gHacks technology news » manga http://www.ghacks.net A technology blog covering software, mobile phones, gadgets, security, the Internet and other relevant areas. Tue, 24 Nov 2009 22:37:16 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Create Your Own Manga Avatar With Face Your Manga http://www.ghacks.net/2008/08/20/create-your-own-manga-avatar-with-face-your-manga/ http://www.ghacks.net/2008/08/20/create-your-own-manga-avatar-with-face-your-manga/#comments Wed, 20 Aug 2008 14:46:38 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/?p=6311 Anime are popular, mangas are popular and hentai is, well popular to. That integral part of Japanese culture has long made its way into the West and kids are crazy after manga stuff. Face Your Manga tries to take advantage of the fact by providing its visitors a way to create their own Manga avatars to be used in forums, social bookmarking and community websites.

The process reminds of the Mii creation on the Nintendo Wii. The user picks a gender for his avatar and can then customize various facial features like the hair, eyes and nose. Nintendo Wii users should experience no difficulties creating the avatars and everyone else won’t run into a lot either.

It’s pretty much about picking the right facial feature and color to go along with the avatar. Face, Eyes, Nose, Mouth, Ears and Hairs are the six main parts of the face that can be changed. Most containing subcategories; Eyes are for instance further divided into Shape and Eyebrows.

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Add clothes, stuff and background to that and the opportunity to add makeup to the avatar. Want your avatar to wear a tie, a peace logo, tattoo and piercing? No problem. The avatars are send to an email address that has to be entered with some additional data. It’s probably a way of collecting emails and I would advise to use an email account that does not receive private emails for that. It has to be able to receive attachments so most disposable email services are out of the question.

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]]> http://www.ghacks.net/2008/08/20/create-your-own-manga-avatar-with-face-your-manga/feed/ 22 A Comprehensive Site for Manga http://www.ghacks.net/2008/06/09/a-comprehensive-site-for-manga/ http://www.ghacks.net/2008/06/09/a-comprehensive-site-for-manga/#comments Mon, 09 Jun 2008 15:27:14 +0000 Cheryl http://www.ghacks.net/?p=4925 For those of you who are new to this, manga is basically the Japanese version of a comic book. Why should manga interest you? Well, for one thing, if you enjoy watching anime, you’d know that most anime series are adapted from their manga forms. This includes hits like Naruto and Bleach, amongst others.

The disadvantage of manga is that it’s not available everywhere. So, even if you wanted to buy your favorite manga, you might not be able to. What’s the solution? Simple! You can get your manga fix online, through One Manga.

One Manga is a site that functions as a manga library. There are innumerable high quality scans of manga issues. You can find entire volumes of series as well as obscure single issues that you might not get elsewhere. Besides scans, there are a couple of manga-based games you can play. Plus, there’s a store section as well where you can purchase manga issues you liked reading.

The site offers hours of entertainment, especially if you happen to be a fan of the manga genre. Even if you’re not, I’d still recommend checking the site out. It’s a different style from traditional comic books and the artwork on some of them is stunning. Go take a look and let me know what you think.

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The high resolution video uses 550 megabytes of disk space and the low resolution one about 150 megabytes. Ben Hibon, the director and creator of the prologue explains his intentions with it the following way:

“I wanted to have a few main characters, to be able to write a variety of threads within the main story. I was also interested in illustrating different aspects of the ‘Codehunters’ world through various personalities, which I could only do with multiple characters. So although they seem to be like a “gangâ€?, they have very different provenances and experiences… separate lives. The main idea behind the creation of the characters was to illustrate different eras within the same society; the past, the present and the future.“

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