Sunday, September 30, 2012

Project Pipeline: Dueling Wizards


My idea for a group project is to do a collaborative comic book about two wizards fighting over a magic wand. As they attempt to grab the wand from each other, they keep magically changing each other and the world around them. My idea was to have a different person draw each page - so, in other words, whenever one of the wizards casts a spell, the world of the comic book suddenly changes into another artist's style. 

I'd like to sketch out, in general, what happens in the comic book, so I think I should be the director of the project. I'm open to whoever would like to be Art Director and Head of Editorial. I thought this seemed like a good idea for a group project because people could focus on their own section of the project and incorporate their personal style into it, and yet it would still have an overall cohesive flow.

I would probably sketch out what's supposed to happen on each page rather simply, and then the other people in the group can draw the page in their own way. And they don't even have to be drawings - if you're a photography major, the wizards could become real people in wizard outfits on one of the pages. It all depends on what each person in the group would like to focus on. My initial sketches might  look something like this:


Of course, before I sketch out the actual story that would be used in the final version, I would want to talk to the other people in my group to find out what kind of artistic style they have so I could incorporate that into the comic book. Here's my Organizational Chart (we can have as many comic book artists as we need): 



And I also made out a timeline, although in a project like this, people will be working on their own sections of the project so it isn't easy to pin down what will happen when. Just so long as everybody gets their part done before the project is due.

9 comments:

  1. I think the idea is really interesting. Having the style change based on the wand is a great way to get everyone involved in the process of making it. I believe it could turn out to be extraordinarily unique. However, being that it could potentially be so many different styles would you try to keep it within some kind of boundaries or is it completely open?

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  2. This is brilliant! I love the idea of changing styles. The plot is simplistic but can easily be expanded upon. Did I say this is brilliant?

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  6. i love this idea! i think it's cool that you would have each person do their own thing in the scenes, i would love to be a part of this!

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  7. This sounds like a super fun idea!
    I love the idea of using everyone's different drawing styles to add to the story.

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  9. Thanks for the comments, guys!

    As far as boundaries are concerned, I actually think the more different the styles, the better, as long as the wizards are somewhat recognizably the same characters in every incarnation.

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