Remember, even if you happen to be a thieving would-be pirate hiding away on a half-built naval Juggernaut, you still don’t get to ignore proper terminology.
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Remember, even if you happen to be a thieving would-be pirate hiding away on a half-built naval Juggernaut, you still don’t get to ignore proper terminology.
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Really, really gorgeous looking scene: huge props to Blizzard’s art department and your direction/modelling efforts. The past two pages really show off what this comic can accomplish visually.
It’s a lovely scene too. I completely sympathise with the pedantic pirate: these things matter! ;D
She is so close to kick that guy into the water, I know I’d be xD would be bad since he might Discover Hani then :P
Two things I especially love abuot this instalment: the lighting effects in general and specifically the gorgeous use of shadow in panel 3 – wow! and 2) the female pirate’s FACE in panel 7 – I lol’d irl. “ngh!” heheheheheheeheheheheheh.
Im a fan of ur comics keep making more
I’m hoping you’re not going to skip the Mr. Smite encounter, Nhani. I always thought that was a cool fight with his weapon-switching mechanic, and was looking forward to seeing Hani go toe-to-toe (or would it be hoof?) with him.
Aaah, I wish the mobs, in DM actually had conversations like these…
Great page as always!
For a piece of random trivia, the dialogue actually came together as a nod to a TV series called Bugs that existed some, what.. 15 years ago? One episode had characters Ed and Beckett having bits of dialogue regarding boats and ships, concluding in Beckett pointing out that a Gunship is actually a helicopter..
I wanted to sneak some derivative dialogue in somewhere, so these two defias underlings seemed suitable; I rather like underlings having opinins and nattering amongst themselves – helps creating the illusion that they’re more than just blank automatons.
I still wish mobs in WoW had funny conversations, like this.
Either that pirate girl was tall, or the pirate guy was just short. It kinda’ added to the comedy of the situation. :p
I’ve always wished you could alter your character’s height in WoW. :\
It’s the guy that’s short, actually; I made the pirates in purple shirts a bit shorter (not sure how much now.. maybe 10%?) than the ones in white. The difference is even greater if you put a white-shirted guy next to a purple-shirted woman.
And yes, height adds interesting variety.
The third panel is awesome. I’d sure like it as a wallpaper :D
Took some fiddling to rediscover a good camera angle since I don’t actually save those, but.. yeah
i’d like the 6th pannel as a wall paper
I hope you’ll forgive me for being a little bit proud, but… the lowered saturation just makes the dark look so much more awesome. In other words, this comic positively rocks, and so do you.
I do like the idea; after some poking, focus testing with two of my fellow nubs also thumbed up on the result, so I ran with it. Does create more work for me since I couldn’t convince 3ds to do it for me and instead had to fiddle the saturation layer manually, but it’s not that bad.
Please please update 2 days a week!
Or tell me WHEN you update! PLEASE THESE ARE SOOO GOOD don’t do what the messy cow writer did and stop all of a sudden not finishing leaving people sad!
Messy cow writer…? /brow
Normally updates are every Thursday and Monday I believe (and Nhani can correct me if I’m wrong) but people have lives beyond this screen, so don’t be surprised if Nhani’s hit a wall someplace and can’t post on a certain day or something.
Thursday and Sunday, actually. Though usually late enough in the day that many won’t see the update until the morning/day after that.
And yes, skipped days does happen; it’s quite a bit of work, and some days I’ll be too busy or simply won’t be up for it for one reason or another. But in general it’s Thursdays and Sundays.
See? Knew I’d be corrected. I be psychic. /goofygrin
Thanks :P i used to read messy cow the writer hasn’t updated for like 1 year 6 months 6 days
Though I suspect I might regret asking.. who’s the “messy cow writer”? Doesn’t sound like the most flattering of monikers..
If u type http://www.messycow.com u can read it
its all about wow
and progressing through it
lol btw are u two friends or somthing ur both funny?!
Interestingly I stumbled upon a quest earlier this very day in which a goblin — mayhap it was in fact the great Gazlowe? — dealt with this particular ship-or-boat matter in a brief monologue. Nothing real fancy or anything, just thought it was a fun happening.
I adore the environment you’ve cooked up with all the torches, Nhani, it makes me feel fuzzy! Thanks for awesome entertainment, and keep up the good work! :-)
You know, I never actually post comments. Anywhere. Well, maybe once or twice at some other web comic. But this time I felt like I had to.
I mean, look at panel 3… It looks so amazingly good. Tbh, you managed to make it look like what those huge companies make for consoles like the PS3 (Or at least PS2 and PSP). And WoW graphics are FAR behind on that (which means that you accomplished something that good, with less!). So yeah, good job!
PS: I also would want that as wallpaper!
Technically, since I use a complete rendering studio to produce the images, I have a fair bit more potential for visuals than World of Warcraft’s aging engine can pull; that said, I find it somewhat ironic/frustrating that things like soft shadows which modern games can do in realtime, I don’t really know how to acomplish half the time, and have to many times spend over a minute rendering a single frame of.
Games get to take interesting shortcuts – I wish I could utilize them, heh.
In either case, I actually did put together a larger render already, which can be found over on Thoughts for Food via this link.
But is it a Galleon, a Man-of-War, or a pre-Dreadnought battleship? My money is on Man-of-War, simply due to the lack of any large-caliber, wide angle top turrets, and the lack of metal plating armor. I suppose the internal combustion propulsion, instead of sails, sorta of classifies it as a Man-of-War / Pre-Dreadnought hybrid. Like if they skipped the iron-clad stage of warship design.
We need us some displacement tonnage. to solve this conundrum.
Boats!…sorry…ships! Now that’s my kind of topic.
That vessel, I reckon, is a wow version of a horde juggernaught. Possibly a bit modified to suit defias needs.
Anyway, figured t’was about time I dropped by and commented on your exceptional comic, Nhani! Great work, especielly on the shadows of the latest couple o’ ones.
I have to ask though, did I really come across that grumpy back in the day? :(
Bwhahahaa xD
Well, no, not really; while Horace Cravenrest is intended as a bit of the grumpy “why always me?” sort of mentality (which I do think is one of Coragon’s standing elements, seeing how fate always seem to enjoy kicking him around whenever he finds peace), the reason he comes across as.. well.. rather frustrated is largely because of his running into the duo. I always figured them as a pair that can be really difficult to deal with if you take the wrong approach or simply don’t know how to deal with them, which most don’t.
This is the same duo that managed to shake Delgren’s calm and patient air, so I think our poor Stormwind City Guard Captain largely finds them a headache he can’t seem to escape. I always figured that within the narrative of the comic, they’re the reason he ends up getting himself reassigned later, ironically ensuring that he comes across them yet again.
DERP ATTEMPT AT HUMOR DERP.
You, my defias man, are a perfectionist! ;P