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Wow, I hadn't intended to completely abandon this, but out of sight, out of mind... :-) Let's see if I can finish this up!

My memory isn't as good as it used to be, but checking my old files reveals most of what I found out when I did the work for my Christmas animation... Here's the settings I used (so that I could have it as a widescreen DVD): width: 720 height: 480 pixel aspect ratio: 1.21 After you've rendered the footage, bring it into Premiere Pro and right-click on it and choose "Interpret Footage..." Then change the aspect ratio to "D1/DV NTSC Widescreen 16:9 (1.2121) The pixel aspect ratio for video is not the same as the pixel aspect ratio on your computer. By default A:M renders square pixels for computers. Note: If your copy of Premiere Pro is prior to CS4, then it's aspect ratios are faulty. Adobe fixed them in CS4. I don't know how to account for this problem. If you're doing standard 4:3 for TV, use an aspect ratio of .91 I'll point out that this is for NTSC video. PAL is different.

You guys are awesome, thanks!

I hope that's not true, Mark! There aren't that many of us left that really contribute! Part of what makes this forum work is a sense of community. It's a very personal thing to put up a work of creativity and it can be really discouraging to spend hours working on something, get excited about finishing it and posting it to the forum ...and then it just sits there with no comments. It really doesn't take much time to drop a word or two. I know I'm guilty of not doing it as much as I should, but I do try. I got all excited awhile ago when I saw that the number of posts on the Wannabe Pirates thread was reaching 500 ...until I realized most of them were probably posted by me. :-) Which is not to say that I haven't really appreciated everyone's feedback, quite the contrary! It's hard to be fully self-motivated and isn't encouragement a part of why we seek out a community like this?

Thanks, guys! I do appreciate it! Gonna' check on file info to send this poster off to print! Hopefully I can find a cheap frame while I'm at it! I'm realizing that the last time I made a poster for myself was when I was in high school. :-) Everything since then has been for somebody else! It feels good to do one just for me! :-)

I voted earlier this morning (even registered this time), but the total views didn't change... I hope it worked. :-)

I was supposed to be writing the next five strips and lettering five more Greyhawk pages, but I put that off until tomorrow to play with this! I decided to make a one-off poster that I could get framed and put on my wall. Wal-Mart charges less than $16 for a 20"x30" print... I may play with it some more, but I think it came out pretty cool! When I get everything done with this Curse of Greyhawk Island story, I think I'll do a "movie" poster for it, too!

Thanks, Paul! Just realized that I missed the 2 year anniversary. :-) I started this thread on September 1st, 2007! Doesn't seem like it's been that long!

Thanks, Ken! You're right ...need to fix that! All of the strips have identifying codes. First number is story number and second is strip #. So this one is the 15th strip of the 4th story.

I like him, Ken! Great job!

Thanks, guys! I think I can ...that's a great idea! Finished up #15 today. This will probably be the last one for this week. I need to write a new batch and do some modeling!

A classic old tune I remember hearing many a time on Dr. Demento's show! I wonder if he's still around anymore! Good stuff, Gene! Nigel was an excellent choice for this one...

Yeah, I tried it and it works, too. I don't know that I would bother turning on "Has Falloff" if you're going to manually weight the CPs. I've never had real luck with Falloff and just manually weight all of them.

Thanks, Andy!

#14! Working on #15, but probably won't finish it tonight...

I have to do some writing before I get into doing today's strips. I'm hoping to get 2 done today! But, I wanted to ask for your help! Trying to get votes for the webcomic on this Top Web Comics site. I discovered the comic was listed on it last week and it was in the 5,000s. I've been trying to get people to vote and with just 20 votes, we're already up to 501. Hoping we can make it up into the top 100! Click here to vote! Thanks! The site lets you vote once a day, so if you do happen to go to read the comic, look for the little blue "TWC" button underneath the comic (on the right side) and vote each time. It resets every month, so as many people as I can get to vote regularly, the better! Hoping to build up some awareness! I'm going to do a little Webcomics convention here in November and I saw something about it somewhere and the quote I read was "it was a bunch of webcomics you've never heard of." Not exactly ego-boosting. :-)

Thanks, Zaryin!

Looking cool already, Mark! Jim Talbot's barbarian model is great. I wonder about maybe having a more dramatic camera angle? Maybe from low and behind the barbarian, so that the dragon really looks huge?

I wouldn't count on Flemm ever learning. He doesn't seem to recognize that there are people who would take advantage of him. :-) Only one strip today. My allergies have been making me miserable all day...

No, the bookseller is not Mr. Sneeze.... He's Henrietta! :-)

And another one! Trying to make up for lost time!

Back in action!

Yeah, the story is one of those "kid gets zapped into the computer wonderland" deals. The description was that the floor was made from green tiles with silver lines on them.

Thanks! He's actually not a she, but I think they're seeing the spikes of the eyebrows and mistaking them for eyelashes. :-)

LOL... I was waiting for someone to notice that. :-) Thanks, Gerry! Barry's videos are greatness!