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Week 4 – Comic project update –Julia & Jannie

Our idea of this story is a dog’s journey through metro in Shanghai. Our main character is a dog who got lost in the metro in Shanghai. So he has to find his way back home. During the way, he went to lots of places and had a lot of interesting stories.

When creating comics needed for the project, we used photoshop and a Wacom tablet to draw. We drew our character: the dog. And put it into a picture of the metro using photoshop. This is what we have right now:

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Then we plan to take more pictures of the metro and other places in Shanghai. So we could take the reader to go around Shanghai following the dog’s journey. And we would edit the pictures using photoshop to put our cute little dog into it.

Then I think we are going to do web design. I think we need to put a lot of effort in building the storyline because there’re a lot of choices that the reader would make. 

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Comic project: in progress—Jialu, Justin and Steve

We discussed our story plot in detail and designed our scenes and we planned to firstly see if the basic function that we want our comic to have works, and add fancy stuffs afterwards. We don’t want to be over ambitious.

For the interactive part and the function of our comic, Justin did some testing with some Javascript and managed to draw some shapes which can be used as points where users can click on and interact with.

For the visual assets, Steve and I took some pictures in the group study rooms which can be used as our background and items in our scene. We also found some images on the Internet and cropped the items with photoshop so that we can add them to our background to make the full scene of a group study room in which the user will start exploring.

We are planning to combine our stuff together on Friday and see if we could add more plot or visual effect on to the comic.

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Interactive comic update – Julia Riguerra

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This week, Jannie and I worked on delegating tasks between the both of us. I am in charge of the artistic aspect of the project, and have drawn the first four panels (two of which not pictured) on Photoshop using a Wacom tablet. I hope to be done with the whole comic by Saturday so that we can begin the interactive part of the project. We plan to use what we have learned so far in JavaScript to make it interactive, such as user input, which will make it a choose your own adventure narrative.

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Week4:The beginning of our project(Clover&Khat)

This week we discussed about the whole plot and begin to working on the plot. I draw the beginning of the story which we think it is a effective way to make our story come true. We will keep working on the story and will come to different endings. Khat will make the browser so that the readers can try different endings which make our story seems more realistic. 

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Comic Project: In Progress – Madi Eberhardt & Jamie

So far Madi and I have sketched out our protagonist, the yellowish boy with his torchlight, the ghosts and the cat, we are adding more characters once we plan out every detail of the comic on Friday.

I used photoshop and drawing pad to create the figure of the boy and use filter: Gaussian Blur to create the glowy shadow around the figure. We chose yellow as the color for the boy so that he can be spotted easily under the changing backgrounds. In making the beam for the flashlight I use the gradient to adjust the opacity of the beam and make it more like a real beam.

Madi draws on the iPad and created the ghosts and the cat which will be significant for our plot in the comic. We are still designing the interactions that can fit into the comic better without sudden disturbance and get the audience more involved in the plot

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