Comments on: Longer and Roomier

Longer and Roomier

ScottMorris — Thu, 14 Jul 2005 12:51:01 -0800

The Tarquin Engine, a series of Action Script routines within a Macromedia Flash FLA file, is raising the bar for infinite c a n v a s comics. With Tarquin now allowing zoomable comics to sprawl in every direction, it would seem that technology is finally catching up to the vision of Scott McCloud, who coined the phrase in his 2000 book.

By: i_am_joe's_spleen

i_am_joe's_spleen — Thu, 14 Jul 2005 13:06:23 -0800

Don't show this to Chris Ware.

By: delmoi

delmoi — Thu, 14 Jul 2005 13:10:30 -0800

Mimi's last coffe is a very cool story. Intresting technology.

By: delmoi

delmoi — Thu, 14 Jul 2005 13:11:46 -0800

There's actualy still a real restriction on this though, you're limited to 2-d space. Oh well.

By: klangklangston

klangklangston — Thu, 14 Jul 2005 14:46:29 -0800

Delmoi: Sort of. Leaving aside the implied third dimension of temporality (which could be more than implied through animation), it's only a matter of time before artists utilizing the new 3-d HDTVs get ahold of it and really change things. And, c'mon, the "still limited to 2-d" is like complaining that writing is still limited to 2-d. It's kinda irrelevant (though, I suppose you could make sequential sculptures).

By: eustatic

eustatic — Thu, 14 Jul 2005 15:37:39 -0800

hooray

By: jsavimbi

jsavimbi — Thu, 14 Jul 2005 16:48:17 -0800

Just to add to the conversation, please check out Billy Harvey's website

By: blasdelf

blasdelf — Fri, 15 Jul 2005 00:24:08 -0800

Scott McCloud is still quite the douchebag art critic. The thing is, he knows it, questions it, and ultimately embraces it. And that's good. That said, he's still an art futurist writer. Whether this is good or bad depends on you.

By: Target Practice

Target Practice — Fri, 15 Jul 2005 00:45:03 -0800

Scott McCloud's comics have two merits: They're stupidly formatted, and not at all funny. ... Wait, those aren't merits at all!

By: dickasso

dickasso — Fri, 15 Jul 2005 01:28:40 -0800

[this is ~~good~~ trivial] I've knocked up similar "engines" in an hour or so to use with other projects. Of course I didn't make a web page about them and charge $20 a pop. I'm constantly surprised at what people will pay for, once the right spin is applied - maybe that's one reason I'm not in marketing.

By: klangklangston

klangklangston — Fri, 15 Jul 2005 06:48:42 -0800

Well, dick, time to toss 'em on sourceforge for free then, innit?