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Hey everyone! Over the last couple of months I’ve been working on a special comic and it’s finally ready to share! If it’s not displaying properly for you, leave me a comment with your operating system and browser and we’ll fix it.

I really hope you like the comic. You guys are all so lovely and encouraging, I honestly think that I’ve found the best people on the internet :)

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Thanks! :D

This isn't labelled on the site as 425, and you need to go there to see it animate, so here it is: https://www.exocomics.com/rain/

Whoops, thanks! Updated the post, and yeah it's lovely and only animates on the site so people should go check it out!

It's 18 MB because it's GIFs, about 16 frames each... at least the palette of is optimized by panel. There is some charm to the dithering as opposed to DCT (JPG/WebP block) artifacts. Also, she only started using WebP in 2021, it wasn't viable much earlier. Technically, the static background and low-color foreground could be separated (JPG + GIF with very small palette, maybe rotated to compress streaks horizontally (GIF uses basic lossless LZW compression of the palettized image that handles high run length very well); too early for APNG) and overlaid with CSS to achieve about the same signal-to-noise ratio at about one half to one third the size. However, the noise would be different...

The falling drops that indicate loading of each image are very cool but I wonder if something similar, plus the fade-in of all images at once, could have been done with just HTML and CSS, broadening accessibility to noscript users.

What a wonderfully whimsical comic. The colour pallette is exactly right for coziness.