Gotta get that paper, man.
LAX: Light Motion Dreams: Update.
"concerto for a rainy day: time to say something." (12/07/06)
Last night I mocked up a small concept for the new links page, it's simple, and it tells you all you need to know about the exit sites (or links as they say.) Here's the link to the "beta" HTML, it's still in the early stages. All it needs are more links (Furniture Porn), better descriptions (most of the stuff on there is filler), and actual links (Yeah, see).
In the process of mocking up HTML concepts, I made this. A new homepage for LAX. One that removes the comic from the main site and adds it to another part of the site. The main page includes only a blog post, the shoutbox, and a picture. Separated from the main page, the comic resides on it's own page, with only the page, the page title, and my little descriptions. Which is better, original or newer? Hell if I know. It was still fun coding these things up.
Why did I do that? I'm on vacation, man.
...It's awesome, I took a nap, I played some Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, and I drew a filler which for fuck's sake, I'm not posting. Vacation is a wonderful thing in this life, you know.
So I finished Indigo Prophecy (or Fahrenheit to the rest of the world), and it was fantastic. One of the better games I've played, I loved the music in this. Fantastic stuff. The ending song really matches the feeling of the end, Theory of a Deadman's "Santa Monica" was the perfect way to end this interactive movie. David Cage, you are a fucking genius with your perfect directing skills and using music wisely in this video game. Hey, speaking of Santa Monica, anyone remember that song, er, "Santa Monica" by Everclear? Yeah.
(Everclear and Everlast, I always get these two mixed up.)
My region of mod ship over this internet is expanding ever so slightly. It first started with a little modship over at DrunkDuck, as a mod for the Help section. Sam then called on me for modship over at the new comic hosting place, ComicDish. It started with being a mod for the Help Section and the Game section, then it evolved into being the editor for the ComicDish Help Guide, and then, finally, it transformed into becoming a full site admin for the place. Later on, I was promoted to Global Mod at BlueGlassComics and now, I'm a staff member for the LeFarce Network. People, people. I am slowly taking over these great internets.
(This either proves one of two things: a. I'm a valuable asset to whatever site I'm on or b. I have to much fucking time on my hands to actually accomplish all of this, your choice. Whatever.)
You know, being a mod at DrunkDuck has it's cooler features, like for one. Platiunm Studios give a "special thanks" to their mods. What do I mean by that? "As a special thanks, we'd like to send you a free copy of the Cowboys & Aliens book signed by Scott Mitchell Rosenberg ( Creator )." That's pretty fucking awesome.
Oh shit, I forgot to write a little review for the Dish Monthly. I'm stumped for ideas, I could either review the the Stereophonics album, You Gotta Go There to Come Back, the webcomic, Big Fish Comics by bigfish, or the video games Indigo Prophecy by Quantic Dream or Sneak King by BK Games. I have no idea what to do, I ask you, you two readers of this lowly blog, what would you prefer reading?
And hey, LAX gets reviewed to more times, this time actually somewhat good: Let's check in on the top reviews that my little webcomic received:
"This first thing that comes to mind is that it's tough to make out what's what in a lot of the panels. Most of your characters look similar and most are drawn the same way as the background. There's not a lot to tell me where they are in relation to each other or in relation to what's around them.
Please don't take that as a dis on your artistic ability. The stuff in #9 (6-26-06) is really nice. I think you just need to make the characters stand out more, make the panels a bit bigger (from what you've been doing lately). Maybe experiment with some small additions of color. "
and,
"The artwork is nice, but very ... um ... flat. The characters blend into the background.
The "strips" that are audio (such as #27) are fine, but you may wish to scatter them around a bit more, rather than having them bunched together. There's about five or six in a row. Or maybe put artwork as well as audio on the one page. (If they are both there, I'm not seeing both).
As a suggestion, you could have, in lieu of artwork, a block of text which represents an internal monlogue and suggest to the reader that they have the audio playing in the background whilst they read the story."
Wow, I had a lot of shit to say. Let's call it a night.
