How about a view from the front of a convertible car so when you pick your chars it looks like they are sitting in the car with a long windy road stretched out behind them. It would make for some good 'road' comics.

Street corner at night with a lampost/streetlight illuminating the pavement/sidewalk.

Sandy beach, sea in the background.

Bar/pub.

Dog-food canning factory (view from the staff rest-room area).

I think smamurai works in the dog food canning factory.

Also, I second the car idea, if anyone could do it, because, no matter how stupid they look facing each other in the car, I had some ideas for car comics that I couldn't make due to the lack of car background.

I third the car idea and also would enjoy a background that has a bunch of people in it, like a party or a club, that way, two folks could talk with a crowd around.

I think my character should be in the the party background, preferably unconscious.

I also think we should have a few more "annonymous room" backgrounds, similar to disel and background1/2.

But yes, I second all the other ones as well.

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How about a view from the front of a convertible car so when you pick your chars it looks like they are sitting in the car with a long windy road stretched out behind them. It would make for some good 'road' comics.

Street corner at night with a lampost/streetlight illuminating the pavement/sidewalk.

Sandy beach, sea in the background.

Bar/pub.

Dog-food canning factory (view from the staff rest-room area).

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How about a background (or 2 or 3, for a little variety) of the car complete with the people already in it? We could use the height1/height2 characters for the dialogue. And you could put actual characters in front of the car and make it look like they're about to be hit...or uh, just a thought.

That could work... I could draw the background with the car, and pass it on over to Kaddar who could slap in a couple of characters. You know, screaming, look of terror in their eyes...

Or kaddar could make characters for a driving background like the news, with the car built in.

I had a really awsome bar graphic that was the perfect size for stripcreator characters, but it was a real image and I have no idea where I got it so brad wasn't sure he wanted to use some random 'pub off the net.

http://www.drigon.com/~ta/bar.jpg
http://www.drigon.com/~ta/airport1.jpg
http://www.drigon.com/~ta/dojo.jpg

same story with the airport and dojo, I'll be damned if I know where I found 'em. One thing the bar was missing was people in the background, but I thought it'd be weird having the same guy not moving in the background anyways.

I was working on an arcade a while ago too, but I had the character size ratios wrong for the kaddar/dexx characters (who I use to figure out if it's an ok size) so it looked crappy:

http://www.drigon.com/~ta/arcade.gif

but there is one that I like that I've made recently.

http://www.drigon.com/~ta/characters/flashbackb.jpg

Bull pit could probably be removed, because in retrospect, it's not all that useful.

Update: I figured out a good size for the arcade, and I'll finish it.

http://www.drigon.com/~ta/characters/arcade.jpg here is the finished arcade with correct sizes

http://www.drigon.com/~ta/arcadeb.jpg

here's the same arcade with characters in it.

what do you think?

Cool! I'd love an airport background, since funny stuff always happens at airports (Bong/Bomb word soundalike :P). i also like how super monkey ball and river city ransom are at the arcade.

The dojo and arcade are awesome.

I kinda thought the car view would be a nightmare to pull-off but the characters already in the car suggestion rocks, I think one guy (the driver) should look angry and the passenger should look vacant.

The dog-food canning thing was just a piss-take, I mean why show the restroom in a dog-food factory when it would look just like the restrooms in say, a cat-food factory? It was just my idea of irreverence I think.

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The dog-food canning thing was just a piss-take, I mean why show the restroom in a dog-food factory when it would look just like the restrooms in say, a cat-food factory? It was just my idea of irreverence I think.

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They have checkered urinals.

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They have checkered urinals.

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piss to toilet cake 4, stray pube takes cigarette butt. Check, mate and now wash your hands.

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I knew the hair had to belong to one of two other guys working that morning.

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I think there should be a backround with a classroom.

Nice background Kaddar. I'll work on some of the other suggestions tonight, or tomorrow night.

Very good arcade. Let's hope Brad puts it up.

The dojo is super sweet, I'd be using this a *lot* if it was put up. The arcade's pretty good, but I think it could use a little decoration in the top half, having seen the pic with the characters in it. Maybe a "Change given here" sign in neon? The bar's very nice. The airport is a bit neutral looking and doesn't really say "I am an airport" to me.

But good work, kaddar.

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.

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.

Can we do the car now please?

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Can we do the car now please?

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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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Tis easy no?

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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'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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this would hide any background inconsistencies behind the car, but prevent it being used one half at a time.

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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.

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?

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.

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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I think the bottom one would be best.

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

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

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

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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.

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.

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.

When I print off my comics it won't print off the backrounds on them.What's up with that?

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

lolz

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

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.