash backs of “Old Man in the Sea”

Comment on Hypercomic Sketch: Music Comic by tymmi

tymmi — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 02:51:34 +0000

I like what you’re going for here. You may know that I’ve given some thought to the theory side of fusing comics and music. Wrote a couple articles even (most notably: http://comixtalk.com/index.php?q=node/7350)
I think the combination has possibilities, but it’s been a pretty clumsy mashup so far. I think it boils down to comics reading being an active engagement and music listening a more passive one.

I like the forced interaction of the two elements you hint at in your sketch – not sure how well it’ll work out, but I’m really glad you’re trying this.

Now, my two cents:

The “event driven” part you mention is gonna be pretty important for any workable combination of comics and music. *but* there’re gonna be some serious limitations of one or the other for a seamless integration. If you synch the images to the music you get animation, or at least a “slide show” effect. If you tie the soundtrack to a specific reader cue – such as your rollover here – the reader either modifies their pacing (which, apparently, people REALLY HATE to do) or your soundtrack is clipped, from event to event (panel to panel, in this case).

I do think an event driven soundtrack can be implemented, keeping the reader-defined pacing AND less noticeable seams in the soundtrack only if a lot of what would be traditional song structure is disregarded. What I mean is: a “seamless” event driven soundtrack would have to be more along the lines of ambient sound cues than a traditionally scored piece of music. Rollover would work but, personally, I like the click through approach. Some hypercomic-y stuff is displayed one panel at a time, like Tarquin comics or some of my own IC stuff. The “click-for-next” cue could trigger the next part of the score as well as the next image.
Music could also be tied to scenes rather than single panels and a more traditional comics-layout structure would be maintained, too.

Rollovers work in a more interactive/exploratory way than the click-through (a standard reading action for any fan of existing webcomics) making them a less comfortable fit into the reading experience.

Of course making a reader less comfortable with the reading experience isn’t always a bad thing, in the end…

Comment on so much for that plan… by grantthomas

grantthomas — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 12:20:26 +0000

Like I said in an earlier comment, it took me a year to get the pencils mostly done for my cyclical comic and six months to get crackin’ on my labyrinth comic.

You’re speeding ahead of me.

Comment on Wishlist for a new hypercomics program by grantthomas

grantthomas — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 22:55:00 +0000

anybody notice our comment RSS seems to be down/really slow?

Comment on Wishlist for a new hypercomics program by tymmi

tymmi — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 20:07:18 +0000

I’ll second any customization ability for both the viewer and any loading animation. And anything that streamlines the embedding onto a page.
also:
• Embedded text editing capability (w/ hyperlink capability)
• More panel transition options: (fade and zoom in IC were dropped in the switch to Flash. I’m sure we could think of more …)
• Flexibility in compatible image types (I like the idea of importing animated gifs, but nobody uses those anymore – I’m old.)
• Choice of Creator defined and Free navigation modes (w/ limits set by creator so people don’t wander off into nowhere)

I tried to find the wishlist I made for Markus way back when, but no such luck.

While I hope someone does take the reins on developing something, I think a creator might do better to learn Flash.

Comment on Grant’s Hypersketch by grantthomas

grantthomas — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 19:46:52 +0000

Well, it did take me about 14 months to get the palm tree comic to where it is now, so after the initial sketching, I can’t guarantee any follow thru.

Plus I’m a teacher with summers off. We’ll see how productive I am when school starts up in a bit.