PF Episode 6 (Page 49)

[Tapewolf]

Hmm.. does that same trick work on DMFA I wonder...*leaps into some different shadows*

You want Amber to draw fan-art of her own comic?  That's cheating   

[Mao]

Or maybe if I draw her a bunch of fanart she'll be forced to get her fan art section back up.  Maybe I can recruit Ren to help me with this...

>.>

<.<

*jumps back into his different set of shadows*

[Amber Williams]

Pfft. The only thing that will get the fanart section back up is someone who can do all the codework and layout and make all the preview images and organize the thing for me.

Adding more art only makes the backlog more daunting and me less likely to want to do it since it would require more work.

[Mao]

Hmmm.  Really you say?  Shoot me an pm/email sometime with your requirements and such.  Maybe I can help a bit with that.  Technical details are nice and make my life easier too.  If something good comes of it maybe both you and Tape can have a nice little fanart section...

[Amber Williams]

Yeah. But unfortunately I dont even feel like doing the work of refinding and uploading all the images to be sorted so its one of those things that is likely never going to happen until the entire site is upgraded itself.   

The fact of the matter is, I hate coding. And I just manage by on changing a few minor things to update with.  Having to actually do any work outside of the necessary comic update itself is a hassle and so I will often avoid it as much as possible. 

But either way, I dont feel like cluttering up Tape and Ren's thread with discussion about my dead art gallery.  I would rather the conversation stay around Project Future and their soon to be art gallery.

[Tapewolf]

But either way, I dont feel like cluttering up Tape and Ren's thread with discussion about my dead art gallery.  I would rather the conversation stay around Project Future and their soon to be art gallery.

Unless I forget what I'm doing, we'll have a new thread for chapter 7 when that starts Friday, so it's not a disaster if this one drifts too far off-topic.

[Amber Williams]

Just ruin all my fun why dontcha.

*sketch sketch sketch*

[Mao]

Actually Tape, what did you have in mind for your own fan-art gallery?  I remember I had offered to help with your site once before, but then my laptop died and took most of my tools, data and all of the samples away.  If I make the code flexible enough it could actually suit the both of you..

[Amber Williams]

As I mentioned prior, for my site its an issue that I am shortly about to be dealing with a complete site overhaul. There is little point to having someone work on coding and getting a fanart gallery if in less than a couple months the entire site will be reworked and re-coded.

[Mao]

True.  I wouldn't have any idea of what llearch and D-moon have in mind so that could be a problem, however I could still possibly crank something out for Tape.  Might not be the most sophisticated of things as I work on legacy code these days, but who knows.

[Ren Gaulen]

Hmm.. does that same trick work on DMFA I wonder...*leaps into some different shadows*

Damnit, Laoren! Get out of my shadow!

[Tapewolf]

Actually Tape, what did you have in mind for your own fan-art gallery?  I remember I had offered to help with your site once before, but then my laptop died and took most of my tools, data and all of the samples away.  If I make the code flexible enough it could actually suit the both of you...

At some point - I'm not sure when - PF is going to have a redesign as well.  With llearch and DM's workload, that seems to have receded into the distance somewhat, so I'm open to ideas again (with the proviso that it will likely be scrapped later this year or so).

What I'll do unless I get a better idea is something like this:
http://www.project-future.org/strips/outtakes.php
...i.e.  crude and ugly but simple.  What might be better is to have a thumbnail display and some semblance of prettiness, but web layout is something I never really got to grips with to be honest.

[Mao]

Hmm.. does that same trick work on DMFA I wonder...*leaps into some different shadows*

Damnit, Laoren! Get out of my shadow!

I don't see your name on it for one... though I don't see much of anything.

Maybe there'd be more room in these shadows if you weren't always stuffing your face you fat demonic feline.

*back to serious face*

Your site is all php based right?

Edit:  Nvm, answered my own question by going to your php info page.

[Tapewolf]

Maybe there'd be more room in these shadows if you weren't always stuffing your face you fat demonic feline.

I can honestly say I've never seen that insult thrown at someone before.

Your site is all php based right?

Yes.  I can't offhand tell you the version, but it's more likely to be up-to-date than it was on the original host.
Aside from the IBAE core which manages the comic strips, it's not doing a great deal more than static HTML - mostly it's just including the menu bars (this was done with SSI before).

**EDIT**
PHP 5.2.8

[Sunblink]

Feel more than free to tweak some of the dialogue to better match their mannerisms. I admit I was swinging blind on a couple. Particularly Jakob in the last panel I had the worst time coming up with a punchline because I wasn't sure exactly how his reaction to the situation would be. But I really liked the sulky face so I kept it.  I was really wanting to avoid making Jakob the straight-man of the two, but I admit I am not 100% on the casualness of Jakob and Daryl's relationship so I tried to keep it neutral.

Hush you; now I keep imagining Jakob/Joshua/Daryil. WACKY THREESOME.

Then again, that's a very good thing.

PERMISSION TO DRAW, TAPEWOLF?

[Tapewolf]

Hush you; now I keep imagining Jakob/Joshua/Daryil. WACKY THREESOME.

Then again, that's a very good thing.

PERMISSION TO DRAW, TAPEWOLF?

Draw... that?  I, uh... I might have to get back to you on that one 

[Ren Gaulen]

Hush you; now I keep imagining Jakob/Joshua/Daryil. WACKY THREESOME.

Then again, that's a very good thing.

PERMISSION TO DRAW, TAPEWOLF?

Draw... that?  I, uh... I might have to get back to you on that one 

I can help with getting back at Keaton.

[Jairus]

Back to Ren, not back at. The first is communication, the second is payback.

[Tapewolf]

Back to Ren, not back at. The first is communication, the second is payback.

He meant payback, didn't he?



Dear Amber,

Some of my fans are threatening to draw porn of my characters.  What should I do?

Yours,
Tape

[Ren Gaulen]

Back to Ren, not back at. The first is communication, the second is payback.

He meant payback, didn't he?

Oh, I did...

[Mao]

I don't think you want to mention porn of your characters to Amber, Tape...

[Ren Gaulen]

I don't think you want to mention porn of your characters to Amber, Tape...

I do!

[Jairus]

I don't think you want to mention porn of your characters to Amber, Tape...

I do!

Anyone besides Gaulen?

[Sunblink]

I don't think you want to mention porn of your characters to Amber, Tape...

I do!

Anyone besides Gaulen?

I do!

[Jairus]

I don't think you want to mention porn of your characters to Amber, Tape...

I do!

Anyone besides Gaulen?

I do!

Anyone besides Gaulen and Keaton?

[Tapewolf]

I do!

Does your mother know about this?  

[Ren Gaulen]

I do!

Does your mother know about this?  

The real question is "Should she know about this?" And the answer is "No".

[Tapewolf]

I don't think you want to mention porn of your characters to Amber, Tape...

She gets enough people asking for the stuff she drew years ago - I think fuelling the fire might not be a good plan.


PS. If anyone does draw porn, I can guarantee it will not be added to the hypothetical fan-art section.  Not only because I want to keep things fairly clean on prudish moral grounds, but it would probably violate the TOS on Xephernet anyway...

[Sunblink]

I do!

Does your mother know about this?  

...



Well you suck

[Tapewolf]

Well you suck

Yes.  Now, does anyone have suggestions for revamping the look of the archives/additional art pages?
Should stuff that I've commissioned (which has often been used as a basis for developing the characters looks) be included as guest art or put in a category of its own?