Comic Books for the Masses?
Posted in Art and Animation, Flash, Photoshop on June 27th, 2008 by burtabreuI like to draw and have often thought of creating a comic book. My character skills are still a bit underdeveloped and getting a consistent result from frame to frame takes a lot of time. Using Flash as a way to build reusable characters to pose and render out as static comics (or with some animation like moving clouds, exploding panels etc) has been on my mind. I imagine the standard library building techniques would be great for this and once built, could speed up the process - what do you think?
| Ryan Simmons at CartoonSolutions, who I interviewed last year, has created a series of Comic Book Products. These include comic book page templates, action sounds, word and thought balloons. All of these can be used with the background, prop and character packs.
All the products are pretty inexpensive so I decided to put together a quick page. Here is what I did in about one hour (click to see a larger version) …
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