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.