Comic Ideas and Development (College Work)

During multiple tasks in college, we had to create our own story by using the tasks we experienced before hand, and making a detailed and understandable idea of a certain concept I would like to create for the final piece. We would do this task and do it in a comic related format with some sort of interactivity or a chosen point and click adventure. I picked the Comic as I felt it really fit with a certain story I had in mind before. From this idea, I built diagrams of the characters, the dilemma in the story (all stories happen to have a dilemma in them in some stage) and the possible animation which I could place into it, to appeal to the viewer.
This story was originally about a girl who is shipped away with a guitar that has important paper work inside, but the idea was scrapped as it was too complicated to make it such a short story. In the end I decided to go with a story called "Himmelblau" (German word; "Blue Sky") which is about a girl who grows up with a park managed by a creature. I thought it'd be a fun story to play around with and get people who are reading it, interested in what the story is intending and what it's clearly about.
I am in the middle of processing and completing this story to it's finished glory, but I am really in love with how much detail I have added to the whole idea of Himmelblau. I believe if I had more time and was able to publish it, I could make it into a German tale some day. The name Himmelblau was based off of a song made by a band called Die Arzte, the first track from the Jazz ist Anders album. This band has been around for many years, (since during the 80s) and have a very good ideal of the world, and this is by picking on certain funny parts of the world, and writing them into song. But in Himmelblau's case, this funny side does show up in certain cases, but it is quite the serious but true song. It's about hope in your life, and everything is achievable some way or another, or that there's other paths to achieving just one goal. 

(This is the sketchy styled background I am working on currently.)

 

The characters will be drawn in flash so I am able to edit them in frame by frame, and the Photoshop work shall be the backgrounds I will copy and paste into the frames them selves. This is the most simple way which I can complete this task, and it will look effective to have two different styles on top of each other, but go well with the whole story in general. I firstly planned to do the background neatly and perfectly into flash, but I scrapped the idea when I thought about the qualities which Photoshop could give me. 

 Comic Idea Sketches

Here are my sketches that I did for my final piece. These were just the guide lines of what I would like to end up with when I have finished the product its self.