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i have left two coments on two other people's blog to tell them what i like about their final piece and what i think they could do better

evaluation

over the past month we have been researching, designing a story and aiming to create an interactive comic .before making our interactive comic we looked at a range of already existing interactive comics. these included 'hotel' by h.hoogerbrugge and 'dead on arrival' by Matt Gibson and Geoff Gaviria. their work was different to each others, in 'hotel' there was allot of traditional methods for example all their drawings were made on a graphics tablet which is traditional and they used recordings. but they also used some digital methods because the changed the pitch and speed of the voices.
first i had to think of an interesting story. my story idea was to make the reader go through the story and find out who has eaten the princesses birthday cake, i change my story a couple times but finally when back to my original idea.the second thing i had done after figuring out what my story was going to evolve around was i had to create a story board. i used a traditional method to created the pictures i kneaded, once i had finished the story board i used a graphics tablet to create the final images.
after i used flash to animate it i used digital methods as i used classic tweans in my animation.

originally I wanted it to be more interactive so the reader wouldn't become bored during the story but as i was making my animation i found it difficult to create the buttons to make my story interactive. i have put some buttons in there but there aren't as many as I would of liked.

the script in my animation is a little childish and not really very interesting. also some of the conversations were a little rushed and i think i should have added in more to them.
the first time the scene changed was good because it changed gradually but after the first one all the others didn't have a gradual change so it became very jumpy.

if i was to re-do my animation then i would have followed the story board that i drew, as in my final outcome it doesn't follow the story board and is very different at the end. i would also have added more into the conversations as some bits seam like they are missing. i would have made the transition between each new scene(place) allot smoother as the whole animation looks jumpy. and i would have added more blinks and emotion marks.        

shout outs / speech bubbles

today we learned how to create a speech bubble in flash. it was quite simple. we used the oval tool with a black outline and white centre, then we used the line tool to ad a point onto it, after that we got rid of the line we didn't knead with the selection tool. and that's how we created a speech bubble 

panning and zooming

we zoomed and panned across a picture by using flash the way we did this was we used the same method as we did for our previous animation (we made a classic tween) a classic tween is a digital process not a traditional the difference between digital and traditional is digital is when the computer does the work and traditional is when you yourself does the work

story board

i have decided to change my story back to the origonal one about the princesses cake because i was told that it was boring. but i have decided to keep my new characters.

at the beginning i will put a picture of the cake and it will be a sertain colour and then in the culprets room (the maid) i will put some stains and icing on the picture that is the same colour of the cake so then it will be like a clue. 

change in story idea

i have changed my story idea as the last one was a bit childish and i also didn't have many ides about how i would do the story.

so my new idea is going to be a side story to a story i have started righting at home.

in my comic it will be about tenshi (the girl on the right) and Ike (the boy on the left) day out. the way this story will be interactive is the reader will be able to chose were they go and what they do there for example the 2 choices that the reader will be given for were they can go is to either the park or the festival, then say the reader chooses the festival. the next choice would've bean what they eat eg. noodles or candy.
or if it was the park the options would be weather to fead the ducks or to go on a boat.

my idea

my idea is that it is the princesses birthday and there is a party and everyone goes to reveal the cake to the princess but then the cake has bean eaten. so they way it will be interactive is that you as a reader has to find out who it the person that ate it.
the characters are
the pricess
pince
king
cook
dog
and a stepmother

i have the sketch already done for the princess

and i have also done the desighn for the prince