We take a lot of notes. We do. Take a moment and think back a week every time you jotted something down. A quick glance into memory and I've jotted things down on sticky notes, made a few checklists, messages in holiday cards and a few other times I remember taking pen to paper. Our handwriting. … [Read more...]
Storyboarding – A #Sketchnote Solution
Storyboarding is part of the design process. The DESIGN process. In the elearning industry there are a lot of authoring tools from the rapid family to those that require skills in programming languages. I run a company that develops primarily in rapid tools, but I don't develop rapid elearning and I … [Read more...]
Serious Comic – Voice Over, Music, and Sound Effects
I could probably bore you with a few more posts just on character development, instead I want to share some important lessons learned in designing the audio assets for a serious comic. First, let’s all agree that all serious comics don’t necessarily have to have or even need voice-over audio, nor … [Read more...]
Serious Comic – Character Development II
I can’t believe it’s been a month and a half since I last posted about this project. It’s been a crazy time with traveling to a couple conferences and keeping pace with this development. My next post was going to be about how to storyboard a serious comic, but a lot has changed in the project since … [Read more...]
Serious Comic – Character Development
In an earlier post I introduced a project I started this year - an Interactive Graphic Novel style Serious Comic for elearning. That’s a mouthful! It’s not really a ‘novel’ although it is a serious topic, and it’s really not elearning rather more of an awareness piece. It’s a scenario told in a … [Read more...]
Serious Comics – An Interactive Graphic Novel scenario
Ever since I could hold a pencil I've always wanted to write and draw my own comic book. While I can draw fairly decent and I'm not short on stories, I've learned the entire process is quite daunting from sketch to print. Alas, it's still a dream. Now that I'm fully immersed in the world of … [Read more...]