I've long wished I could do my own comic strip. Sadly, my desires have always been thwarted by my utterly pathetic drawing skills. Every time I encounter a good strip (Sluggy Freelance, Liberty Meadows, Something Positive, The Devil's Panties...) the frustrating urge returns.
Computer-animated shows also sing their siren call to me. Tripping the Rift and Game Over, despite the flawed writing, make me want to do my own.
Last night, I dreamt I used Animation:Master to bridge the gap, and created a non-animated 3D "comic" strip. I think that's something I could probably do. Start with a couple of basic sets and characters, and give them a plotline which lets me utilize them while I'm working on other sets and characters. Rendering at the resolution needed for a Web comic would be pretty quick, so it should be a simple matter to pose the characters, position the camera and bang out three or four panels a day. Then just bring them into The GIMP to add word balloons.
And the best part is, I could use the same models to do animated shorts as well.
Hmmm... From the bottom of FLEM Comics:
FLEM V2.0 is hosted on Keenspace, a free webhosting and site automation service for webcomics. If you can scribble out something and put it on the net, they will host it. No, really. It doesn't matter if you have all the artistic talent of a lobotomized boll weevil, and want to do yet another strip about chibi cat girls who cry a lot, Keenspace WILL host it. Oh, the humanity.
Maybe I could just draw it after all... :-)