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On Wed, 07 May 2008 15:35:51 -0400, Robert McGregor wrote:
> Anyway, the fact that Gilles has been able to create his web comic
> around your (mostly) silly posts is quite hilarious to me... Awesome
> work!
Agreed - and I'm *so* glad there's an RSS feed for it, now I don't miss
it ever, just part of my morning comics routine. :-)
Jim
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Jim Henderson wrote:
> On Wed, 07 May 2008 15:35:51 -0400, Robert McGregor wrote:
>
>> Anyway, the fact that Gilles has been able to create his web comic
>> around your (mostly) silly posts is quite hilarious to me... Awesome
>> work!
>
> Agreed - and I'm *so* glad there's an RSS feed for it, now I don't miss
> it ever, just part of my morning comics routine. :-)
>
Yup. Me, too ..
Its amazing to me that a comic with no actual drawn character could work
so well. It really brings to light that it's the writing and not the
drawing that really creates a good comic. You could even draw stick
figures (see XKCD) and make a good comic, it truly is all in the writing.
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And lo on Fri, 25 Apr 2008 18:43:09 +0100, Orchid XP v8 <voi### [at] dev null>
did spake, saying:
> Mike Raiford wrote:
>
>> Why does that all of the sudden make me feel as if I'm one of the
>> mole-people.
>> "Thriving community down here, in the deep recesses of the
>> underground."
>> :)
>
> I always liked to thing of POV-Ray, and especially off-topic, as an
> elite underground sect of engineers, mathematicians, physicists and
> programmers...
If you have a problem, if no one else can help, and if you can find them,
maybe you can hire the POV-Team; dum dum dum, dum dum da.
--
Phil Cook
--
I once tried to be apathetic, but I just couldn't be bothered
http://flipc.blogspot.com
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Mike Raiford wrote:
> Its amazing to me that a comic with no actual drawn character could work
> so well. It really brings to light that it's the writing and not the
> drawing that really creates a good comic. You could even draw stick
> figures (see XKCD) and make a good comic, it truly is all in the writing.
...or, converstly, even if I could draw I'd still make a suckworthy
comic. :-/
--
http://blog.orphi.me.uk/
http://www.zazzle.com/MathematicalOrchid*
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Phil Cook wrote:
> If you have a problem, if no one else can help, and if you can find
> them, maybe you can hire the POV-Team; dum dum dum, dum dum da.
Not... The P Team! o_O
--
http://blog.orphi.me.uk/
http://www.zazzle.com/MathematicalOrchid*
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Invisible wrote:
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> ...or, converstly, even if I could draw I'd still make a suckworthy
> comic. :-/
>
Not a good writer, eh? Neither am I. I don't have what it takes to make
a comic that people would continually return to and enjoy. Not only
that, but when something is just a hobby or side project often life gets
in the way and I wind up not being able to see it through. Funny how I
can complete huge projects at work, but stuff I do in my free time gets
sidelined so much... :/
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Mike Raiford wrote:
> Not a good writer, eh? Neither am I. I don't have what it takes to make
> a comic that people would continually return to and enjoy.
Tell me about it!
It seems most of the humour in my writings is because people are
laughing *at* me for being so stupid... :-/
> Not only
> that, but when something is just a hobby or side project often life gets
> in the way and I wind up not being able to see it through. Funny how I
> can complete huge projects at work, but stuff I do in my free time gets
> sidelined so much... :/
Heh. You have *no idea* how many half-finished programs I have sitting
on my harddrive. ;-)
There's 2 fractal generators, a ray tracer, several sorting algorithm
benchmarks, a lambda calculus evaluator (in both CLI and CGI versions),
a Mathematica clone, my reinvented Prolog thing, the half-done chunky
list implementation I was looking at, a stream fusion library, half of a
virtual machine emulator... you get the idea, yes?
--
http://blog.orphi.me.uk/
http://www.zazzle.com/MathematicalOrchid*
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4822e86d@news.povray.org...
> Jim Henderson wrote:
>> On Wed, 07 May 2008 15:35:51 -0400, Robert McGregor wrote:
>>
>>> Anyway, the fact that Gilles has been able to create his web comic
>>> around your (mostly) silly posts is quite hilarious to me... Awesome
>>> work!
>>
>> Agreed - and I'm *so* glad there's an RSS feed for it, now I don't miss
>> it ever, just part of my morning comics routine. :-)
>>
>
> Yup. Me, too ..
>
>
> Its amazing to me that a comic with no actual drawn character could work
> so well. It really brings to light that it's the writing and not the
> drawing that really creates a good comic. You could even draw stick
> figures (see XKCD) and make a good comic, it truly is all in the writing.
Thanks to all who like the comic! I'm not sure how long I'll be able to do
it (not much I guess) but it's quite fun to create, in a perverted way (the
topic is really not that funny after all).
The challenge is interesting because there's so few degrees of freedom here.
There's little room for text in a 4-panel strip. Note that while it's not
"drawing" it's still a real exercise in graphics that uses the few visual
resources that Powerpoint offers: : font, size font, colors, position of the
speech bubbles, some premade vector art... Some future panels will break
that mold though.
I don't think it's so much different from many panel strips out there where
actual drawing consists in copying the same premade characters again and
again. A lot of the comic strip tradition is really stand-up comedy on
paper.
Strangely, I'm not very fond of "chatty" comics, as I prefer mute,
expressive images (there are some wonderful Calvin & Hobbes episodes like
this that look like Japanese engravings) but then it's much, much, much more
difficult to do and requires actual drawing skills.
G.
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On Thu, 08 May 2008 13:02:23 +0100, Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
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>...or, converstly, even if I could draw I'd still make a suckworthy
>comic. :-/
Now that is a skill that could be useful :)
--
Regards
Stephen
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On Thu, 08 May 2008 12:51:54 +0100, "Phil Cook"
<phi### [at] nospamrocainfreeservecouk> wrote:
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>If you have a problem, if no one else can help, and if you can find them,
>maybe you can hire the POV-Team; dum dum dum, dum dum da.
To be done after Pov ver 4.0 and Free Moray ;)
--
Regards
Stephen
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