Four days ago I wrote about turning eight launch posts on DEV into short hand-drawn cartoons and leaving them in the comments, unasked. That post e...
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Wow! You made 29 cartoons?! That's really impressive! Thanks for creating one for GiffyPy! :D I would recommend that you try creating fewer but higher-quality cartoons. Some of them were really good, while some weren't. Maybe people will consider buying when they see a really good sample?
That's fair. One an hour was the rule I set; it is not the rule the cartoons need.
If you remember which ones felt weak, I'd like to know. Was it the drawing, the pacing, or that the story didn't land? I'll redo the worst one properly rather than add a thirtieth.
Also, one thing I noticed in the sample was that the images had different art styles. It would be dramatically better if you could find images in the same style and stroke width. It really does make a big difference. While that's not a problem with your tool, the cartoons will look much better. In the first 8 seconds of the "Llama Village" cartoon, it looked really good because all images had similar art styles (not the same, but similar; it can also be improved)!
You were right about the mixed styles, so I rebuilt the cast instead of hunting for matching images. Two new characters, Joe (a coffee mug) and Quack (a rubber duck), and three rooms, all rendered in one 3D style with the same light.
The first cartoon with them is GiffyPy again, as a 44-second dialogue. It's at the top of the samples page: ssap-pa.github.io/scripttoon-samples
The walkthrough post will use this cast.
Wow!!! This is a thousand times better! 😮 Thank you so much for choosing GiffyPy! ☺️ Now I really wish I could purchase it! This cartoon is REALLY impressive! It now supports lip-syncing too?!
Thank you! And GiffyPy was an easy pick: the post had all the jokes in it already.
On lip-sync: it's the simple kind, not real phoneme matching. Each pose has three mouth frames (closed, half open, open) plus a blink, and on every frame the engine picks the mouth from how loud the voice is at that moment. It reads as talking at cartoon speed, but it won't shape an "o" or an "m".
The walkthrough you suggested is up, with the real commands and timings from this GiffyPy cartoon: dev.to/ssapable/how-one-scripttoon...