Motivators and Lolerfs (image-heavy)

[SteveMB]

Thanks. I considered using "...between love and torture" instead. It fit the image, but it just seemed a bit too dark, even for my tastes. Just consider the text without the JillianXWanda context...

"Love and Brainwashing" might also work; it's a matter of which wording you think carries the right connotations.

[Mr. Dragon]

Titansdammit! I need my erffix!

[ryos]

Then it does. I didn't mean to cause second-guessing, that's a mood killer too. Mine were blatant. Go with your gut.

Also, love your lolerfs! They brought me some much-needed lols.

Thanks. I'm glad they made someone other than me smile. :)

[zillion ninjas]

After Stanley did his Vizzini bit (from The Princess Bride), I couldn't let the thought go...

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I don't recall ever seeing a non-Erf motivator based on the original quote, but I'm sure someone's done it before. Is there no end to the awesomeness of that film?

"Love and Brainwashing" might also work; it's a matter of which wording you think carries the right connotations.

Hmm. Yeah, that would work too, but I prefer "mind-control" in this case - it matches some of Wanda's past dialogue, rather than past forum posts.

It had to happen eventually..
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Yes, but you did it first! And well done it was.

[Scientivore]

Good news! I've updated the first post with a linkbanner that (if I understand correctly) fulfills the attribution requirement of the Creative Commons license that Rob and Jamie are using for Erfworld. I'm not certain, but I believe that it's enough to cover the thread in the same way that they don't put the copyright and byline on every single page of the comic.

It had to happen eventually..

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That's a powerful meme! Check out this post on the Erfworld LJ community that SteveMB linked.

[SteveMB]

After Stanley did his Vizzini bit (from The Princess Bride), I couldn't let the thought go...

I don't recall ever seeing a non-Erf motivator based on the original quote, but I'm sure someone's done it before. Is there no end to the awesomeness of that film?

Good one. (It occurs to me that four of my motivators/demotivators use quotes (sometimes tweaked) from various places, and three of the others use the character quotes from the cast page. That might resonate a bit because of the parallel to the pop-culture references worked into the comic.)

Hmm. Yeah, that would work too, but I prefer "mind-control" in this case - it matches some of Wanda's past dialogue, rather than past forum posts.

True; I was just throwing it out off the top of my head as a possibility.


And now, after reading today's xkcd, and deciding not to wait until 2021:

[zillion ninjas]

That might resonate a bit because of the parallel to the pop-culture references worked into the comic.

Yeah, Erfworld was obviously made for (and of) pop-culture references. As evidenced by the very first page.

True; I was just throwing it out off the top of my head as a possibility.

S'arright. Great art is a process, not a result. And so is the schlock I crank out.

And now, after reading today's xkcd, and deciding not to wait until 2021:
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Agreed - I'll be middle-aged and too cranky to enjoy it then.



Not as clever as "base hex", but completely inevitable.

[jindra34]

Yeah, Erfworld was obviously made for (and of) pop-culture references. As evidenced by the very first page.



S'arright. Great art is a process, not a result. And so is the schlock I crank out.



Agreed - I'll be middle-aged and too cranky to enjoy it then.



Not as clever as "base hex", but completely inevitable.

That would have been funnier on the Ansom crinkling report picture.

[Winged One]

Request: Last panel of Erf 55(Gobwin Knob 49), with "you have no chance to survive make your time" Possibly with "ha ha ha ha ha ha ha" as well.

[TigerHunter]

Much better than my last one, if I do say so myself.

[TigerHunter]

Apologies for the double post. Ah, the fruits of boredom.

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[Mr. Dragon]

This is dedicated to everybody doesn't mourn the "air commando" hairy chests that were so cool and posh in the 70s/80s

[SteveMB]

I have got to remember to put the cat down before reading these threads. Or at least clip his claws more often....

[ryos]

Link for the uninitiated.

