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| Topic Started: 17 Jun 2008, 11:44 AM (439 Views) | |
| Killz2much | 17 Jun 2008, 11:44 AM Post #1 |
Looks like that doctor... got a taste of his own medicine. YEAAAAAAA
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Table of Contents I. Introduction. II. How to post your comic lists. III. Comic lists. IV. User Tutorials. V. Other Useful Links. VI. Things to remember before making a comic. VII. Things NOT to say when responding to a comment you don't like. VIII. The 13 Commandments of comic making.    Layout for Your Post: This post was last updated on: Name/Nickname for Comics: Skin: Comic List: Opinion of latest comic: Upcoming Comic: Teasers/Extra: On A Side Note: Please make sure you post your comics in a way we can access them via this thread, and not just put the name of the comic. It's for your own good.  Killz2much SIN2  How To Make Nesto Flavored Laser Beams! Blood Tutorial for Photoshop by «The Joker». Gunposing 101 #1: Standing Rifle Posing Gunposing 101 #2: Standing Pistol Posing Gunposing 101 #3: Crouching Pistol and Rifle Posing Gunposing 101 #4: Prone Position Semi-Desaturated SHEFing Tutorial Haz-Life's Comic Tutorial Bullets and Blood Tutorial. Mikey Bob's Editing Tutorial How to pose an antilion: By Riller. REDPill357's Posing Tutorial Advanced Posing/Twisting Ragdolls in Gmod 10 by: Combine_dumb AN AMAZING GROUP OF TUTORIALS, PHOTOSHOP, GIMP, IN GAME, EVERYTHING. THANKS TO PHWONLINE FOR THIS ONE. Headswapping without Photoshop in GM10 Comic Template PSD/Hints and Tips, And Photoshop Q&A. By: DaveP The Screenshots Forum Megatutorial - By Combine_dumb The Facepunch Photoshop Tutorial Megathread. If you want a tutorial posted in here, and I feel it's useful, PM me with a link to it and I'll post it.  Deviantart - A great place to find a lot of good Photoshop brushes. DaFont - One of the best websites for finding fonts to use in your comics. Good-Tutorials.com - A HUGE website filled with many tutorials for Photoshop, and even 3DS Max, CSS, Flash, HTML, Adobe Illustrator, Java, JavaScript, Maya, Photography, and PHP.   - "I did this at <Some time that is late at night (e.g. 12AM - 5AM)>" (If you were too tired to make the comic, why didn't you go to bed instead?) - "Maybe you should give it a shot instead of criticizing." (Look below.) - "You can't talk, you don't make comics." (Movie critics don't make movies, but they criticize until they're blue in the face.) - "I gave it my best, if you don't like it, don't read it." (Good, you gave it your best. But realize that not everyone is gonna like your comic, and by forcing them out of your life, you're gonna be circle-jerked by the select few that like your comics and you'll never improve. Unless the people who like them give you advice.) - "It's my first time." (Great, now take the advice you got and improve.)  1. Spelling. Spelling is one of the most essential parts in a comic. No one wants to read a badly spelled comic, and sometimes it's even impossible. Read your comic few times before uploading it and if using e.g. Photoshop, save your comic also as a .psd, so you can edit layers later if you find typos. A typo or few won't ruin a comic but writing monkey-English will. Have mercy on foreign people, everybody isn't possible to write flawless and fluent English. But I expect all English / American / Canadian / Australian / New Zealanders / etc. write good English. SO CHECK YOUR SPELLING BEFORE UPLOADING YOUR COMIC. And pay attention to thing like YOUR and YOU'RE, there is a great difference between these two. YOUR: Shows that the person owns something. "Hey Jesus, your cock is huge!" "Thanks, so is yours." YOU'RE: Contraction of 'you are'. "Hey Jesus, you're an asshole!" "Thanks, you're an ass wipe yourself." Of course typos and bad spelling can be used as a stylistic device. If your comic has a idiot or foreign character, bad grammar can be used to give the character a personal touch. Xs and Zs are noobish. DON'T USE THEM. Of course, if the word has an X or Z, then use them, but don't replace K's with a X or T's with a Z etc. Also, don't use numbers as letters. I'm talking about 1337-5p34k, no one wants to see that in comics. 2. Fonts. Whenever possible, use various fonts. You can use them to give your comic and characters a personal look, although you shouldn't use a different comic font for each character in your comics. Remember that the font should not be too complex, ugly or too decorated. Use simple, but elegant fonts that are easy to read and characteristic. For example, Waxx uses fonts well in his Ravenholm Armory. His main character Leonard is Russian, and has a font that imitates Cyrillic letters. Everybody who reads these comics will remember Leonard for sure! And if the same font is used in some other comic, everybody will automatically link it to Leonard and Ravenholm Armory. Fonts: DaFont 1001Fonts Blambot 3. Skins. Just like fonts, custom skins can make your comic stand out. Most probably all hl2's skins have been used in some comic and some even make you think of some particular comic. Skins do not have to be skins, they can also be photoshopped. Make skins that are memorable. but making a pink/neon