Comic Book Studio

[Cyrille Berger Skott]

On Friday 03 December 2010, Franz Glauber wrote:
> I see, are you thinking about it like a tool inside krita or a wizard or
> something? I mean, in terms of UI, how to define this non-graphic part of
> creating a comic, or even the storyboard tool?

It should definitely go outside of the Krita UI. Krita UI should be focus on 
drawing and have as few as possible distraction from that. So CBS would be 
available in a different window.

I can imagine that an artist working on a comic book, with a dual screen would 
want to have krita open in his main screen, and CBS is a secondary screen to 
be able to quickly browse ressources (artwork, or other).

But there are overlaps, like the tool to create the frames. Especially since 
there are plenty of cases where using CBS would be overkill :) Like someone 
doing webcomics (with dilbert format, for instance), and he should still get 
benefit from this tool.

And on the other side, in CBS, after writting the scenario, if you are working 
on making a first version of the story board, you might just want to layout 
the page, and a very quick drawing of what is in each box. So I would imagine 
having a window with three tools = "frame layout", "pen" and "text".

> As for myself, I really wish to have frames and dialogs that are easy to
> create, but that are also very customizable. Currently, the templates do
> this, but it's not easy at all to edit the frames. I'm plannig on working
> on a webcomic that goes away from the traditional media (page layout) into
> something really for web, so flexibility of layout should be necessary,
> but maybe we should focus on traditional comic book.
> 
> I liked the Manga Studio interface for building the frames, maybe we can
> use those ideas.
I think that is the plan. I would go for three creation modes "templates", 
"wizard" and "blank", but all three modes would allow the same editability as 
in Manga Studio interface.

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Cyrille Berger Skott