Title: Sea Star Comic
Semester/Year: Fall 2023
Software, coding/programming languages: After Effects, Photoshop, HTML
For my final project I decided that I would try to make a webcomic hosting site. I looked at some people’s websites for their comics for ideas for the website layout, which is how I decided where to put the navigation bar, which I made more intuitive by making the clickable elements (the arrows) get bigger when you hover your mouse on them. The story itself is not complete and the artwork isn’t polished or colored but I hope that a story is still told. The cover page is animated in After Effects, and the drawings were made by me in Photoshop. To make the animation I drew all the elements (the background, the star, and the bubbles) separately and then imported them into AE. Then I moved the star and bubbles around a bit and then exported the video as a GIF. I had to downsize the GIF by a lot since the real thing ended up being an entire gigabyte. Overall it was pretty neat to see what a hypothetical webcomic website would look like if I ever decided to make one. If I had more time I would have added a home page or something similar which could be accessed by clicking the star in between the arrows.
