Flashfilmmaker

The Adobe Flash timeline is essentially a spreadsheet that allows us to place and manipulate our media elements across points in time. Much like any other spreadsheet, it is composed of rows, columns, and cels. In the Adobe Flash Timeline, however, the cels are inaccurately referred to as frames, the rows are called layers, and [...]

When I began planning to create a web comic, one of the early style decisions I had to address was whether or not I wanted to do a black and white “classical newspaper” look or whether I wanted to go to full color. My background and love of animated cartoons helped me to lean toward full [...]

There are many ways to approach creating a regularly published comic strip. Some cartoonists start with the main gag and layout the strip storyboard style while others approach their strip as a written script and then break that script down into panel shots. It is really a matter of which approach for writing is most comfortable [...]

When I began planning to create a web comic, one of the early style decisions I had to address was whether or not I wanted to do a black and white “classical newspaper” look or whether I wanted to go to full color. My background and love of animated cartoons helped me to lean toward full [...]