Thursday, August 30, 2012

A Day Without Technology Pixton Comic

Pretty simple Pixton comic. Depicts a man hunting for food because without technology he needs a source of food. Fairly difficult to create considering the annoying controls that Pixton operates with. I believe that it accurately represents my vision of what I wanted it to be like. I was disappointed  however that is is very difficult to see the facial expressions on the first two panels. I think  their point gets across successfully however. The main problem that I faced though was whenever I zoomed in to work on expressions it centered around that character and when I zoomed back out it cut off a large section of the work I had just done and their was no way that I could find to fix it without starting over. Not to mention whenever I tried to click on something there was a good chance that I would grab the background and mess it up.

In the first panel I discovered how difficult it is to show someone throwing an object in Pixton. The final result, which is the best I could do, makes it seem likes he's walking towards the bird and causally tossing a spear at best. The second panel took a while but I think it came out decently. The main problem was the zooming in issue. By comparison the third panel was easy and it took me all of five minutes. I am slightly disappointed in that I can't make the bird look like it is actually being held by the man but I find it acceptable. The fourth panel was also fairly simple apart from changing the feathers colors and naturally the zooming in problem. Surprisingly though the background moving was the hardest part of the forth panel.

So in summary the comic is fine but it is far from perfect due to the annoying problems with zooming in and out along with background issues. I found Pixton fun but I doubt that I will return to it unless it makes major interface changes.    

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