Furrymoan: Just a relatively quick pic of Captain Managan and Grape from my shitty fanfiction of Elder Scrolls fanfiction.

Pronin: My heart literally stopped for, like, a second. This looks extremely nice for what it is.

Furrymoan: @Pronin: You alright mate? Don't die on us

Thanks for the compliment though

Pronin: @Furrymoan: I'm dying. I just got really excited.

picartosux: @Pronin: I sincerely hope you meant that you're NOT dying, otherwise you have my condolences.

Pronin: @picartosux: OH FUCK! I wasn't thinking while I was typing. No, I'm not dying. I'll never die!

picartosux: @Pronin: That's what I tell myself every day until I check the frontpage of /r/furry_irl, at which point I start counting days before I finally die.

AMKitsune: @Furrymoan: Don't... you... DARE call your Kazerad: Adventure series 'shitty'! It started out good and has only gotten better and better with each passing update (and as of episode 5, yes, my opinion is very much biased XD). I'm really looking forward to seeing where this story goes.

Also, if it's Grape's ship and Katia's the captain, what position does Grape serve on board? And I'm a medic now? If that's not an incentive for the other crew members to stay healthy, I don't know what is XD.

I also have to ask, do you rotate (or otherwise transform) the images with 'fuzzy' aliased edges using nearest neighbour interpolation to distort the edges, or do you make it look that way manually?

Pronin: @picartosux: Geez, watch out for that edge.

Rick2tails: this looks pretty neat!

Furomone: @AMKitsune: Holy shit thank you so much!

I hope you're not angry at me for making you a smol fox lady.

Grape is the primary pilot, and the primary source of fresh, fruity, 100% locally sourced juice.

And nah, not really. For the gif series, I only really use a brush in dissolve mode, the pencil tool, and (very VERY rarely) the gradient in dissolve mode, usually with ~40% opacity.

Pronin: @Furomone: So, you use photoshop to make these?

Furomone: @Pronin: Unfortunately. One layer at a time, baby.

I considered flash, but it's horrible, and I don't own ToonBoom, and I'm not sure you can animate in PaintDotNet. So I decided to go for the middle ground of Photoshop, which can do pixel art, can render .gifs, and was built to do neither well.

Pronin: @Furomone: PaintDotNet is exactlly like MSPaint. But, I know GraphicsGale can be used to make pixle art and gifs. It's what Kaz uses, you might wanna give it a try.

Furrymoan: @Pronin: I'll look into it, cheers.

And PDN isn't AS bad. It has layers, it was pretty much what introduced me to pixel art. It got worse though.

Vinarto: I Wish I Was Apart Of It.

picartosux: @Vinarto: I'm pretty sure if every regular did get a role in this comic then it would've been an incomprehensible mess. If anything, we can have a background character as a reference or something, I don't really want us to ruin this experience, man.

Vinarto: @picartosux: I Here Ya. I Just Had This Idea That I Would Have A Crush On Katia, Plus I Just Wanted To Add To The Story.

Furrymoan: @picartosux: Yeah, sorry guys. The only characters that MIGHT get added to the roster are other artists, like Ch'marr. But even then, this is such a tiny format, it's hard enough to give these few characters stuff to do and things to say.

Dahooligan: @Furrymoan: by format do you mean storyline/unable to think up new ideas? Or from the limitations of using only photoshop to animate and making characters do a thing would either require an unprecedented amount of work and / or make action look weird and physically impossible?

Furrymoan: @Dahooligan: Mix of both, really. Also add the fact that gifs are small, and unless I start using flash (which I don't intend to do anytime soon) there'll be a limit in not only the filesize and my own skill, but the amount of shaded colours, the resolution itself, and the limited amount of text I can cram into this shit.

Also my own overall idea of the storyline is pretty finished. Naturally prompts will influence it, and maybe a REALLY good prompt will turn it on its head, but the gist is there. And more characters would convolute this almost immediately. Let's face it, one guy making gifs is hardly HBO level material.

AMKitsune: @Furomone: I don't mind in the slightest. It was admittedly a bit of a surprise, but not an unpleasant one by any means XD.

I'd all but forgotten about the dissolve blend mode. I couldn't see much use for such a 'binary' blending mode under normal circumstances, but it's evidently perfect for pixel art of this nature.

Furrymoan: @AMKitsune:

EBIL_KAZERAD: @Furrymoan: easy solution.
EBIL Kazerad> use a machine that distorts time and space to make it look like the first flash artstyle. its purpose? the characters also see how they look like and freak out. (only ebil kaz looks highly detailed)

Furrymoan: @EBIL_KAZERAD: Ooh

that's interesting, thanks mate

also go back to hell i'm still working on the update focused on you