Assignment 2 Completion: Making a customised layout in ' Comic Life'

[Akram, Brandon, Daniel, Dante, Courtney, Oscar, Titus]

Session Objective: Be able to create a Comic Book layout customised to fit the style of your imagery using the "Comic Life' app.

This session your mission is to use 'Comic Life' to create a layout for your graphic narrative.
The Comic Life app offers some basic templates which you can customise to create something original styled to fit your theme and imagery.

Below are before and after examples. The app allows you to customise colours, fonts, callouts etc. Colours can be sampled from your imagery to create a more professional looking outcome.


Original Template


Customised Version

WHAT TO DO:

1) Collect together your imagery in a folder on your G-drive.  Even if you have a couple of images left to take begin work on layout so that you can be sure of what you still need.

2) To give your images a more graphic feel you can download them to an Ipad and use the 'Vinci' app to stylise your imagery using a suitable filter. Images will be saved to 'photos' on the Ipad - you can then save them back to your G-drive.

3) Working on a Laptop - download your images from the G-drive to your desktop (filtered version if relevant)

4) Open the Comic Life app and choose a suitable template to start with. I used the 'superhero' template as my starting point for the version above.

5) Drag and drop your images into the boxes. You can cut, paste and re-size boxes as needed to create your basic story layout. Customise the basic template to create an original design. Click on header lettering once to change the font, double click to re-shape or distort (red dots will appear which you can then drag to re-shape).

6) SAVE YOUR TEMPLATE REGULARLY AS YOU WORK ON IT!! Back up your layout by saving the comic life file to your G-drive at the end of the session.  When it's finished export your layout as a PDF and save this to your G-drive as well.

Producing & refining your imagery

Well done for some excellent character design 

& photography work today :)

Once you have photographed the scenes of your storyboard you can add further comic book styling to your images if you want to using the Vinci or Photoshop filters on the Ipads.

To do this, sign in to your drive, save your images to the camera roll then open up the either of these apps and try applying different filters. When you find one that suits your theme and target audience you can then apply this to all your imagery.

Using apps is a design choice so thin carefully about it, can hep to further blend the 3D character with the printed background... below are some examples of your images treated with different Vinci filters


Left: "hellgun" / Right: "blood"


Left: "transverse" / Right "times"


Left: "mars" / Right: "Vendetta"

Unit 55: Assignment 2 Brief (Producing your graphic narrative piece)

Assignment 2 of this Unit is to produce your 

Graphic Narrative piece.

Below is a link to the assignment brief 

(it should have also been shared to you)

Unit 55 Assignment 2

Production Plan Template

For anyone who wants it as a starting point - here is a simple production plan template for you to adapt.

New links
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B1ti8BamV6QSc3RhcnRlcl9maWxlX2Rhc2hlclYw

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B1ti8BamV6QSOGdUMXRnMEh3Z0U



It's made in Keynote so you will need to download it to your mac to see / use it.

Session 11 | Guides Slides. Assignment 2: Production

Click on this link to see Guide Slides for Session 11.  This session is the beginning of Assignment 2: Production of your Graphic Narrative idea.

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B1ti8BamV6QSaF9TRTZwMFpQNVU