Comic Midterm(s)

Comic Midterm:

Throughout the course of the week the idea to produce a solid flash comic was to be simple yet complex in the presentation. The narrative of choice was to take a ball and to allow the user to kick it around the world so that it lands exactly where it started. The ball is the major interactive feature, by clicking it you move the comic panels along to progress the "story" and in the end it all repeats as many times as the user desires.

Comments On Fellow Artists:

Breedlove:

The work produced was graphically interesting, but a certain lack of interactivity was present. In the end only one noticeable feature was interactive, and it didn't seem to combine into a narrative or story. The idea of creating a comic, which you progress and move along seems to fall short, but the work still "looks" good. I'd like to have seen more of a progression where you move on an interactive scale and also access a number of options through action script.

Cierra:

Death by burrito is an amusing piece and is certainly simple. If it is a comic, it is a comic without panels and therefore loses any sort of feel of a narrative. Use of movie clips and action script is present, and it functions nicely. Yet it is unclear what the user has to press and you have to do a great deal of searching to find those moments of interactivity. Not exactly user friendly in that field, so that does need some work.

Ashley:

Simply but it does give a feeling of a comic, however not at all too progressive in a narrative. The background suggests newspapers, yet the foreground suggests weather. It would have a greater effect if you use a Weather Section of the newspaper as a background for such a project. The foreground does change when you select the clouds, yet there just needs to be more. It feels as if the project is going somewhere, but surprisingly short. Try to tell a story somehow by interacting with the environment.