The NP member comic discussion thread!

[Nikose Tyris]

RMB: Totally up to it. let me post your work. ((and claim it for my own! MWHAHAH!))

...like, no one heard that, right? that was in my head?

And Phil: That was an AMAZING comic. My mom thought I was messed in the head when I burst out laughing at my computer.

To everyone with a pirate comic: Ninja's are better. but those comics are still cool.

[mauve]

We should definately have a pirate/ninja comic now. We pirate sprites must band together to stop Choco-nin and the ninja menace.

And for the record, I posted a pirate camwhore picture first, Mike posted a pirate spritesheet first, and we appear to be tied in who looks better in pirate garb. That depends on whether you go for the Jack Sparrow look or the Black Kat look.

[Bailey]

I have both pirate garb and ninja garb.

can I be on both sides in the comic?

it could be one of those clarkkent-superman dealies where nobody figures it out despite how obvious it is!

[Fenris]

All: Awesome work.

Phil: Whee, I am an SK Bandit!

Rick: Fear the dopplegangers. They have strength in numbers.

Yeah, I'm out of things to say.

[RickZarber]

Originally Posted by FenrisWolf

Rick: Fear the dopplegangers. They have strength in numbers.

Wait, what?

EDIT: Nevermind. I got it. It didn't come to me until a few hours later, as I was trying to sleep, but then I blame that on not having any sleep 30 hours beforehand.

Also, neat stuff Loyal. I think the shading looked pretty good. Better than my attempts; I never seem to get the placement correct.

EDIT EDIT: Also, awesome job, Newb! That looks like something out of Waking Life.

[mauve]

Beautiful work, Loyal! What program did you use?

[phil_]

Beautiful work, Newb! What program did you use?

[Bailey]

graphicsgale

I kept two windows open, one with a photo the other with this, and I kept switching back and forth.

I used the curve tool for most of that, but also the color replacer for the shading.

I kept the bits I had gotten to look right on one layer, and the stuff that was in progress on another so that if anything went wrong I could scrap the layer and not worry abou messing up what I liked.

once I had gotten all the lines down, I made a layer for each segment and filled in all the segments not adressed in that layer with this hideous lime green.

I then started using the color replacer and fill tools to get the shading done, and once a segment was finished I would clear the lime out from that layer and merge it with the other finished layers until I had what you see now.

[Loyal]

Originally Posted by Mauve Mage

Beautiful work, Loyal! What program did you use?

I used GIMP, combining aspects of a number of tutorials, including but not limited to The GIMP's tutorial for the actual coloring (This version is better than the updated one in my opinion, as this tells you what layers go where in a more graphic manner), Exterminatus Now's tutorial for Shading, and some fiddling around and experimenting on my own part for translating into terms I could better understand and stuff like that.

Next time, I shall start by implementing THIS tutorial that Rick kindly linked me to some time ago and that I forgot all about until now. I shall use it to make my lineart cleaner. ^^

[EDIT]: Rick: Yay! My NinjaMeister sprites are used at last! Yay! Plot exposition!

AJ: Boo, exams! D:

[Flarecobra]

New Flare sprites are up in the "NPF sprite sheets!" thread over in A&C for all who are interested.

And AJ, I thought I got bitchy sometimes when midterms/finals came around. Daymn.