5-Page Screenshot Comic

[wyze2099]

I've been messing around with PlanetWide Games' Comic Book Creator Software, which allows users to arrange pictures from their computer onto pre-made comic book templates. The pictures can be anything from scanned photos or images from the internet to screengrabs from movies and video games. Once the images are arranged in the template, word balloons, sound effects, and captions can be placed on the panels.

I'll primarily use the software for lettering the upcoming Ultimate Ninja Turtles comic, but because I was bored, I decided to test out the program by recording a quick Time Trial game of my TMNT IV SNES rom, saving it as .avi, screengrabbing the frames with JASC Animation Shop 3, then turning the frames into a comic story. WHEW!

Here's the result:

So! Comments? This was basically me messing around and getting a hang of the software. I admit the dialogue isn't all that great, as I built a quick one-shot story out of the fight that took place.

Also notice that some panels are fuzzier and more pixelated than others, because the program enables images to be zoomed in to fit the panel size or to focus on a small part of the picture. I made extensive use of that to get a few closeups of game footage that never changed camera angles, and to hide the heads-up display at the top of the screen.