Richard, I like comics, and have nothing against comics on the computer (although I prefer reading a book in my bath). I do like experiments in comics and strange characters (one of my favourites is the Sandman series of Neil Gaiman). Now let me tell you why I think the comic such as you made it don't work: It's the interface. What I get is a drawing, and I don't know where to go next: it's not intuitive. On some places if I click, a text pops up, on other places the next drawing pops up. Sometimes it's very slow, so I've clicked twice and then it's skips a drawing, and I find no way to go back other than starting at no. 1. This is so much more akward then reading a standard paper page, that it turns into frustation quickly and I give up. All this has nothing to do with your Art, nor with SVG as a format, you just need to build a MUCH better GUI (Graphic User Interface), or let some computer whiz do that for you. yours, ____________________________ Barend K�bben International Institute for Geo-information Sciences and Earth Observation (ITC) PO Box 6, 7500AA Enschede (The Netherlands) ph: +31-(0)534874253; fax: +31-(0)534874335 _____________________________
________________________________ From: [email protected] on behalf of Richard Pearman Sent: Fri 15-Apr-05 18:28 To: [email protected] Subject: [svg-developers] Support SVG superheros! I tried to send this before but it got rejected, I think because McAfee's Spamkiller was leaving a load of stuff of the server and some email was bouncing as a result so Yahoo decided it would add to my problems by rejecting my mail. Are there better settings for Spamkiller (assuming that it doesn't crash when I try to change them) or is this software a complete bit of crap I should get rid of and join the class action suit? Anyway - what I really mean to say: I really think that on-line comics are a natural use for SVG and a way to bring the format to the attention of the masses. I've been doing "Dragon Knights" (http://www.pixelpalaces.com/DK/) an SVG science fiction/superhero comic for several months and the response has been virtually non-existent! No complaints about dubious content, bad art or bugs in the associated cgi scripts. So far only 3 people have listed it as their favourites on http://www.onlinecomics.net (who have it listed under my company name of PixelPalaces) and very few people have commented on it. Do those on this mailing list not like comics or think SVG should only be used for serious things? I decided to go for the superhero genre because the traditionally high standard of realist artwork would be good for demonstrating SVG's capabilities. "Dragon Knights" does try to be educational and make people think about controversial issues. Perhaps that's my mistake and you like to be ignorant and hold what "they" tell you are the "correct" opinions. Do you find the interactivity too difficult? I'd like to know if my wife isn't the only person who has this problem (because she thinks you get better performance from computers if you move the mouse fast and shoots it straight over things with rollovers). Are you intimidated by my use of transparency, gradients and filters to demonstrate the more complicated features of SVG and make it look more like bitmaps? Do you find the science confusing? I try to make it plausible and this is one of few things I know of which seriously tries to speculate about how nanotechnology will develop. Maybe you're frightened of the fluffy little velocirapter? If your boss catches you reading this comic, you can claim that you were researching technical aspects of SVG. I've recently added a promotion page with an SVG banner and a page explaining why I think SVG is a good format for comics, how you might do different styles of comic and use the various features of SVG. Are there any other sites with artistic uses of SVG? I read on the Inkscape site that "Backed Babies" (if I remember correctly) is done in Inkscape but there didn't seem to be anything about that on the site and all the comics seemed to be bitmaps. Is svgcomics still alive (last time I looked it didn't seem to have been updated for about a year, there were only a couple of comics which IMHO weren't very good and they didn't respond to my email)? Are there any other SVG comics which I didn't do? Thanks for your endurance. Now tell me what I could do better! Richard Pearman http://www.nucleus.com/~richardp/ http://www.pixelpalaces.com/ ----- To unsubscribe send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -or- visit http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers and click "edit my membership" ---- Yahoo! Groups Links [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ----- To unsubscribe send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -or- visit http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers and click "edit my membership" ---- Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
