Thought Bubble Convention

Thought Bubble was a convention which focuses on the appreciation of comic books, manga and memorabilia of that genre. The convention includes no only mainstream comic books, but indie works as well, these being comic books, promotional art posters, concept pieces, final works, specific requests etc. This was my first time to Thought Bubble so my view of it will be from the point of view of some one who didn't know what to do, as well as spending most of his time considering wether to buy manga and comics or not.

As a whole thought bubble is a very overwhelming event as i didn't know what to look at and so I just wandered from stall to stall looking at what I found interesting or recognised. Specifically I recognised the Nobrow stall and spent a lot of time browsing my way through what they had to offer and it was enjoyable to talk with those in the comic/graphic novel industry, not just from Nobrow but any of the stalls I liked the look of. Unfortunately I only talked about how interested I was and spoke nothing of working in the industry, independent or in a company.

Final Photoshop Session

In our final photo shop session we learnt about how to animate on photoshop. There were two ways; Frame animation and video timeline.

Frame to frame animation made use of the regular layers on photoshop, so on each frame a certain amount of layers would be used and on another frame a different selection of layers would be used. This can be seen on my pendulum animation where each placement of the swing is a different layer creating the animation.

The other format is video timeline where you have another set of layers that you build upon, adding frames to one layer gradually creating the animation, this format has an onion skinning technique to help keep the animations flow showing the past few frames. The animations below are made using this format.