Animated Comic Book Covers
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Givien the popularity and ubiquity of animated GIfs on the web right now, it is time to get jiggy with them. Animate a comic book cover. Check out Kerry Callen's examples for inspiration.
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Submissions So Far
Animated Comic Book Cover
It’s been a long time since I made something for this site, but Sarah put forth the challenge on twitter so here we go.
For as much as I love the Marvel movies I have not read that many comic books (I know… shaaaaame. Though I just moved and my …
Animated The Prisoner Comic Book Cover
For my first project in Design Week, I chose to animate the comic book cover of Jack Kirby’s draft of The Prisoner. It is a Design Assignment (number 306) and worth an unbelievable four credit units.
My main method was to create duplicate layers, erase the text in the …
Watch me man
I have never been a fan of comics. I can’t say that I have ever read a single one. There was only really one that ever piqued my interest and it was Watchmen. There was something very poignant about the bleeding smiley face on the cover. Having never read the …
Shake things up
Shake things up? Cause it looks like things are shaking? get it? ahahahaha
This is my completed submission for this assignment ( 4 stars)
To start this assignment I made a list of all the comics I’ve been reading lately. Then I eventually narrowed it down to my current favorite, …
Tales from DS106
Jim wrote a bit about sharing comic books with his kids and talked about making an animated GIF out of one of the covers
I want to have the dude who is buried alive slamming on the coffin, need to talk to MBS about the best way to do this.…
Flashing covers
When this week’s noir106 assignment list said for us to challenge ourselves with a four star assignment, I never expected the challenge to be this hard. I knew that this would be a daunting assignment, but all the great examples made me think, hey, I can do this. …
Cyclone Laser Beam
The design assignment “Animated Comic Book Covers” was challenging but a lot of fun. It really tested my rookie skills of photoshop and GIMP. First I had to choose a comic book cover to animate. I wanted something that would my photoshop ability but not be too challenging. This X-men …
Riverdale Summers the BEST.
Ok So this here is my second attempt at the Animated Comic Book Covers challenge, from the DS106 Assignment Bank. I remember these small comic books that girls mostly used to read in the digest or double digest form. I Archie comics could be considered a true American …
Amazing Web Shooter
So what I have here is a comic book cover which I found on Google image search. This was one of a couple choices I made for this assignment so I will be attempting more. The idea to animate the comic cover came from the DS 106 bank and more …
Mission: DS106 – Design assignment sprint
It’s great to be at camp during summer vacation.
This week I found another block of time through which to sprint after a number of ds106 design assignments. I had some trouble narrowing down which assignments to tackle until I began them; clearly, I do not yet have the patience…
Storm’s Stormy Cover
I’m finally getting to some of the design assignments. This is my animated comic book cover for a Storm from X-Men.
I became interested in doing this assignment because of ds106 home page introduced us to mwalker version of the comic book cover Flash.
I found this assignment to be…
Animated Comic Book Cover….I’m Free at last!
I’ve been reading a bunch of 1980s Hulk comics thanks to my time with Zach Davis out in Portland, Oregon—which I am still gonna blog! What’s more, I’ve started re-watching the Hulk TV series from the late 70s and early 80s—I saw this one as a kid, it was a…
Mad for ET
Some might say that MAD magazine is not a comic, but I went for an animated version anyhow for the Animated Comic Cover ds106 assignment:
I saw this cover of Alfred E Neumann and ET and felt like they might me a love match for each other, so they gaze…
Comic Wars, the Animation
Due to other ds106 pioneers success with GIFs, I wanted to challenge myself with this assignment. It took me a while to figure out what cover I wanted to do, but I finally settled on this provocative comic cover. Honestly, I do not know anything about Marvel/DC characters or…
Hard Boiled #3 – Animated Comic Cover
Ever since Jim Groom pointed to the amazing animated comic covers created by Kerry Callen, I’ve been jonsing to make one. I loved the simplicity of the animation in each of the four GIFs he created, particularly the Spiderman and Ironman GIFs which each clock in at only three frames…
Animated Comic Book Cover
It’s been a long time since I made something for this site, but Sarah put forth the challenge on twitter so here we go.
