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| The World Behind the World |
| May 18, 2009 10:26 pm |
 And in fact, I graduated this last weekend. Now onward toward the dream job. The Cintiq arrived and it’s really cool. I can’t wait to draw a full page with it. I have 6 pages of script left to translate into thumbnails. So close! I’m hoping to finish all the thumbs by the end of this week so I can send them off to my art director along with the first page for test prints. I’ve never sketched out so many pages before and I’ve begun to notice something interesting. As I am composing shots, deciding proper expressions, trying to find the right pacing, I get this sense that I am not really creating a world but instead trying to portray a world that already exists. I remember talking to Tony Cliff at San Diego Comicon two years ago and he was describing to me how an animator does not really draw a character in motion, as much as he draws the motion itself. In some styles of animation you can often pause a scene where a person is doing some violent movement and instead of finding a still shot of the figure, you will find a blur of sketchy lines. To convey the feel and motion of a person walking, an animator mustn’t focus on the person; instead they have to focus on the walking itself. Just like the animator, I’m beginning to discover that the cartoonist has a similar task. I see my characters and story alive and moving in my mind and the question I must ask is: what images should I choose to create so that other people will see what I see? Comics are not so much the panels you see on the page but instead the images readers see in their minds as they process the sequence of images. | 1 comments, Add Comment
Jun 2, 2009 5:06 pm
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