Music for the showreel

For my showreel I wanted to find music that reflected my comic overall, rather than just on a few aspects of it. I wanted it to immerse the potential reader in the feel of the comic. The following words kept coming to mind: natural flow, summer and an overall calm. I had my mind focused on keeping things very light hearted, not devling into rock and roll or something too soft. I tried looking into other shows that were based on the same theme as my comic.

Azumanga Diaoh - OP: Oranges & Lemons
The tune reflected the more silly and comedic nature of the show, with very light-hearted springy sounds and a very inviting tune.

LuckyStar - OP: Motteke! Sailor Fuku
A lot more fast-paced compared to the Azumanga song, many have criticized this opening for being misleading, cause its fast paced and hyper energetic opening does not prepare you in the right mood for the show's more slow paced themes and jokes. That said, many have also stated to this day, they still can't get the song out of their heads.

K-ON! - OP: Cagayake! Girls
A lot more themed around the show, with the primary focus being that all the girls are in a school band/club together. But then again, many have criticized the fact that they feel misled as the show focuses more on the friends, than on the band aspect of their show.

F.R.I.E.N.D.S - OP: I'll be there for you
The theme fits the show perfectly, catching the era in which the show was set, while expressing the main themes of the show, strife with lover, work and money. As well as the companionship of your friends. It also does a very good job of drilling itself into your skull.

After listening to these, I feel like I needed to focus on the single element about my project, that could allow me to cast a wider net. My comic is meant to show that people with physical and mental disabilities or conditions are no different from people who we'd consider normal and that we are all human. So I felt that the best way to go about this was to focus on the one element we all do naturally, waking up. So I felt the best way music for the showreel had of conveying this sense of waking up in the morning was hearing a song on the radio.

Character bedrooms rough designs.

Test Demo one

Issues that occurred-

When using an image as a button, roll over edits the background and not the image itself! Thus we will need to make a custom image that switches out when roll over occurs.

But I am unable to figure out how you insert an image during the processes. Will check tutorials

I forgot how to make scrolling objects.

Images appeared pixelated while editing, but they seem cleaner when working on HTML. it seems might need to fiddle around with how something appears while editing and how it looks when It's actually done, as well as different sizes.

Treatment of Female Characters in comic books

It's very well known that comic books are a male dominated culture, but females still find their grounds in there, from writers, to artists and even fans. This once male-dominated culture is starting to rub elbows with the opposite sex. And sadly it's not going as smooth as butter.

Females have always seemed to be a hit or miss with the comic book industry, never really sure where their roles stand, or what to do with them. This has caused a very much 'close minded' attitude to women in the industry, both the fans, artists and writers as well as the characters. When it comes to the women who work in business, the male audience seem to treat them like a 'dumb girl' who doesn't understand the business she is involved with, despite probably having written the very comic he's about to read, and that the fans are clueless attention-seeking hogs who know nothing of the source material.

But sadly I do not know much information when it comes to the business side, mostly information and rumours. But as for the actual comic book writers and the characters they ruin, I am a bit more informed.

Example: DC writer Scott Lobdell whom, at the time of me writing, has been outed for his sexist and sexual harassment to a fellow coworker, during a panel.

But what could Scott Lobdell have done that's so bad? WELL, one of his 'crimes' against comics is his rendition of Starfire in his book "RedHood and the outlaws."

This was StarFires Original Appearance

This is how Starfire became known by the public

And this is what he turned her into. Exhibit A    Exhibit B

To be fair to Scott Lobdell, he isn't the only one to abuse the female character in comic books, it's been going on for a LONG time, way back in the 200th issue of The Avengers.

Released in October of 1980

The comic continued the cliff hanger of the mysterious pregnancy of Ms.Marvel (Known today as Captain Marvel).

In which they revealed that Carol Danvers (Ms.Marvel) was abducted against her will, romanced and led with hypnotic suggestions, so that she could be impregnated with the life essence of her RAPIST, so that she may give birth to him.

Carol only existed in this comic to give birth, because lazy male writers only know this about women.

They like women, women are mothers and women get married. That. Is. It. When it comes to a portion of the comic industry, it is a sad truth, but one we must face.

As such, I choose to follow the teachings of Ridley Scott and create CHARACTERS first and let gender become a second issue only. I do this so I do not fall into the trappings of lesser men before me. Female characters deserve as much respect as their real world counterparts, even more so one could argue. As they are the role models of a new generation, these are the people other people will look towards and read into to see what is right and what is wrong.

Outfits finished.