Re: Nerd Boy, episode 325
From MJP <mik...@bluedwarf.spam.net>
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On 09 Jan 2003 02:50:20 +0100, Kjetil Torgrim Homme <kje...@haey.ifi.uio.no> wrote: >[Joaquim G�ndara]: >> >> Trying out a new technique! Namely, adding more details to convey the >> passing of time. It makes sense in two ways. If you go from no detail >> to suddenly having a whole background, like here, then supposedly the >> eye wanders and the reader will spend more time on that frame. Second >> reason to use this is that even if the reader won't look at the added >> stuff, it represents the fact that during a silent moment, people may >> begin looking around at the surroundings instead of each other. Maybe >> the reader gets that, albeit subconsciously. Basically, I'm rambling. > >n o one mentioned the esthetics of your commentary. it probably took more >e ffort to write that than to draw the strip itself, but the text flows so >r emarkably naturally that most people wouldn't stop to think about it. I >d id that myself, I did not notice the brick shape until Faux Pseudo put a >b ig frame around your text qua piece of art. it was his usual frame, the >o ne I imagine is a weak attempt to make Usenet look more like television. >y eah, it drew more attention to the shape than the content, that figures! > >-- >Kjetil T. | read and make up your own mind > | http://www.cactus48.com/truth.html heheh
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