For as much as I love the Marvel movies I have not read that many comic books (I know… shaaaaame. Though I just moved and my …
Animated The Prisoner Comic Book Cover
For my first project in Design Week, I chose to animate the comic book cover of Jack Kirby’s draft of The Prisoner. It is a Design Assignment (number 306) and worth an unbelievable four credit units.
My main method was to create duplicate layers, erase the text in the …
Watch me man
I have never been a fan of comics. I can’t say that I have ever read a single one. There was only really one that ever piqued my interest and it was Watchmen. There was something very poignant about the bleeding smiley face on the cover. Having never read the …
Shake things up
Shake things up? Cause it looks like things are shaking? get it? ahahahaha
This is my completed submission for this assignment ( 4 stars)
To start this assignment I made a list of all the comics I’ve been reading lately. Then I eventually narrowed it down to my current favorite, …
Tales from DS106
Jim wrote a bit about sharing comic books with his kids and talked about making an animated GIF out of one of the covers
I want to have the dude who is buried alive slamming on the coffin, need to talk to MBS about the best way to do this.…
Flashing covers
When this week’s noir106 assignment list said for us to challenge ourselves with a four star assignment, I never expected the challenge to be this hard. I knew that this would be a daunting assignment, but all the great examples made me think, hey, I can do this. …
Cyclone Laser Beam
The design assignment “Animated Comic Book Covers” was challenging but a lot of fun. It really tested my rookie skills of photoshop and GIMP. First I had to choose a comic book cover to animate. I wanted something that would my photoshop ability but not be too challenging. This X-men …
Riverdale Summers the BEST.
Ok So this here is my second attempt at the Animated Comic Book Covers challenge, from the DS106 Assignment Bank. I remember these small comic books that girls mostly used to read in the digest or double digest form. I Archie comics could be considered a true American …
Amazing Web Shooter
So what I have here is a comic book cover which I found on Google image search. This was one of a couple choices I made for this assignment so I will be attempting more. The idea to animate the comic cover came from the DS 106 bank and more …
Mission: DS106 – Design assignment sprint
It’s great to be at camp during summer vacation.
This week I found another block of time through which to sprint after a number of ds106 design assignments. I had some trouble narrowing down which assignments to tackle until I began them; clearly, I do not yet have the patience…
Storm’s Stormy Cover
I’m finally getting to some of the design assignments. This is my animated comic book cover for a Storm from X-Men.
I became interested in doing this assignment because of ds106 home page introduced us to mwalker version of the comic book cover Flash.
I found this assignment to be…
Animated Comic Book Cover….I’m Free at last!
I’ve been reading a bunch of 1980s Hulk comics thanks to my time with Zach Davis out in Portland, Oregon—which I am still gonna blog! What’s more, I’ve started re-watching the Hulk TV series from the late 70s and early 80s—I saw this one as a kid, it was a…
Mad for ET
Some might say that MAD magazine is not a comic, but I went for an animated version anyhow for the Animated Comic Cover ds106 assignment:
I saw this cover of Alfred E Neumann and ET and felt like they might me a love match for each other, so they gaze…
Comic Wars, the Animation
Due to other ds106 pioneers success with GIFs, I wanted to challenge myself with this assignment. It took me a while to figure out what cover I wanted to do, but I finally settled on this provocative comic cover. Honestly, I do not know anything about Marvel/DC characters or…
Hard Boiled #3 – Animated Comic Cover
Ever since Jim Groom pointed to the amazing animated comic covers created by Kerry Callen, I’ve been jonsing to make one. I loved the simplicity of the animation in each of the four GIFs he created, particularly the Spiderman and Ironman GIFs which each clock in at only three frames…
Help Someone Else Do this Assignment
If you create a tutorial for this assignment, share it! To have your tutorials appear below, make sure your posts are showing up on the main DS106 site and that you use the following tags (or labels on Blogger) when writing the post on your own blog (You must use BOTH !):
Tutorials So Far
Due to other ds106 pioneers success with GIFs, I wanted to challenge myself with this assignment. It took me a while to figure out what cover I wanted to do, but I finally settled on this provocative comic cover. Honestly, I do not know anything about Marvel/DC characters or…