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JDavis Trick or Treating Local Mod Affected by 'Halloween Syndrome' ++ Level: 44  Posts: 556/815 EXP: 568676 For next: 42609 Since: 03-15-04 From: Ada, Oklahoma, USA Since last post: 5 hours Last activity: 4 hours |
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| ... Please don't (make it a series). | |||
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JDavis Trick or Treating Local Mod Affected by 'Halloween Syndrome' ++ Level: 44 Posts: 557/815 EXP: 568676 For next: 42609 Since: 03-15-04 From: Ada, Oklahoma, USA Since last post: 5 hours Last activity: 4 hours |
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| Alright, alright... You did better than some first timers... for example, your ground actually looks somewhat like ground out of a game, there's... sort of scenery (a block)... And you included speach bubbles around the text and didn't make said text unreadable (though you shouldn't ever have text protruding from a bubble like it is in the first panel). On the bad side, you have irregular panels (not always a bad thing, but it's not really used greatly here), the characters are either on the horizon line or floating above it (they should be slightly below it), the text barely fits in the bubbles (when it does), you have a speech bubble that goes outside of its panel (another thing that's not always bad, but it isn't done properly here), you've saved it in JPG format (never save anything with sprites as JPG!), and you resized the bandit oddly in the last panel (always resize to even percents, such as 200%, 300%, etc., Do not resize by stretching!). Another thing I'm going to pick on, though most people aren't too bothered by it... Speech bubbles should typically point to people's mouths. Not their forehead (Sonic, panel three). Not the back of their head (Bandit, panel five). Their mouth. That is where the sound it coming from. Also, there's several things in the comic that just don't make sense. The first is Sonic being so high up in the first panel. No reason for that. Second, the view in the last two panels cuts to inside the Bandit's shop, but there's no longer a window, and the shop is suddenly much taller than it was in panel three. Finally, the dialog is where this one really loses. Not only does it not flow in a natural manner, but it's not funny either. Should be something more along the lines of... Panel OneYeah, he could have said "I'm hungry!", but people don't usually just yell what they're feeling for no reason. Well, unless they're complaining about something. But clearly, he wasn't really THAT hungry anyway if he didn't see what else the Bandit had in panel three. Speaking of which... Panel ThreeNobody eats "One Dog"... They eat one 'hot dog', one 'chili dog', one 'corn dog', etc. I dunno, maybe in New York or something where there's hot dog stands everywhere this might be commonplace, but most people don't call hot dogs/chili dogs/corn dogs/etc. by just "Dog" And typically, buisinesses don't just tell potential customers "We don't have that" and let them leave. He should at least try to offer what they DO have. Panel FiveThe punchline just plain doesn't work in its original form. By saying "Who would sell a pet here, anyway?" the Bandit is infering that Sonic would be crazy to think that there would be a pet store anywhere in the general area (Green Hills, I'm assuming). And the potential humor of the Bandit not understanding that Sonic wanted some food and not an animal is lost due to the bad wording in panel three. The reader themselves are more likely to be confused by the line about "One Dog" than someone working in a hot dog stand would be. |
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JDavis Trick or Treating Local Mod Affected by 'Halloween Syndrome' ++ Level: 44 Posts: 558/815 EXP: 568676 For next: 42609 Since: 03-15-04 From: Ada, Oklahoma, USA Since last post: 5 hours Last activity: 4 hours |
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| You still have text touching, and sometimes going outside, the borders of the text boxes... And when I said they should be pointed at the mouth I didn't mean they should go over the people's faces like that, I just meant that the general direction they should be pointed is toward the mouth. Other than that... It's better than the first one, but what's with the stripes in backgrounds of the fourth and eighth panels? |