[zillion ninjas]

In the "Erf 66/60" thread, king korath mentioned a certain Admiral Ackbar:



Unfortunately, my GIMP-fu isn't nearly great enough to reshape the original speech bubbles, or to remove Ansom's bubble entirely (although it isn't too far out of place here, either).

Also, did Rob ever say what fonts he uses for speech bubbles? I was hoping to match the native Erf-font, but this was as close as I got without downloading something new.

EDIT: Now with realistic Gorrilla Milkshake font action! And as a bonus, one crudely redrawn speech bubble.

[Scientivore]

Also, did Rob ever say what fonts he uses for speech bubbles? I was hoping to match the native Erf-font, but this was as close as I got without downloading something new.

Gorilla Milkshake, a free Blambot title font.

[zillion ninjas]

Gorilla Milkshake, a free Blambot title font.

I thank you, my ninjas thank you, and my future LOLerfs thank you.

[SteveMB]

And going back to LOLCat roots:

[zillion ninjas]

Request: Last panel of Erf 55(Gobwin Knob 49), with "you have no chance to survive make your time" Possibly with "ha ha ha ha ha ha ha" as well.

Arright, one more AYB. That's a bit too much text for one un-blown-up panel, so I co-opted its neighbor:



BTW, I've found that these small art mods really aren't that hard to do using free tools like The GIMP. As long as you stick to crop/copy/paste/text, it's pretty simple, and that's all that you need for basic motivators and lolerfs. (Well, that and a sense of humor. And Rob and Jamie's great source material!) Give it a try - you might like it.

On a personal note, I don't claim to have any sort of actual drawing ability, and my posts in this thread are really my first attempts at anything like this. I've been pleasantly surprised with the results (and I hope others have enjoyed them as well).

[Scientivore]

I can testify that I don't draw well and that I hadn't ever used an image editor with layers before I made my first fanmix of a webcomic. My first few (of The Bastard Swordsman) were in GIMP, using a page provided without lettering. Remixing webcomics quickly became my favorite hobby and now I have some decent skill at it, all developed by doing it.

That reminds me, I'm a lot better now than I was when I made my Erfworld fanmix. I want to go back and rework it at some point, though probably not this week.

[TheTurnipKing]

Every now and then, even I get a little inspiration.

[Waldgeist]

Thar's me bucket!

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Plans for the party...

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[zillion ninjas]

Plans for the party...

Now, that's what I call a party platter formation! But don't forget the Crazy Bread.

Of course, Jillian is an active girl - she needs to keep her strength up.

[SteveMB]

I've done some tweaking on mine, changing a few font choices (most notably, using Gorilla Milkshake for the ones that are cast-page quotes) and making them slightly smaller (that gets the horizontal-format ones within the 400-pixel rule, and reduces the artifacts that show up in enlarged images that were taken direct from the comic rather than from the blowups Rob provided).

[TigerHunter]

The quotation marks indicate that it's a translation from the Arachnoidese that we see in the picture. Just in case it's unclear.
(Hrmph. It's supposed to be a brighter shade of green. I blame Cerebus.)

[TigerHunter]

I got up in the middle of the night to work on this burst of inspiration. Are you not entertained?!

Alternative title text: "When Stanley dreams..."

[Scientivore]

I took the Conan quote from the demotivator thread and made a full-blown, non-demotivating fanmix.

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Update: I've renamed it from an "Erfworld Remix" to an "Erfworld/Conan Mashmix" to give credit for the other resource used.

[ChowGuy]

Alternative title text: "When Stanley dreams..."

An alternative Speech bubble (suggested by your original)

"By your command?" in a very "mechanical" font. Or is that a "pop culture" reference that goes too far back? Nah... they did Charlie's Angels.

[TigerHunter]

An alternative Speech bubble (suggested by your original)

"By your command?" in a very "mechanical" font. Or is that a "pop culture" reference that goes too far back? Nah... they did Charlie's Angels.

It was inspired by This strip. Although yours would work, too.

[ChowGuy]

It was inspired by This strip. Although yours would work, too.

Heh. Much as I like TAG, the meme just isn't that common.