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by VinnieD
Mon Jun 22, 2009 9:34 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: How long did you wait to "pimp" your comic?
Replies: 96
Views: 7105

Re: How long did you wait to "pimp" your comic?

Waiting to have 20 pages up isn't all that bad. Chances are if you advertise or not, you're just plain not going to have any fans outside of people you already know within the first year. In fact, no matter how good your comic is, expect no one to read it until you've got a few years of archive. 20 ...
by VinnieD
Sun Jun 07, 2009 9:31 pm
Forum: Technique Tips and Tricks
Topic: Stiff artwork - need tips and tricks
Replies: 61
Views: 9875

Re: Stiff artwork - need tips and tricks

If you aren't sure you're practicing the right thing, which is an entirely valid suspicion, then you may want to consider hitting the local community college for some art classes. The good thing about a community college is there's usually a guarantee of some one on one instruction, and as a result ...
by VinnieD
Sun Jun 07, 2009 2:11 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Red Slime: Special Comic Genesis Issue
Replies: 17
Views: 617

Re: Red Slime: Special Comic Genesis Issue

I might as well throw my hat in the ring. If anyone likes the old crime genre they'd probably enjoy these three highly Noir inspired pages. http://www.antibunny.com/d/20080224.html http://www.antibunny.com/d/20080302.html http://www.antibunny.com/d/20080525.html The third in there isn't in sequence ...
by VinnieD
Fri Jun 05, 2009 10:13 pm
Forum: Technique Tips and Tricks
Topic: Digital vs. pen and paper -- a.k.a tools of the trade
Replies: 62
Views: 10411

Re: Digital vs. pen and paper -- a.k.a tools of the trade

Coming back from a con recently a fellow artist I met there who also uses ink recommended marker paper over bristol. A good marker paper supposedly will avoid bleed through just as well as bristol without the problem of sucking the brush dry as bristol does. If you like copics like me, you know that...
by VinnieD
Wed May 27, 2009 10:16 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Shoutbox Evilness.
Replies: 1
Views: 156

Re: Shoutbox Evilness.

Depending on your browser settings a shoutbox might eat your post and give you a message like "Cookies deleted." If you get that a lot just make a habit of copying your post before hitting submit, and put it in again if it gets eaten. It usually works on the second try.
by VinnieD
Tue May 26, 2009 11:45 pm
Forum: Technique Tips and Tricks
Topic: Adding music to a comic?
Replies: 15
Views: 2002

Re: Adding music to a comic?

I agree. When music starts playing without the user's consent it's a good way to get them to dive for the X. If you want to do a multimedia presentation, then it's time to get into flash animation. Comics aren't what you're looking for.
by VinnieD
Sat May 23, 2009 1:45 am
Forum: Technique Tips and Tricks
Topic: Stiff artwork - need tips and tricks
Replies: 61
Views: 9875

Re: Stiff artwork - need tips and tricks

Warming up your wrist also helps. Any kind of exercise that involves looping motions of the wrist. It should reduce shakiness.
by VinnieD
Mon May 18, 2009 9:57 pm
Forum: Technique Tips and Tricks
Topic: Filtering out pencil in Photoshop
Replies: 18
Views: 4342

Re: Filtering out pencil in Photoshop

If you're using blue pencils, just skip the graphite altogether. Otherwise you can learn to lighten up (this will also help you get looser lines if your art is too stiff), and then the pencils will easily come out with a kneaded gum eraser. Really you should use a gum eraser anyway, it doesn't leave...
by VinnieD
Mon May 11, 2009 2:04 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: How long did you wait to "pimp" your comic?
Replies: 96
Views: 7105

Re: How long did you wait to "pimp" your comic?

Well, It was in production for a year before I launched it. I was drawing Chapter 4 when the first page went up (which is also why the art gets drastically better in chapter 4). But yeah I was whoring it out on day 1 because I'd already been sitting on it for a year and it was driving me crazy.
by VinnieD
Mon May 04, 2009 9:59 pm
Forum: Help Center
Topic: general or partial CG server outage? WANTED: server status
Replies: 55
Views: 3856

Re: general or partial CG server outage? WANTED: server status

It's been 3 days now since I tried to update. It looks like the regular midnight updates are adding to the queue constantly as well. Can I suggest just emptying the queue entirely? The current list of tasks must be impossible to accomplish at this point, and I'm willing to bet a lot of those update ...
by VinnieD
Mon May 04, 2009 9:51 pm
Forum: Help Center
Topic: So apparently the siteadmin isn't updating...
Replies: 20
Views: 1152

Re: So apparently the siteadmin isn't updating...

