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Subject: Thinking about creating a Halo 3 comic? Here's a few pointers....
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Posted by: AceDread
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Posted by: Pollard 2007
Wat was this thing i heard last month i think, about ske7che's awsome Comic Feature???? On Bnet

There's no comic feature. You have to download screenshots off the site and compile them into a comic yourself.

-TGP-


Is it possible to use the program comic life for this?


Yes.

Also Wheres a good place to put you comics

  • 10.21.2007 8:02 PM PDT
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how are some people going to make them if they don't like to draw or don't know how.

  • 10.21.2007 8:47 PM PDT
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Posted by: R64
how are some people going to make them if they don't like to draw or don't know how.

Uhhh.......... did you read the first post?

  • 10.21.2007 9:08 PM PDT

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Here's one I made a few days ago.

Made a thread about it.

  • 10.21.2007 11:36 PM PDT
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If you seen my comic, it wasn't really trying.

  • 10.22.2007 10:36 AM PDT
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Tell me wat u think. Plz.


[Edited on 10.26.2007 3:22 AM PDT]

  • 10.22.2007 3:45 PM PDT

Master Chief vs Mortal Kombat: The Search for the Hidden Skull. New series, check it out at my homepage link!

If you like Metal Gear Solid, you may like this Codec animation I made. Dont worry, its Halo related. :-D

Here's a little scene I manipulated years back. Mario got nothing on Master Chief

  • 10.22.2007 5:12 PM PDT

"Neutrality only helps the aggressor, never the victim."

lol i started a comic three days ago based on the lvl the ark. can you tell me the program too turn the pics into comic pics with the dots. i have already strted on it so ineed to know how to transtion the screenshots

  • 10.22.2007 5:57 PM PDT

Here's one that was started four days after Halo 3 was released.

http://www.drunkduck.com/Valhalla/

  • 10.22.2007 7:05 PM PDT
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Pretty good Pink.

  • 10.22.2007 11:16 PM PDT
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Never dabbled in making comics before, but I have been thinking about it since Halo 3 came out. Back when I was still developing games one of the things I enjoyed doing was press shots and ever since then I've loved taking screenshots of the games I play. Anyway, here's some comic-ized ones I did of Halo 3. Let me know what you think.

http://nakedpoly.com//Oblivion/Halo3C0.jpg
http://nakedpoly.com//Oblivion/Halo3C1.jpg
http://nakedpoly.com//Oblivion/Halo3C3.jpg
http://nakedpoly.com//Oblivion/DawnsEarlyLight.jpg
http://nakedpoly.com//Oblivion/Makeahole.jpg


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  • 10.23.2007 1:13 AM PDT
Subject: Great Pics

Hey Atar3on your pictures look really good, I even saved them on my PC, please could you tell me how you got the effect on your Pictures, I have Photoshop and Comic Life, but cant do any thing that sick.

Thanks.

  • 10.23.2007 7:41 AM PDT
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There all amazing! Well done.

[Edited on 10.23.2007 11:00 AM PDT]

  • 10.23.2007 10:59 AM PDT
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Posted by: Keys Open Doors
Hey Atar3on your pictures look really good, I even saved them on my PC, please could you tell me how you got the effect on your Pictures, I have Photoshop and Comic Life, but cant do any thing that sick.

Thanks.


It looks very, VERY similar to an outline edge filter in the GIMP (Can't remember the filter name, and GIMP's on my iMac, not my MacBook). I have Photoshop Elements, Comic Life and the GIMP, and I plan to make a comic, my only problem is a storyline and characters. I need more controllers...

Is there any way to get the screenshots sent over a local network rather than the horse-shoe local -> internet -> local business? The internet is down at my house (I'm in a panera bread).

Aw well, looks like the folks are ready to leave, so I guess I won't see any answers till the net comes back up. Oh well.

  • 10.23.2007 2:04 PM PDT
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great stuff guys, this thread has me very interested.

The only gripe i have about the filters being used to get the "comicy" look is that they're darkening the images and eating up all the light detail. I'll mess around in photoshop and see if i can come up with something more to my liking, and perhaps make a tutorial.

Comic life is a pretty good assembly program with some nice touches, and definitely worth a look for anyone looking to make simple but dynamic layouts.

  • 10.23.2007 4:44 PM PDT
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Thanks for the compliments, guys. As for how I got that style of comic art, it's a combination of a Photoshop filter which I tweaked and some hue/saturation adjustments. That and I only work with the original 1080i image because it wasn't possible for me to get this level of detail on a lower rez image.

  • 10.23.2007 8:58 PM PDT
Subject: Thinking about creating a Halo 3 comic? Here's a few pointers....
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It was pretty much ignored on the front page, so I'll try again.

