Duck & Bear Episode 5
It's here! The climax of the tale. Will Duck's epic tale see the light of publication? What has Bear been cooking up? Find out here!
In the concluding (for now) episode of Amanda Lillywhite's adventures, Duck and Bear are Taking it Further!
When you have read the episode click on Duck in the penultimate panel and then click on the letter in Bear's hands in the final panel for two extras!
ReplyDeleteLove the animations! Glad you had so much fun with this.
ReplyDeleteThanks Nick. I had lots of fun creating this episode.
DeleteBravo Amanda for an animated ending! Interesting how you show that meeting up at a launch and listening to advice might be fruitful...
ReplyDeleteThanks Bridget. This sort of thing has happened to me at book launches but I have always managed to miss or mess up the opportunities. Duck and Bear are much better than I am!
DeleteI enjoy going to book launches for many reasons and especially love the speeches for the insights into people lives and creativity. Quick disclaimer: I have never seen anyone embarrass their daughter the way that T Rex does in this episode!
Love the animations!
ReplyDeleteThanks Heather! In the end it was a lot easier than I thought it would be to create the animated gifs - I will do more in the future.
DeleteWith a bit of cutting out and HTML layout stuff you could easily embed them into the actual comic or make them animate with rollovers.
DeleteThe animated gifs were never part of the original Duck and Bear idea - very much a last minute thing - but it would be interesting to design a webcomic with lots of different stuff built in. My next comic idea is for paper but I might think about doing something after that. Combining animations with rollovers (if it works with my software) would overcome the problem of the whole page continuously animating - which can be irritating.
DeleteMany moons ago, I used Photoshop to do this kind of thing - it would allow you to create images with rollover sections and output the whole thing to an HTML file that reassembled the picture. Adobe may have moved that functionality into one of their other products now, though.
DeleteMy version of Photoshop / Image Ready is very old - part of the original Creative Suite - so perhaps the same. I can set up rollovers in my website software so if it is not possible in my version of Photoshop I may be able to bodge it that way. This could become addictive...
DeleteSo relieved the animations worked :-) they are my first attempts at creating animated gifs in Photoshop.
ReplyDeleteI love the surprise of Bear's book series! Brilliant!
ReplyDeleteThanks Candy.
DeleteI love happy endings. Yay for them both.
ReplyDeleteI like happy endings as well Maureen. Plus I think that many writers, like Duck, do start to make progress in publishing world after working extremely hard on honing their skills and their manuscripts. It might take years and they may lose heart at times but they do get there in the end.
DeleteBear is different - I always saw Bear as the type of person who seems to pop up out of nowhere with a publishing contract. They work hard but also somehow hit on the right idea at the right time. A combination of good luck and good judgement.
Amanda, these are fabulous characters in a brilliant story wonderfully drawn and told with a lovely humour. From the first moment you mentioned the idea of a web comic and the possible content I was so excited. Duck and Bear have all my empathy, I love them and long to see what happens next. Thank you so much for doing this for Words & Pictures, you are a star!
ReplyDeleteOh Jan - thank you for your lovely comment and for all your support throughout the creation of Duck&Bear.
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