This is a short trailer for my upcoming graphic novel HATEPARADER. I am using a wider than usual “Wide screen format” for my comic so an open spread equals the framed panels that you see onscreen.
I drew my illustrations in layers so that I would be able to come back and animate individual layers. I did my sketches and layouts with ink on paper and then drew them digitally using photoshop. I animated my layers in photoshop and then exported the scenes as .mp4′s. I imported the mp4′s into iMovie and added fade to black transitions and the soundtrack I had previously recorded using my own sounds in Audacity (free software) for my previous title tests. In the future, Id like to use a proper animation program to smoothen out the action between frames so its not so choppy. I would also like to use adobe premiere instead of iMovie as that would also give me more control over simple things like having the fade to black transitions a little slower etc. Going forward, I have to consider my layouts as if they are meant to be animated so that I draw my setting alone, without characters and then add my characters and actions etc, on separate layers in case of possible animation later.