shirt for your character might not be such a good idea. For a nice Photoshop .vtf plug-in, check out THIS page 4. Maps. Get out of that goddamn gm_construct. Everybody has seen it and everybody knows every goddamn corner of it. Use Half-Life 2's maps, use CS:S's maps, use custom maps, make maps. Humor comics don't need maps as bad as "serious" comics, which then again can be ruined totally if you make them in gm_construct. Then again, if your comic is based off of something where you would need gm_construct, then that's fine. You can look for maps (forums, go through threads, published maps usually have links to them): HERE and HERE A tutorial for map installation can be found HERE 5. Background. Don't forget your comics background. Take a look around you, something is always happening. Birds flying, cars driving by, people working etc. etc. So why isn't that happening in your comics then? If you are making a funny comic, you might add some humor to the background. Read some of Don Rosa's Donald Ducks and you'll know what I mean, there's always something funny going on in the background. Serious comics get a nice touch from passing cars and working people, they make the comic feel more realistic and alive. 6. Humor. Don't try to be funny. If you don't have any funny stuff ready in your head, then don't make a comic. Mostly when people try to be funny, they end up being not funny. The best humor comes to you, you don't come to it. I suggest you keep a pencil and a piece of paper with you. When the humor hits you, you can write it down. If you see something funny or hear a funny story, write it down and make a comic of it! Random humor works sometimes in small doses. But random humor is difficult too. Birds crapping on someones head and random explosions just aren't funny anymore. Try not to use toilet-humor and leave sex out of it. Don't be racist. 7. Editing. Get Photoshop or GIMP! Readers are sick of MSpaint. Editing isn't only adding text, it's also making speech bubbles, making a comic book look, adding effects, resizing and removing things you don't want in your picture. Speech bubbles are supposed to look good, don't just draw an ugly bubble over your text, make it beautiful! There are few tutorials for speech bubbles above. Comic book look makes your comic look more professional and more pleasant to read. I'm not saying that all comics should look like this, but I suggest you take a look, you might learn something valuable. Resizing. I use 1000x29999 on a single page of my comic and in my opinion that's a good size if you're making a long comic, otherwise, use that size anyways, then crop it. However if your comic has all images separately, I suggest you don't make them bigger than 800x600. You can resize generally with any image editing program. Then again, you really should make a layout. 8. Posing. Posing is the most essential part of comics. Train it like hell before making your first comic! You can find tutorials above. 9. Speech alignment. If you want the reader to know what is happening, put speech bubbles in the right order. Most of us are westerner people, so we have a habit to start reading from the left upper corner and go right and down. So 1. bubble should be on the left side, 2. on the right side. think about this already when you taking the screenshots so it will be easier to you. If you have lots of small bubbles, bind them to each other by drawing small "bridges" from one bubble to the next. Having a starting phrase from the right and the 2nd phrase on the left, can ONLY work if the right speech is near the middle and can be easily be defined at being the one on the top. 10. Movement Transitions. For this I mean say pulling out a gun and pointing it, transitions can be a pain in the ass but they put a whole better picture into the reader's head. For example, if you wanted to portray your character jumping off a wall onto the floor but only took the picture of him on the wall and on the floor, the reader's would wonder how he got down (obvious I know but we're trying to initialize their imaginations so they see it moving in their heads). Transitioning that scene, I would have taken a shot of him on the wall, then a close-up of his shoe leaving the wall (edited with a jump sound and possible blur) then him landing and then him standing up. 4 Screens maybe a bit much for a short thing, that's why I like to use the next item. 11. Random hints. No sex poses - Believe me, they aren’t funny. Turn up your graphics - You might have a crappy computer, but take everything you can out of it when making comics. This way your images will look better. Don't state the obvious - Your character doesn't need to yell "OH MY GOD THERE IS A WHEELBARROW UP MY BUTT!!!" - The reader can see that from the images. Face posing - Don't use the randomizer at high. Those faces are ugly and very rarely fit in a comic. But remember to give your character expressions. Sad, angry, happy, remember to show it. Character names - If you use HL2 characters, then write their names correctly. It's GRIGORI, not Gregory, its KLEINER not Kliener, its FREEMAN, not Freemen. Also, if using your own characters, give them special names, not stuff like John and