Celtx – Scripting Software
I recently download a piece of software I’d heard about from a couple of artists in the webcomics community. It was a program called celtx and is used as a pre-production tool for film, audio-visual, theatre, audio plays, storyboards, and comic books. Since celtx is free to download and use, I had no hesitation about [...]
HowTo: Planning [Part 2]
If you haven’t yet, check out Part 1 before reading this.
Right, here’s the moment people have been waiting for. Whoever has been waiting for it, I’ll need to tell you that you need to do something while waiting instead of sitting on a chair for months on end for the next thing.
Oh wait, that sounds [...]
HowTo: Planning
I at first thought of making a How-to about how to make something original, but it ultimately boils down to “Has it been done before, and if it’s actually lame, what can be done to make it not lame?”
Then when I was almost done the strangely long guide (almost 700 words, which is surprising, considering [...]
YourFonts.com- Custom Fonts
Hi Guys,
Adam Susskind here announcing a great little site that can be a big resource.
A lot of the time, finding a good font exactly the way you want it can be impossible. But thanks to the creators at Yourfonts.com, you can virtually create any font you can imagine. Yourfonts.com offers a grid of about 40 [...]
Halo 3 Filters
Of course, if you use GIMP or Photoshop or any sort of editing software… which is like… required. I don’t even need a similie to impose how important image-editing software is these days. Anyway, if you use GIMP or Photoshop, you’ll figure “Hey, I can just put in filters and make the comic look cool!”
But [...]
HowTo: Forging Aesthetic Sets
FORGIN’ FTW.
Without further ado, the moment most likely everyone will be waiting for: SET DESIGN! Halo 3 comes with the coolest feature they could ever put in a game since Theatre Mode… Oh wait. Anyway, said coolest feature is FORGE MODE.
Forge allows you to make your own custom variants of maps Bungie made for Halo [...]
HowTo: Screenshots: Part 1
Okay, now I know screenshot guides are a penny a dozen across the net so there’s probably some other place you could go for this information. This though is a basic screenshot guide for screenshots, and for doing shots for comics so here goes.
Nearly everywhere else people always inform you of the rule of three. [...]
Publishing Webcomics with WordPress and ComicPress
You’ve got a great comic idea, you’ve got the first handful of issues all made up, and you want to publish to the web. All you need now is a showcase for your comic so that people can admire your handiwork. Here are a couple of my favorite tools that will allow you [...]
HowTo: Making Good Text Balloons
One of the most important things about making comics is creating good text balloons, and it seems that a lot of webcomics creators have trouble creating balloons that have properly sized flags and that leave enough room for their dialogue. This tutorial will show you how to use Photoshop to create balloons that will [...]
Comic Style Fonts – Blambot
One thing that a digital comic creator needs is fonts – and lots of them. Fortunately, one great source for comic book fonts is Blambot. They serve up a wide variety of comic book fonts for dialogue, design, sound effects, and symbols. A number of industry comic book labels – like Dark [...]