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Geek Culture / Life after Death (my attempt at a web comic)

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Dr Manette
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Posted: 30th May 2007 01:21
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I've always been making comics, and there have been hundreds of failed ones; my longest being a science teacher/superhero. But I've finally gotten the web space and the know-how to make my own web comic.

It's called Life after Death, and no, it's not about a suicidal teenager who discovers the beauty of life. The story is based off a concept I thought of a few months ago. Usually, for bad/federal crimes, the person in question is sentenced to life. In this case, the main character is actually "sentenced to" life (life as in the living world).

I am not the best at drawing, but I'm hoping this will become semi-popular. At the moment, however, it's being hosted off of the same domain as my group BioFox Games, so ignore the url. Also, I;m am still working on the navigation, or rather, my friend is.

So here it is, Life after Death: http://www.biofoxgames.com/comic/index.php

Please comment on anything and everything. But refrain from saying my art sucks.


BioFox Games...http://www.biofoxgames.com
Life after death http://www.biofoxgames.com/comic/index.php
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Oraculaca
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Posted: 30th May 2007 02:47
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The art has definitely improved in the second one. Its a bit to early to comment on the story but its an interesting idea. Keep it up.

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Torsten Sorensen
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Posted: 30th May 2007 03:59 Edited at: 30th May 2007 04:00
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There was a typo, it said "aentenced" instead of "sentenced".


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Dr Manette
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Posted: 31st May 2007 00:16
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Yea, the art is definitely improving as I continue on. The first one was a test to see what I should do, and the shading came out really bad. Only problem is, the painting process takes a few hours (drawing, scanning, outlining, filling, shading, adding word bubbles), so updates will be about once a week.


BioFox Games...http://www.biofoxgames.com
Life after death http://www.biofoxgames.com/comic/index.php
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LD52
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Posted: 31st May 2007 00:18 Edited at: 31st May 2007 00:18
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Quote: "Only problem is, the painting process takes a few hours (drawing, scanning, outlining, filling, shading, adding word bubbles),"


so do you do it by hand on a piece of paper or do you use a computer program (ex paint, photoshop) ?
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Dr Manette
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Posted: 31st May 2007 00:39
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Both, actually. I find it very hard to draw with a mouse, so I draw what I want and scan it in. Then I use Photoshop for the rest.


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Oraculaca
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Posted: 31st May 2007 01:09
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Quote: "the painting process takes a few hours (drawing, scanning, outlining, filling, shading, adding word bubbles)"


Tell me about it. I had a strip on the go for the CGtalk challenge a while ago and the art was suffering due to the lack of time and the fact it had a deadline. Even a simple 4 cell strip can be a struggle. One thing I would recommend though is a tablet. It would save a heap of time

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zenassem
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Posted: 31st May 2007 01:11
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Site won't open for me

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bitJericho
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Posted: 31st May 2007 01:15
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Quote: "Site won't open for me"


It may be blocked on your router, being it's hosted on a different port other than port 80.. I have to wait till I get home to view it

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Dr Manette
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Posted: 31st May 2007 01:31
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Yea, sorry about that. Comcast doesn't let me use port 80, so we had to resort to another port. A bit of a problem, but unavoidable as long as we want to run our own server.

Quote: "One thing I would recommend though is a tablet."


I assume you mean a template? I do have one, and I paste in each drawing and then create the windows. Pretty simple on photoshop.


BioFox Games...http://www.biofoxgames.com
Life after death http://www.biofoxgames.com/comic/index.php
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Oraculaca
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Posted: 31st May 2007 01:44
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Actually I meant a drawing tablet.

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Dr Manette
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Posted: 31st May 2007 02:29
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Ohh, sorry, I misread that. A drawing tablet would be very useful. If I get this going and it becomes bigger, I'll probably get one for convenience sake.


BioFox Games...http://www.biofoxgames.com
Life after death http://www.biofoxgames.com/comic/index.php
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zenassem
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Posted: 31st May 2007 03:42
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Alright I'm going to open port 8181. And I'll check it out!

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Shadow heart
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Posted: 31st May 2007 05:37
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won't open for me... i'll try again thoughh

to the ones thats trapped inside of you, this is it!!
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Dr Manette
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Posted: 1st Jun 2007 03:17
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Hmm, seems like people are having some trouble accessing the site... it could be the port, although we've been having some trouble otherwise.

I've got a third page up now. Enjoy.


BioFox Games...http://www.biofoxgames.com
Life after death http://www.biofoxgames.com/comic/index.php
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Three Score
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Posted: 3rd Jun 2007 05:45 Edited at: 3rd Jun 2007 05:59
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hmmm..
why the weird subdomain prefix?

also, you may want to try a dns service that lets you redirect to port 80..like your server run on 81, but the nameserver do 80..only thing I've seen this from is no-ip..

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btw, I think just your idea in general has a lot of potential..it's very hard for me to keep anything going.. I tried to make a webcomic, and at 3 1/2 episodes and stuck...

btw, you have flash? I have found it is the best for drawing things with the mouse.. If I draw in paint, it sucks, but with flash I guess the smoothing and anti-aliasing make even a simple line look cool..course, I've been drawing with nothing but mouse for like 4 years...I still think my drawing skills suck though...

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indi
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Posted: 3rd Jun 2007 05:51
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there is a great comic development program for OSX
http://plasq.com/comiclife

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Dr Manette
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Posted: 3rd Jun 2007 06:01
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Quote: "why the weird subdomain prefix?"


We set it to be a url no one could remember so people would use www.biofoxgames.com instead of trying http://*whatever.biofoxgames.com:8181/. too many ways to mess that up. And, we have tried to use port 80, but comcast won't let me as I have a personal internet package. For some reason they use port 80.

Quote: "there is a great comic development program for OSX"

Too bad I have Windows XP.


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Posted: 3rd Jun 2007 06:07
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I think that Comic Life kinda destroys any kind of style you would want to create for yourself...I wouldn't use it...but that's just me..and I like for things to look like I "hand made" them, not that I used a template and some pictures and then added text bubbles...course just my opinion again though..

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indi
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Posted: 3rd Jun 2007 06:48
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Comic life allows you to create your own style.
I know two sydney artists who are professionals in illustration and photography and use it. One has gone off and developed a Sim City style using photos,the other hand draws on butchers paper then takes photos grabbing the backgrounds around the artwork, two very diverse methods.

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Posted: 3rd Jun 2007 06:58
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guess, my first impression is wrong then..

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