Comicgen: Comic Creator

Not mine, but is fun to run Comic Chat in normal channels...

Download MS Comic Chat 2.5: http://www.mermeliz.com/cchat.htm

Comic Chat Fixer MITM Proxy: https://gist.github.com/richardg867/bb19ca2b03545f71ae15

It's more subtle than that. For any given technique used to illustrate a scene, you could come up with a means of automating it, and those means are employed by professional artists on the regular, from rulers to draw straight lines up through 3D modelling software. A lot of finished work will go between the sketchbook and the computer and then back again to iterate on technical elements like proportioning and perspective.

But what you cannot automate is the design work that puts together each of those techniques. You have to decide: how much detail to add? What are the spatial relationships? What will my light values and colors communicate? What shapes and forms should be given emphasis?

And then at the level of storytelling, all the considerations around plotting and characterization; the themes of the story and how scenes develop to express those themes, and how that translates into imagery and the physical description of a character.

Working on commercial art today is much more about these kinds of conceptual distinctions than about the quality of traditional pen-to-paper drafting skills. If you know how to pull out those techniques through automation, you can still get a satisfying result. But getting the "eye" for knowing what is possible still needs training.

I mean you _mostly_ can't, but there are all kinds of counter-examples: https://www.qwantz.com/

Great idea! We'll plan to add some.

I imagine it might be similar to https://www.reddit.com/r/SubredditSimulator/

I'm with you. The result would either horrify, or be hilarious

I see near the bottom they have instructions on adding your own characters. So... maybe you could do it? :)

We planned for it but then got too ambitious. We now want animatable xkcd-like characters :-)

We'll probably try it for a few weeks before giving up.

Each combination is generated by a unique URL, so it’s addressable. All you’re doing is going back to the previous address. No change in browser behaviour, or expected result.

@tobyhinloopn, @TheCraiggers, this was my idea, and I am uncomfortable that it completely hijacks the browser history. But I do like that I can use the back button to undo the change.

What would you prefer?

Well, at least one person did. I can't say I agree with them though.