New graphics features include speedlines, halftones, updated stroke options and more! Introducing an integrated Script Editor*, next generation image filters and built in Instant Alpha tool. I love the way the app allows you to edit tiny details, from the shape and style of word bubbles to the size and placement of each story cell." - Kit Eaton, The New York Times "Of the comic book apps I’ve used, Comic Life,, has the most features and works best on an iPad because of the bigger screen. Resize and reshape your balloons as needed.The Most Powerful Photo Comic Creation App Available. Tap, drag and drop from your script right onto the comic page.ĭrag and drop your elements from the Script Editor. NOTE: This works the same way for the iPad as well. Check out this video showing how the drag and drop works.ĭirect link to the video: Script Editor: Drag and Drop Click and drag the elements from the bar next to your script to start building your page. Now that you have your script and the comic page up you are ready to start dragging and dropping. For the purposes of this guide we are going to be working with a blank template that I have updated with some custom styles. Once you’ve selected a template you will see that your script is in the top portion of your screen and the comic template is beneath it. Select a template or blank page to get started. This will present you with the template chooser again. Now that you have finished typing your script using Keywords you can click on the “Start Comic” icon in the toolbar.
Moving from the Script Editor to the Comic Editor You do not have to manually enter in your character names.Ĥ. Default balloons are indicated by any word (except those keywords designated for other elements) followed by a colon. Note that there is a colon (:) after each Keyword as an indicator for the command.Īs you type the Keyword and colon you will see corresponding element appear to the left of the Keyword. This is an example of what a script looks like using Keywords.
To use a Keyword simply type it into the Script Editor and you will see the corresponding element icon appear next to the text. There are some preset Keywords built into Comic Life to make it easy to get started, shown in the chart. The script Editor works by recognizing Keywords and providing you the correct elements to drag and drop onto the comic page. Understanding Keywords in the Script Editor (I’ll explain what that means in the next step.)Ģ. The “Intro Script” is an example script so you can see how Comic Life 3 recognizes what you type in the Script Editor and reflects the elements in the bar on the lefthand side.
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The “Dark Horse” script template tells you about comic writing conventions and how to indicate comic elements in your script.
The “Blank Script” is a blank page, ready for you to start your creation. If you’re looking at All Templates the first three templates are going to get you started with just the Script Editor features and none of the page layout templates. Wh en you launch Comic Life you are presented with the Template Chooser. Locating the Script Editor or starting with a script template.
I think it’s high time we do, so here we go!ġ.
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I wrote about our approach to script writing in the classroom before, but we haven’t done a full post on how to use the Script Editor. Now that Comic Life 3 has been out for a year and we are visiting with you wonderful educators again at BETT and TCEA we have been hearing that the Script Editor might be getting missed when creating lessons. Ever since we introduced the Script Editor in Comic Life 3 we’ve heard nothing but excitement about students being able to do all of their writing before getting started on their comic.
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