This post was originally published on murderiseverywhere.blogspot.com.
I was still waiting for the WIP’s structural edits, so decided to attempt another 2 week project. It seemed like a good idea at the time: I didn’t want to take on anything big with the editorial changes/ corrections/ curses that would warp my mind forever descending on me at any time; surely I could learn how to create and post a scrolling story in a couple of weeks?
Isn’t that something young people are doing all the time?
Anyway, it seemed like a good idea. I needed to make it a project because I’m not good at learning new stuff without a defined outcome (sorry, I’m Singaporean) to anchor it to.
Plus without a deadline, I tend to end up procrastinating under the excuse of learning/ practicing.
So: Project Target: make and upload something, however crappy, before my next MIE post!
So I downloaded free trials of Canva (creating and editing videos) and Procreate (for creating the images I wanted to animate) and went to YouTube to watch how-to videos.
I thought it would be simple–pick what I want to do, come up with a story, visualise and animate it and post the results…
First off, it wasn’t so easy.
Or I’m just not very good at figuring out apps.
And then I had trouble coming up with characters–so I fell back on Aunty Lee (from my first series)
This is Aunty Lee with her famous pineapple tarts.
And Margie (from last fortnight’s project story).
And I thought maybe I could figure things out, given enough time…
So of course that’s when my structural editor’s feedback & notes arrived (Friday)
Just before my panel at the Singapore Writers.
Thank you to MJ Mohammad for coming and for this photograph!
So all in all, I’m linking this mini story that’s not quite a webcomic and not quite animated but thanks to it I’ve tried ‘creating’ clay protagonists, created a canva account and inserted text over a background, learned about time lines and saving to JPG vs PNG vs MP4…
And here’s the result! I just hope this link works!
Now I’m heading back to face the first round of edits. Please wish me luck!!