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JDavis Trick or Treating Local Mod Affected by 'Halloween Syndrome' ++ Level: 44 Posts: 559/815 EXP: 568676 For next: 42609 Since: 03-15-04 From: Ada, Oklahoma, USA Since last post: 5 hours Last activity: 4 hours |
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| Termina, Labrynna, Holodrum, the various islands of Wind Waker, and Koholint Island (if it isn't just something Link dreamed up, which is debatable) would also be nice places. | |||
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JDavis Trick or Treating Local Mod Affected by 'Halloween Syndrome' ++ Level: 44 Posts: 560/815 EXP: 568676 For next: 42609 Since: 03-15-04 From: Ada, Oklahoma, USA Since last post: 5 hours Last activity: 4 hours |
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| Uh... yeah, they do. | |||
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JDavis Trick or Treating Local Mod Affected by 'Halloween Syndrome' ++ Level: 44 Posts: 561/815 EXP: 568676 For next: 42609 Since: 03-15-04 From: Ada, Oklahoma, USA Since last post: 5 hours Last activity: 4 hours |
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 Old info. |
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JDavis Trick or Treating Local Mod Affected by 'Halloween Syndrome' ++ Level: 44 Posts: 562/815 EXP: 568676 For next: 42609 Since: 03-15-04 From: Ada, Oklahoma, USA Since last post: 5 hours Last activity: 4 hours |
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I think he's supposed be doing this:  ... But they did a bad job of it. (edited by JDavis on 03-21-05 10:08 PM) |
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JDavis Trick or Treating Local Mod Affected by 'Halloween Syndrome' ++ Level: 44 Posts: 563/815 EXP: 568676 For next: 42609 Since: 03-15-04 From: Ada, Oklahoma, USA Since last post: 5 hours Last activity: 4 hours |
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| Sonic the Hedgehog 3 and Sonic & Knuckles were one game, Sega just cut it in two to make more money. Since the full experience of Sonic 3 & Knuckles is what I SHOULD be voting for, Sonic & Knuckles will get my vote. ...But seriously, they shouldn't be seperate options. |
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JDavis Trick or Treating Local Mod Affected by 'Halloween Syndrome' ++ Level: 44 Posts: 564/815 EXP: 568676 For next: 42609 Since: 03-15-04 From: Ada, Oklahoma, USA Since last post: 5 hours Last activity: 4 hours |
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| Full Name: FemDavis1186 Alias/Nickname: Fem Current Residence: Her house, somewhere in America. Posibly near JDavis' house in Oklahoma. Birthplace: Somewhere in an alternate timeline D.O.B.: November 7th, 2007 S.F. Age: Take the year the story takes place in, subtract 2000, and add 15. Race: Part Dreamlander-Human, part Fungerian, and part Fungerian "goddess" Gender: Female. Height: 5' 10", not counting wings. Eyes: Blue Hair: Blonde, she doesn't put it up... It just takes the shape it does on its own. Job: Self employed, mad scientist. Signature attire: Nothing specific, though she tends to favor blue and purple. I.Q.: WAY high up. She's never bothered to take a test, but an estimate of somewhere near 300 wouldn't be too far off. Class: Mad scientist, Fungerian goddess. Structure: Thin... not "skinny", really, but thin. She has a respectable amount of muscle on her, for that matter. Truth be told, she could easily be a model if she wanted to. Distinguishing Features: Large, purple-feathered wings. Theme: Chrono Cross - Gift of Spring Abilities - Can fly - Can manipulate time to some degree - Can invent all sorts of stuff! Standard Weaponry - Type 3.5 Temporal Phaser Compression Rifle - Time Staff Other Equipment - Tricorder - Communicator Family - Jack [Father] - Haruko [Mother] - Chibi Fem [Herself, but from this timeline] - Martin1186 [Paternal Grandfather] - Jen1186 [Paternal Grandmother] - Professor Hector Gyromite [Maternal Grandfather] - Draco [Uncle, sortof] Modes of Transportation - Transporter beam - Her wings - Portals (edited by JDavis on 03-26-05 11:57 PM) (edited by JDavis on 06-24-05 10:22 PM) |
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JDavis Trick or Treating Local Mod Affected by 'Halloween Syndrome' ++ Level: 44 Posts: 565/815 EXP: 568676 For next: 42609 Since: 03-15-04 From: Ada, Oklahoma, USA Since last post: 5 hours Last activity: 4 hours |
