a continuation of something bit theater

[VRaptorX]

OK...it got deleted and I can't find it using a search so here we go.

OK read the recap first and as for the field of white. They kinda got in to a trap. They'll get out of it in ep 30. So stop complaining about the white backround!

RECAP
http://i5.tinypic.com/141o85l.jpg

Episode 29: beer belly
http://i6.tinypic.com/1255ojt.jpg

Episode 30: Dentistroth
http://i5.tinypic.com/14b5big.jpg

Episode 31: Never run with scizzors (new)
http://i5.tinypic.com/14x09yc.jpg

[Melfice]

Okay, no offense, but that looks horrible.
And I'm not talking about the beer-belly.

I'd give some pointers, but I'm afraid semi-professional spriters have to take over.

[DarkCORN!]

I'll take it from here.
Okay, the sprites all suffer from horrible Jpeg compression. That is, when you go to save your comic when it's done, go to "save as" then at the bottom will be a little window that shows what file its being saved as (bitmap, GIF, PNG,JPEG) Jpeg is meant for photos and blurs anything but a large picture. I reccomend saving it as a PNG.
The sprites are recolors, which are bad. Recolors BAD! Most of them are done pretty horribly. You should try to make it look as human as possible, so, no purple skin, no negative people (colored in and then inverted colors), and don't mix bittage. What that means is you should stick to sprites from one game or series (Final Fantasy most likely). You should not have two edits of the same character in a comic unless they are edited to the extreme. THat Aeris (I assume) sprite in there is more like 32 bit, while the others are 8-bit. The difference is, 8 bit only has a few colors, while higher ones have all kinds of little colors mixed in to make it look better from far away. The guy with the purple outline is pretty horrible. He needs to have a complete outline and be colored in. Also, all outlines need to be black.
You should definitely use backgrounds. All that white hurts my eyes personally, and background make your comic look a lot less Noob-ish. Also, if the guy had has teeth ripped out, he should be bleeding.
The comic should have a strong story and good punchline. You should wait until an idea comes to you to make a comic, not just say "I'm gonna make a comic now" and go to the computer.

[VRaptorX]

Yeah...the white backround is explained a few eps back. Don't worry. I do have backrounds. And by the way...It's Tiny pic. It auto reformats to Jpeg. By the way. there is a story:

Black Belt gets lost trying to find the after life. Aeris tries to capture him but he ends up multiplying. Now she and group has to capture or kill all of them before they screw up something in the living world.

And yess I know Aeris is graphically better. I havn't found a GOOD 8 bit sprite of her yet. And yes. I have googled it. Oh and I made that person inverted for a reason. He has recently become so terrified because Aeris turned into a creature. And I'll admit. That wasn't my best one. There are some funny ones though.

[Big J.]

DarkCorn, I'm immpressed. You know your stuff about this criticizm. Probably because you spent so much time listening to me in the...like 12 days I've been posting. Nah, or mabey you just know how this whole thing works. Anyway, this is probably the worst attempt at a comic I've ever seen. There are no backgrounds, the comic is JPG, the sprites suck, there's mixxing of bittages, the jokes aren't funny, and it just looks all-around like there was no effort put into it. And if you have some better old comics, POST THEM HERE TOO YOU BLOODY IDGIT! Sorry bout that...just cooling off. Basically, the only advice I can give to you is start a new fricken comic because a dramatic change would just seem weird at this point. And if you can't find an 8-bit sprite of aeris, make your own or ask someone else to do it. It's 8-bit. Not that hard.

[DarkCORN!]

Dude, settle down. Don't flame. You'll get in trouble.

[VRaptorX]

Did he even pay attention to my second post?

[DarkCORN!]

Oh yeah, I forgot something. You just used the same panel over and over with different textboxes. That may be okay for a few panels, but a whole comic of it? No.

[Big J.]

Yes Raptor, I did pay attention too your second panel. You said you had backgrounds and it's explained a while back, but you have no proof of this and could just post your old episodes here. And you couldn't find a good 8-bit sprite of Aeries because there AREN'T any. She wasn't in any 8-bit games. You'll just have to make your own or request one from someone else. (And sorry about my last post. I was a little pissed off about not making the baseball team at my school)

[VRaptorX]

OK...better now?

[Big J.]

It's slightly better. It's still a JPG but you said it can't fix that so we'll have to ignore it. The joke is kinda random. And the background...aeris is floating in a blue forest. Eee...I think 8-bit sprites should have 8-bit backgrounds, not photos. Like 16-bit sprites have 16-bit backgrounds and so on, ex... and a goo BG site is this right here. (http://bghq.com)

[Long-Haired Narcissist]

OK...it got deleted and I can't find it using a search so here we go.

The original something bit theator (http://forum.nuklearpower.com/showthread.php?t=13641)

[Mondt]

For the record, if tinypic auto-changes to jpeg, use a different image hoster like, say, Imageshack (http://www.imageshack.org)? It has a higher image-size limit, I think, and it won't change your image.

Unless you explained somehwere that for some reason that doesn't work. I dunno.

[Big J.]

Edit: Whoops! Sorry, posted in wrong forum.