Cap'n Patches! April 29 2021

 

Some of this came out well! 

Not sure it's at the point where I'd be impressed enough to consider my own thing worth reading yet, heh, but it feels good to be creating, and finishing something as opposed to not finishing it. Still trying to figure out workflow (ideally I figured I'd draw the artwork out physically, scan, and color from there, but this is just coloring with the drawing also in the computer, isn't that interesting;) maybe I'll have something by next week, maybe not. But gee I hopse-oh. 

Cap'n Patches April 22 2021: Prelude time!

 This is my third attempt at this gif, the content being the same but the word that fades in having been switched up. At first it was Preface, again, which we'd already seen like three times, and so figure, we're out of that by now with this, this should be different! 

So then I changed it to Prologue, and was going with that for a while... I was debating whether the Act I prologue and the Act 0 prelude should be the same thing... but hey good news, I got a few Eldritch Horror expansions today in the mail, and I'd decided to order them really mostly because I love the Prelude cards introduced in the expansions, and hey I respect Michael Reviewcorner's opinions but he's wrong on this one,  prelude cards rock, and did somebody say Prelude hey that's enough of a sign for me!

Besides there's already a prologue coming up, different from the Preface and the Prelude, (guess I'm gonna have to figure out what's in it now but that's fine, I've got a few ideas) but it's different anyway, and you know what I think I'll do that thing I was talking about and release more than one page today.

Patches: Next Gif

 

I title this post thus, just "nex gif," because I'm not at this point sure if I really am going for the each-page-is-the-next-week's approach, but three-fourths of the gifs into it I guess I probably am. Which is actually fine! Not as impressive in the archive, when we come to hosting this on its own site, but heck it's just the archive..

Pretty pleased with how this came out! It's something I've been thinking about, that these aren't as good as they could possibly be, but about as good as I can make them with my current skillset; maybe I'll get better ever or maybe not... but these look real swanky actually, reviewing them with freshened eyes.

Cap'n Patches: April 1st and 8th

 

Instead of one gargantuan gif I'm chunking it out into four smaller ones! Transitioning from one tableau to another, which gives you time to actually stop and study them, which is also much better (the single-gif file would have had to be even more enormous had I timed it out with the lingering tableaux like I'd wanted.) I've got all four gifs already constructed, and kinda want to post them all now and get on with the story, but doing it one at a time gives me more time to work on what comes next (which is not in gif format.) I'll be forced into deeper water soon enough; this gives me comfortable lead time and makes me feel like I'm on top of the ball. Meanwhile I guess I should also be looking for a way to host these on their own dedicated site...

I think there'll be gifs again, perhaps every time April 1st happens to fall on a Thursday. As ambitious as this one? More ambitious? Maybe even a fully animated video file instead...? we'll see i guess.

the gif for real tho??

 

exported this time at LOWEST MAXIMUM QUALITY POSSIBLE like seriously IT SHOULDN'T BE MATHEMATICALLY POSSIBLE but we DID IT ANYWAY. Let's see if it's even gonna work cos it still took a heckuh long time to upload hmm.

I hope it doesn't actually, because I've got a better idea...

Cap'n Patches Preface Page

It's definitely the same page as last time! Nothing added at all, so if you saw the page last week it's not going to be any different! You may as well click away right now! Are you still reading this? Are you? Are you? Well are you? well you might as well SWEEP JEEPERS WHAT IS THAT

Alright so this experiment's a failure I guess; turns out a 24-second long animated gif file at 618x852 pixels takes... infinity, to load. Joke's on me I guess

(OR MAYBE IT'S JUST A STILL IMAGE I GUESS YOU'LL NEVER KNOW maybe *that's* the April Fool's joke Mwhahaha)