Mike. Although there isn't a problem with that. Face Close ups - Great way to show emotions, but if your graphics look terrible, then don't use face close ups. And don't go too near. HUD Text - Make sure there isn't anything reading on your screen when you take the screenshot. "AI Disabled" and "Blur Off" don't belong in your comic. Comic Names - Give your comic a name, and don't but "my first comic" as your comics subject. No collisions - Use the toolgun to make e.g. a gun and a character not collide. This way its easier to set guns where you want them. (Gmod9) Garry's Mod logo. The one in the upper right corner? Don't you just hate it? Well type Dont_buff_my_pylon 1 in the console and it's gone! 12. Rating a comic and giving feedback and suggestions. Please don't just say "20/10 !!! OH MY GOD THIS IS THE GREATEST!!!". Then I go to next comic and see "25/12 !!! OH MY GOD I HAVE NEVER SEEN ANYTHING AS GOOD AS THIS!!". Okay, both are the best comic ever, but which one is better and what makes them so great? Be constructive! I personally like to hear more what's wrong with the comic. Because then I can make my next even better. Of course you can tell that you like the comic very much, but if you don't happen to like the font, posing, story, or anything, tell it! Think about it for a second, you give a comic 25/10, what if the next comic you read is even better? You just said that the last comic is the greatest and absolutely best. What are you going to say about the next comic? 50/10? Soon we are talking about number like 1000/10 and that just doesn't tell anything. Limit the numbers, adjectives and caps lock. Also, when commenting on a humor-style comic. If you didn't find it funny, DON'T say it was funny anyways to spare the OP's precious and sensitive feelings. Say what you really mean and help him improve instead of passing him through untouched. Don't flame, laugh at someone or spam. Don't advertise your comic in someone else's thread. read the Forum Rules. 13. Uploading and posting images. I'm going to use Filecram in this tutorial. D2k5 works as well. 1. Take screenshots for your images and edit them. 2. Go to Filecram or www.filesmelt.com 3. Choose your image by clicking the "browse..." button. Then choose your image and press open. 4. Press "Upload Image" Button. 5. Your image should be now uploaded, scroll down and find the part which says "BBcode" (Or whichever link has [IMG]<Link>[/IMG] in it.) Select the entire thing and click with your second mouse button and choose copy, OR press ctrl+c. 6. Come to the forums and go make a new post/thread. 7. Submit your post/thread. Edited by Killz2much, 4 Jul 2008, 10:10 AM.
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| Killz2much | 17 Jun 2008, 02:26 PM Post #2 |
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Looks like that doctor... got a taste of his own medicine. YEAAAAAAA
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Like you said last time I asked you why you copy and pasted a thread from FP to PHW. "WHO FUCKING CARES?! BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH!" |
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| stellarotic | 18 Jun 2008, 04:31 PM Post #3 |
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Nice tutorial. Really good for people getting started. Good job. |
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| Killz2much | 19 Jun 2008, 02:10 PM Post #4 |
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Looks like that doctor... got a taste of his own medicine. YEAAAAAAA
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Name/Nickname for Comics: Killz2much/Killz/K2 Skin:    Bouncy Grass <Dead> Out Of What You Desire My Version of Surfur's "Oranges Are Sacred? PT2" The Choice: A Comic Honoring Gogi Pillz My Thanks To Snapleaple killz Adventures- Pick Up Your Pants A Normal Round in ZPS A Better Random Person? Tough Love, Heavy Valentine's Day- I Hate It Forgetful Killer- Interactive (Not really) The Great Cancellation: PSA About "The Great Escape" The New Sentry The Argument: An Actual Conversation Between Killz2much and Antorka Impatience When Simple Pranks Go Horribly Wrong HIV+ It's My Money, and I Need It NOW! Brains Beat Brawn No One Listens Meet The Heavy Emotions B-Day Surprise Screw You Little Jacob Perverted Future of War  Saint Pinch Day  Part 1: Unwelcomed Visitors Part 2: Loss of a Friend Part 3: Charles, Parks, & Patchy  Prologue Opinion of Latest Comic: It was a message that some people were too stupid to understand. Upcoming Comic: Meet The RED Haters Teasers/Extras: http://forums.facepunchstudios.com/showpost.php?p=10163224&postcount=1155 On the side note: Xbox Live Gamertag: KamakaziCaboose. Edited by Killz2much, 19 Jun 2008, 02:16 PM.
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| ErikKiller | 19 Jun 2008, 02:13 PM Post #5 |
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De-FP it or something none of the Links work and [highlight] is sillyness. |
 
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| SIN2 | 4 Jul 2008, 09:37 AM Post #6 |
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| Netsforex | 4 Oct 2009, 09:37 AM Post #7 |
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