{"id":212,"date":"2026-08-01T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-01T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mangor.com\/brain\/?p=212"},"modified":"2026-08-02T05:24:03","modified_gmt":"2026-08-02T05:24:03","slug":"blind-squid-comic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mangor.com\/brain\/2026\/08\/01\/blind-squid-comic\/","title":{"rendered":"Blind Squid Comic"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Years ago, I made a short zine comic strip called <strong>BLINDSQUID<\/strong>. It was rough and came straight out of Flash. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I\u2019m working on making a few more and just finished rebuilding the main character in Moho Pro. It\u2019s been time-consuming, but the upside is that I\u2019ll be able to animate him properly down the road. The real sting, though? I could already animate him in Adobe Animate, where he was originally created. Moving away from the Adobe ecosystem is definitely a painful process.Here is the original first strip #1:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"900\" height=\"231\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mangor.com\/brain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/001s.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-219\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mangor.com\/brain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/001s.jpg 900w, https:\/\/www.mangor.com\/brain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/001s-300x77.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.mangor.com\/brain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/001s-768x197.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Here is the raw pre rigged redraw of Ed in Moho Pro: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"828\" height=\"865\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mangor.com\/brain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Pasted-image-20260801211705.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-221\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mangor.com\/brain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Pasted-image-20260801211705.png 828w, https:\/\/www.mangor.com\/brain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Pasted-image-20260801211705-287x300.png 287w, https:\/\/www.mangor.com\/brain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Pasted-image-20260801211705-768x802.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 828px) 100vw, 828px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I&#8217;m trying to keep the original grittiness but at same time slight update. Adobe has become such a monstrosity, I only look for ways to free my art from their subscriptions. Its going to take some time but I think it is worth it. (Yes my genx soul needs his tshirt to be more black)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Years ago, I made a short zine comic strip called BLINDSQUID. It was rough and came straight out of Flash. I\u2019m working on making a few more and just finished rebuilding the main character in Moho Pro. It\u2019s been time-consuming, but the upside is that I\u2019ll be able to animate him properly down the road. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[77,38],"tags":[78],"class_list":["post-212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blindsquid","category-brain","tag-blindsquid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mangor.com\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mangor.com\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mangor.com\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mangor.com\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mangor.com\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/www.mangor.com\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":230,"href":"https:\/\/www.mangor.com\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212\/revisions\/230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mangor.com\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mangor.com\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mangor.com\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}