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| Punio: I see it didn't take you guy long to deal with those ninjas. Unfortunately, we've got a new problem. Everyone just noticed that Punio and Piki were standing in front of the tree. They also only just noticed a large metal door on the front of the tree, with a red light above it. Punio: Somebody's put a freaking door over the entrance to the Boggly Tree... and locked it! There's no way in! Piki: Well, there is a secret entrance... but it's hidden! You'd need some sort of wind power to reveal its location. Fem: Wind power? Jack: No problem. Leave it to the folk with wings. And so, Jack and Fem took to the air, pushing as much air as they could toward the tree. After a moment, a large gray tree bark-patterned sheet, that nobody could tell was there before, was blown away. Underneath it was a very tiny opening, and a large (black and white) neon sign reading "SECRET ENTRANCE!" Punio: Perfect! *climbs up tree root that leads right to the rather high-up opening* With any luck, I'll be able to open that door from the inside... I'll be right back! And so, Punio entered the secret entrance, and everyone else was left waiting for his return. |
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JDavis Trick or Treating Local Mod Affected by 'Halloween Syndrome' ++ Level: 44 Posts: 566/815 EXP: 568676 For next: 42609 Since: 03-15-04 From: Ada, Oklahoma, USA Since last post: 5 hours Last activity: 4 hours |
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  A link to the tutorials would be much appreciated  |
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JDavis Trick or Treating Local Mod Affected by 'Halloween Syndrome' ++ Level: 44 Posts: 567/815 EXP: 568676 For next: 42609 Since: 03-15-04 From: Ada, Oklahoma, USA Since last post: 5 hours Last activity: 4 hours |
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| I use a program called GIF Movie Gear... It's not the best, but it works. I used to use Animation Shop, but it stopped working one day, and it won't even let me uninstall it. Anyway, GIF Movie Gear is sufficient. It has the whole optimizer thing like Ramsus was talking about, and it can also unoptimize the animation if you feel like going back and changing something. As for making the frames and such, I use Paint Shop Pro 7. I just use one image and have each frame on its own layer... Which really is helpful, since you can make certain everything lines up properly and such. Kind of like an animator with the big drawing book where they can flip between the pages as they draw each frame... or something. Edit: Oh, and I almost forgot to mention... GIF Movie Gear isn't exactly free. My computer just thinks it's still 2001 (edited by JDavis on 03-26-05 12:43 PM) |
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JDavis Trick or Treating Local Mod Affected by 'Halloween Syndrome' ++ Level: 44 Posts: 568/815 EXP: 568676 For next: 42609 Since: 03-15-04 From: Ada, Oklahoma, USA Since last post: 5 hours Last activity: 4 hours |
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| Full Name: Gutsman Light Alias/Nickname: Guts Current Residence: JDavis's house, Oklahoma. Birthplace: Dr. Light's lab D.O.B.: 20XX Age: Unknown, not that it would matter anyway. Race: Robot/Human Gender: Male Height: 6' 2", human. 8', robot. Eyes: Blue/green Hair: Very light brown, usually covered by his hat. Job: Unemployed Signature attire: Yellow beanie with a black stripe that goes most of the way around it, but not in the front, where there's a red circle, a red t-shirt covered by a black basketball jersey with a red zero on it, yellow jeans, and red sneakers. I.Q.: Inderterminable due to unknown age. While he acts like an idiot most of the time, he's shown that he actually has quite the intellect. Class: Robot Master Structure: Tall and strong as a human, though not overly muscley. As a robot, he's quite huge, and capable of tossing boulders about with ease. Distinguishing Features: Uh... he's tall? Theme: MegaMan 7 - Robot Museum Abilities - Can lift and throw really heavy things as a robot - Can track people who JDavis has planted homing devices on, as a robot - Can eat and eat and eat and eat... As a robot or human - Can play music, as a robot - Can connect to most any communications network, as a robot - Can.. uh... do lots of roboty stuff... As a robot - Can change between robot and human form at will Standard Weaponry - Type 3.5 Temporal Phaser Buster, as a robot - Star Rod, as a human or robot (as a robot it's tied into his systems) - Boulders, as a robot Other Equipment - Communicator, as a human - Himself... as a robot Family - Dr. Thomas Light [Father] - Protoman [Brother] - Rock "Megaman" Light [Brother] - Roll Light [Sister] - Cutman Light [Brother] - Iceman Light [Brother] - Bombman Light [Brother] - Fireman Light [Brother] - Elecman Light [Brother] Modes of Transportation - Transporter beam |
