Coming soon: Norse Codes web teaser

Have you ever abandoned a webcomic half way through?

I have. With all the clicking and scrolling and zooming, it’s hard to loose yourself in the story. Why is it so difficult to adapt comics for web? And what does it take to do it well?

With these questions in mind, me and Aksel have worked tirelessly to create a web teaser from issue 1 of Norse Codes that will blow you away! (we hope We have not found any magic bullets, or solved all the inns and outs of web comics. Not nearly. But I think we have found part of the Answer. And like all answes, it is simple: Write for computer, not paper.

Rather than writing and drawing it for another medium – paper – and then spending time cropping and fiddling with it, we started on the other end: We thought of the computer as a medium in its own right. What possibilities and limitations does that open up?

Turns out they are many.

We started with aspect ratios. How could we use the entire screen, on all screen sizes? We hope to. Check out Aksel’s posting about aspect ratios, a topic of near interminable debate between us.

What struck me as the most interesting artistic possibility was to literally draw with light. A white pixel on a computer screen will literally beam light at you. Paper doesn’t do that. Even bristol.

And what else can a computer do that paper can’t? It plays music. It allows us to choose how images enter the screen. It guides you, and may take control of your reading speed.

Ok, so where is the damn teaser? Me and Aksel are putting the final touches on the art and music, and it will be posted right here at ana/kata Very, Very Soon.

I better get back to work, so I can put my money where my mouth is. Watch this space!

Cheers,

PM