Erfworld, panel-by-panel

[Erk]

Check this out.

http://www.erfworld.com/wiki/index.php/TBFGK_1:1

You can go through from panel 1 to the end of page 2. On the old wiki prototype I made a long, long time ago I had it through to the end of page 19. Some of the links are outdated, so if you think it's cool I'd love help transferring files and whatnot.

[Erk]

It's up to page 4 now

[raphfrk]

Interesting, is that so you can read the comic panel by panel without the later panels acting as spoilers?

[Erk]

Partly. It creates a different reading experience that way. It also allows panel-by-panel breakdown with descriptions of what's going on for disabled readers. I'm pretty sure we can think of more uses, eg. for easy referencing by panel.

[jamie]

Holy crap! That's awesome!!

[Erk]

Glad you like it! I have to say, you did a great job capturing motion in a lot of these scenes. They almost animate themselves when set up this way.

[EthericSentinel]

Have to agree that this is a very nice presentation. When the first book's finished and I have time, I'm going to want to reread the whole thing this way.

[Bob_the_tool]

W00t! I'm so Jazzed about the new site! PLUS I signed up early enough to get an awesome name! Go Erfworld forever!

[Erk]

Great! I'm glad to have positive response, it makes a dull task more rewarding.

[greywords]

Erk - you win! Thanks for taking the time to put it together.

[Vordrax]

That's an amazing amount of work. I hope you've got the patience to stick with it. Very cool... and funny!

Description
Manpower continues to stare forward, unmoving.

Text
Gobwin: My lord?
Manpower: I can taste key lime pie.

Other notes
Key lime pie is delicious.

[raphfrk]

Text and Descriptions are now contained in their own pages and then included.

This means that the text from:

http://www.erfworld.com/wiki/index.php/TBFGK_1:1
http://www.erfworld.com/wiki/index.php/TBFGK_1:2
http://www.erfworld.com/wiki/index.php/TBFGK_1:3
http://www.erfworld.com/wiki/index.php/TBFGK_1:4
http://www.erfworld.com/wiki/index.php/TBFGK_1:5

is automatically included into

http://www.erfworld.com/wiki/index.php/Erf0001

(more accurately they both include the text from the same source)

In both cases, it is just a 1 line template to include the text.

This means that the page annotation and the panel by panel pages won't be just repeating the same work.

[Xanthir]

This is pretty awesome. It would be *especially* cool, once this is done, to compile it into a movie, perhaps with each frame showing up for a period of time proportional to the amount of written text on it. Luckily we have that stat here on the pages.

[Ancient History]

Nice. Good show.

[Xanthir]

An unfortunate side-effect: panel-by-panel pages *dominate* the Wiki, so that the "Random Page" functionality is almost useless.

[Erk]

An unfortunate side-effect: panel-by-panel pages *dominate* the Wiki, so that the "Random Page" functionality is almost useless.

Don't think of it like that: think of it like "random page" works kinda like the "random spot in the comic" feature some comics, like schlock mercenary, have.

[ShinyBrownCoat]

This is also a great way to search for a particular word or phrase you remember in a comic/panel you are trying to find! Great work!

[raphfrk]

The images for all panels are now done.

The text/descriptions are still needed, and also categories for the people that appear in each panel.

[Ancient History]

Cool. Thanks raphfrk!

[SteveMB]

Text and Descriptions are now contained in their own pages and then included.

This means that the text from:

http://www.erfworld.com/wiki/index.php/TBFGK_1:1
http://www.erfworld.com/wiki/index.php/TBFGK_1:2
http://www.erfworld.com/wiki/index.php/TBFGK_1:3
http://www.erfworld.com/wiki/index.php/TBFGK_1:4
http://www.erfworld.com/wiki/index.php/TBFGK_1:5

is automatically included into

http://www.erfworld.com/wiki/index.php/Erf0001

(more accurately they both include the text from the same source)

In both cases, it is just a 1 line template to include the text.

This means that the page annotation and the panel by panel pages won't be just repeating the same work.

If I understand the setup correctly, most of the actual page content is entered into the "Description" and "Text" template pages for each panel. I've done a batch of panels (up to Page 6).