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Pages 1, 2, 3, 6 of BACKGROUNDS for @stabwool & my entry in the hallowed pages of The Sleep of Reason!! This shit will rock you guys.

Pages 1, 2, 3, 6 of BACKGROUNDS for @stabwool & my entry in the hallowed pages of The Sleep of Reason!! This shit will rock you guys.

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Ok, here’s the deal: @Stabwool and I are collaborating on a real, honest-to-goodness comic! “COMIC?!” I hear you exclaiming in horror, “WHAT ON EARTH DO EITHER ONE OF YOU HAVE TO DO WITH COMICS?!” and I wholly relate to the sentiment. Finding room in art for speech balloons is a foreign pastime to me as are layouts that involve splitting a page of fixed dimensions into panels. How do people do this? It ain’t natural. I just had to check the wiki page for “speech balloons” because I always wanna call them “bubbles” and feel like that is somehow an amateur misnomer, but wikipedia says either works… I don’t quite trust it… God, I’m such a fraud! To add more horror to this already horrorful experience, the comic is for The Sleep of Reason horror comic anthology which is full of impressive people who actually do comics. Goddamn, just look at this list!!! Why are we on this list?!? D: So first order of business: learn to draw… I painted the above panel to better define the tone of the whole thing. Ignore the vaguely people-shaped blobs in the center, the characters will be Lety’s domain, I’m just going through the layouts right now. This also means that in the upcoming months Hobo Lobo will update even less than it already isn’t. So poops to that. I am super stupid close to the next panel tho. Hopefully it will happen before May. MAYBE the apocalypse will happen before then, freeing me from my debt-based indentured servitude whereupon I’ll have more time to draw funnies! A boy can dream…

Ok, here’s the deal: @Stabwool and I are collaborating on a real, honest-to-goodness comic!

“COMIC?!” I hear you exclaiming in horror, “WHAT ON EARTH DO EITHER ONE OF YOU HAVE TO DO WITH COMICS?!” and I wholly relate to the sentiment. Finding room in art for speech balloons is a foreign pastime to me as are layouts that involve splitting a page of fixed dimensions into panels. How do people do this? It ain’t natural. I just had to check the wiki page for “speech balloons” because I always wanna call them “bubbles” and feel like that is somehow an amateur misnomer, but wikipedia says either works… I don’t quite trust it… God, I’m such a fraud!

To add more horror to this already horrorful experience, the comic is for The Sleep of Reason horror comic anthology which is full of impressive people who actually do comics. Goddamn, just look at this list!!! Why are we on this list?!? D:

So first order of business: learn to draw… I painted the above panel to better define the tone of the whole thing. Ignore the vaguely people-shaped blobs in the center, the characters will be Lety’s domain, I’m just going through the layouts right now.

This also means that in the upcoming months Hobo Lobo will update even less than it already isn’t. So poops to that. I am super stupid close to the next panel tho. Hopefully it will happen before May.

MAYBE the apocalypse will happen before then, freeing me from my debt-based indentured servitude whereupon I’ll have more time to draw funnies!

A boy can dream…

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SEE SAUSAGE.SEE SAUSAGE RUN.RUN, SAUSAGE, RUN. Pheuh! This doesn’t look half as bad as it could. Still gotta do some cleanup, synch up the hair, and add the remainder of the scanned frames to the animation… Oh, and draw a few more tweens… ugh, why is drawing this taking so long?! POOP! It doesn’t even look like much. I wish I could be making HobLob full time instead of hustling for the man, if for no other reason, so that it would be done sooner :( ⦿(⦿V⦿)⦿

SEE SAUSAGE.
SEE SAUSAGE RUN.
RUN, SAUSAGE, RUN.

Pheuh!

This doesn’t look half as bad as it could. Still gotta do some cleanup, synch up the hair, and add the remainder of the scanned frames to the animation… Oh, and draw a few more tweens… ugh, why is drawing this taking so long?! POOP! It doesn’t even look like much. I wish I could be making HobLob full time instead of hustling for the man, if for no other reason, so that it would be done sooner :(

⦿(⦿V⦿)⦿

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Light table is impossible to photograph with my phone. This has filters applied to minimize the obnoxiousness of the phase wackiness. I guess vibrations from other dimensions are only to be expected when constructing veves to summon elder gods.

Another fun Lobo fact: the single largest graphical asset (1.1MB) is the animated gif static above (it didn’t upload animated, you can see it performing here). It is overlaid at low opacity on a few of the tvs on page four. It is also the 2nd largest asset overall, with 1st place taken by the background crickets track on page 3 (1.5MB). Both are basically signal noise on a loop which needed to be varied enough to distract from its own repeating nature. These two bits of carefully curated fake entropy collectively represent 13% of total art asset bandwidth usage.

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Oh man, I dunno if I can pull this one off. D: Fun Lobo fact: page 5 is the only page without any animated gifs.

Oh man, I dunno if I can pull this one off. D:

Fun Lobo fact: page 5 is the only page without any animated gifs.

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Art for the next panel. WIP.

Art for the next panel. WIP.

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Oh browser, why are you so suck?

UGH! There is a quantum (?) glitch that sometimes happens in Chrome (on Mac?)—but not in Safari—on this page: http://hobolobo.net/tale/5

When you scroll past the mid panel 3, the inner 3D wall sprite will sometimes glitch flicker and drift to the right—relative to the scroll…

Sometimes it doesn’t happen! At some point I thought fine-tuning the z-indices of those imgs helped… but now I am not sure…

All the values shown as applied in the debugger look valid and proper—as I plainly see it freaking out while I scrub back and forth…

Help me internet, you are my only hope—you or a silent Chrome update that takes care of that shit for me.

See, that is the rub with wacky experimental web nonsense: no one tests for these kind of ridiculous situations with dozens of moving parts…

I am not sure where to start removing bits to see what fixes it—and even then I am not sure if it has been fixed or is merely dormant.

In fact, this behavior started relatively recently—since I wrapped up that page, it wasn’t there when I built that bit.

ARGH! Just noticed: when you hover on the page curl over the glitch, it will “wipe” the glitch away, and “rebuild” it on mouse out!

THIS IS STUPID

Come to think of it, a similar spaz flicker happens on page 3—only this time in Firefox!

Panel 15, page 3, has a flat-color div that (sometimes!) occludes the bottom of the crest-like thing as it drops below the edge of the art…

It would be nice if this world could contain a browser on which Hobo Lobo would perform as it should ¬_¬

(Harvested from Twitter for posterity and luck)

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Work in progress. Sketches, a new clay model.

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The more comfortable I become with the Hoblbob process, less time I spend in photoshop trying out the parallax there. The sooner I can get stuff into the browser the better. As I layer things more elaborately and need space to make the assets for all the changing sets, I take up the canvas above or below the main stripe. The assets live in five different smart objects (out of which I slice to save for web). This is what page 5 looks like.

The more comfortable I become with the Hoblbob process, less time I spend in photoshop trying out the parallax there. The sooner I can get stuff into the browser the better. As I layer things more elaborately and need space to make the assets for all the changing sets, I take up the canvas above or below the main stripe. The assets live in five different smart objects (out of which I slice to save for web). This is what page 5 looks like.

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