DGMD S-72 Graphic Storytelling: Comic Book Art and Narrative #10: Zero Drafting Layouts In-class Prompt #8 Final Project Page Drafting Gobelins Exercise to Push Character Designs

EXERCISE: Facial Expressions An exercise cartoonist legend Bill Keane taught his young son Glen (who grew up to became an animation legend) : Download the faces exercise PNG from the course website. Open the file in Photoshop. Add a new layer. In each circle, create an expressive face to convey the motion listed below: angry, peaceful, serious, teasing, excited, tired, scared, hungry, in love, worried, happy, sleepy

In-Class Prompt #8 TODAY’S PROMPT, based on the previous: FILM-TO-COMIC PART 2: COMICS PAGE: In one page, organize your film storyboard images (or actual screenshots) from Tuesday’s film storyboard into a creative comic book page layout, re-interpreting the shapes and sizes of each panel to design pacing.

Photoshop for Photo Manipulation Lasso/Polygon or shape (Rectangle or Oval) Marquee to select and move [v]. [cmd]+[a] to Select All, [cmd]+[c] to Copy, [cmd]+[v] to Paste. If there is no Marquee selection, pastes into center of window. [cmd]+[t] to Transform: rotate or scale (hold [shift] for uniform scale). Crop an image: select the layer and marquee-select what you DON‘T want and hit delete, OR select what you DO want and hit [cmd]+[j] to duplicate. [cmd]+[d] = turn off Marquee. [alt]+ drag to make a copy and move it. Paint Bucket to fill a Marquee selection. [Cmd]+[Shift]+[i] invert selection. [Cmd]+[i] invert content. Clone Stamp: hold [Alt] to pick a target, then paint that content elsewhere. Turn off “Aligned.”

Zero Drafting Your Comics The secret to a successful production is iteration. Your goal is not to get each page “right” the first time. Your goal is to get an initial version on paper as fast as possible, so you can see it outside of your head and shape it into something that communicates your story impactfully to others. Creation is REVISION, not inspiration. Draft pages fast and loose, and then revise!

Zero Drafting Your Comics Note the progression here:

Zero Drafting Your Comics Explore alternative page designs!:

Design Review While the class works on the prompt, the teacher will meet with you to discuss your design work so far.

EXERCISE: Stretching Your Designs GOBELINS EXERCISE: Choose a year between 2005-2016. Type into google.com the word Gobelins and the year, to see the 5-10 best animated short films created at that French animation school that year. Watch at least thee of those films. Redraw your main 1-2 characters for your comic in the style of the character in 1-2 of those films. Post your results as classwork Note: you do not have to use your new designs in your final comic; the purpose of this exercise is to push your designs to discover new possibilities for them, and to experience the impact those new possibilities could have on your storytelling.

HOMEWORK #10: Zero-Draft Your Final Project Comic (Due on Piazza Tuesday, an hour before class) PAGE: Zero-Draft all intended pages with layouts for pacing, rough character drawings and background forms, and word bubbles. Reference the Wally panels for framing and blocking ideas! As zero drafts, these should be quick, loose page designs. Try to spend no more than 15 minutes per page for this first draft! Please work 1-2 hours a day rather than trying to do it all the day before