Creating
How to make for self-publishing with digital tools? It is complicated. You can find so many articles or documents, services for making digital content, about iOS/Andorid apps on web. A project management plan will help you to focus on your creativity before working on drawings or composing an app with Kwik.
Workflow
- making ideas, sketching, drawing
- writing manuscripts
- illustrating characters/settings
- sketching thumbnails
- sketching final each page
- rendering PSDs
- composing with Kwik
- documentation
this is an example,
| Task | Tools | Stage1 | Stage2 | Stage3 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Learning | storytelling | drawing | Kwik | |
| Sketches&Notes | (iPad) | idea, notes, sketch | characters, settings | |
| Thumbnails | (iPad) | story, thumbnail | ||
| Final Sketches | (iPad) | storyboard | ||
| Drawing Pages | (iPad)/Photoshop | PSDs | ||
| Composing With Kwik | Kwik | interactions | ||
| Documentation | (Gitbook/Hugo) | manuscript | storyboard | blog |
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You may call Documentation as mile stone or output at each state.
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Gitbook is a good tool for markdown documentation or Hugo.
How to use the tools
- Story: Text editing
- Sketching
- Importing your sketches to Photoshop
- Rendering and composing pages on Photoshop
- Using Kwik to publish A-GIF or app
Storyboard Tools
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wonderunit storyboarder is a good free & open-source software on Windows / Mac. You can draw with digital brushes or you can take a picture of your storyboard on paper with your smart phone and then import them to the software.
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Storyboard Editor for Adobe XD by Kwiksher