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- Title
Motion comics: Modes of adaptation and the issue of authenticity.
- Authors
Smith, Craig
- Abstract
Motion comics can be considered as an emerging form of digital animation that typically appropriates and remediates an existing comic book narrative and artwork into a screen-based animated narrative. One such example of motion comic adaptation is The Watchmen, which was released on DVD and is also available on the iTunes online store as a digital download. This article argues that this new hybrid media raises unique considerations in terms of adaptation, and therefore provides a brief summary of key debates in adaptation studies, with a particular emphasis on the issue of authenticity. This is followed by a study of conventional adaptation practices from a comic book source and the emerging digital post-production approaches of animators and creative practitioners in the motion comic field, including a discussion on the importance of sound.
- Subjects
COMIC books, strips, etc.; CARTOONING techniques; ELECTRONIC post-production in motion pictures; ELECTRONIC sound editing; ANIMATORS; ANIMATED films; FILMMAKERS
- Publication
Animation Practice, Process & Production, 2012, Vol 1, Issue 2, p357
- ISSN
2042-7875
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1386/ap3.1.2.357_1