A comic book is a powerful medium of expression that speaks to a wide variety of ideas and emotions across all genres. DAZ Studio is a great tool to generate renders for your creating comic book artwork!
However, it can take a great deal of time in building and rendering those scenes. The Comic Book Creation kit saves you time and energy in providing you with over a hundred renders ready to select from and build your own comic book. This kit includes an extensive video course of 3.5 hours of instruction and insights on composing your comic by Drew Spence, a professional comic book artist.
The artwork in this kit is royalty-free – so you are free to create and publish your own stories with this kit.
The asset packs in this product contain over 400 PNG images for building sci-fi scenes.
Sci-fi rendered characters, props, and backgrounds
Renders in portrait, hand-drawn, line, and sketch styles
Drew teaches you how to use and arrange the elements of a comic book:
Panels
Lettering
Word/Thought balloons
Captions
Sound effects
Panels
Borders
Gutters
He shows you how to…
Map a story structure onto a comic book layout
Show, rather than tell a dynamic story
Progress and express characters through their story arcs
Create strong visual appeal
Gain a comic book style that fits your story
Comprehend comic book elements and use them to your advantage
Compose comic book elements with confidence
Master composition of characters in a shot (for a panel)
This course is for you if you are…
Overwhelmed with the prospect of creating a comic book
Wanting to add extra impact or emotion to your visual story,
Needing a comprehensive understanding of comic book elements in all their varieties and how to use them effectively.
Having challenges in using composition for comic book elements
Wanting to experiment with comic book creation without having to render scenes yourself.
This is Part 2 of a 3 part Course. There’s also a bundle version available.
Software Recommended for this Course
Comic Life 3 – inexpensive software for MAC/PC to assemble and compose your comic
Photoshop (or GIMP) – for styling and/or for assembling your comic book
DAZ Studio – many references are made to DAZ Studio throughout the course since all the assets included are rendered with this.
Content
Session 4: Panels and Pages
Layouts and logic
Composition within panels
Thumbnails, scripting, and scribbling
Notes, ideas, and pre-planning
Drew’s top 10 tips on layout and design
Flow as we know it
How are your hooks? Leading the reader
Composites
Session 5: Shooting your Shots
More on panel and page planning
The “information dump” problem and how to overcome
Camera shot types: Establishing, wide, low, high, level, eye level
Single shot, two shot, close up, close in, zooming in/out, full body
Aerial, worm’s eye, leaning eye angle, leading frames, over the shoulder
First-person POV, fourth wall breaks, multi-shot, animated action panels
Partial panels, in-panel overlaps, out panel, no panel
Mixed media, motion blur, 4th wall special effects
Gutter effects
