Comic Maker: Difference between revisions

Revision as of 16:58, 8 January 2008

see also Cartoon Builder

The Comic Maker activity is being developed by Avallain Basic Skills, with input from publisher Teshkeel.

with comic maker you can build comic strips. stages can be created with a background. on the stages characters and speech balloons can be aranged.

there exists a javascript version which is not yet properly implemented as an activity. a python/pygame version is in development

the pygame version is unfinished but you can already experiment with the most features.

You can see the source here and run it on your XO.

Status: needs to be bundled more cleanly as an activity; currently a content bundle running in Javascript.
Source: zip and xol
Preview: comicmaker online

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 ==== todo ====
-* add think balloons
-* fix balloon drawing code
 * do proper layout of the interface
 ==== future improvements ====
 * flip actors
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 ==== features ====
+* add/ reorder/ delete stages
-* rearrange actors in depth
+* set background of stage fields
-* delete stages
+* add/ order/ scale/ delete actors
-* rearrange stages
-* delete actors, balloons
+* add/ edit/ order/ delete balloons
 * journal support
-* select background/ actor from library
-* add stages
-* select background per stage field
-* select actor/bubble per stage field
-* scale and move around actors
-* move around balloons
 * change size and angle of balloon arrows
-* edit text of arrows (Balloons toolbar)
 === javascript version ===