Comic Strip Development/Trial

Comic Strip Development/Trial

Ok so I've decided to do a moving comic strip for one of my projects, I've now put a bit of thought into how this might work.

Weirdly the first thing that came to mind while thinking about this was my pixilation piece for my previous module, I did like it but I always felt that I could have done it better or in a different way. What I most liked about it was the first person view of the hands on the screen. So I really wanted to do something like this

Idid a couple of quick sketches to see how this would look then a more neat one that I could use to work with on Photoshop. I'm thinking at the minute that the animation will start from this view and then zoom in shortly afterwards to each panel individually. I'm hoping to give each panel of the comic book perhaps a few seconds of animation, and it entire thing will last about a minute and a half. I think that was one of the main weaknesses of my pixilation last time that it lasted far too long, so this time my work is going to be short and sweet.

So I took my sketch into photoshop and made it look a lot better and neater, it's not perfect but I just wanted to see how this would look after I've worked on it in Photoshop.

Well I've got a few ideas for this, one is that the hands could look really messed up, old and creepy. I do want to develop them a lot too, at the minute they're very Jamie Hewlett inspired, which is great but I want to make them my own and develop my own style, obviously with a lot of influence from his work but I don't want to simply copy him all the time. The other idea I have is as you've probably noticed I have no background at the minute (well I've coloured it in blue if that counts). But I think it would be really cool to do an example of really bad green screening, have the reader walk through lots of daft locations every time the animation zooms back out towards the hands. A running joke every time his location gets more weird, for instance he could simply be walking in the street to begin with, and then end up floating in space the next time the animation zooms out.

Well to pull this off I'm going to have to do a serious amount of work, I probably won't be finished for the presentation at the end of term, but I will get it finished for the deadline, I'll try animating the walking feet and a couple of page turns next. I also need to come up with a story, I'll probably do my flat on a night out but the animation will only be basic for the comic book so that shouldn't take a lifetime to produce. Time to start working then....