Anthony Appleyard opened this issue on Nov 25, 2020 ยท 6 posts
SamTherapy posted Fri, 27 November 2020 at 1:37 PM
Ok, but if you have a reasonably powerful machine - and they're pretty inexpensive these days - you should be able to get plenty of figures in the scene without everything grinding to a halt. Blimey, Daz has - or had (I'm not sure if they're still available) - low rez versions of Victoria and Mike, which bend far better than the old Poser figures. You can even get weightmapped versions (assuming your Poser can support them) of most of the old figures now, too. Same with textures. A good texture can make a so-so model look better but a bad texture will kill it.
IDL and SSS - Indirect Lighting, which does a much better job of lighting a scene than the old Poser 4 way. You still need to be mindful of shadows, of course, and always use Ray Traced, rather than Depth Mapped - which are always lousy and always wrong. Newer versions of Poser have even more lighting tricks up their sleeves to make things look even better... if you know what you're doing.
The Nort Heavy Raygun is ok, in my opinion but a bit basic looking. I wouldn't necessarily expect tons of surface detail but something not so primitive looking.
More about the textures...
They look too fuzzy, for one thing. The bricks used on the walls are massively out of scale, compared to real bricks. Shoulder patches are blurry and indistinct. I'd expect higher resolution textures on everything and better scaling for the bricks, at least.
The story isn't bad at all but it seems to lack any real dynamic flow; it's one picture after another, which may be what you're after but doesn't really grab the attention.
Whatever you do, though... change the font. Comics are, by convention, all told in capital letters, with liberal use of bold and italics to help drive emphasis. Pick a comic style font and use that, rather than the generic sans serif you're using. Even good old Dom Casual will do a decent job. Make captions and speech bubbles bigger, too. There's not a lot going on in the frames that needs so much empty space.
Coppula eam se non posit acceptera jocularum.