This is the first panel. My current plan is to abandon the desktop / transcript motif and instead have each panel be two images: One raw, and one with dialogue / notes from Mr. Xu. The reason I'm doing this is because I like high-res images and it's limiting to have to squeeze in those other elements.
These two images are an example of that. So the question is... what do you think about that?
Thanks for any feedback!
It may be more work for you Emory but I like seeing the image without the dialog. It allows seeing the image in full before
ReplyDeletereading what's going on. Excellent story! Great work!
Thanks, Knight! It's not too much more work, and I do like seeing the whole image. Hmmm... Some people are saying they like the idea, others not so much. But I suppose that's the nature of opinions. :P
DeleteMaybe have two different posts, one with the dialogue panels and one with the clean panels? Might be kind of distracting to read if they're both together.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the feedback, Anon. I hope not too distracting. The idea would be that you could "arrow" through them, so the text would simply appear over the panel.
DeleteI like the new way better. As a suggestion, change the color of the text or fill color of the text box for each different character. That way you don't need to have their name written out every time or even show the character in frame in order for us to know who's speaking.
ReplyDeleteSapphire Foxx does this in her comics and a friend of mine does it on his webcomic.
Good idea, Bob. I think I will do something like that. :D
DeleteI prefere the faster way to release the Next part... Because I cant wait...
ReplyDeleteIf you're saying no dialogue, I must give you an emphatic, Hell no. There are stories that do very well with no dialogue but this one would suffer. The amount of changes, and length of time that these transformations are taking place are what makes this story so engaging...we get the chance to understand the protagonists' feelings throughout. The spoken word can reveal subtle nuance about our protagonists' state of mind that would otherwise be unknown to the reader without the dialogue.
ReplyDeleteIf you want to do something like this, I would suggest releasing 'clean' version after the fact that include no dialogue that the reader can appreciate after they've read a chapter.
Hi Kronk! Sorry for the confusion. I love dialogue and would never do away with it! What I'm talking about is having two images next to each other (one with dialogue and the other without), and you scroll through them so the dialogue "appears" with the next frame.
DeleteDoes that make sense?
Yeah it does make sense, and it's a heck of a lot better than no dialogue at all, haha! But I would personally prefer separate versions...one with text and one without. the weaved images with no text would just be immersion breaking. Instead of getting into the story, I'd be thinking every frame about how I have to do something different to view your story.
Deleteyeah, not the biggest fan of that concept.
ReplyDeleteyour posing's great but i don't think it needs seperate hi-res images just showing it off.