Process

We had multiple iterations. We made a first-cut of the project before the desk crit. The first-cut, whose screenshots were attached below, was very similar to the final turnout, but the theme was totally different. The story's theme was "Scrooge vs Apple", which was a non-sensical subject of Scrooge trying to win back his taste of apples. The comic strips had their lines replaced, which we found very effectively narrated the story. 

At desk crit, we gathered advice from Daragh, Kevin, as well as prof. Corbett from the Game Design department. One important question that was often asked was what we wanted to achieve using comics. This is why we came up with the idea of using the dramatic effect of comics to reflect on everyday issues.

Previously in the proposal, we said that we intended to create a meme-like style in comics. However, Kevin was especially skeptical if by making comic strips memes we could achieve what we wanted. We also discussed about this issue and finally decided to just change the lines. This was important because in order for the comic strips to connect with each other to form a story, each comic strip could not stand out to interrupt the flow.

The specific procedure of creating the comic pictures are as follows:

1) We first gathered a bunch of comic pictures of Donald and Daisy

2) Following the storyline, we carefully chose relevant pictures to transition and progress through the story

3) Photoshop the pictures to update the conversation bubbles, as well as modifying the background to fit it in the context (since our choice of comic pics were limited, we weren't able to find a perfect picture for every scene). 

4) Bring the photoshopped  pics together to produce the google slides