On The Bright Side (http://onthebrightside.keenspace.com)

This is my new webcomic and I thought I would share it with everyone. I would appreciate any comments and suggestions anyone has. You could post them here or even on my own forum.

Thanks

Very nice.. Like the humor, I even laughed (just a little). I could have many suggestions but I dont want to bore you with colours. Keep em coming, Ive added you to my favorites and am looking forward to the next comic.

Keep it coming Zagen, and if you ever looked towards animating checkout Http://www.newgrounds.com because I think thats where your comics will be heading.

Thank you for your comments, but i doubt i'll go into animating stryder since that would take waay too much time and i'm already filled up with the comic and school.

Anyways, whoever reads this, tell me what you like about my comic! or don't like, whatever, I need feedback!

I don't know, animating in flash might be quicker than you think if you can just get over the animation learning curve. It's mostly defining objects and "Transforming" them, namely a wave of an arm would be taking the arm onto one layer and then doing a transform of it to another position, the program can then work out the frames in between, which you can guess speeds it up no end, rather than doing 5400 seperate frames [3 minute clip at 30 Frames a Second].

Btw it's called "Transform" because it involves "Translation" [the movement from one point to another], "Rotation" and "Scale" [Self explanatory]
(Thank Andre LaMothe's - "A guide to Direct3D programming" for that little tip bit.)

I would like to do some flash, but if my impression is correct you have to use the very expensive macromedia thingie program.

It is of course no problem obtaining a free copy, but it is kind of an ethical/legal problem. Can I really get away with publishing flash on the Internet and not paying for the program?

It is of course no problem obtaining a free copy, but it is kind of an ethical/legal problem. Can I really get away with publishing flash on the Internet and not paying for the program?

Depends on how high profile it is I would think...

You could take a look at http://www.sodipodi.com ...though I don't think it does animation, just vector graphics...but it is free (substitute for Illustrator?)....

And zagen...your comics are amusing :)

I 'kind of' use an official version of illustrator. We had bought several 'educational' licences for our group. They are quite cheap ones (only 50 Euro or so) especially for educational institutes and such who use illustrator for none-commercial purposes.

Although technically I use it outside of work, I would consider my illustrator use non-commercial in nature, so my conscience is almost clear.

But still it is a problem. Maybe I will purchase a licence one day.

I tend to go with the understanding tht I can get hold of software which is currently perceived illegal, and if I use that software for my own games (Namely capitalising on it) then I should look at licenceing it (Afterall paying the licence then means that you don't end up being taken to court and losing a large percentage of your gains for being too cheapskate to purchase the licence.)

Since I'm not a rich man and I know full well most people on the net suffer their own financial difficulties, it's almost inhumane to be prosecuted for no licencing something that you would purchase if you had the available money (Rather than it being swallowed up by a massive insurgence of bills).

So, Crack it, use it, If you make money and enjoy the program BUY It.(When it's updated)

Yeah, I have macromedia and i've done a lot of flash with just playing around, and I possibly could do that, but this is good enough for me, since i'm already changing stuff and just getting it going well. Though I don't know about the other animating link you gave me stry. Didn't look into it too much.