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Sunday, August 28, 2011

Very Cool Experiment with Scott McCloud's Infinite Canvas: Building a parallax scrolling storytelling framework | Tutorial | .net magazine

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From netmagazine:

"Stevan Živadinović, the brains behind multi-plane side-scroller web comic Hobo Lobo of Hamelin, walks us through the development of the Parallaxer platform and gives a crash course on turning pencil drawings into transparent-background assets

Reading MS Paint Adventures I had an epiphany: in this day and age, there is little justification in keeping comics within the constraints of early 20th century offset printing. No need for inked line art, or hand-lettered speech bubbles that compete with art for page real estate, no need to pack the drawings into grids of fixed dimensions and print them in multiples of four: those are all solutions to problems we no longer have. So, I took Scott McCloud's infinite canvas and upped the ante by throwing some JavaScript into the pot. The result is Hobo Lobo of Hamelin, a webtime story about a city, its scruples, some rats, a lobo, his woodwind and the stuff that goes down...."

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