Sinfest

jebus · Joined: 07 Aug 2006 Posts: 15

Now why the change to jpg?

zeezee · Joined: 08 Jul 2007 Posts: 4409 Location: saint louis

is that tat walking down the street with his hat flying off?

percy was keeping an eye on him from the window across the street...until fundiezilla started his rampage.
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acapolypse · Posted: Sun Apr 13, 2008 4:37 pm Post subject:

Just what we needed, a classical [name]zilla one, and Slick mourning over the stripclub. good one Tat!
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I'm assuming the change to jpg is because .gif can only handle up to 255 colours, so he (at last!) decided to listen and switch over to a file format that allows better colouring.

And I'm assuming .jpg (as much as the compression makes the image lose some quality) because it's the smaller file and he doesn't want to kill his bandwidth. The site is slow enough as it is.

About the strip, it at least puts Seymour in character again (maybe Tatsuya reads the forum?) even if I think I've seen the first panel one too many times. But hey, much better than the silly escargot or the emo ones.

And the art is just beautiful. He has mastered the facial expressions, and is becoming good at drawing dynamic bodies (i.e. Monique in the first panel).

filecore · Posted: Sun Apr 13, 2008 4:50 pm Post subject: Re: Fundiezilla

MasterOfPuppets · Joined: 03 Apr 2008 Posts: 10 Location: USA

MasterOfPuppets · Joined: 03 Apr 2008 Posts: 10 Location: USA

I seem to have double posted, sorry. If a moderator can delete the post it will be appreciated.

Hydro · Posted: Sun Apr 13, 2008 5:01 pm Post subject:

Awww look at Percy looking out the window.

Nevermind the zilla walking through town, there's a cat!
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ZigZag · Joined: 28 Sep 2007 Posts: 399

filecore · Posted: Sun Apr 13, 2008 5:10 pm Post subject:

Puma · Joined: 31 Mar 2008 Posts: 1909 Location: I, er, oh.

Of course he never reads the forums. It's pure coincidence that today's strip is kind of "old school" and in an urban setting just after people were talking of missing those very things. Pure coincidence that Crim had a Thich Nhat Hahn book in his stack o'books just after TWSOD asked about good books on Buddhism.

MasterOfPuppets · Joined: 03 Apr 2008 Posts: 10 Location: USA

But that discussion was yesterday.

Well, maybe that's the reason the strip was late? Maybe he put some other idea aside to do this in response to the criticism and it took him until now. I didn't know about the Buddhism book.

Puma · Joined: 31 Mar 2008 Posts: 1909 Location: I, er, oh.

YenTheFirst · Posted: Sun Apr 13, 2008 6:49 pm Post subject:

I see Tat's apartment! Or at least, there's a cat sticking their head out of the window in the first panel.

Filecore/ood: While it's possible this particular strip uses more than 256 colors, most colored strips tend to have very limited color spaces. GIF was, in fact, created for dealing with this type of image.
Also, for this image, both GIF and JPG end up being about the same size, so I doubt it was a bandwidth consideration. However, a BMP of this same strip would be on the range of ~3 MB. (about 7 times the current size of ~400 KB)

My guess is that either
a) There was some quality gains to be had by using JPG for this particular strip
b) JPG is a bit more common, and thus desirable for that reason?
c) an accident occurred
d) The artist just wants to mess with you.

And yes, a throwback to 'classic' sinfest for the win!
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filecore · Posted: Sun Apr 13, 2008 6:56 pm Post subject: