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Path of McGibs! WEBSITE LAUNCH

McGibsMcGibs TorontoRegistered User regular
edited March 2007 in Artist's Corner
I finally have a friggin website. I have yet to do a few minor things, but overall its workin pretty good.

Check it out. Tell me what you think. Join the forums. I need minions.

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And heres the new Locust cover and some other stuff so I'm not totally sitwhoring
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... up to page 8 is on the site.

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  • Tweaked_Bat_Tweaked_Bat_ Registered User regular
    edited March 2007
    Hurrah, you've got a website!

    Can't really think of too many crits design-wise right now, but just from having a brief look, I think it would help improve the visuals of the site if you added some range in color (ie: contrast), and maybe some textures. I think that a subtle texture here and there helps to bring out/emphasise certain elements of a site, and to generate some interest etc etc.

    Sorry for being so vague and unspecific, I'm just mentioning what I always do with my designs to help them pop out a bit, and to give them some depth. Maybe you could play around with that yourself and see what you come up with. Your art kicks arse, so I'm sure you'd be able to find colours that work well together and all that stuff ;)

    Also, I think you could do something about the black borders... it might just be my personal preference but I don't really like thick borders too much :P

    Edit: agh, accidentally hit submit >_<

    Anyway, you said that you're still polishing it off, so that's fine, you might have something to think about now whilst polishing ;)

    Also, just a small nitpick: Set the size of your windows to open a few pixels larger than your actual images, down the bottom there in the "recent artwork" section, because they are set to open at the same size as your artwork, but you're not taking into account the window's edges/bars/borders/titles and all that, so it's opening a tad too small and creating scrollbars. Like I said, nothing major there.

    If I think of more I'll post. Good luck with the site.

    BTW: I really friggin' love that Spitfire painting, I demand a wallpaper sized version! :P

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  • McGibsMcGibs TorontoRegistered User regular
    edited March 2007
    I have a few more graphicy things to add, namely artwork on the title header bars. And a few other places.

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  • Tweaked_Bat_Tweaked_Bat_ Registered User regular
    edited March 2007
    Yeah, another thing that came to mind was artwork. The banner would look nice with your characters or whatever thrown in there. Look forward to seeing it finished.

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  • TamTam Registered User regular
    edited March 2007
    McGibs, I just read through the comic. Fucking fantastic, man. There's a few spelling errors, but I love the plot and the art.

    I don't have any site complaints either, it looks great to me and I got around fine. I'd suggest making the colors a tad brighter or least contrasting them more (for getting new readers, I guess).

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  • McGibsMcGibs TorontoRegistered User regular
    edited March 2007
    Yeah, I keep meaning to go back and fix those. I think the only one left is exiteing/exiting back in chapter 02.

    I'll probly keep the colours, I switched them once already when making it and it was a pain. Right now theyre the same as the desaturated blues on the new locust pages.


    Does anyone know any webcomic forums I can plug this on?

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  • FloofyFloofy Registered User regular
    edited March 2007
    One suggestion I can make is it'd be great to have an 'archive' type link on the Locust pages so I could start reading from a specific chapter rather than scrolling back through them using prev/next

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  • MaydayMayday Cutting edge goblin tech Registered User regular
    edited March 2007
    About fucking time, you lazy genius, you.

    /Waiting in anticipation for more locustness.

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  • drinkinstoutdrinkinstout Registered User regular
    edited March 2007
    nice site layout and awesome art

    one suggestion is to make your clickable images actually appear to be clickable - I didn't really realize they opened up to larger versions till I clicked on one by accident - the easiest way to do this is to use the hand cursor over them so they appear to have a link around them. ie: add "style='cursor:hand'" in the images that open your windows.

    edit: is there supposed to be a red blob on the cover? it looks out of place... http://www.mcgibs.iseenothing.com/index/locust/00-cover.html

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  • McGibsMcGibs TorontoRegistered User regular
    edited March 2007
    Floofy wrote: »
    One suggestion I can make is it'd be great to have an 'archive' type link on the Locust pages so I could start reading from a specific chapter rather than scrolling back through them using prev/next

    There's an archives section in the info page, but I'll put a link button in the nav bar on the locust pages.

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  • no_toastno_toast Registered User regular
    edited March 2007
    McGibs wrote: »
    Does anyone know any webcomic forums I can plug this on?

    I can do a little promotion around the finnish comic communities if that's okat with you.

    And it's great to see a well-prepared site =) Maybe add a little roughness and texture to the site design.

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  • McGibsMcGibs TorontoRegistered User regular
    edited March 2007
    That would be awesome!

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  • PeterAndCompanyPeterAndCompany Registered User regular
    edited March 2007
    Wow... y'know I've seen your artwork posted on these forums many times, but I'd never read Locust before. I love it! The scheme and layout of your site really fits the look of the comic, too. Very cool.
    I added a link to your site on mine, hopefully it'll send some new readers your way. :)

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  • GreatnationGreatnation Registered User regular
    edited March 2007
    Nice Website!
    Does anyone know any webcomic forums I can plug this on?

    Go hit up the flight forums, here

    Is this bad boy ever gunna make it to print?

    Im looking at the cover page to Locust 1, the interloper- and it is badass. Keep that shit happenin!

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  • HaxagorHaxagor Registered User regular
    edited March 2007
    I will become a proud minion of your forums :D

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  • srsizzysrsizzy Registered User regular
    edited March 2007
    omg, finally, amazement, greatness, etc.

    So is this an action/war story, or a drama? With all the concept sketches, I guess the first, but I can't see where you're going with this yet. Still interesting, nonetheless, and I shall read until the sun explodes.

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  • McGibsMcGibs TorontoRegistered User regular
    edited March 2007
    thanks for the support pete, and the link nation.

    The current story takes place AFTER a great war, and is more a drama focusing on the problems of the main characters, which are closely related to the war and contain alot of action and violence. Later on (much later) it escilates back into war again for the end of the project.

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  • MaydayMayday Cutting edge goblin tech Registered User regular
    edited March 2007
    Haha, you should have put that in spoiler tags, dumbass! lol.gif

    Seriously though, I'm a big fan of Locust.

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  • Darken RahlDarken Rahl Registered User regular
    edited March 2007
    Hate to break the news, but your chick with the blue hair is currently trapped onboard an airliner with the living dead. ;)

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  • McGibsMcGibs TorontoRegistered User regular
    edited March 2007
    Thats alright, she can handle herself.

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  • IrrIrr Registered User regular
    edited March 2007
    This is great. I like your single images a lot too. One seemed really off though, the 'Durus Run 'n Gun' Obviously it's incomplete, but his stance... it seems like he's floating and falling to the left(his right). The foot is really well done, but it seems odd...

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  • McGibsMcGibs TorontoRegistered User regular
    edited March 2007
    Two pages in one weekend. Go me.

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  • McGibsMcGibs TorontoRegistered User regular
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