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Celebrating 100+ pages of MonBod! (And a Question)
3 years ago
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First of all, I've finished Chapter 4 and Monstrous Bodies officially has over 100 completed comic pages! This is wild to me. Thanks to everyone who's been keeping up with the story here. There will be another wait before Ch 5 can start - got lots of pre-production and thumbnailing that can happen before I work on the final pages. Chapter 5 will represent a pretty big milestone in the story, so I'm doing my very best to start bringing you new pages as soon as I can.
I've decided that for the foreseeable future, I'll definitely keep posting pages here on FA. Your kind words show me that people are reading and checking it out on here, and it's convinced me that I should keep up with it. I really, really appreciate it.
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I've got a question about what y'all prefer on FA - As I've been replacing some older pages' source files as I worked on fixing text-setting, it also made those pages(All of Chapters 1 and 2) come out at the bigger resolution of 3100 x 4800. This is certainly a more detailed size than the regular resized files end up at (827 x 1280). But I wanted to ask which size you prefer - as the bigger side, on my laptop, is a lot more "stretched out," meaning a lot more of it is cut-off and I can't see as much of the page at once. This makes some of the pages, IMO, end up looking a bit worse for reading.
Here's a quick example if you haven't looked at the previous chapters' pages in a while:
3100 x 4800 (Ch 2 Pg 25) https://www.furaffinity.net/view/42817328/
827 x 1280 (Ch 4 Pg 24) https://www.furaffinity.net/view/46709296/ (The most recent page)
Do you prefer the extra resolution in the bigger size? Or is it better for it to be easier to read at the smaller size?
When I update the source file, FA's size limitation goes away and it makes the much bigger page. If y'all prefer the "original" smaller pages, I can work around this by updating the source file with pre-shrunk pages. Both of the other comic sites I host the story on make me shrink the pages before uploading them, so I have smaller pages onhand already. I'd like to hear what y'all think, as the inconsistency of page sizes is a little weird, but I'm not sure which people like better.
I've decided that for the foreseeable future, I'll definitely keep posting pages here on FA. Your kind words show me that people are reading and checking it out on here, and it's convinced me that I should keep up with it. I really, really appreciate it.
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I've got a question about what y'all prefer on FA - As I've been replacing some older pages' source files as I worked on fixing text-setting, it also made those pages(All of Chapters 1 and 2) come out at the bigger resolution of 3100 x 4800. This is certainly a more detailed size than the regular resized files end up at (827 x 1280). But I wanted to ask which size you prefer - as the bigger side, on my laptop, is a lot more "stretched out," meaning a lot more of it is cut-off and I can't see as much of the page at once. This makes some of the pages, IMO, end up looking a bit worse for reading.
Here's a quick example if you haven't looked at the previous chapters' pages in a while:
3100 x 4800 (Ch 2 Pg 25) https://www.furaffinity.net/view/42817328/
827 x 1280 (Ch 4 Pg 24) https://www.furaffinity.net/view/46709296/ (The most recent page)
Do you prefer the extra resolution in the bigger size? Or is it better for it to be easier to read at the smaller size?
When I update the source file, FA's size limitation goes away and it makes the much bigger page. If y'all prefer the "original" smaller pages, I can work around this by updating the source file with pre-shrunk pages. Both of the other comic sites I host the story on make me shrink the pages before uploading them, so I have smaller pages onhand already. I'd like to hear what y'all think, as the inconsistency of page sizes is a little weird, but I'm not sure which people like better.
As for the size, I just checked on both mobile and computer.
On mobile, the pages appear exactly the same size, so I guess either my phone automatically resizes it, or FA dos. Either way, for my phone (which is actually a Samsung tablet, I don't own a smaller phone) either size is fine.
On computer instead, the bigger page is not resized, so I have to scroll further to read it. I need to scroll for the smaller page too anyway so I think in the end you can choose the size you're most comfortable uploading!
And thanks for the feedback! I realize that the page display size probably isn't too big of a deal either way, but if there was something that readers had a specific preference about I'd definitely adjust. I think I'll probably shift the uploads to the larger pages. The higher image quality probably makes up for needing to scroll a little more? My pages usually have enough "rows" that there isn't really anything that seems to get too cut off by displaying at the larger size, which was my main concern. I've seen some comics formatted like that where on my computer, it's actually hard to follow because of how much is cut off.