Initial inspiration

Spider-Man into the Spider-verse

I recently watched ‘Spider-Man into the Spider-verse’ which was a really technical animation combining multiple different animation styles. What I really liked about the film in particular was the comic style scenes. In particular as seen in the images below the comic box structure has been incorporated into the film in multiple different styles. This was the film that inspired me to do a comic styled animation. 

 After deciding that I wanted to incorporate a cartoon style into my animation as well as make a comic I decided to look at some comics I find inspiring to influence my work. The below comic is one that I found on on Instagram which is being sold on Etsy. I really like the unique style of comic boxing which is really original. I would really like to incorporate the design decisions taken within this comic as I think it would be really interesting to animate smaller sections of a comic in. For example in the fist page of this comic the rocket could be animated to move across the boxes up and out of shot.

Hergé

Hergé is an artist that I have been inspired by for a long time. In particular I have always liked the amount of detail he includes within an image, telling a whole story.Below are two images showing the front covers of two of his comics. My favourite is ‘Red Rackham’s treasure which shows