Category Archives: Comic Art

Comic Art Evaluation

For this project we had to create an installation in ruskins bar which would pay homage to Mark Millar’s work. We had to appeal to current fans and also people who had not yet experienced it. We decided to create … Continue reading

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Editing Process

Once we had selected the images we wanted to use we used the photocopier to get high resolution scans of the artwork from the comics. There were three main stages to the edit process I used, each image followed the … Continue reading

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Planning

Our idea was to create a roughly 2 min long repeatable film featuring strong visual images of mark millar’s work which we would then animate with a parallax effect finding themes between the images. I felt like this was a … Continue reading

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Idea Generation and Development

One idea that we had was to use a selection of different heads and torsos from characters and combine them in various orders. This idea stemmed from looking at the similarities and differences the characters had and how we could … Continue reading

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Comic Art Festival/Audience

Comic art festival is an international event held in kendal focusing on showcasing some of the best comic art work around. This is the 4th year that the festival has been running and aims to provide a cultural rather than … Continue reading

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Comic Art Final Film – Mark Millar

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Mark Millar email

Idea summary  Our idea for the space in Ruskin’s bar is to create a short 2 min projection featuring various areas of Mark Millar’s work. We aim to find links between the artwork we have selected in order to create … Continue reading

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Gender in Comic Books

Gender stereotyping has always been an issue and comic books are no exception. Men are often depicted with ridiculous muscles, broad shoulders, square jaw and a heroic pose. Women on the other hand are heavily sexulised, shown scantily clad with … Continue reading

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Still Image Techniques – Unit 10

In order to make this film footage was projected onto a screen, then analog stills were taken and distorted in various ways such as scratching, over exposed or drawn on, this has been used to create an abstract feel. Transparent … Continue reading

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Mark Millar Research

Mark Millar is a scottish comic book writer best known for, Fantastic four, civil war, the secret service and kickass. Mark specialises in super hero action comics and has worked closely with companies like marvel and DC. Marks work was … Continue reading

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