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Feedback Wanted: Return Of The Jedi - a motion comic

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It's a good idea but with respect to your hard work the execution falls short of that idea.

Ideally you should isolate the characters from the backgrounds and extend the backgrounds to remove the speech bubbles and the character elements and then match the audio to the characters in limited motion over the liberated background plates.

Just rolling the point of view over the comic gives us the worst of both worlds, one is tempted to read the comic but distracted by the audio of vice versa.

We don't have to read what we can hear or we don't need to hear what we can read.

Also if the project is meant as a homage to the comic adaptations using images from elsewhere (weirdly photoshopped stills, promotional images etc) breaks that purpose.

This is where the isolation of the character elements from the background comes in because where you don't have the necessary composition you can create it by mixing character elements and backgrounds from other comic frames (including the other Goodwin strips).

As I say it's a good idea and it deserves a second try. Thanks for sharing this with us.

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thanks for your reply bingowings !this is just a simple project i slapped together when i had an old machine running xp that did not do much and the version of windows movie maker had only zooms in and out for camera moves.just something i did for fun but if i ever get around to getting the tools i may use your suggestions.and,yeah,the word balloons are distracting and the comic did not include all scenes that were in the audio so I had to improvise.if you try to focus on the images themselves it is much more enjoyable.hoe to get more feedback from people and happy memorial day to all !

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Honestly it's worth considering giving it another more polished go and the other adaptations a try to. I'm sure you would find a lot of assistance to hand if you were to attempt such an undertaking.