From the course: Learning Graphic Novel Storyboarding
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Conclusion: Camera shots and movement - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Learning Graphic Novel Storyboarding
Conclusion: Camera shots and movement
- [Instructor] While in many ways comics are very different than film, you can see how the concept of storyboarding, and all the compositional rules and camera techniques can be useful in laying out your comic panels. Obviously with time and practice these concepts and working methods will come to you more subconsciously as you draw, but having a baseline understanding of why it's done the way it is is always useful. When you read a good comic, you might not even notice these techniques, and that's good. That means the artist has done their job. It's when they don't that you start to realize something is off, and you're slipped out of the story, and no-one wants that. I read a lot a comics, and I look for ways in which the artist is succeeding or not succeeding in pulling me into the world they've created, but I got to tell you I watch more movies than I do read comics. I'm constantly picking apart the camera angles and movements, the camera placements and the compositions of each and…
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