EDIT: Nevermind, I see that there is another thread for this, I'll go there.
by VinnieD
Sun May 03, 2009 10:30 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Best part/Worst part
Replies: 55
Views: 3557

Re: Best part/Worst part

The fun part is probably the coloring. I enjoy working with brushes. The most annoying part are adding the speech balloons, which are just tedious and time consuming.
by VinnieD
Sat May 02, 2009 10:39 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: April Search Strings Discussion
Replies: 11
Views: 450

Re: April Search Strings Discussion

Try google analytics. It's free, and if you use a google homepage or Gmail already, you actually dont' even need to sign up, since it's linked to your google account. It's a good bit more thorough as well, though it makes you jump through a few more hoops to see your refers, and it's flash heavy.
by VinnieD
Fri May 01, 2009 11:08 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: April Search Strings Discussion
Replies: 11
Views: 450

Re: April Search Strings Discussion

Excluding just the comic name. www.moviesplode.com ....How does that even remotely get a comic about talking bunnies to pup up? anti bunie anti bunni anti bunnie antibunni People who can't spell the name antibunny piago Yes Piago is one of the characters in AntiBunny. Someone loves her, Yay. arania ...
by VinnieD
Tue Apr 28, 2009 12:23 am
Forum: Help Center
Topic: Might I make a suggestion?
Replies: 0
Views: 89

Might I make a suggestion?

Consider using something like this http://www.awesomestyles.com/tutorials/ ... -spam.html as a means of reducing spammer registrations. It's worked well on two boards I manage.
by VinnieD
Fri Apr 24, 2009 10:07 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: How long are your chapters/seasons/volumes/whathaveyou?
Replies: 24
Views: 1768

Re: How long are your chapters/seasons/volumes/whathaveyou?

The first chapter of AntiBunny was only 16 pages. Now the standard is almost 50. I gave up on limiting the page count a while back, and decided I'd just take as long to tell the story as it needed.
by VinnieD
Sat Mar 14, 2009 12:03 am
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: Top 3 songs I would like to fight to
Replies: 44
Views: 11576

Re: Top 3 songs I would like to fight to

3. What I'm Made of: Crush 40. It's epic throwdown music.
2: Face Fisted: Dethklok. It's out right going to break some faces music.
1: Vengeance: The Protomen. The crowning achievement of all ass kicking music, as well as the band's crowning moment of awesome.
by VinnieD
Fri Mar 13, 2009 1:54 am
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: If it weren't for…
Replies: 63
Views: 16844

Re: If it weren't for…

If not for a strange dream about rabbits in early 2005 I would not have. Started AntiBunny, Returned to Webcomics after abandoning my old comic, set about improving my art, gone back to college changing my major to the arts, become interested in rabbits, gotten a pet rabbit, gotten over the depressi...
by VinnieD
Thu Mar 05, 2009 9:18 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: SergeXIII wants to review your web comic
Replies: 64
Views: 7964

Re: SergeXIII wants to review your web comic

Thanks. That's pretty comprehensive there. And without undertones of "ZOMG FURRY KILL IT!" That I get sometimes. Much appreciated. Pacing I think is pretty weak early on, and I've been working on it to some degree, expanding chapters as I've progressed, but I'm also an impatient person and while I w...
by VinnieD
Wed Mar 04, 2009 9:30 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: SergeXIII wants to review your web comic
Replies: 64
Views: 7964

Re: SergeXIII wants to review your web comic

Well I can always use feedback on AntiBunny especially the more recent stuff. Most of the reviews I get focus on the early work, which is fine for an outside reader, but doesn't tell me much in the here and now. The fact that a bunny version of your own avatar appears in it, hopefully won't cause an...