experimental outdoor comic making (now a digital comic)

colin · Post by **colin** » Mon Oct 27, 2003 9:39 pm

A friend and I made a comic using a digital camera, two flashlites and Flash MX on the weekend. We took 15 second exposures of us at night and with the flashlites made drawings in the air (of sorts) ... it was very hard to come up with a narrative, but we thought what we came up with was pretty amusing, so we put it into Flash and put together a short little comic.

If you want to have a look at experimental outdoor comic making combined with digital comics, its on my website:

http://infantshout.com then goto the "comics" section and the comic is called "Light Humor" .

colin

Post by **Greg Stephens** » Tue Oct 28, 2003 3:47 am

Drawing with light like that is quite cool. While the "drawings" are not notable for the draftsmanship, the lights are rather beautiful and very appealing.

Kris Lachowski · Post by **Kris Lachowski** » Tue Oct 28, 2003 10:33 am

That was a really cool idea, and beautiful.

colin · Post by **colin** » Tue Oct 28, 2003 11:09 am

Thanks

At first we did a bunch of designs in the air with no narrative at all (posted those also on my site, but under "photos" >> "digital fotos" >> "light drawings" if you want to see the results).

But turning light drawings into a slightly readable narrative was actually quite hard, especially trying to get the "people" looking similar enough each time. It would usually take us a couple tries to get it.

Kris Lachowski · Post by **Kris Lachowski** » Tue Oct 28, 2003 12:35 pm

colin wrote: turning light drawings into a slightly readable narrative was actually quite hard, especially trying to get the "people" looking similar enough each time. It would usually take us a couple tries to get it.

yeah i bet it was. i was pondering that difficulty through out much of my breakfast this morning.

also i like that grim reaper looking light photo.