Nwain: An Animated Comic Book

Hello hello!

I've been obsessed with this lately, so I might as well announce it everywhere.  I'm making an animated comic book.

Nwain: The Knight Who Wandered Dream

The series follows Nwain, a knight who wanders dreamland in search of wisdom.  She fights monsters, joins tournaments, solves disputes, and helps others face their nightmares, until she must face her own.

The adventures will span about 7 issues.  For issue 1, I'll get done what I can of the script and storyboard, but true production can't begin until I've graduated in 2013.  I won't be able to finish this on my own, and I'll need some help later on.

Here's some pre-pre-production!  This is just some design exploration and style tests, and not representative of the final work.

What's An Animated Comic Book?

An animated comic book is an electronic book typically read on an iPad or other tablet device.  It can follow many of the conventions of the comic book format - panels, word balloons, etc., but also leverages the digital medium by adding animation, sound effects, voice, and/or interaction.  It's a new form of storytelling that's still being explored, so I don't want to define it any more strictly than that.

Ryan Woodward's Bottom of the Ninth is a good example of what I'm talking about.  Check it out!  www.bottom-of-the-ninth.com/