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@  furrykef : (24 July 2015 - 11:25 AM)

Also I still have to figure out how to set up our e-mail accounts on the new host.
@  furrykef : (24 July 2015 - 08:19 AM)

As soon as I figure out how to restore it. Sorry, I know I said it'd be done by now, but I didn't expect to have to put up with this DNS crap and other issues that popped up.
@  Uncle Ben : (24 July 2015 - 07:56 AM)

So when's the black theme coming back??
@  Uncle Ben : (24 July 2015 - 07:56 AM)

"Should"
@  furrykef : (24 July 2015 - 07:27 AM)

That DNS took longer to propagate properly than I thought it would. *Now* we should be back for good, though.
@  furrykef : (23 July 2015 - 08:48 PM)

Or it might be because Bluehost *finally* got around to that server wipe (one week after we'd asked for it) and that wiped out our DNS settings. I'm not sure which and I don't really care. In any case, we've severed our last ties with Bluehost, so this will not happen again.
@  furrykef : (23 July 2015 - 08:08 PM)

Looks like Bluehost yanked our DNS since our hosting account expired. That's why the site went down a while ago. But as you can see, it's fixed now.
@  Misk : (23 July 2015 - 04:55 PM)

No, they do not.
@  furrykef : (23 July 2015 - 04:27 AM)

The goggles do nothing?
@  Misk : (22 July 2015 - 05:50 PM)

My eyes.
@  furrykef : (22 July 2015 - 12:24 PM)

Looks like forum uploads might have been broken since last night. That should be fixed now too.
@  furrykef : (22 July 2015 - 01:33 AM)

Heh, whoops! Server went down for a few mins when I borked the config. Looks like it's back up now.
@  Uncle Ben : (21 July 2015 - 09:09 PM)

It looked like a napkin
@  ILOVEVHS : (21 July 2015 - 09:04 PM)

Fan-fuckin-tastic.
@  furrykef : (21 July 2015 - 08:25 PM)

As for the beaver picture while the forum was down, I think Tim drew it. On a napkin.
@  furrykef : (21 July 2015 - 08:24 PM)

No kiddin' about that "Finally!", Shadow. I am *so mad* at Bluehost for never responding to our support ticket. I submitted it early Friday morning and they *still* haven't answered it!
@  Uncle Ben : (21 July 2015 - 06:37 PM)

Maybe he did that himself
@  Shadow : (21 July 2015 - 05:25 PM)

Say, who made the cute picture of Beaver Chief?
@  Shadow : (21 July 2015 - 05:24 PM)

Finally!
@  RedMenace : (21 July 2015 - 05:02 PM)

Woooo! The site's back up! Three cheers for Kef!

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#21 chief

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Posted 10 December 2010 - 11:05 PM

Then send me PNG, Its up to you,

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Posted 10 December 2010 - 11:36 PM

QUOTE (Bakuda @ Dec 11 2010, 03:33 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
QUOTE (chief @ Dec 11 2010, 12:22 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Id prefer JPEG files.

You can draw it in any style you want. In all honesty I'm even hoping we get a few crappy stick-man submissions. Story can be whatever as long as its either SatAM related or FUS/Sea3on related.

You can hand in a 2 pager if you want. As well as as many 1 pagers you want. I'm only choosing the best of what I get in. The rest will be saved for another date and put up.

It can be FUS related eh? Does that mean I can do a strip about you de-admining yourself???

Especially if you can do a strip about that.

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Posted 11 December 2010 - 01:45 AM

I've been glancing at this for two days now, and tho I might wanna do this, I'm out of ideas :c
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Posted 11 December 2010 - 06:43 PM

QUOTE (furrykef @ Dec 10 2010, 11:00 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Why? JPEG looks terrible for certain kinds of images. Sometimes you get an image that looks bad and is bigger than a PNG would be.


I can't imagine that being true in any scenario. PNG is a lossless format while JPEG is lossy; i.e. PNG maintains perfect quality and will always be larger than a JPEG. In fact, they can be so large as to be totally unnecessary for the quality of art on display. I find PNG format to be overrated and it often takes annoyingly long to download an image. The quality of JPEGs can be adjusted so that there's no perceptible degradation and you can still maintain a low file size.

#25 furrykef

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Posted 11 December 2010 - 07:55 PM

QUOTE (Glitcher @ Dec 11 2010, 08:43 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
I can't imagine that being true in any scenario.

*snerk* Well, I've proven you wrong on my first try.

