Graphic Novel Use thumbnail sketches to plan your pages The novel must use a narrative story that you have written

Richard Linklater- Waking Life “Richard Linklater goes digital and dreams up a whole new way of seeing.” Not only does Linklater cast colorful actors, he heightens their characteristics by providing them with their own color schemes.

One of the promo items for Waking Life is a coloring book One of the promo items for Waking Life is a coloring book. If you take a stab at it with your crayons, you'll be neatly implicated in the film's philosophical subtext. Richard Linklater's new movie is animated, but the imagery and action are derived from real people. The cast was shot with digital cameras, and the subsequent footage was first edited and then processed with computer software and a device called the Wacom Tablet - the sexy beast of current animation. Video is manipulated into painterly impressionism with the stroke of an electronic pen.

Waking Life

A Scanner Darkly This film uses an animation technique called Rotoscoping, which you may remember from the film ‘Tron’, 1982, or the pop videos ‘Take on Me’ by Aha and Money for Nothing’ by Dire Straits. It is where animators trace live action movement, frame by frame.

A Scanner Darkly, Richard Linklater A team of more than 50 artists labored for over a year to turn the entire film from live action to animation. These stills show how the film changes people into cartoonish versions of themselves.

Graphic Novel / Movie

Sin City

Frame Layout

Use a variety of angles Crop the photos and/ or drawings in an interesting method Make sure you vary shot selection (mid shot, full body, close up)

Jason Rawley Storyboard and Photo Comic

Standard Drawing Use of Photo Sequence as a comic

Frame Layout

Using Photos in a Comic Book Format

Create a Narrative with Graphics and a Scrapbook Layout

John Picacio- Book Covers

Dave McKean-Graphic Novel Artist

Dave McKean-Graphic Novel Artist

Paul Guinan, Illustrator

Paul Guinan, Illustrator

Stop Motion Animation Develop Ideas with a Storyboard Design Colourful and Interesting sets Shoot single frames with a DSLR camera Use music to enhance the action

Stop Motion Work Flow

Stop Motion Stop motion film is a  series of single frame shots strung together. You only need a camera that can take one frame at a time.

Animation Ideas

Stop Motion with Lego

Director Tim Burton Concept Sketches Wire Figure

Tripod, Characters, Set Design, and Story