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How to Write a Comic Book part 4: The Budget and the Team

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Hey everyone welcome how to write a comic book, the series for anyone interested in how to write comics. In part 1, we spoke about how you need to know your ‘why’ before you even begin.  In part 2 we talked about the plan, in part 3 we went through the script itself and understand […]

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How to Write a Comic Book part 3: The Comic Book Script

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Hey everyone welcome how to write a comic book, the series for anyone interested in how to write comics. In part 1, we spoke about how you need to know your ‘why’ before you even begin.  In part 2 we talked about the plan, in this part we’re going to go through the script itself […]

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How to Write a Comic Book Part 2: What You Need to Have in Place

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Hey everyone welcome how to write a comic book, the series for anyone interested in how to write comics.  In part 1, we spoke about how you need to know your ‘why’ before you even begin.  In this part we’re going to go through all the items you should have in place before you begin. […]

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How to write comics part 1: Start with the why

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Hi there, welcome to my series on how write comics! In part 1 of how to write comics we are going to start with the most important thing – that is the ‘why’ (in fact this isn’t limited to comics this goes from writing and any creative process in general). Before you get into all […]

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Digitopia: call for graphic novel artists

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Hi there and welcome to my blog, most likely you’ve seen a post on Reddit, Deviant Art, Twitter, LinkedIn or Facebook – however you got here, you’re most welcome. Update 12th April 17: I’ve currently received so many applications that I’ll be closing the application process on Sunday 16th April 17.  If you’re landing on […]

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Five filmmaking lessons learnt at Guerilla filmmaking masterclass

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In this blog post I’m going to take you through five lessons I learnt at the last ever Guerilla Filmmaking masterclass, beware you’re going to learn more than just about filmmaking. So it was an early start on Saturday as I headed somewhat wearily towards Baker Street for the final Guerilla filmmaking masterclass, it was touted as […]

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animation reference – lamp post being wrenched out of the ground

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I found some really interesting animation reference of a lamp post being hoisted out of the ground.  An industrial sized wrench pulls the lamp post out of the ground.  Really interesting points to note how the lamp portion of the post instantly swings down how to post reacts to a new pivot point (previously being […]

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water FX reference – water impacts

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As part of my collecting animation reference I filmed myself and my boy dropping pine cones into a small pond.  There’s lots of interesting water impacts as the pine cone lands in the water, plus ripples and the cone submerging into the water before popping out.  I’ve put it in slow motion too. The start […]

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fish animation reference – fish in pond

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As part of my collecting animation reference I filmed myself and my boy feeding fish at a local pond.  It’s hard to know how to class this, initially I had thought this would be a good crowd simulation reference, but when the food landed in the water I instantly thought water FX but then the […]

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FX reference – bubbles from water can in water

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As part of my collecting animation reference I filmed myself submerging a water can full of air into a water tank.  As I did it the water pushed the air out of the opening making lots of large bubbles which then ripple through the water.  I’ve put it in slow motion too. The start point […]

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