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The first animated graphic novel

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Re: The first animated graphic novel

#21
It looks really cool. I wish, however, that the overall ecosystem was easier to create these things cross platform rather than per-corporation. I don't really want three or four different devices so that I can read works on iPhones, Androids, Kindles, etc. In fact I don't even want a device, I already have a browser running on a screen.

The current ecosystem has the feel of the 1990s, when corporate web sites were walled off behind the AOL domain, although I admit that today's walled gardens are much shinier than AOL ever could have been.

Re: The first animated graphic novel

#24
post #14

While beautifully executed, I fear that once the novelty wears off, such a mixed medium will be absorbed back into traditional animation. Why split the story into different frames if one frame can show it all?

One designer can pull it off to make a graphic novel all by himself. But you need a team to make an animated movie.

Re: The first animated graphic novel

#28
If the author knew that it's not the first animated graphic novel he would have perhaps also realize it's rather a bad idea. Photo-comics, animated comics, interactive comics, CGI comics, comics with sounds - all that has been tried already. All these "enhancements" are just gimmicks that don't expand the medium - on the contrary, they narrow it down to a crippled version of something else.
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