Can someone just throw something together to show him how rediculous this would look. Who stands on the front seat to drive a car?

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By jove I have cracked it! The car. We put it into characters instead of backgrounds. Car-l and Car-r, when put together they form a whole car to use against any background you want. Put them reverse together and it looks like two cars side by side. Put one side in and a normal character and it will look like a pedestrian speaking to a guy sitting in a car.
I think the steering wheel should be hidden from view. just show the backs of the characters hands so it looks like they could either be on the wheel or on the passenger dash.
No need to thank me now. btw I am just the ideas man not the something something.

The steering wheel may cause some cosmetic problems, but hey, just hide it or give them both steering wheels, it doesn't have to be super accurate.

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So to sum up, the car is in the characters menu with the driver/passenger already inside. when you put carL and carR together they make one complete car with driver and passenger. If you put carR and car L together it will look like two cars side by side on a road or in a bar or whatever or you could replace one of then with a standard character so it looks like someone is standing next to a car. Tis easy no?

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Conceptially it's a great idea, in terms of ease it'd be a bitch to draw.

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Conceptially it's a great idea, in terms of ease it'd be a bitch to draw.

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Not to mention the formatting so that they push together properly.

I suppose it could be done if someone were to draw a whole car, as wide as an SC panel, then cut it down the middle and separate it into the two necessary halves.

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It was such a waste of everyone’s time and money that even the Tokyo stadium’s rape robots apologized– something they were programmed specifically never to do.

Conceptially it's a great idea, in terms of ease it'd be a bitch to draw.

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Not to mention the formatting so that they push together properly.

I suppose it could be done if someone were to draw a whole car, as wide as an SC panel, then cut it down the middle and separate it into the two necessary halves.

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Formatting is easy enough, you just make each pic exactly 125 pixels wide and push it to the edge of the canvas. You'd really only draw one half of the car and flip it when you add another character (so you can have 2 different people together).

The difficulty is drawing a character the same size as the characters already in use that fits into that space, while still having the car look like a car. And then doing it in a way that works with all the backgrounds, so the car doesn't look out of proportion. A lot of the backgrounds only have a finite amoutn of "space" where the car could be- eg; the bedroom- you can have both a cropped character or a standing character fit in between the "front" of the panel and the bed, but trying to make a car fit into that area is a lot trickier. Really the car would have to be wide enough to fill the whole panel, and crop the sides off at the edge of the windshield- this would hide any background inconsistencies behind the car, but prevent it being used one half at a time.

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Dinosaurs had eggs bro, the chicken came way later.

It's a brilliant idea, and it can be done, but I'll be damned if I'm doing it...

Making it as a background instead and giving people the option to use the height props would be a whole lot easier, but it'd only really work with a parked car.

The other way it would work would be to make the whole car as a character (or several characters) and make special "splitter" backgrounds to work with showing highways. I might consider doing that, but only for use with paint, otherwise the current characters wouldn't fit in.

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i don't think that's really a big deal. even if they're only used with half the backgrounds, that's still more than other characters we already have, like the underwater ones -- fish, dolphin, shark, etc

i think just a car interior background would be better though. maybe as if looking at a bucketseat through the windshield to go with the character poses. then you'd have a wider selection of people/demons/robots you could have driving

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what if nigger meant kite

On the assumption that they can float in the air, underwater characters look fine with any background. The thing to avoid is anything that looks like the images are just being dumped on top. Visually it has to at least give the impression that the characters could be drawn there.

For example:

Sure the cowboy is floating in the air, and sure the art styles are extremely different and out of scale, but if you imagine this in 3D there is enough virtual space between the building and the cowboy for it to work. The laws of (cowboy) physics are being obeyed and the mind does not revolt.

As you can see this doesn't really work for a car. The back of the car would be where the bed is, and the angle is all wrong. Anything long stretching away from the viewer won't work unless all the backgrounds are on the same angle. A vertical character won't matter so much because even if it isn't perfect the mind will treat it the same as if the person is leaning slightly and it doesn't stand out so much.

Unless people don't care and think it would be funny anyway (like a bad blue screen effect in old movies or the newsreader game they play on "whose line"), in which case convince brad before someone goes to the trouble of making it.

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Dinosaurs had eggs bro, the chicken came way later.

Thanks for trying Jokester. This can be done though.

