Adapted from a graphic novel, the series has taken on a digital life of its own. JEN DUGAN AND KENJJI MARSHALL Eden Saga Work-in-progress Flash, pencil and paper, Photoshop Eden deftly illustrates the art of putting action into a static image. And his deft Flash-imatics can be seen in the series' smooth motion and minimal scene changes. A designer and cartoon illustrator living in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Beals has a knack for using sound to fill out story lines. A grainy black-and-white intro - complete with the dusty, scratched look and melodramatic voice-over of old newsreels - lends the series a classic TV-'toon feel. So consider this eclectic collection to be one episode in the ongoing story.ĮD BEALS Wenchell Bogum: Know When to Fold 'Em 6 minutes CorelDraw, Flash, Illustrator, pencil and paper This Nickelodeonesque space-adventure series follows the mishaps of janitor Wenchell Bogum. Fatter pipes will open new possibilities. "We're trying to do the most perfect form of entertainment the Internet can support." Today's perfect form won't last. "We're not trying to do comic books on the Net," says Lee. It is a slippery slope - one that thousands are thrilled to ride. (See " Infinite Canvas," page 264.) "It's a slippery slope to full-motion animation." "If the characters are moving and speaking, pretty soon the word balloons and panels are a nuisance," says Scott McCloud, an artist and author of Understanding Comics. Not all artists are making the multimedia leap, however - some argue that Web comics aren't comics at all. Don Asmussen, a cartoonist for Time and George, describes his online series Like, News as "a comic strip that is moving." Both types of animation are part of a growing category of character-based, often humorous serials made expressly for the Web. At the other end are Web comics - creations heavily influenced by newspaper funnies and graphic novels.
At one end of the spectrum are works best described as serialized Web animations - they incorporate sound and motion and take their structure from TV cartoons.
Lee is one of thousands staking claim to an endless universe of pixels and helping to shape a new genre.
How could I possibly not jump to the bait?" Suddenly I can use sound and music and can have action. "I've done movies and television, but primarily I've worked in comics - you've got pictures and word balloons. "All my life my job has been to be a storyteller," says Marvel Comics founder Stan Lee, creator of Spider-Man and most recently The Backstreet Project, a Web series launching this summer. You can control volume from your source device, or directly on ULTIMATE EARS BOOM.In an open frontier beyond comics and 'toons, animators are drafting a low-bandwidth declaration of independence. Once ULTIMATE EARS BOOM is on and connected, simply select and play any music content from your source device. After 5 minutes, the active connection will be dropped. ULTIMATE EARS BOOM will automatically reconnect if the source device is brought back in range within 5 minutes. If you take your source device out of range, the connection will be suspended.
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