Pikkipi on ComicDish.com

Apparently the guys on TheDish podcast had a play with Pikkipi and made a couple of simple comics

 

 

 

 

 

You Own What You Make With Pikkipi

A few folks have commented that they weren’t sure whether they had ownership rights of anything they made with Pikkipi.  I want to set the record straight – you have total ownership, there’s no watermarks and there’s no catch.  Enjoy!

Make a Webcomic Without The Need For Drawing Skills!

If you wish to create a webcomic but don’t have drawing skills, Pikkipi does the work for you – it allows you to make up different character models, put them in poses, and compose scenes that can be inserted into a webcomic.

You can add the speech bubbles and frame the shots using any design software – or better yet a comic layout program.  For example, a lot of Apple Macs come with Comic Life which is a very easy tool for laying out panels and text captions (you can get it for Windows too).

If you’re interested in learning more about webcomics, here’s a couple of links to check out:

BuzzComix
DrunkDuck

Posted on DeviantArt

I can’t say I’m a regular visitor of DeviantArt, but I’ve browsed through there on occasion for character artwork and to see how people have done low-polygon 3D models.

I thought I’d put some Pikkipi shots up on there as it seemed a good place – maybe more appropriate even – than Flickr.  

Pikkipi on DeviantArt

…or go to Pikkipi.com itself

Free storyboard software

It occurred to me that Pikkipi could be used as a storyboarding tool – I mean storyboarding as in planning out shots for a movie.  It might be a good option for students and the like who would ideally would want industry software such as FrameForge but don’t have the money to put down and would like a free storyboarding software. 

Here’s a storyboard frame that I knocked up really quickly using Pikkipi.  I added the notes using Keynote, a presentation program on the Mac.  You could probably use all kinds of software to add arrows and annotations, or even the presentation maker in Google Docs.

make a storyboard with Pikkipi here