Episode 53 - Spriters Are People Too
Nov 28, 2011
The venerable Skoolmunkee is the special guest this week! This time we have a completely biased and entirely uninformed chat about all aspects of sprite comicing, from their short and turbulent history, to their glittering present and beyond into a glorious galaxy spanning empire that they will one day be responsible for creating!
Topics and Show Notes
Featured Comics:
Heavy Mech - http://www.drunkduck.com/Heavy_Mech/
Sprite comics:
- The feline-canine centipede conundrum.
- What ARE sprite comics?
- Pixel art.
- Polygon comics.
- Some notable sprite comics.
- Programs to use to create sprite comics.
- Why do them?
- Why not?
- How to make a better sprite comic.
- What you should do.
- What you should avoid.
Useful resources for and about spriting:
All our Drunk Duck spriting tutorials - http://www.drunkduck.com/tutorial/?search=sprites&x=0&y=0
Comics mentioned in this QuackCast:
Diesel Sweeties by R Stevens - http://www.dieselsweeties.com/
Kid Radd by Dan Miller - http://kidradd.niftihalostudios.com/
8 Bit Theatre by Brian Clevinger http://www.nuklearpower.com/2001/03/02/episode-001-were-going-where/
Cru the Dwarf by Cru - http://www.drunkduck.com/Cru_The_DwarF/
Contributions from:
Nicky P - http://www.drunkduck.com/user/NickyP/
Ozoneocean at 11:40PM, Dec. 1, 2011
I've never known how to pronounce that word! :D
FormerDDer at 8:34PM, Dec. 1, 2011
Oh and yes, I was the one who found the sheet to skool's monkey. It's from Monkey Puncher! http://sdb.drshnaps.com/game.php?game=705&view=2
FormerDDer at 8:08PM, Dec. 1, 2011
Shouldn't the Redux in Chrono Redux be pronounced as "redo?" I can't help but think it's a double entendre that's mispelled... as "deux" is the number 2 in french.
Ozoneocean at 7:31AM, Dec. 1, 2011
I'd be happy to have you both, when the right topics come along! ^_^
FormerDDer at 1:08PM, Nov. 30, 2011
I wouldn't mind guesting if it was a topic I could talk about. Though I'm one of those guys that has an opinion about anything... :P Anyways, let's listen to the QC now..
RPGgrenade at 4:08AM, Nov. 30, 2011
I'll need to test my mic to see if it works though
RPGgrenade at 4:08AM, Nov. 30, 2011
I'm totally willing to be a guest as long as it's something i can talk about XD
Ozoneocean at 8:20PM, Nov. 29, 2011
That's sort of unfortunate Gene... See, she's a special guest, not a regular now. She doesn't want to do these regularly and I do not want to try and force her either. She IS happy to be a special guest if she's available though. So for future Quackcasts Skool may or may not feature, and I'll probably routinely rotate through a bunch of other guests if I can organise the times.
Genejoke at 3:26PM, Nov. 29, 2011
Makes a big difference having skoolmunkee back.
TH3GADFLY at 2:59PM, Nov. 29, 2011
Also, really happy for the comparison to MLP.
TH3GADFLY at 2:49PM, Nov. 29, 2011
YAYS!!! Voiced review of my comic, sooooo happppppyyyyy!!!!