SPEECH BUBBLES size and placement ! Let's talk about it 🄰

Nah, you’re not a freak. You should see how many hours I stare at the screen just to make sure the dialogue is absolutely perfect… I’m convinced that the dialogue is super important but apparently it’s not because I’ve read lots of stories where they just kinda ignore grammar and spelling and all that… I’m the perfectionist here

This is why the deadline for the R&R contest is in two weeks and I’m still working on episode one :expressionless:

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how long does it take you to make one episode ?

This is my first story, so I have no idea
I started writing months ago but I didn’t start writing an actual story to publish until recently

me i do this omg!! i didn’t realise there was hardly people who did this wowowowow :flushed:

i just find it much easier to read when they’re coming from the right character and i use 75% to 80%. i don’t like the way the 100% looks so i always edit speechbubble size. i normally put the speechbubble at the chest it can depend on the scene though

yeah me too ! i remember the firts time i sat down to start writing my first story on episode it took me a month to finish the first episode and now i’m done within 2 days ahaha

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haha yessss ! someone who knows what i’m talking about ahaha, yeah 100% is way too big and take up all the space

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exactly ugdhdh i thought it was more common for people to adjust them but i guess not. i literally change the speechbubble each time a different person speaks lmao

perfection is in the small detailsss period :nail_care: :nail_care: :tipping_hand_woman: :bowing_woman:

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i put mine at 65% because theyre never in the place I want them

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and is it readeble on screen ? not to small ?

I mean…sometimes the speech speechbubbles tend to get displaced when you zoom at a certain angle and need to be corrected but when your story has a lot of dialog from an array of different characters in a single scene, spotting all of them takes way too much time. Luckily for us there’s always the display name so we know who’s speaking even if it isn’t pointing to the correct character.

I usually spot them for off screen characters or a narration bubble to emphasize a specific place on screen.

The bubble size however, is a good idea because they tend to completely block spotted far away characters in a zoomed out scenes.

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I only change them in the right direction… and shrink there size if the speech bubbles blocks a characters face too much. :wink:

And where do you put them ?

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Nope, same here… But I don’t use speech bubbles if I let the same character talk (with animation of course) after a few seconds…

Mostly on the shoulder with the tail towards the character that is speaking… :wink:

It really depends how zoomed in the scene is. If I’m zoomed in a lot, I’ll use the 100%. If the scene is really zoomed out, I’ll reduce the size of the speechbubble because I always find that a 100% speechbubble looks so weird on small characters. They look disproportionate. I have speechbubble commands before every line.
Also, the tails have to be facing the correct way and the speechbubble has to be infront of the person speaking, otherwise it bugs me!

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same !

nah its readable its like the perfect size because I hate when speech bubbles are massive

okay

I don’t have a default, but I do usually have to place them each scene so that they’re situated at a decent place+size. I usually place them at the abdomen. Going back and adding each character’s dialogue bubble settings is usually the last thing I’ll do for a scene to signify it’s really done.

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