Artist insight | Storytelling
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BATTLE DAMAGE
In an action/adventure comic book, there’s bound to
be copious amounts of damage done to characters and their
environments. Keeping track of the progression of damage from
panel to panel and page to page gives added weight to the
consequences of the violence taking place. A real sense of
danger and, again, believability is created in the storytelling.
Progressing the damage done
from panel to panel adds weight to
the consequences of the violence
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STATIC VS
MOVING CAMERA
Page 15 of Bloodshot 25
has two distinct scenes.
The first is full of action
(two panels depicting a
badly wounded Bloodshot
gunning down a Stalker
Dog soldier before finally
collapsing). The second
scene is relatively quiet.
His wife cradles him in her
arms. For the action scene,
I kept the camera position
relatively static to better
emphasise the before and
after action in this very
busy scene. The static
camera position makes
the between-the-panels
action nice and clear. For
the second scene, since
Bloodshot and his wife are
being still, I was free to
move the camera around
to focus on each of their
facial expressions.