Botfly attempts: A Sprite Comic

Botfly · 05-11-2007, 10:06 PM

edit: episode 1 take 2

SephirothKirby · 05-12-2007, 02:51 PM

Hm, I generally stray away from such perverse humor, and the picture really was not needed to get the point across.

However, I did find it amusing. Good job, I'd like to see where this goes.

Botfly · 05-13-2007, 02:36 AM

*ahem*

So tell me... did you folks get the humor in it or is it kind of hard to follow? be honest. And I apologize to those who found my questionable sprite manipulation to be in bad taste. I kind of just impromptly decided to put my spriting skillz to the test whilst finishing up with that comic and threw it in there for a cheap laugh.

Also, the next one will be 100x better, promise.

Panfan · 05-13-2007, 02:30 PM

Hello, Valigarmander Jr.

Botfly · 05-17-2007, 03:10 AM

Not sure if I'll ever be able to top this one.

***Ace Mercury*** · 05-17-2007, 09:16 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Botfly

So tell me... did you folks get the humor in it or is it kind of hard to follow? be honest. And I apologize to those who found my questionable sprite manipulation to be in bad taste. I kind of just impromptly decided to put my spriting skillz to the test whilst finishing up with that comic and threw it in there for a cheap laugh.

The joke is easy enough to follow, but it suffers from poor build-up and release. The punchline ("penetration! ha ha, that's also a sex term") is kind of weak, but it can be make funnier. A general rule is that less is more when it comes to text, otherwise you risk tl;dr syndrome. Consider yourself a joke sniper, using precision rounds of words to shatter someone's funny bone. Of course, there are always jokes where you have to break this rule of thumb, like shaggy dog jokes, but I don't see a lot of those.

The second comic has nicer pacing, but I'm pretty sure you can design the image so that it doesn't take up >800kB.

I had no idea in frames 1-3 that that blob was a newspaper, and the house has a weird perspective error on it. The alternate headline on the paper was kind of distracting, and not funny enough to warrant distracting the "Mario dead" headline. Otherwise, entertaining.

Botfly · 05-17-2007, 12:55 PM

not sure if I can do anything about the 800 kb image size in the second comic, because of the 20 frame dancing luigi animation. Kind of rushed it a bit, but I'll go back and change perspective errors. Maybe.

With my first comic I was basically testing things out, as it is my first ever. Since first comics are inherently trainwrecks, I think I'll just leave it. I don't know, perhaps I'll clean it up one of these days... :rubchin:

Anywho, apprectiate the intelligent critique Ace, such feedback shall be applied to further develop my comicing skills (or lack thereof)

***Ace Mercury*** · 05-17-2007, 02:32 PM

A common technique to reducing the filesize of animated gif comics is to split up the comic into separate images. Since the last frame is the only (intended) animated frame, you can have that as a separate gif. If you're more knowledgeable into the gif format, you can use a selective replacement to overlay animation instead of redrawing the entire image over again.

Botfly · 05-17-2007, 03:06 PM

I would have done the whole overlay thing, but my gif animator program is really limited and only capable of executing the basics. I'll probably just seperate it or something.

05-11-2007, 10:06 PM	#1
Botfly Junior Member Join Date: Apr 2007 Gender: Posts: 102 Thanks: 2 Thanked 1 Time in 1 Post	Botfly attempts: A Sprite Comic edit: episode 1 take 2 Last edited by Botfly; 05-17-2007 at 03:09 AM.

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Botfly Junior Member Join Date: Apr 2007 Gender: Posts: 102 Thanks: 2 Thanked 1 Time in 1 Post	ahem So tell me... did you folks get the humor in it or is it kind of hard to follow? be honest. And I apologize to those who found my questionable sprite manipulation to be in bad taste. I kind of just impromptly decided to put my spriting skillz to the test whilst finishing up with that comic and threw it in there for a cheap laugh. Also, the next one will be 100x better, promise. Last edited by Botfly; 05-13-2007 at 02:50 AM.

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Botfly Junior Member Join Date: Apr 2007 Gender: Posts: 102 Thanks: 2 Thanked 1 Time in 1 Post	Not sure if I'll ever be able to top this one. Last edited by Botfly; 05-18-2007 at 07:50 PM.

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SephirothKirby Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Those who criticize our generation forget who raised it. Gender: Posts: 7,213 Thanks: 373 Thanked 760 Times in 447 Posts	Hm, I generally stray away from such perverse humor, and the picture really was not needed to get the point across. However, I did find it amusing. Good job, I'd like to see where this goes.

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05-17-2007, 12:55 PM	#7
Botfly Junior Member Join Date: Apr 2007 Gender: Posts: 102 Thanks: 2 Thanked 1 Time in 1 Post	not sure if I can do anything about the 800 kb image size in the second comic, because of the 20 frame dancing luigi animation. Kind of rushed it a bit, but I'll go back and change perspective errors. Maybe. With my first comic I was basically testing things out, as it is my first ever. Since first comics are inherently trainwrecks, I think I'll just leave it. I don't know, perhaps I'll clean it up one of these days... :rubchin: Anywho, apprectiate the intelligent critique Ace, such feedback shall be applied to further develop my comicing skills (or lack thereof)

05-17-2007, 02:32 PM	#8
*Ace Mercury* Marshmallow Knight ☆ Supermod Join Date: Jun 2000 Location: Southern Ontario Gender: Posts: 23,275 Thanks: 568 Thanked 3,297 Times in 1,582 Posts Blog Entries: 1	A common technique to reducing the filesize of animated gif comics is to split up the comic into separate images. Since the last frame is the only (intended) animated frame, you can have that as a separate gif. If you're more knowledgeable into the gif format, you can use a selective replacement to overlay animation instead of redrawing the entire image over again.

05-17-2007, 03:06 PM	#9
Botfly Junior Member Join Date: Apr 2007 Gender: Posts: 102 Thanks: 2 Thanked 1 Time in 1 Post	I would have done the whole overlay thing, but my gif animator program is really limited and only capable of executing the basics. I'll probably just seperate it or something.