Link to Comic
Blog Poster: Shirley Liu
Description:
Originally our plan was to make comic of a girl seeing her parents fighting and then she starts to daydream of going on a trip. In reality, her parents were not fighting and she was actually on a trip. It was difficult to distinguish what was the daydream and what was reality so we chose to change the plot. So we changed it to a doughball finding a magic door and through this door, the doughball goes on a trip to many different famous places. Then, after the last trip, the doughball ends up in her bed back home.
Process:
For the process of the project, I was responsible for the drawing assets. I drew the backgrounds with an Apple Pencil using a drawing app on an iPad. Firstly, Selina formatted the layout and used jquery to figure out how to make a slideshow. It was effective in telling the story however I wanted to make it a little more interactive and a little less choppy. We originally wanted to make a scroll but we could not figure it out. However, after thinking about it some more and researching online, I added an event listener called wheel to the image and changed the display from none to block to move from one image to another. Doing so would allow the user to scroll and be more engaged in the website. Additionally, on the last image, the user would be able to click on the door to advance to the next page. For the ending, I wanted to leave it up to the user’s interpretation of whether or not doughball was dreaming or ended up back home through the door. I would have liked it to be a little smoother but that may have required more images with doughball.
Closing Statements:
I am very happy with the outcome of our project. I believe it incorporates interactive measures that allow the reader to be engaged. Overall, I really enjoyed working on this interactive comic project.