Ben X

No love for Christmas?

I figured he was wearing out-of-season Christmas decorations.

Gordon is obviously time-travelling from Half Life 3 back to the original incident. This is before he becomes G-Man. Hmmm, perhaps we should post this in the Half Life 3 thread?

You need to get some new development leads if they were all bemused by that.

Just listened to this ep, and am so glad to hear this, Jake. I was very disappointed when it (apparently) turned out you guys weren't thinking of BB. I just replayed CoMI and a particular line by the tarot woman reminded me of a movie line but I couldn't grasp it until I checked the cast and realised that woman is played by Kathleen Freeman: her line-reading had reminded me of one she did in Blues Brothers.

You played Time Gentlemen, Please!, right?

Hey, you guys are stealing my schtick!

There's got to be a Lucasarts supercut on YouTube...

I'm planning to scan a load of old comics Dan Marshall and I drew, for posterity, and also to clean one of them up into a more Scott Pilgrim style. The trouble is, I don't know what the best scan settings are to use. They're mainly drawn with regular fineline pens, and I only really need good enough quality to print them out 1:1 on A4 sheets if needs be. I started out with really high settings and of course the files all come out at huge sizes, around 13000 pixels long and about 50Mb. But I'm not sure how low I can go without losing detail. Any recommendations? Have attached a before and after shot. IS001oldcrop.bmp

Ah ha, thanks, will try that. Don't know whether Paintshop or Paint will have all that, we'll see!

Sounds like a line from a Duckberg Adult Films production.

Human sacrifices?

Nice, thanks! I'll give that a go next week and let you guys know how it's going. Hopefully I'll be able to share some bits and pieces too. I think my next set of questions will probably be about reducing the size if an image while retaining quality, for the stuff I've already done at silly sizes, but I'll leave that for a while!

Gahhh, ethically conflicted. I like that they've decided to make the old versions future-proof even though they've opened themselves up to pirates by doing it, so I don't really want to be one of those guys who takes advantage of that. On the other hand, it's not like I'll use it a lot or make any money out of it... When I've got proper internet (am in the pub at the mo, get my flat hooked up on Tuesday hopefully), I'll scan in a bit of one of the pages and ask you kind folks to guide me through using the suggested free packages (GIMP, Paint.NET etc) to make my little project a lot easier. Surely they can do what osmosisch did in PS in 5 mins?

Thanks! I won't have proper internet for another week but then I'll grab it.

Gah, double-post.

Ooh, I'll try CS2, thanks. Jake - I don't have Photoshop and I'm trying to keep the filesize down...

Ha ha, yeah, it's a pretty old version, I don't really need to splurge out a load of money on anything better. Synth, looks like you managed to avoid a lot of the digital spottiness there. Hmm...

Wah?

So I use the pipette to choose the colour that I want to go to the "desired" black, grey and white. The thing is, I want my 'special edition' version to be two-colour, not greytone, and the inking on the original was not done carefully or professionally, so I may not have much choice about at some point having to go to a patchy two-colour version and tidying it up a lot... What's more, this is not for public consumption, it's just something we did panel by panel taking turns with a 50p pen on the kitchen table, full of in-jokes and blue material. So it doesn't have to be super-polished, just as easy as possible and the smallest size possible without losing any quality from an A4 page of scribbles.

I love Frank Oz's LSOH, and just missed out on seeing the director's cut at the cinema recently, which I was gutted by.How does the 'new' ending work? Does all the footage integrate well? Pixar-wise, I love Toy Story 1 and The Incredibles, and like Monsters Inc and WALL-E. The rest are all well-made and have their moments but aren't great imo. Animated (American) movies I love that perhaps not everyone has seen are Emperor's New Groove (as mentioned already), The Iron Giant, A Goofy Movie, Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs and Ice Age. Seems I like screwball with a heart. Also the first two Wallace And Gromit shorts plus the movie are great fun.

I'm not doing too well using the levels to get it down to black and white from greyscale, so I might continue with scanning in b&w then just tidy up manually. Any recommendations for best way to compress the massive ones I've already done without losing line quality? Thanks everyone...

Thanks! Edited previous post with file type question also...

Okay, thanks guys. I'm using Paintshop as that's all I have. If I scan in greyscale at 300, which levels should I play with to get it clear? Ooh, and is it worth doing .pngs rather than .bmps to save space?

Seems no one has commented on Monsters U? It's pretty bad. Uninspired, unfunny.