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I wanted my work to tightly revolve around human and fire themes. The chains are made of human arms which invoke a sense of terror combined with the suspense to see what is behind the iron doors. The flames coming out of his head represent human rage exploding out into the world which eventually envelopes everything which is shown by the flames rising up at the end. I am happy with my animation in the end as I believe it represents the poem without being too literal.

Process work

Emotions

The story I choose allowed me to explore a range of emotions as since it is set in a dream world I could put my character in literally any situation to create any emotion I wanted. The main character starts off very surprised at waking up in this world, but then is overwhelmed by joy at the sight of this dream world. The character is later slightly surprised when they see the female character riding a dragon, however this changes to very surprised when they see themselves inside the door. As the main character first meets the female character he is quite self-conscious and insecure, this this soon changes to extreme happiness when she asks if he wants to sit down. In the sixth page their relationship starts off good but it slowly starts to fall apart. During this stage I show happiness, worry, surprise, annoyance, anger and disgust. In the car the anger is suddenly replaced by fear and surprise when he sees the car coming towards them and he fears for their safety, this was important as it showed that he still cared for the other character. When he wakes up he initially shows surprise but joy and a bit of sadness appear in both his and the other characters faces.

  Project description

I wanted to take advantage of web possibilities when creating my web comic, I wanted to do things that that I wasn’t able to do before. I also really liked Dan Goldman’s navigation system in his comic Red Light Properties. His system let you bring up one panel at a time instead of the whole page all at once. I wanted to incorporate this into my design and It works well with my story as there are specific scenes that I want to keep a surprise to the reader. Instead of instantly seeing where the main character has woken up, the reader is left in suspense before the whole story is revealed to them. Unlike Goldman’s comic I only let the user travel one panel at a time instead of giving them the opportunity to skip whole pages. I didn’t want the user to read my comic any other way, though I would have to change this if my comic was longer. I took inspiration Aencre’s comic which used gifs to create a moving dynamic story. This movement is unique to web comics and create an intriguing story for the read to experience. This effect worked very well as I used it to create moving wavy corners on my panels to show that they are in a dream world. It is an effective visual clue to let the audience distinguish what is dream and what is reality. At the end of the comic there is a small moving wave on the last panel to make the reader wonder if he is still in a dream. On the whole I was happy with my initial story, I was interested in dream worlds as they leaded me limitless possibilities, but in the end I went with a more down to earth story of a man realising what was really important to him through a dream.

  I took code from this website.

http://www.w3schools.com/jquery/tryit.asp?filename=tryjquery_hide_show

And I took inspiration from these comics

http://aencre.org/blog/2010/bol-directors-cut/

Final Model