Toonbots archive - episode published 20010110


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Stick figure week! The metacartoonist pokes fun at the world at large by demonstrating that what traditional twentieth cartoonists considered to be a simplification can be seen as an event of all-consuming complexity in the reinvented modern world.

The script used to make this toon:
<cartoon height="400" width="400" rowformat="2">
<panel>
  <character name="hick" rel-h="50" rel-w="60">
    <draw type="line" start="top left" end="top right"/>
    <draw type="line" start="top left" end="middle"/>
    <draw type="line" start="top right" end="middle"/>
    <draw name="leftleg" type="line" start="middle" end="middle down 50 left 30"/>
    <draw name="rightleg" type="line" start="middle" end="middle down 50 right 30"/>
    <draw name="head" type="ellipse" center="top up 30" rel-h="30" rel-w="50"/>
    <draw name="leftarm" type="line" start "top left" end="top left down 45 left 5"/>
    <draw name="rightarm" type="line" start "top right" end="top right down 45 right 5"/>
  </character>
  <character name="hick" action="leaves"/>
  <caption fgcolor="blue" location="bottom middle">Hello, Hick!</caption>
</panel>
<panel>
  <character name="chick" rel-h="50" rel-w="60">
    <draw type="line" start="left" end="right"/>
    <draw type="line" start="left" end="top"/>
    <draw type="line" start="right" end="top"/>
    <draw name="leftleg" type="line" start="middle left 5" end="middle down 50 left 30"/>
    <draw name="rightleg" type="line" start="middle right 5" end="middle down 50 right 30"/>
    <draw name="head" type="ellipse" center="top up 30" rel-h="30" rel-w="50"/>
    <draw name="leftarm" type="line" start "top down 5 left 4" end="top down 30 left 30"/>
    <draw name="rightarm" type="line" start "top down 5 right 4" end="top down 30 right 30"/>
  </character>
  <caption fgcolor="blue" location="bottom middle">Hello, Chick!</caption>
</panel>
<panel>
  <character name="hick" action="returns"/>
  <character name="hick" action="leaves"/>
  <character name="chick" action="leaves"/>
  <caption fgcolor="blue" location="top left" direction="down">Stick, stick, stick, stick,</caption>
  <caption fgcolor="blue" location="bottom right">stick, stick, stick!</caption>
</panel>
<panel>
      <character name="boxjam" rel-h="50" rel-w="90">
        <draw name="face" type="ellipse" fill="rgb(151,226,255)"/>
        <point name="bridge" loc="middle up 5"/>
        <draw name="lefteye" fill="rgb(151,226,255)" type="ellipse" rel-h="20" rel-w="20" center="bridge left 15"/>
        <draw name="righteye" fill="rgb(151,226,255)" type="ellipse" rel-h="20" rel-w="20" center="bridge right 15"/>
      </character>
      <character name="boxjam" action="modify">
        <draw name="lefteye" center="right 20"/>
        <draw name="righteye" center="right 15" width="80%" height="80%"/>
      </character>
      <character name="dot"/>
   <caption location="top left" size="20">Did that make sense?</caption>
   <caption location="bottom right" size="20" fgcolor="blue">Make what?</caption>
</panel>
</cartoon>







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