I believe you can make the camera automatically follow your sequence of panels but I found you get more interesting results if you key frame the camera movement yourself. I used none of my original speech balloons from ComiPo!, instead creating these in MotionArtist. There are also plenty of options for speech balloons and adding text. You can even make the panels themselves move. Panels that you've already created animation inside can be literally split in two (or more) sections and the animation will still work across the sections. Objects can be attached to the camera so they move wherever you move the camera (as I did with my comic's background image).
You can key frame panels and objects to fade in or out. As you do this you'll see a motion path is created with dots indicating a key frame (or stopping point). Movement is achieved by placing an object at its starting point, scrubbing the timeline forward however long you want a movement to take, then placing the object at a new location and/or angle. The basics are that everything is divided into scenes and within scenes you have panels. It's really hard to describe how you actually put together a motion comic in MotionArtist. If I were to add a second scene I would then have the option to add transitions between the scenes. You may also notice from the image that my motion comic only has one scene. My ComiPo! comic as layed out in MotionArtist As this is frame 264 of the animation, which focuses on the largest falling character image (indicated by the red box outline that represents the camera's view), some of the characters in the earlier panels are missing, having already played through their animations. You'll notice I've followed the same basic layout as the ComiPo! comic. Once you've exported all your components you just import them into either your panels or scenes in MotionArtist as needed.īelow is a screen shot of my comic assembled in MotionArtist.
#Comipo version 3 full#
Yes it was a little time consuming but certainly worth the results.įor all my backgrounds I exported the full background image and not just the cropped area you could see in each panel. In order to do that I had to break down my comic into its individual components - excluding panel frames and text balloons - and import each one individually as a. Potentially saving a lot of time as you could create your pages in Photoshop then import them to MotionArtist to add all the animation elements.ĬomiPo! isn't photoshop but fortunately it can export transparent. If you have photoshop then you can import native. MotionArtist will accept a number of different image file formats. This allows added interactivity such as buttons for the user to click to move to the next page or panel. It should also be noted that you can output animations as either a video file (as I have) or you can embed them into webpages in HTML5 format. You'll notice it's ideal motion comic material as the majority of the comic is the main character falling.īelow is the motion comic version which I think probably goes a little too quick to read all the speech balloons easily but you get the idea (you may need to watch it full screen).
#Comipo version 3 full size#
You'll need to click the image if you want to view the full size version. Panel mode lets you edit the animation within each panel.Īs my first project I thought, what better way to test MotionArtist than to see if I could turn my ComiPo! comic, that I created when I reviewed that software, into a motion comic.Īs a reminder you can see a small version of my comic on the right. Camera Mode is specifically for key framing how the 'camera' moves throughout your comic. There are three modes which you switch between that does take some getting used to.ĭirector mode lets you edit the entire production as a whole across multiple scenes (a scene could be defined as each page of your comic if you wanted to maintain a traditional comic format).
It also makes it simple to animate across multiple panels and even animate the panels themselves.Įverything is done using key frames displayed on your comic's timeline with individual panels containing their own timelines to control the animation contained within it. MotionArtist has dedicated tools for creating comic book panels with their own self contained animations. The type of Motion Comic MotionArtist can produce falls somewhere between reading a comic and watching a cartoon but generally, feels more like reading a very cool comic than watching a severely limited animated cartoon. That is, rather than create fully animated cartoons, it allows you to take static cartoon panels and add movement and audio to create a more engaging experience.
#Comipo version 3 software#
MotionArtist is dedicated composition software for creating animated comics, otherwise known as Motion Comics.
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