Make Beliefs Comix Tutorial

I'm going to call my comic practice real quick and an author's name. So I'm going to put mister Alexander. You should always fill in those two things. Name of Comic-Con author's name, because they'll let you access the comic much easier later. Right here are your three panels. This is a three panel comic, but if you scroll down a little bit, you'll notice you can also make it a two panel comic or a four panel comic. I'm going to say that you must do a minimum of a three panel comic for what we're about to do in class here. If you click on each panel, you'll notice that you can actually work with each panel individually. So let's click on the first one to figure out how to do things. If you have a panel clicked on, you can scroll through their list of characters here. Some are in black and white, some are in color. You can mix, you can match whatever. When you find a character that looks interesting to you, for example, I like, oh, I don't know. 

This wolf man right here. He pops up right here after I've clicked him. I can use the arrows to select different emotions for the wolf man. All right? When I'm happy with that emotion, so if I want him to be concerned or amazed, I can click on him, and he'll appear in whatever strip I wanted him to, or whatever box I wanted him to in this trip. After that I can move him around by clicking on him and moving him. If I click the next box and choose a different wolf man, then I can kind of put him there. So on and so forth. So if you want, you can even put two wolf mans in the same box. You'll also see that there are backgrounds here as well. So if I click on, you'll see there's words, backgrounds, and objects. So I'm going to click on backgrounds, and you'll see that we have a lot of different backgrounds, some again, black and white, and some are in color. So I'm going to pick the background that I want. Whoops I brought me into words after a while. So I want these two wolf men to be at the movies. There we go. 

So now we have these two wolf men, and they have a background. You can also do objects objects as a lot of these butterflies and balloons and bikes and bears and flowers and trees. You're going to have to put a couple objects in your background as well. So prepare to do that as you move forward. In addition to having backgrounds and objects, you're also going to want dialog boxes. The dialog boxes are right down here. Talk balloons and thought balloons and panel prompts. If you've ever read comics and you probably have, you'll know what these are. This is representing what a character says. If you flip through, there's a bunch of different ones, getting smaller and smaller as you go. So once you click it to bring it into a panel, then you can choose to click and write whatever words you want. Now you'll notice that you can write as much as you want in smaller ones though, the box does not get bigger.

So however big it is, is however big it is. And after that, it doesn't, the box doesn't get bigger to encompass more words. So you want to use these words or use the bigger boxes very carefully. You also don't want to cover up your characters. So you got to be careful where you put these boxes. So a lot of the left side here we have a lot of different tools. For example, let's say I want both of these boxes, but no matter high position them, I can't not cover up this wolf man here. Well, right now we have move pick. So we can kind of move the wolfman around. There we go. That might be a little easier. And that certainly makes it more simple for us. Or scale, if I click on one of these wolf men, I can make him smaller or bigger. That scale tool allows you to make things bigger or smaller. Bring to front, does exactly what it does with a lot of these tools, which is when you click on something, it pulls it above everything else. 

Flip allows you to, simply, flip a character, delete, when you click it, you can delete a box or delete a character, or whatever. And start over as a scary one, when you click it, it confirms it. When you press okay, it starts all over again from the beginning. If you're happy with what you have, then you can click this next button right here. When you click the next button, you can kind of review it. If you don't like it, you can go back and edit it. If you do like it, then you can email it to me. So simply put your name in here, whatever your name is, and your email address, which is going to be your at JA pioneers dot org email. And then down here, simply put in ALX, at J a pioneers. Dot org, and send it away. Email me a comic. If you are not done, you can save the image to disk simply by clicking that save image to disk. When you do, it asks you where you want to save it. So let's say I want to save it. 

On my desktop in my personal folder, so I can click desktop, Alexander, I'll save it in here. And then if I want to, later on, I can pull up this paint dot net tool, open up my comic, and then I can use this text tool in order to finish my comic off. So if you don't finish in one day, simply use this tool to finish it up later. But if you do finish in one day, please email it to me. Beyond that, it's a fairly simple tool, get started and have