If I had thought of it at the time, I could have used an image editing tool (even MS Paint) to erase the border where they overlap, but I suspect you wouldn't have even noticed it if I hadn't mentioned it. (It probably would have only taken minutes to learn it, but I didn't need the distraction.) I just overlapped my text bubbles. I wish I had learned to figure out the 'multi-bubble' like what Animagic used at 1:54 in his video, but I was running out of time and wanted to get my project turning in before the deadline. Based on Animagic's recommendation, I also used Comic Life for the speech bubbles. I would like to have added a couple sound effects (waterfall in the distance, and upset tummy gurgling). I participated in the same project as Animagic, and I really had a great time doing it, and it remains one of my favorite projects because the end result was almost exactly what I was hoping to achieve. Even in the graphic novel style, I recommend avoiding that, unless you plan to do it regularly (like in Ferris Bueller's Day Off). Did you render in 4k, so you had 'extra' resolution for when you zoomed in? At 2:07, your reference to an 'off-camera' discussion sort of took me away from the moment, and reminded me that I'm watching a video. It took me a little while to get used to the panning/zooming from one text bubble to the next, but I accept it as an artistic choice. I am of course interested in any of your experiences that are related to Thanks for sharing. I'll keep you posted on how the next video goes. If you are thinking about doing something with text bubbles in IC yourself don't forget to do them in PNGs so you get the transparency around the bubbles automatically. That would be slightly easier in Vegas and give me more flexibility if I wanted to change anything in the dialog. In IC I would have to adjust the billboards every time I did a pan/zoom. I will do the text bubbles as PNGs in Inkscape as before, but now I will either add them as a top layer in Vegas or paste them on billboards in IC. I am still going to go for static scenes (no character animations) but instead of panning and zooming 2d renders in my video program I am going to do them in IC so that they will be in 3d. Here is the final video In my next chapter of this story I am going to try to plan better and do almost everything in IC. this was exacerbated by the choice of a 4/3 screen ratio for the comic version while I wanted to do the video wide-screen for youtube and avoid letterboxing. I hadn't left enough room around the characters to do any large scale panning and zooming in Vegas. I don't thing that shows up that badly in the comic version but it does in the video. I just kept throwing in point lights whenever I felt the need and tweaking light intensities without keeping track of what I was doing. I wasn't careful about being consequential with lighting.

If any of you also work in a DAW you know how an intuitive timeline should feel. I didn't feel like doing keyframes in the timeline because I find the timeline awkward. Yes there are stop and start flags but they are rather awkward and lack snap positions. One excuse for that is that there are no markers on the mainscreen time bar which I could tab between. I was not consequentially sequential when I was making the stills in IC. I thought I would share some of my experiences. I then decided to make a video of the graphic novel in my video editor (Vegas Pro) just panning and zooming on the rendered stills from IC. I knew my audience would never stumble upon the original demo version of the loft scene so I took the eazy route. IClone users will recognize the scene background in the story. It's here the static cartoon Of course you can do text bubbles in IC using for example the billboard but that is not as flexible a solution especially if you (like me) are tweaking your dialog lines constantly. I added the text bubbles in Inkscape and created a story in cartoon format. I just made an AI-themed graphic novel using IC7 for the scenes.

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