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Thanks again for all of these great recommendations. Another question: are screen protectors necessary, and can you recommend a particular brand? The WIRED blog was pimping Hori screen protectors, but all I can find out here are Pelican brand (at Best Buy and Wal-Mart).
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Bryan O'Malley, of Scott Pilgrim fame, posts his tips on comicking. For Better Or For Worse has a rather detailed behind-the-scenes on how Lynn Johnston and crew make the daily comic strip. (It's quite awesome.)
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Ah. Thanks, Stef. That actually sounds kind of cool. All I saw were the courtroom scenes with bad anime tropes, but poking around a crime scene and presenting evidence would probably be nifty.
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What is the actual gameplay of Phoenix Wright? One of said co-workers had it, and I tried playing it for about five minutes, but I was still tapping through screens and screens (and screeeens) of dialogue without any real interaction. I never had much time to play it outside of that...
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Math is useful, but not necessary; programming is actually rather linguistic. Neither of these are good excuses! YOU CAN DESIGN GAMES! And you'd probably come up with a freakin' awesome one, too.
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The ...Rub Rabbits?
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Is that two days the way normal people drive? How many hours of driving a day? Utah, btw, is quite staggeringly beautiful. I see mountains! My lungs don't corrode when I breathe! (Of course, maybe it's LA that's outside the norm.) Yes, the TERROR DOMES would have been totally wicked, but that wasn't a typo, just a geeky…
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Congrats, JC! You ROCK!! (Can you post or PM a link to your final thesis when you're done?) What is it like behind the Iron Curtain of librarianism? I've always wanted to know. Unfortunately, I will likely not find out because I am starting work in a week at a small educational software company making games that will warp…
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I've seen it at Barnes & Noble and Borders for about $25. You could also get it online for considerably cheaper ($15.61 before shipping at Amazon). Mario, I'm probably one of the few people on the planet who really actually liked Reinventing Comics. Heck, even McCloud didn't like the way it turned out, but I think he's…
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Agentcel, thanks for the sprite tutorial! If you find any others that you can recommend, please let me know...I'm curious about sprite comicking (although that's probably a big enough topic to warrant it's own thread). Lang, I dunno. In the two places I've lived most recently (Atlanta and LA, both near college campuses),…
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Also, the drawspace tutorials have just been opened up free to all, no waiting period. (Only catch: Google text ads and no PDF downloads. But: free!)
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Lang, Most art supply stores carry them individually (that's where I picked up mine). I recommend the col-erase blue or red ...NOT the non-photo blue...because the non-photo blue feels really waxy on the paper and you can barely see it, whereas the normal col-erase blue is quite visible and looks like a normal pencil. Of…
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Another resource for aspiring artists: http://www.drawspace.com/ Tons of tutorials by Brenda Hoddinott*, a former forensic artist for the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, and author of ...for Dummies and Complete Idiot's Guide to... drawing instruction books. Only hitch: you can only download one tutorial every two weeks,…
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Another tutorial, this time one on figure drawing. The figures in question happen to be anthropomorphic gangster felines (don't panic! it's more Disney than Furry), but it's a pretty good general figure drawing tutorial, and funny, to boot.
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Since there was an earlier discussion on character sheets, this may be helpful: MAKE: magazine posts links to tutorials on making croquis for fashion design. Croquis (pronounced something like "croaky") is the term for the fashion figure sketch, and Project Runway participant Katy Gerdes provides a nice how-to on her blog,…
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Again, it's filtered through the pearly-fogged lenses of nostalgia, but I seem to remember the early episodes were generally funny and thrilling, while the latter episodes were a bit disappointing. But I don't remember so clearly, and I'm generally harsh on television. Ask Nato, he'll tell you how it was.
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Two words: Starship Troopers. Which is a movie very different from the philosophizing book, but good (as a B-movie send-up) in its own right. Well, with the exception of the Cheshire, who also did her best to murder SCIENCE! as a physicist in a Bond movie. But Starship Troopers has ground troops in droves. I vaguely…
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I just finished driving from Georgia to California and listened to Peter and the Starcatchers, a prequel to Peter Pan by Dave Barry (yes, that Dave Barry) and Ridley Pearson, and it was quite enjoyable. I'm sure part of this was the reading by Jim Dale(?) who is the person who does the Harry Potter audiobooks. On the flip…
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Yes. I agree that this would make for a good comic style, and I'll agree with 'Lore that good storytelling trumps all. There are two caveats to this, of course--that the art is clear enough to tell the story (no is that a hand or a machete or a cat allowed), and that the art style doesn't distract from the story. There's…
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Word up, knitta. Yo. These folks tag their inner city neighborhoods with knittings instead of spraypaint. Wow.
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Apparently there's also a Course in Webcomics at NYC's School of Visual Art, taught by Tom Hart.
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It's called a favicon.ico file that is placed in the root (bottom-most) directory of your site. (Wikipedia has a good entry on it.) Basically, if I recall correctly, you make a 16x16 image in MS Paint, save it as an .ico file (if you can...that failing save it as a .bmp and rename it as an .ico), upload it to your site,…
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Congrats, Airman Filleau!!! Thanks for your service!! {salutes}
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I know, man, I should be ashamed...but in the hopes of graduating this year, I'd deleted all my bookmarked RSS feeds. (It kind of worked.) I'm still in the process of getting back on the wagon. I agree with Jon. Totally. No Mac geek cred, but possibly some hack chic cred.
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Because it's like a sports car? And it has an 80GB hard drive instead of a 60GB hard drive, but seriously Apple Engineers, that was a low low trick to justify making it more expensive because you knoooooow everyone will want one even more now. Hooray for economics! For the record, thanks, Night Lord, because this thread…
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Blood. Wow.
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A few more things found recently: [size="+1"]Pocket Cartoon Course, a 1943 pamphlet with quaint tips on how to cartoon all sorts of things. Peppered with useful information. And information like "Remember a cow is always milked on the right side." Y'know, for when your comic has a gritty crime-fighting dairy farmer.…
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Mystery solved, I think. Were those the brushpens that you're talking about, Behemoth? Or were they actual Pentel Pocket Brushpens? backtohomework
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MangaStudio? Just curious...if it is, how is it?
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Old news to you, Stef, but I'm putting this link in here for posterity (and other brave souls tempted to try crowquill nibs)... Jennie Breeden, local Atlantan who draws Devil's Panties, offers a nib pen inking tutorial.