Motion Comics tutorial for LiveCode
Posted: Tue Oct 01, 2013 1:14 am
Hi All,
I have plans to publish in spanish, some tutorials about creating Motion Comics, using LiveCode. The tutorial will be created in english, for testing and review by developers in this platform. Then, translated to different languages.
These Motion Comics tutorials will be used as a gentle and enjoyable introduction to the basics concepts of programming.
Originally, I intended to create these tutorials only for kids and young teens, but many teachers and friends have told me that young adults and older grown ups would be interested too, if I included more mature comics, among the tutorials.
Every idea and suggestion about this project is welcome. Already, I have asked the moderators and participants of this website: http://comicbookplus.com/about which characters and titles could be atractive to each age group:
kids from 6-11
teens from 12- 16
young adults from 17-29
grown ups: 30 and older
narfstar, administrator of the website ComicBookPlus wrote the following comment:
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The Grown ups here are very fond of Peter Wheat also.
Depending on where you want to go with it,
the pre-code horror books are very popular.
Books like Horrific and others appeal to the teens and adults.
Teen boys and adults are very fond of the Phantom Lady archives.
As far as "teen comics" go I am partial to Vicky.
Lots of action/motion in the stories.
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I will start with this character: Leon the Lyin' Lion from Charlton Comics. This character was featured in Zoo Comics,
Funny Animals and Atomic Mouse. http://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=15506
Just started dividing the panels in separated images using this Gimp script: Divide Scanned Images
http://registry.gimp.org/node/22177
To use correctly this script, some experimentation is required, but the pages that I have tested works really fine...
(although it creates some extra images that must be deleted)
This is the link to download all raw bitmap files for this Motion Comics tutorial:
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/383 ... 20v001.zip
Ender Nafi, software developer from Turkey, is already helping to process the image panels.
Still pending: converting these bitmaps in vector files, using Potrace or Inkscape.
The original goal is that all volunteers receive the Comic book panels in two different formats
1) Bitmap
2) Vector graphic
In this way, volunteers could work in the format and software of their choice.
Volunteer's tasks are:
1) separate the foreground characters from its background
For Gimp:
http://docs.gimp.org/en/gimp-tutorial-q ... arate.html
For Inkscape:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1K1YL-JP8jc
2) Seamlessy restore the background
For Gimp:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiePG0QC4AM
After we complete the first tutorial, I will look for the characters and books that narfstar recommended, looking for a suitable story for the tutorial.
Each tutorial would require that me (and some volunteers) clean up and retouch all the panels of the history chosen for the tutorial so, if you have time to help, please tell us so.
Many thanks in advance
Al
I have plans to publish in spanish, some tutorials about creating Motion Comics, using LiveCode. The tutorial will be created in english, for testing and review by developers in this platform. Then, translated to different languages.
These Motion Comics tutorials will be used as a gentle and enjoyable introduction to the basics concepts of programming.
Originally, I intended to create these tutorials only for kids and young teens, but many teachers and friends have told me that young adults and older grown ups would be interested too, if I included more mature comics, among the tutorials.
Every idea and suggestion about this project is welcome. Already, I have asked the moderators and participants of this website: http://comicbookplus.com/about which characters and titles could be atractive to each age group:
kids from 6-11
teens from 12- 16
young adults from 17-29
grown ups: 30 and older
narfstar, administrator of the website ComicBookPlus wrote the following comment:
--------------------------------------------------
[snip]
The Grown ups here are very fond of Peter Wheat also.
Depending on where you want to go with it,
the pre-code horror books are very popular.
Books like Horrific and others appeal to the teens and adults.
Teen boys and adults are very fond of the Phantom Lady archives.
As far as "teen comics" go I am partial to Vicky.
Lots of action/motion in the stories.
--------------------------------------------------
I will start with this character: Leon the Lyin' Lion from Charlton Comics. This character was featured in Zoo Comics,
Funny Animals and Atomic Mouse. http://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=15506
Just started dividing the panels in separated images using this Gimp script: Divide Scanned Images
http://registry.gimp.org/node/22177
To use correctly this script, some experimentation is required, but the pages that I have tested works really fine...
(although it creates some extra images that must be deleted)
This is the link to download all raw bitmap files for this Motion Comics tutorial:
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/383 ... 20v001.zip
Ender Nafi, software developer from Turkey, is already helping to process the image panels.
Still pending: converting these bitmaps in vector files, using Potrace or Inkscape.
The original goal is that all volunteers receive the Comic book panels in two different formats
1) Bitmap
2) Vector graphic
In this way, volunteers could work in the format and software of their choice.
Volunteer's tasks are:
1) separate the foreground characters from its background
For Gimp:
http://docs.gimp.org/en/gimp-tutorial-q ... arate.html
For Inkscape:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1K1YL-JP8jc
2) Seamlessy restore the background
For Gimp:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiePG0QC4AM
After we complete the first tutorial, I will look for the characters and books that narfstar recommended, looking for a suitable story for the tutorial.
Each tutorial would require that me (and some volunteers) clean up and retouch all the panels of the history chosen for the tutorial so, if you have time to help, please tell us so.
Many thanks in advance
Al