Interactive Multimedia Design
Interactive Webcomics found me.
This post is probably long overdue.
Because I don't have uni today, I'll recount the entire thought process I went through to get to interactive webcomic.
If you have better things to do, Go To Page 3.
I spent weeks thinking of potential concepts for this project. Each time a new idea came through, it was 'awesome' for about 15 minutes before the sad realisation that it was probably going to be one of the most excruciatingly boring concepts everyone already knew about or couldn't care less about. Among them were motorcycles (yeh ok), trance music (or any other music genre for that matter), motorsports (so typically male), I dare say a 'history-of' project, and even architecture (yes, even architectu..z..zZz).
For each, I sat and tried to picture the format of the project, the layout, possible content, its interactive components, and the shy cringing of the audience upon hearing about it.
I don't really like facts. How about you? It's not the fact that they're facts. It's the fact that so many facts are useless. They're useless facts ('facts' doesn't even sound like a word anymore).
So I decided I was going to steer clear of anything factual, hence ruling out all previous concepts I had in mind. I realised that with facts out of the picture, I had absolute freedom to explore and create. Suddenly the sky opened up, those orbiting Cessnas from Bankstown Airport disappeared, and before me were heavenly angels with Wacom tablets.
Anyway, I wanted to draw. I've been doing it all my life. These days it's all axonometric this and 1:100 that. This was my opportunity to draw stupid random crap about nothing and everything, and not be wasting my time. Afterwards, it all fell into place. I could picture a layout, possible content, the interactive components, and the audience still cringing but it didn't matter because I liked it and I wanted to follow through.
The idea of a webcomic simply came from a fanatical obsession with Cyanide & Happiness. It never fails to crack me up. I spent a good long while browsing through the website (explosm.net), studying the illustration styles, the things characters talked about and the characters themselves.
For the presentation I drew all the slides by hand in conforming to the genre. I imagine maintaining the draw-scan-edit-crop-import-animate-save process throughout the semester would be hell. However, thanks to the wonderful people at Wacom, hell can wait. I've always wanted a tablet but never had any legitimate excuse to buy one. And know I do.
The future looks bright. About as bright as a 17" monitor for the next 8 weeks.
I'll start posting some of my own when I start drawing. A transgendered centaur might even make a cameo.
Stay tuned for the next post: Page 3: How Will Richard Pull This Off.
Because I don't have uni today, I'll recount the entire thought process I went through to get to interactive webcomic.
If you have better things to do, Go To Page 3.
I spent weeks thinking of potential concepts for this project. Each time a new idea came through, it was 'awesome' for about 15 minutes before the sad realisation that it was probably going to be one of the most excruciatingly boring concepts everyone already knew about or couldn't care less about. Among them were motorcycles (yeh ok), trance music (or any other music genre for that matter), motorsports (so typically male), I dare say a 'history-of' project, and even architecture (yes, even architectu..z..zZz).
For each, I sat and tried to picture the format of the project, the layout, possible content, its interactive components, and the shy cringing of the audience upon hearing about it.
I don't really like facts. How about you? It's not the fact that they're facts. It's the fact that so many facts are useless. They're useless facts ('facts' doesn't even sound like a word anymore).
So I decided I was going to steer clear of anything factual, hence ruling out all previous concepts I had in mind. I realised that with facts out of the picture, I had absolute freedom to explore and create. Suddenly the sky opened up, those orbiting Cessnas from Bankstown Airport disappeared, and before me were heavenly angels with Wacom tablets.
Anyway, I wanted to draw. I've been doing it all my life. These days it's all axonometric this and 1:100 that. This was my opportunity to draw stupid random crap about nothing and everything, and not be wasting my time. Afterwards, it all fell into place. I could picture a layout, possible content, the interactive components, and the audience still cringing but it didn't matter because I liked it and I wanted to follow through.
The idea of a webcomic simply came from a fanatical obsession with Cyanide & Happiness. It never fails to crack me up. I spent a good long while browsing through the website (explosm.net), studying the illustration styles, the things characters talked about and the characters themselves.
For the presentation I drew all the slides by hand in conforming to the genre. I imagine maintaining the draw-scan-edit-crop-import-animate-save process throughout the semester would be hell. However, thanks to the wonderful people at Wacom, hell can wait. I've always wanted a tablet but never had any legitimate excuse to buy one. And know I do.
The future looks bright. About as bright as a 17" monitor for the next 8 weeks.
I'll start posting some of my own when I start drawing. A transgendered centaur might even make a cameo.
Stay tuned for the next post: Page 3: How Will Richard Pull This Off.
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