Attached File  dino_small2.png   28.82KB   23 downloads
Fine-looking 8-bit optimized PNG: 28.8 KB

Attached File  dino_small.jpg   65.23KB   19 downloads
Horrible-looking JPEG at 0 quality (let alone something reasonable like 60): 65.2 KB


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PNG is a lossless format while JPEG is lossy; i.e. PNG maintains perfect quality and will always be larger than a JPEG.

This is fallacious reasoning. If JPEG were a lossy version of PNG, it might make sense, but they are not remotely similar and they are not designed for similar types of data. PNG works largely by removing redundancies like large blocks of solid color from the data stream. JPEGs operate on the frequencies present in the image, something I admittedly know very little about, but the bottom line is it sucks at large blocks of solid color. It's a question of suiting the compression method to the data, not merely a question of lossy versus non-lossy.

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Posted 12 December 2010 - 01:22 AM

QUOTE (furrykef @ Dec 11 2010, 08:55 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
<lots of awesome nerdy knowledge>

So for cel-shaded art, you should use PNG smile.gif
Never knew that, about how the formats really work, thanks.


On topic, I'm making a looong comic atm of a Redwall book, so that doesn't qualify for the topic right? tongue.gif

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Posted 12 December 2010 - 03:31 AM

QUOTE (Bluestreak @ Dec 12 2010, 03:22 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
So for cel-shaded art, you should use PNG smile.gif

That's correct, more or less. Photos almost always do much better with JPEG, though. With scanned art, or computer art that uses a lot of colors, you should probably just try both formats and see. The JPEG will often be smaller (it almost always will be in the case of photos and scans), but also make sure that it doesn't cause ugly artifacts (which are more likely in the case of computer art).

Photoshop makes it easy to compare the sizes and quality of images using the "save for web" preview, so it takes a lot of the guesswork out of it. smile.gif

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Posted 13 December 2010 - 06:04 AM

Hm, been thinking a bit more about this, and as I'm not very good at scripting, and others don't think they're good enough at drawing, maybe a colab comic would be in place? Just for fun, it's only one page after all smile.gif

#29 chief

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Posted 14 December 2010 - 09:32 PM

Come on guys, more drawing!!

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Posted 14 December 2010 - 10:55 PM

QUOTE (chief @ Dec 14 2010, 11:32 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Come on guys, more drawing!!

All I can do is stick figures...that good enough for ya???

Seriously though...I can't draw worth a flip so you good artists out there will have to pick up the slack for me!
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Posted 15 December 2010 - 12:10 AM

I would like to do something, I just don't have any ideas on what to draw. Someone, tell me what to draw and I'll get it done.

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#32 John Roberts

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Posted 15 December 2010 - 12:52 AM

Draw a 'what if' scenario, those things are usually fun.

What if Bunnie stole Sally's vest and sold it on Ebay? What if Antoine fell in love with Ro-becca? What if Uncle Chuck didn't invent the Roboticizer?
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#33 Bakuda

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Posted 15 December 2010 - 06:15 AM

QUOTE (John Roberts @ Dec 15 2010, 02:52 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Draw a 'what if' scenario, those things are usually fun.

What if Bunnie stole Sally's vest and sold it on Ebay? What if Antoine fell in love with Ro-becca? What if Uncle Chuck didn't invent the Roboticizer?

Oh pleeeeease no Ro-becca!!!
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#34 John Roberts

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Posted 15 December 2010 - 11:38 AM

A Ro-becca miniseries. Ha!
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#35 Bakuda

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Posted 15 December 2010 - 11:50 AM

QUOTE (John Roberts @ Dec 15 2010, 01:38 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
A Ro-becca miniseries. Ha!

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Posted 16 December 2010 - 01:38 PM

If I could draw well, I'd do a guest comic, but unfortunately, all I have is story ideas.
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Posted 16 December 2010 - 01:45 PM

QUOTE (LaserX5 @ Dec 16 2010, 03:38 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
If I could draw well, I'd do a guest comic, but unfortunately, all I have is story ideas.

Try a collab with saber...he's got the exact opposite problem.
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Posted 16 December 2010 - 02:58 PM

QUOTE (Bakuda @ Dec 16 2010, 02:45 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
QUOTE (LaserX5 @ Dec 16 2010, 03:38 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
If I could draw well, I'd do a guest comic, but unfortunately, all I have is story ideas.

Try a collab with saber...he's got the exact opposite problem.


Good idea.
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Posted 16 December 2010 - 03:38 PM

QUOTE (saber16 @ Dec 15 2010, 01:10 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
I would like to do something, I just don't have any ideas on what to draw. Someone, tell me what to draw and I'll get it done.


What kind of comic were you planning to draw?

Comedy? Action? Tragedy?

Just wondering...
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Posted 16 December 2010 - 04:36 PM

How many comics do you have so far?
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