Creative iMedia 2024
R097 – Characters and comics
First an introduction...
A short history of visual storytelling
The Coventions of Comics
1 – Basic Conventions
Keeping to standard conventions is really important when making products like comics. And it'll get you marks too!
This starts from knowing what's on the page and why it's there.
Then we move on to text conventions.
There are some practical skills to develop here.
Panels to use – these are about 80mm by 80mm square
Word balloon – method 2 (Curvature Pen Tool)
2 – Creating pages and panels
You're going to have to be able to create your own panels. Fortunately this is easy.
Preparing pages slides – slides from class
Instruction sheets:
3 – More asset prep skills
Another two images to work on – prepare and then use:
Preparing images quick guide – use with the piano image
Removing backgrounds – use with the firedrill image
Here are the images:
4 – More word balloon skills
Advanced word balloons – slides from class
Text gallery – examples
Some more detail on joined and linked ballons:
Advanced linked ballons – using the curvature pen tool