Giving out some early Christmas prezzies! Hopefully going to finish all these before the rush.
You may well recognise this chap, it’s Modmad’s RGB from TPoH! Yes I know he wouldn’t want to touch liquids, but at parties you kinda just end up with a drink in your hand. Also the Queen’s speech (screencap from 2011) :D
Merry Christmas Sarah!
MEGAN I WILL KISS YOUR FACE
Yes! They are all mass media and storytelling terms. The ‘hook’ is the thing that you use to grab someone’s attention; a splashy headline or a cryptic advertisement, something to make the audience pay attention and follow you. Rushes, also called dailies, are collections of raw, unedited footage. Soft Focus is a variety of technical flaw but can be used to blur an image on purpose, and Diegesis is a method of exposition. Obviously they all have double meanings and can be interpreted in different ways, and the contents and context of each chapter also affects and reflects the titles (I hope).
Yes it is, and yes there is ;)
FLASH NO LIKE ME. ME NO LIKE FLASH. PENCIL GOOD. MOD SMASH PUNY CRASHY PROGRAM okay well not really but yes I infinitely prefer using traditional pencil animation to any other form, but you can do paperless animation in Flash so I don’t mind doing that once in a while (except I don’t have flash on this computer so…)
Well, firstly thanks for reading! Hope I can keep entertaining you with it. There a few methods to make your characters stand out, but two of the biggest are that of silhouette and colour.
If you can understand what a character is doing by their silhouette, it makes the pose ‘readable’, and the motivation and acting of the character that much clearer. It’s very important to have strong, clear posing in animation, so I try to apply it in my comic as well. It can tell you what a character is doing, but it can also tell you how they feel.
The second is colour; the current backgrounds are predominantly blue. When I shade the characters I use a sepia for the tonal values, but I also designed RGB’s latest outfit with this in mind. Orange and blue are on opposite sides of the colour wheel, so it makes the character stand out. I did the same thing in the previous with Madras; the interior of the House of Paint is a green turquoise, while Madras has a scarlet pink colour scheme.
Also occasionally breaking the frame like this helps to bring the character out, but it’s best to use it sparingly. You also have to be careful that it doesn’t disorientate the reader or break the flow of the page; having character popping out of the frames tends to drag the eye towards it, so I always hesitate before doing it.