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I hope its in order. Story is pretty bland, but the art style is more important.

  • 10.23.2007 9:15 PM PDT
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Pretty good, Brian V. Nice art style but the story let it down just a little.

  • 10.23.2007 11:09 PM PDT

Hey BrianV I checked it on the halo2vista site and the art style is fantastic, exactly what i'm also looking for plus you also kept the lighting rather than making everything too dark which is what I wanted to avoid. Is it possible you can tell me how you got the art style on your pics please? Thanks.

Also your story boards came out nice using comic life. Good work.

  • 10.24.2007 1:33 AM PDT
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Posted by: brianv
It was pretty much ignored on the front page, so I'll try again.

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I hope its in order. Story is pretty bland, but the art style is more important.


Crap, my buddy needs to get back from Georgia so we can start working on one of these. Since it isn't video I can simply plug in more controllers and control multiple people, but I only have 2 controllers. I'd want at least 4... Not to mention creative writing is his hobby (I do the drawing, he does the writing) so I'd need him to get anything decent. You say YOUR story is bland, working alone I'd bet money I could make a worse one

Here's a simple yet possibly awesome idea: Jas anyone tried making one of these and recoloring things? I mean, no more gold visor, armors as colorful as Gundams, changes between day and night... Has anyone thought of this or am I thinking outside the box first this time?

[Edited on 10.24.2007 7:07 AM PDT]

  • 10.24.2007 6:51 AM PDT
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Posted by: Keys Open Doors
Hey BrianV I checked it on the halo2vista site and the art style is fantastic, exactly what i'm also looking for plus you also kept the lighting rather than making everything too dark which is what I wanted to avoid. Is it possible you can tell me how you got the art style on your pics please? Thanks.

Also your story boards came out nice using comic life. Good work.
The comic life art style I use is acrylic comic. If I had photoshop on this computer, I'd probably make up my own style. But Gimpshop is really hard to use lol. (This is like the only decent thing I was able to make in Gimpshop, it'd be so much better in photoshop :( Using Halo 3 screenshots anyway.).

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blah.


Crap, my buddy needs to get back from Georgia so we can start working on one of these. Since it isn't video I can simply plug in more controllers and control multiple people, but I only have 2 controllers. I'd want at least 4... Not to mention creative writing is his hobby (I do the drawing, he does the writing) so I'd need him to get anything decent. You say YOUR story is bland, working alone I'd bet money I could make a worse one



All I used was two controllers too. I wish I had more so I could have more than two characters at once when I'm alone doing it. I'm also more of an artist than a writer. I mean I could write pretty decent stories, but I wouldn't be able to figure out how to take stuff from Halo 3 and do it. Unless I photoshoped Master Chief into a Robocop movie or something, or make him fight the Terminator.



Oh, if anyone's interested, a long time ago, like when Halo 3 wasn't out yet, I remade the first level from Halo 1 into a comic book with comic life. I could try digging it out. I used Halo PC fly cam and Time Freeze (pretty much the same thing as Theater mode in Halo 3, only you could still move Master Chief around and kill things in frozen time =D). for some epic shots. It's 20 pages. I used an older version of comic life back when it was only out on Mac OS. So it looks a little, 'blah.'


Anyway, I was thinking of starting something new in Halo3. Maybe downloading photoshop trial and make Master Chief go back in time somehow and put him with the other Spartans in that movie, 300. Or, you know, This. Sorry, I gotta do that now. :P

The only thing that sucks is taking the screenshots and uploading them to bungie.net, and deleting them from the 360 and keep doing it, I wish my capture card recorded in HD, 640x480 is -blam!-.

[Edited on 10.24.2007 8:08 AM PDT]

  • 10.24.2007 7:19 AM PDT
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Yeah, CTRL ALT DELETE IS awesome.

  • 10.24.2007 9:16 AM PDT
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Here's a few more I did recently. If only my creative writing skills were up to the level of my screenshots then I'd probably make a Halo comic, but alas it is not to be. Oh well, I do enjoy making these though. :)

http://nakedpoly.com/Oblivion/GrenadeToss.jpg
http://nakedpoly.com/Oblivion/NotSafe.jpg
http://nakedpoly.com/Oblivion/Needalift.jpg


[Edited on 10.24.2007 3:43 PM PDT]

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Hey guys, if you liked my old stuff, check out my new stuff, the story doesn't suck as much, plus I put it on a freewebs page so you don't have to randomly click a bunch of stuff!

Just click on episode 1.

It's more action-oriented than comedy, because I that's how I roll.

[Edited on 10.24.2007 7:27 PM PDT]

  • 10.24.2007 7:26 PM PDT
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NIcely done, Brian. :) I like it!

  • 10.24.2007 10:47 PM PDT