Making Comics - 3pts

 I found it interesting that a lot of the points her was making at the beginning were very similar to what I'm used to hearing in my story boarding class. For example, creating clear facial expressions and body language to communicate emotion. He also mentions the importance of figure drawing to improve his work. Camera difference is emotional distance is something we hear in class all the time and he describes this well in choice of frame. His visual framing for the flow of the comic page is really interesting to me. Usually when I thumbnail I don't realize the story could be more compelling with different sizes through the page. He conveys this to his audience very well with visual examples. Also removing pieces can change the story, or switching the panels, like a puzzle that creates a different image every time. He also gives great examples for how important word choice is and how to utilize it in accompanying images. One note that he mentioned was how important eyes are to the uniqueness of a character. By giving characters different eye styles he found that he could make them more individually recognizable. Similarly in story boarding, we're told to make the eyes very clear and visible in our drawings because they tell us a lot with how the character is feeling. The design of a character can communicate their personality from their outside appearance. He conveyed this in a very interesting way by basing some human designs off of animals. Shape language has always been interesting to me so I liked that he put in an example of it with the model sheets on page 75. He also ties back in how certain poses should be unique to each character, with the idea of body language in mind. All of this is great for good storytelling images and I found it really insightful.