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JDavis Trick or Treating Local Mod Affected by 'Halloween Syndrome' ++ Level: 44 Posts: 569/815 EXP: 568676 For next: 42609 Since: 03-15-04 From: Ada, Oklahoma, USA Since last post: 5 hours Last activity: 4 hours |
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| Old, and looks like the Gamecube and the N64 did the dance with no pants. | |||
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JDavis Trick or Treating Local Mod Affected by 'Halloween Syndrome' ++ Level: 44 Posts: 570/815 EXP: 568676 For next: 42609 Since: 03-15-04 From: Ada, Oklahoma, USA Since last post: 5 hours Last activity: 4 hours |
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| Piki: What? You mean "and crush everybody on the other side"!? Great plan! |
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JDavis Trick or Treating Local Mod Affected by 'Halloween Syndrome' ++ Level: 44 Posts: 571/815 EXP: 568676 For next: 42609 Since: 03-15-04 From: Ada, Oklahoma, USA Since last post: 5 hours Last activity: 4 hours |
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| While the inside of the tree is mostly just as monochromatic as the outside, the ground is sort of orangish-yellow and black, and sections of the walls are a clear blue, with a liquid (presumably water) moving about inside. A somewhat soothing song, like something you'd expect to hear in a mall, plays faintly in the background, at a slow tempo, on wooden instruments. Also, there are what appear to be small shop-like structures along one wall, made of the same gray wood as the tree itself. Punio: It's strange... everybody seems to be gone. Piki: This is normally a busy shopping center... (edited by JDavis on 03-30-05 12:11 AM) |
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JDavis Trick or Treating Local Mod Affected by 'Halloween Syndrome' ++ Level: 44 Posts: 572/815 EXP: 568676 For next: 42609 Since: 03-15-04 From: Ada, Oklahoma, USA Since last post: 5 hours Last activity: 4 hours |
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| I say shrink the picture down to about 50 to 75 percent of its current size. | |||
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JDavis Trick or Treating Local Mod Affected by 'Halloween Syndrome' ++ Level: 44 Posts: 573/815 EXP: 568676 For next: 42609 Since: 03-15-04 From: Ada, Oklahoma, USA Since last post: 5 hours Last activity: 4 hours |
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| Damn, Xk beat me to it. Anyway, if you shrink the pic, and make sure the text won't overlap it at all (ie. make it in its own table cell), then it'll be alright. As it is, it's only alright... for me to poop on! |
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JDavis Trick or Treating Local Mod Affected by 'Halloween Syndrome' ++ Level: 44 Posts: 574/815 EXP: 568676 For next: 42609 Since: 03-15-04 From: Ada, Oklahoma, USA Since last post: 5 hours Last activity: 4 hours |
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 ...Man, I hope I'm not pregnant! |
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JDavis Trick or Treating Local Mod Affected by 'Halloween Syndrome' ++ Level: 44 Posts: 575/815 EXP: 568676 For next: 42609 Since: 03-15-04 From: Ada, Oklahoma, USA Since last post: 5 hours Last activity: 4 hours |
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| Hmmmm who is my favorite Nintendo character... Tim "the tool man" Taylor? Chewbacca? Either main character of Bill & Ted? Barbie? The Prince of Persia? Bandai Satellaview's Mascot? Harry Potter? Garfield? Spider-Man? Q-Bert? Robocop? The Terminator? Seriously, your logic fails. Sonic has no place on this poll. |
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