"concerto for a rainy day: time to say something." (12/07/06)
Last night I mocked up a small concept for the new links page, it's simple, and it tells you all you need to know about the exit sites (or links as they say.) Here's the link to the "beta" HTML, it's still in the early stages. All it needs are more links (Furniture Porn), better descriptions (most of the stuff on there is filler), and actual links (Yeah, see).In the process of mocking up HTML concepts, I made this. A new homepage for LAX. One that removes the comic from the main site and adds it to another part of the site. The main page includes only a blog post, the shoutbox, and a picture. Separated from the main page, the comic resides on it's own page, with only the page, the page title, and my little descriptions. Which is better, original or newer? Hell if I know. It was still fun coding these things up.
Why did I do that? I'm on vacation, man....It's awesome, I took a nap, I played some Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, and I drew a filler which for fuck's sake, I'm not posting. Vacation is a wonderful thing in this life, you know.
So I finished Indigo Prophecy (or Fahrenheit to the rest of the world), and it was fantastic. One of the better games I've played, I loved the music in this. Fantastic stuff. The ending song really matches the feeling of the end, Theory of a Deadman's "Santa Monica" was the perfect way to end this interactive movie. David Cage, you are a fucking genius with your perfect directing skills and using music wisely in this video game. Hey, speaking of Santa Monica, anyone remember that song, er, "Santa Monica" by Everclear? Yeah.
(Everclear and Everlast, I always get these two mixed up.)
My region of mod ship over this internet is expanding ever so slightly. It first started with a little modship over at DrunkDuck, as a mod for the Help section. Sam then called on me for modship over at the new comic hosting place, ComicDish. It started with being a mod for the Help Section and the Game section, then it evolved into being the editor for the ComicDish Help Guide, and then, finally, it transformed into becoming a full site admin for the place. Later on, I was promoted to Global Mod at BlueGlassComics and now, I'm a staff member for the LeFarce Network. People, people. I am slowly taking over these great internets.
(This either proves one of two things: a. I'm a valuable asset to whatever site I'm on or b. I have to much fucking time on my hands to actually accomplish all of this, your choice. Whatever.)
You know, being a mod at DrunkDuck has it's cooler features, like for one. Platiunm Studios give a "special thanks" to their mods. What do I mean by that? "As a special thanks, we'd like to send you a free copy of the Cowboys & Aliens book signed by Scott Mitchell Rosenberg ( Creator )." That's pretty fucking awesome.
Oh shit, I forgot to write a little review for the Dish Monthly. I'm stumped for ideas, I could either review the the Stereophonics album, You Gotta Go There to Come Back, the webcomic, Big Fish Comics by bigfish, or the video games Indigo Prophecy by Quantic Dream or Sneak King by BK Games. I have no idea what to do, I ask you, you two readers of this lowly blog, what would you prefer reading?
And hey, LAX gets reviewed to more times, this time actually somewhat good: Let's check in on the top reviews that my little webcomic received:
"This first thing that comes to mind is that it's tough to make out what's what in a lot of the panels. Most of your characters look similar and most are drawn the same way as the background. There's not a lot to tell me where they are in relation to each other or in relation to what's around them.
Please don't take that as a dis on your artistic ability. The stuff in #9 (6-26-06) is really nice. I think you just need to make the characters stand out more, make the panels a bit bigger (from what you've been doing lately). Maybe experiment with some small additions of color. "
and,
"The artwork is nice, but very ... um ... flat. The characters blend into the background.
The "strips" that are audio (such as #27) are fine, but you may wish to scatter them around a bit more, rather than having them bunched together. There's about five or six in a row. Or maybe put artwork as well as audio on the one page. (If they are both there, I'm not seeing both).
As a suggestion, you could have, in lieu of artwork, a block of text which represents an internal monlogue and suggest to the reader that they have the audio playing in the background whilst they read the story."
Wow, I had a lot of shit to say. Let's call it a night.
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Monday, December 18, 2006 8:01:00 PM
you're on vacation?
boo. My vacation is called 35-40 hours a week at work. I fuckin' hate working all day.
also, nigga, review Big Fish Comics by the ridiculously awesome and good-looking, bigfish. Feel free to say horrible, horrible things about it....or do Sneak King by BK. that games actually looked pretty cute and I wonder how fun it is.
...yay.