URL: http://imanas.shanghai.nyu.edu/~yz4970/week5/start/startpage.html
For the interactive comic project, Jannie and I split the work by dividing the web design and the artistic components. I worked on the art while Jannie worked on the coding.
To create the comic, I knew I wanted to use my artistic skills and familiarity with Photoshop, which I have previously used to draw recreationally. I initially wanted to take preexisting photos and draw on top of them, though this proved to be difficult when taking photos off of Google, since the resolution and size were quite poor. I did attempt this in three of the panels I drew:
Drawing the dog to scale proved to be very difficult, so I decided to simply draw the panels completely by hand, and included real photos within the panel:
This made the aesthetic seem more akin to a real comic, so I stuck with this method because it was easier and quicker. I also learned how to create gifs in Photoshop, which was a lot simpler than I originally thought it to be:
Another thing to note is how time-consuming art can be, and I often underestimated how long each panel would take to draw, which affected my time management. I spent most of my time since this project was assigned drawing, yet I still feel like I did not make enough panels. As such, I was not able to help Jannie with the coding aspect because of how time-consuming both aspects of this project are. It is also difficult to collaborate on a coding project remotely, and we were not able to meet up very often due to conflicting schedules. Nevertheless, I was able to learn a lot about content creation through this project as well as interactivity, even though I was not directly involved in the programming part of the project so much as the content.