Source: Friendly Garg
The folks at the Gargaholics have just announced the start of a new comic:

We’ve been having this idea for a daily/weekly comic strip for ages, but it just didn’t work out because of the amount of work that had to be done, so we scrapped the plans.

Just a couple of days ago I found this website featuring Half life comics, called Half Park:
- http://www.quirkybastards.net/halfpark/half_park.html
After a discussion on the forum about how to create such cool comics, I find myself trying something similar. A couple of hours later the results were pretty good if I may say so myself, specially when I had no idea at all how to even begin drawing those characters and backgrounds.



Now I’ve been working in Flash creating some bodies, heads, hair, mouths, backgrounds, etc. So I started thinking about having some kind of program that let’s people create there own comics very easy, using flash.



Now to get to the point:

We’re creating a Half Life based comic style south parkish strip program based on the Half Park comics from the Half Park site, in FLASH. We don’t have a name for this project yet since I only thought about this a few days ago (and it takes time to make up a good name). In this program, which will be a Flash MX 2004 source file (will be perhaps converted to older versions of flash), will give people the ability to create there very own comic strips just by copying the images from the flash source. Of course, you’ll need some Flash skills, but we’ll include a manual how to work with it.

To go into further details about this flash source, here’s a screen:



There will be two source (fla) files: The custom character creator and the custom background creator. Each file has it’s own scenes (categories in this case) and in each category there will be different layers. Like when having twenty hair styles, each with different standard colors and positions. A scene will be added called “hair types” and within the scene, each layer represent one hair style with different positions and angles. Good thing we’ll include a manual :)

We’re now looking for people who would like to draw some items of there own to be included in this flash project. We have some different kinds of eyes, hair, etc. But we need more! If your going to give it a try and have something you think we could use, submit them to:

submissions@friendlygarg.hlgaming.com

If you’re not sure about something, join our forums:
http://friendlygarg.hlgaming.com/phpBB/index.php

Check some of our work out that we made already:
- http://friendlygarg.hlgaming.com/clone/oh my.html




- http://friendlygarg.hlgaming.com/clone/g-man%20eaten.swf

Oh, and if you happen to be good at php, we still need someone to create us a script so our team can upload images and stories themselves. If you have some free time, contact me:
friendlygarg@friendlygarg.hlgaming.com