I think the car should not be at an angle. Just have it straight on. It really does have to be in Characters though. Make it cartoony, just headlights, a bonnet (hood) and maybe the roof line but perhaps a convertable would be easier. Both sides combined should make a car that is about 1/2 the width of a panel. Sure it wont work with all the available characters/backgrounds but we are all creative enough to manage a workaround.
Anyway someone could easily make a highway background with a road stretching out back.

It would also be nice to have two cartoon cars plus drivers in a side on view Maybe cut-off before you get to the wheels (or maybe not).

How about a front on motorcycle with side-car character that bolted on (rider and passenger included of course)? This way you could show two cycles side to side, 1 cycle one char or one cycle with sidecar.

How about a robot called Tung-Stan?

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I drew a car just to get an idea. I don't know if it would be the correct size or whatever. Maybe someone could clean it up and get someone to stick a couple of heads (shoulders) in there. Or not. it would maybe be better to chop the wheels up so they stop at the bottom of the number plate. This car should be able to be split in two without much trouble. Maybe the windscreen should be bigger.

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It looks good!

I'm happy to clean it up, add some characters, resize and reformat it, etc... but I can't do it for another 9 hours or so when I finish work.

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It looks good!

I'm happy to clean it up, add some characters, resize and reformat it, etc... but I can't do it for another 9 hours or so when I finish work.

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SCROE!!! You exquisite little tart.

I think the bottom one would be best.

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Actually I'll have to redraw the whole thing at about 400%, depending on the characters I use (some are resized differently to others), but I just trace over what you've done so it's very easy.

I might be able to do a bit from work, but the resizing I can't do until I get home.

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Dinosaurs had eggs bro, the chicken came way later.

Oh, and I won't use Glorp on the license plate, I'll stick to letters that are reversible.

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Dinosaurs had eggs bro, the chicken came way later.

you can just copy and paste any word to keep it from reversing wrong

but if you're hellbent on the idea, might i suggest MAnHAM

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Yeah, but that's more work. Screw it, I'll set up a vanity plate.

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Dinosaurs had eggs bro, the chicken came way later.

You don't need a reversible number plate. The only thing you have to make sure of is that the middle letter is symmetrical, like an A, W, M, O etc.

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Dinosaurs had eggs bro, the chicken came way later.

Injokester, I really like what you have done with the car. It's a shame the Tobor hood ornament is gone though.

Seriously I love what you have done but if I can suggest perhaps not using the Mr.T and Abe chars in the cars. It would be better with just two unknown assexual chars (one slightly angry the other bored or whatever). Maybe using established SC character heads. The stick guys head might look cool in there or that manic grinning bear dude.

I want to make road comics with an open format. Not T and Abe comics.

But what you have done with the car is brilliant. Don't understand the registration but what the hell eh.

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Abe, T and the vanity plate (one of my other usernames) are all flexible, I just wanted to check out how it came out. I can put the hood ornament back on as well if you like.

I worked a 9 1/2hr shift yesterday and was up at the crack of dawn doing my garden, so I was too knackered to do much with it. It'll be the same tonight, but then I've got 3 days off and I'll fix it up.

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Dinosaurs had eggs bro, the chicken came way later.

All fixed up. (No hood ornament though...)

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Dinosaurs had eggs bro, the chicken came way later.

lolz

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that last one's great. you can put two steering wheel halves together too and do Driver's Ed comics

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what if nigger meant kite

Those cars are the kickass! I especially like the bear and the horse being in it, because I'm an egomaniac and at this point I feel like the bear and the horse are synonymous with Tard Boy and Finkelman. In my mind. I like to pretend I'm world famous. And it helps.

For those of you playing the home game, Tard Boy and Finkelman are not the names of the bear and the horse in my comics. Their names are simply "the bear" and "the horse".

p.s. I definately think these should be added, and not just because Injokester asked me to say that. He's finally done what someone should have thought up a long time ago. He took existing popular characters and did something different with them. Radical.

p.p.s. I think nail-in-the-head-guy should have a nail in his head.

Oh, one thing I just thought up... will the windshield remain white or is it see-thru? I'm wondering if, even if it is see-thru, it might work better colored in with a blue glass color... possibly even with a light translucent blue over the characters to make it uniform. I'm just wondering how, if it is see-thru, it'll look with backgrounds... and if it isn't, the whiteness will definately look very out of place.
One other tiny thing, the tires appear to be the same color as the car. It confuses my brains.
One other thing, I am drunk.
One other thing, the car rocks. Believe it.

Yeah, the windscreen is see-through.

And none of these were my idea, Smamurai thought up the whole thing and drew the original car...

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