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28th June 2007
While I was playing Ultima Online a lot, I decided to do a silly Ultima based comic. It seemed like a good idea at the time, but it took ages to cut out and manage each of the panels of a comic, in order to make the pages look good.
As I always say, "A simple idea can always be made easier if you use Blitz to do all the boring work for you." It's a long saying, but it fits. Hyper Llama Man lasted for 6 pages.. Not a long time, but at least I managed to pull myself away from Ultima! The first page of the comic was done entirely in PaintShop Pro. It's kind of ugly. The next one was done using a quickly made comic strip editor. That was Strips. It worked, but it was specifically designed to create boxy plain-text Hyper Llama Man pages. Pages 3,4,5 and 6 were all done using Strips 2. Strips 2 was a much more advanced editor, allowing for sliced panels, bubble speech and a variety of fonts. It's more or less in a fully working state, but if you do decide to use it, keep saving often, because it'll probably crash, or do something stupid! You can download Strips 2 here. Views 134, Upvotes 30
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