[HN Gopher] Show HN: GUI for making animated webcomics
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Show HN: GUI for making animated webcomics
Author : jimhi
Score : 96 points
Date : 2022-12-29 15:45 UTC (7 hours ago)
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| derezze wrote:
| How does this differ from Prezi?
| jimhi wrote:
| Can Prezi be used to make webcomics? Looks like it costs money
| and doesn't sync sounds and actions like this.
| robust-cactus wrote:
| Even if it is similar, target audience matters
| gengear wrote:
| looks like [impress.js](https://impress.js.org/) with music
| added.
| kposehn wrote:
| I've loved webcomics since the early days. There's huge amounts
| of truly amazing work. You can find incredible horror stories
| like The Sword Interval or Stand Still Stay Silent (two of my
| absolute favorites). There's long-running diaries like Real Life
| Comics or serials like PVP. Practically everyone knows Penny
| Arcade, but have you heard of Three Panel Soul? The rabbit hole
| runs deep.
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| However, the tech behind it has lacked. Hosting has been a pain,
| and aggregators like Webtoon have their drawbacks (and advantages
| too). Creation is getting easier, but lots of barriers remain.
|
| I'm glad to see some new tools come around. The market for
| something like this is surprisingly large and highly underserved.
| jimhi wrote:
| My favorites are the interactive ones like
| https://comic.naver.com/webtoon/detail?titleId=350217&no=31.
| They had very minimal movement though and it doesn't seem to
| work anymore.
| rob74 wrote:
| I just follow 2 (two) webcomics these days: Order Of The Stick
| (I guess everyone knows that one?) and Unsounded, which is
| pretty obscure I guess, but the author is incredibly dedicated
| to her project and the worldbuilding and charactes are really
| great. I also used to follow Erfworld before it sadly went on a
| permanent hiatus 3 years ago...
| Bick2 wrote:
| The best webcomic hosting site I'm aware of is ComicFury. Its
| not very well known, probably because its layout is very early
| 2000s, but it's loaded with features, and allows custom layouts
| like Tumblr.
| shigawire wrote:
| Lucid TV was my favorite until they nuked the site.
| xrd wrote:
| Wow, SSSS is so amazing.
|
| It does feel like there is a great opportunity to increase the
| dynamism of that webcomic, a space between a full fledged video
| and something where the text and images can do a bit of a
| actually dancing (some kind of animation or transition). And,
| this web comic requires a lot of scrolling and mousing, which I
| feel like could be improved. But, the overall work is so great
| I'm sure that occupied the author's attention more than little
| details like what else they could add. The story is so good and
| the rest is just minutiae.
| kposehn wrote:
| I'm glad you like SSSS! I've always loved it and was sad when
| it ended. Absolutely amazing art and story.
| mysterydip wrote:
| I ran a webcomic back in the 2000s while I was in college. I have
| wanted to revisit it with my current material (three young kids)
| but wanted to give the whole thing a facelift first. This might
| be my catalyst to do so, thanks!
| jimhi wrote:
| Would be curious to see what you make - feel free to email me
| directly (also can fix any annoying bugs you encounter). My
| email is in my profile.
| Jorengarenar wrote:
| Looks a lot like... slideshows
| xrd wrote:
| I tried to make a webcomic tool with WebGL (via P5.js) a long
| time ago. It was fun to prototype.
|
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHqexqBVeSA
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| https://github.com/xrd/yume.js
| jimhi wrote:
| Your github repo no longer exists but this looks interesting.
| xrd wrote:
| Doh, sorry, it is public now!
| themodelplumber wrote:
| That's really nicely done!
|
| My first impression was that this could also be useful to replace
| some video tutorials or thought-explainers I send to people.
| Looking forward to testing it out.
| jimhi wrote:
| I was considering that too after showing it to some people. It
| would definitely require a lot of reconfiguring to have it work
| on other people websites but not impossible.
|
| There's definitely a lot of clunkiness still but some people
| have made silly things with some patience.
| marci wrote:
| I like the idea of coupling sound to the page/slide. Would be
| even better if the audio was generated so that the transition was
| seamless.
|
| To whom it may be of interest:
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| https://impress.js.org (visually similar to this project, with
| 3D)
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| http://2011.beercamp.com (depth? scrolling)
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| http://lissajousjs.com/ (A tool for programmatic audio
| performance in the browser using Javascript, demo:
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBRqOp5ws58 )
|
| edit: just thought they might spark ideas
| jimhi wrote:
| Can't believe I have never seen Impress JS. I basically reverse
| engineered this jquery plugin to make this site:
| http://jaukia.github.io/zoomooz/ and now I feel like impress
| would have been the better choice. It seems to work almost the
| same too.
|
| Lissajousjs is wild. I was actually working on a GUI for making
| endless music next but in a completely different direction than
| this.
| jimhi wrote:
| Your links suggest some better ways around syncing sound and
| timing to browsers than my hacky timers. Will definitely look
| into this for a revamp. Thanks marci!
| lilactown wrote:
| Neat!
|
| Using Safari, the music pauses each time it transitions to
| another panel.
| jimhi wrote:
| The timers are wonky depending on the device and browser
| sbarre wrote:
| Interesting concept, but you need to put an obvious mute button
| on there somewhere so users can kill the audio if they need to.
| fareesh wrote:
| The music didn't sync up well for me (it slowed down and lagged)
|
| There were also a few cases of overlapping images on the text
|
| Brave on Linux at 1920x1080 with a latest-gen CPU and GPU in case
| that helps. I use arch btw
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