Using digital animation tools, you can add latest essence to your comic book.
Place the characters and objects back into the scene as animation objects. Animate the characters as the action dictates and move the camera focus on the scene as needed. Save the animations. By porting your comic book to this format, you can introduce it to an entirely new audience.
Instructions
1. Record the dialog track. Have your voice actors read from a print copy of the comic book at the recording session and direct them to respond to the action and inflection they see on the page. Record one piece of dialogue at a time and save these as separate files. Record your music track as well as any sound effects.
2. Scan in your original comics or, if you created them digitally to begin with, import the art resources from their file folders. Use the free-selection tool (the icon usually looks like a lasso) to cut and paste panels as new images. Resize them to be equal in width and height. Free-select any characters and objects you will animate and cut and paste them as separate images. Finish the background art in the holes left by the cut-out characters.
3. Import the altered art resources into the animation program. Set the panel backgrounds as scene backgrounds.Since the mid-2000s, the proliferation of digital 2-D animation has helped propel forward a new medium: the motion comic. Motion comics lie somewhere between comic books and fully animated cartoons. Voice acting and music are added to the content, but the still art is for the most part preserved. The animation is typically limited to camera pans, zooms and slight changes in the movement of characters and objects.
4. Import the animations into the non-linear video editing software and cut the scenes together onto the time line. Import dialog, music and sound effects, matching them to the visual action as appropriate. Export the animation as a movie file.
5. Upload the movie file to video websites like Vimeo or YouTube to share with the rest of the world.
