A while back I worked on a project for the University of Nebraska about an ocean virus called EhV. It was a ten page comic that would be followed by an essay about the virus.

The plan is to develop a series of short comic stories and essays to develop a hardcover book for retail and libraries. The University’s marketing strategy was to develop the comic stories to make them into a motion comic application for IPhones.

The motion comic idea was ditched due to money constraints but the comics were released last week as a web application for your Iphone and can be downloaded here.

Overall these experience of making a motion comic was fun, but very challenging. Every panel was developed in two to four separate layers depending on the background. I think some spots become a little stiff due to my inexperience working in this way. I’d love to see it work as a motion comic and we might get that chance down the road. Also it was fun working with my friend Martin Powell again, whom I used to work on a very short lived web comic called The Phantom Shadow that I would love to do again someday.

Brent