Shameless Plug

[Griphonix]

You guys know I never ask for anything ('cept maybe a bit of hot loving from spot) but now I'm going to.
I finally have a webcomic. I think I might have metioned it last lanx. I know it's pretty crap, and only 6 comics so far, but it's still being worked on and has enough material and jokes to last for a while.
It's called God School, and it works on the idea of "What if most of the gods from normal religions and mythology were all going to the same school?"
We've got a forum set up, but it needs members to sign up. So you guys can guess what I'm asking ;)

http://godschool.keenspace.com
(the site's being constantly worked on, so it might change a bit)

[*NoN*Da]rY*]

done matey, i owe you for the hot man love you supplied last X ;)

[Griphonix]

don't worry dairy, there's plenty more where that came from

[forest]

dude ur last one was lame

[mudgie]

Hehehe... Great stuff.

[radass]

good on you man, that's shweet

[Kaiser]

Wow! You actually got up and made one.
I've been meaning to start one myself, but, you know, I'm too damn lazy.
Good stuff there

[citizen-X]

griph well done on those comics..

its true after all..

that all gods creatures have talents .even the ones who dress up as clowns :D

really cool dude!

[Joshu]

Originally posted by forest
dude ur last one was lame

Griph, welcome to the world of webcomickry. Reel in shock as your noob fans tell you their true innermost thoughts in 6 words, and tear you apart with their correction emails.

With that said, I reckon you should realise that some people don't go webcomicking simply to see the comics - often there's a rant column or bizarre linkage or similar other features on the site that attract Joe Average Reader. Simply put, where's the rant columns?:D Or maybe I'm too old-fashioned.

More thoughts that I have are, FORGET YOU EVER KNEW JPEG AS OF NOW. If you're using cel-shading (and you are), you probably want to be optimising your color palette and exporting to GIF or PNG; reason being that the file size is incredibly smaller. I managed to take your last comic down to under 100KB using GIF 32-color 100%dither - which is 33% of the original, with a little quality lost in the background gradients. (also, if you can avoid background gradients, you could optimise further - ignoring the background gradients, I got a 50kb 14-color GIF out of the picture, with a couple of colors slightly off. Palette is an important word.)

I know I'm probably ranting, but it's just a few tips you probably want to have a think about (after all, 300k is a lot on dialup... and it's a lot on most of the currently-fucked ADSL connections too).


PS. Avoid obvious cut and paste.

[citizen-X]

how do u do cell shading n shit? looks fuckin cool

i wanna make a comic "chronicles of suddy"

[madcap_magician]

great work griff!

love to see more

[Griphonix]

k joshu, i've been told to move to png, but apparently some browsers don't like it.

[Joshu]

Well text-only browsers don't like it :p as well as most older browsers.

The newest generation of browsers (Mozilla / IE / Opera) can all handle PNG, although I think IE5 had issues with it? IE6 won't display your alpha transparencies though.

Gamma Correction (http://www.libpng.org/pub/png/pngintro.html#gamma) is probably why you'll want to use PNG over GIF - the image gamma becomes universal, whether on Mac, PC, or whatever else you may use.

[ultraviolentray]

Griph, your awesome! That's some funny shit...

[radass]

plus, png's are supposed to have better compression than gifs

and as for non-up-to-date browsers, i say fuck em :) add some browser detection to your page and call old browser users noobs

[*NoN*Da]rY*]

I can compress something for ya..... So far Grif has had it uncompressed..... ;D

[radass]

yeah a good rule of thumb is 'mostly large blocks/strips of flat color use gif/png / mostly photo like with lots of random colors next to each other use jpg'

[Griphonix]

On friday, dairy, I'm gonna teach you the meaning of "loseless compression"