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Project 3 summary:
For
the comic presented in this project I wished to portray a range of
emotions that occure in common situations such as joy, sadness,
embarrassment and anger.
When
transiting from the paper format used for the zine to the web based
format used for the website I looked at what kind of interactions
could be transferred from one format to an other.
The
first interaction that comes to mind is the turning of the pages,
that can easily be replicated in the website, but then it occurred to
me that this interaction, though necessary for the paper based
publication, maybe wasn't desirable for a comic. As it is, the comic
is divided into panels that make up the structure of the story, but
having these panels spread across different pages breaks the
continuity of the narration when one must turn the page. Hens, a
layout of the comic strips that would require the minimum of
distraction from the narration of the story would be best.
Thus
a vertical layout was chosen so as to conforms with the way that the
strips were read in the zine, but with no interruption between them,
and foregoing the titles of each strip so as to to break the
narration, this was chosen by my experience from reading similar
publications and noticing that I would almost never actually read the
title of each strip.
Moreover,
I thought of using simple animations to enhance the reading
experience, but it is well known that moving objects draw more
attention than text and inanimate objects, thus I avoided them so as
not to, once again, distract from the narration of the story.
In
conclusion, I think that a simple layout with no distractions from
the comic, that can be read as a single continuous narration and
involving a minimal effort for interaction, namely, scrolling down
the page, is a good way to go for a web-comic.
References:
-Lecture
and tutorial examples.
-Personal
readings used as inspiration for the comic: Lucky
Star by Yoshimizu
Kagami and Achi Kochi by
Ishiki.
