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Flash

McCain has no honor

[kml_flashembed movie=”http://www.markbadger.org/drawing/McCain.swf” height=”400″ width=”550″ /]

quick and dirty sketch of John McCain’s lack of honor

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Comics Flash

Comic Book Pages

IN print the page is the unit you think in, 1 page or two page spreads, panels are part of the page building up to something bigger an eight or twenty or 100 page story.

In the web, for web comics the whole page metaphor falls apart, because you can replace one part or another of a page, because the page is a physical unit and on the screent he moitor is a physical unit , so for one time use you design screens, but how do you design a story for a cell phone, and a pc monitor, ultimately how do you design for print, cell and full screen?

I pulled apart a screen movie clip, making panels all the same size, they then become units that I can compose in, and then set up rules for combing based on screen size. By moving to the panel is the unit and not the page it will beinteresting to see what that does to storytelling.

that makes the easiest step to be just doing a slide show comic, add animation to it you get AOL Cybercomics and Haunted Man.

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Comics Flash Storyboards Teaching

User Experience and Comics

grumbling when talking to online User Experience people and they find out that I draw comics, their face lights up and they say you know there’s a great book. And their always amazed when I say

“Understanding Comics by Scott McCloud”, and when i say “I’m a little jaded because I got all the theory he talks about in Art School so I never saw what the big deal was” they get confused what is interesting after talking to them they love the book but I’m never sure how they use the book.

But now I’m looking at what User Experience is and how you develop a comic/learning experience for that and the challenge is how do you step back and integrate development techniques from software into comics, more or less I’m pondering why someone won’t write the manual for what I want to do and why do I have to figure it out myself.

Re-work the ideas in this article in relation to teaching/comics

Teach yourself dope; meaning me.

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Flash Teaching

Series of ways to use Classes from assorted objects

is here

But weirdly he doesn’t mention using the constructor property at all