Richard Pearman wrote: Your post is quite old, but I am randomly picking in the huge backlog I got by being too busy lately (more than 700 messages still to read...).
> 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 like comics and I like SVG being used for play (games), comics and animation. > 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? Yes. I mean, after your message, I went back to your site and tried harder to follow the comic. Perhaps it is a bit late, and I skimmed too fast on the textual introduction, but I don't understand much of what I read so far. And if I like your ideas (showing dialogs in turn, giving hints about who is speaking), it is hard to follow: - Sometime my mouse slips and I don't have time to read the whole text. No way to read it again. - Once I clicked too fast and didn't had time to see the picture. No way to go back. Twice! No change when clicking on the underwater scene with the fuzzy reptile, so I clicked too much and skipped several frames... - Trying to understand dialogs, I would like to read them again in order. No way to read again. So, your SVG comic, unlike the paper or more traditional electronic bitmap one, is hard to follow. You should provide side controls to restart a frame, or even go back to the previous frame. > 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? No, and indeed your use of the possibilities of SVG is quite nice. I am not a big fan of your art (the figures), but I acknowledge that drawing with vector tools isn't so easy, so I am quite forgiving (and I have seen worse in hand-made drawings ;-) ). > 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. Well, that's a lot of digest and I don't have so much time, which is a shame giving that obviously you put a lot of work in making a coherent world. You should double-check your spelling, though... (Me too, but this is not my native language... :-P ) > 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. Good. > Are there any other sites with artistic uses of SVG? Not so much, beside the open clip art library. > 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! No problem, but keep up the good work! You started a quite impressive task, and I > Richard Pearman http://www.nucleus.com/~richardp/ > http://www.pixelpalaces.com/ Oops, I accidently closed the main page, and got a 404 on the High Elf and Dragon page: http://www.pixelpalaces.com/DK/.../CGI-local/mods.cgi?c=Multiple&k=High+Elf+and+Dragon End of experience for today (it is late...), will go back later. -- Philippe Lhoste -- (near) Paris -- France -- http://Phi.Lho.free.fr -- For servers mangling my From and Reply-To fields, -- please send private answers to PhiLho(a)GMX.net -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- ----- 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/
