Design Comics :: Characters and Scenes for Storyboarding & Design. Comic Strip Artist's Kit (Redux) Writing this blog, believe it or not, is a lot of hard work! But there are so many people who have said such nice things about the stuff I've written that it keeps me going. Another side effect of the blog is that other artists find me. It's great to hear from students, fellow animation people, and every once in a while, a real legend in the field. The other day I got an e-mail from Carson Van Osten, a famous Disney artist who did many Disney Comic Books and created the famous "Comic Strip Artist's Kit". It was created to help beginning comic artists deal with perspective problems and other drawing difficulties. I scanned my old xeroxes a while ago. It's probably the best thing I've ever seen about practical staging and drawing for storyboards or comic books.
Anyway Carson saw it on my blog and read what nice things people had said about it and it really meant a lot to him. Here's the history of the handout, in Carson's own words: Click to see bigger. Webcomics. My first webcomic launched with this site in 1998. From 1998 to 2004, I regularly posted new comics in various experimental formats, occasionally getting into long online debates about whether this-or-that format was a step toward the future of comics or just a gimmicky dead-end. Most of the comics in this section play with the idea of treating the screen as a window rather than a page (the so-called "infinite canvas" style, most often associated with my book Reinventing Comics). For the most part, that meant big, clunky html tables for users to scroll through, but a few of the later comics like The Right Number test-drove alternate methods like plug-ins which weren't available when the site launched in '98. From 2004 on, I took a break from webcomics to create a couple of books and go on the road with my family for a year, but I hope to create new content again soon, starting with the conclusion of The Right Number and at least one more Morning Improv.
--Scott February 2009. Kev/null - Presentations. ##See What I Mean For those who’ve attended the session or workshops previously, thanks! Hope you enjoyed it and as always, we’d love to hear how it was applied and whether it was useful. More importantly, we’d like to know how it could be improved. This post will serve as the place where I’ll keep the resources related to the presentation updated.
If you do end up using this technique, please do let me know as I’d love to show some examples of other people using comics in design. ##Upcoming Presentations / Workshops VizThink 2009, San Jose, CA: 60min SessionIA Summit 2009, Memphis, TN: Full day workshop ##Presentations / Slides Unfortunately, the slides use very few bullet points so it may be hard to follow without being there. . - AOL Mountain View’s post session interview is up. - Livia Labate has a recording of the session.
###Resources If you have any feedback, pictures, links or suggestions, feel free to drop a comment. Comics: Not just for laughs! Every project has its own unique set of “opportunities”—also known as challenges. Many of these challenges relate not to the quality of our work, but rather to the communication of our ideas. Often in the course of design, you must communicate complicated concepts to a non-technical (and often uninterested) project sponsor, client, or stakeholder.
So how do you capture their interest, get their understanding and buy-in, and finally move on? A Real-Life “Opportunity” I work as a user experience designer on an interactive team at a mid-sized strategic communications firm, Capstrat, based in Raleigh, NC. Our team was faced with getting consensus from a committee of more than 40 individuals, all with equal interest and many with their own motives.
At the time, we were prepping for an international presentation where we would unveil new website designs, information flow, and shared CMS strategy. Why Comics? Comics can also easily illustrate a user’s response to an onscreen interaction. Office Hours: Drawing a daily comic strip with Visio - Support - Microsoft Office. January 28, 2008 David Salaguinto Learn how a writer for Microsoft Office Online uses Visio in a cool and creative way to have fun and connect with readers.
Read more Office Hours columns Get Office Hours columns via RSS Microsoft Office gets used in a lot of places besides the office. Script writers use Word to write scripts — when they're not on strike. David Byrne uses PowerPoint to create art about … using PowerPoint. What is surprising, though, is when that someone turns out to be me. You see, I'm not an artist, but a few months back, a colleague of mine had this funny idea (funny "strange," not funny "ha-ha").
As it turns out, it's both fun and easy to draw comics using Visio. It takes all shapes and sizes Now, when I say "draw," I don't actually mean draw. If you're going to use Visio to produce a comic, the first choice you have to make is which shapes to use. I decided to go with the second one, the User shape from the Network and Peripherals stencil. That's where I draw the line.
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Any unauthorized reproduction or use of our copyrighted material without The Grove’s express written permission is a violation of U.S. copyright law. If you wish to use our copyrighted material, we are happy to assist you with a purchase or discussion of an appropriate licensing arrangement. Visual Facilitation at Connecting for Change 2009 | Connecting for Change Dialogue. Mariah Howard and Avril Orloff visually facilitated the Connecting for Change Dialogue. On visual facilitation, Mariah and Avril shared the following: “They say a picture is worth a thousand words - and graphic recorders work on creating the "big picture" both literally and figuratively, combining words with pictures, symbols and other imagery to create a visual representation of ideas as they unfold in dialogues, meetings and other live conversations. The value of graphic recording goes well beyond the "wow" factor of creating a pretty picture.
When a meeting or presentation is visually mapped, our very process of thinking becomes visible. We see our ideas take shape, and we see the relationships among them, enabling us to draw connections and build on each other’s ideas. The Invitation Emerging Questions Perserverance Reflections Cafe Harvest Learning Journey. Visual Meetings: How Graphics, Sticky Notes and Idea Mapping Can Transform Group Productivity (9780470601785): David Sibbet. V I S U A L P R A C T I T I O N E R . O R G.