disAuthor William Maher is a writer and director, whose previous career in visual effects saw him working on many comic book adaptations including Mars Attacks!, X-Men, and Batman & Robin. Intrigued by the impact of these superhero franchises, Maher started developing the storyworld for Submarine Channel’s interactive comic Ascent from Akeron about a decade ago … Continued
The festival season is in full swing and across Europe there are some truly unmissable events for graphic novel-reading fanatics. In addition to events dedicated to the traditional comic books, many events, festivals and conferences are also allocating presentations and exhibitions to motion comics -digital evolutions of the comic book that combine animation and other … Continued
Submarine Channel recently produced 4 interactive animated book trailers, which received quite a bit of positive feedback. Canada’s National Center for Missing & Exploited Children was quite smitten with our interactive scrollers, and commissioned Submarine to create an interactive animated story to help children understand the consequences of being bullied. To create the art, we brought in … Continued
Submarine Channel produces four animated trailers for e-books by the acclaimed Dutch thriller author Charles Den Tex. Each e-book trailer explores a different motion comic technique, and is made by an upcoming Dutch artist. We are very excited about the second trailer in the series that promotes the e-book version of Charles dex Tex‘s brand-new thriller De Erfgenaam … Continued
Submarine Channel produces four animated trailers for e-books by the acclaimed Dutch thriller author Charles Den Tex. Each e-book trailer explores a different motion comic technique, and is made by an upcoming Dutch artist. The best selling thriller CEL was made into a feature film in 2012 and is available as an e-book at charlesdentex.com. Made … Continued
The beautiful and evocative music and sound design of our motion comic The Art of Pho was done by Matteo Taheri and Niels Hahn of Pastelle Music. It was a sheer joy to work with these two talented guys. Their music perfectly captures the journey -both physical and emotional- of our main character Little Blue. … Continued
The Graphic Universe of Han Hoogerbrugge is a coffee table book+DVD about the unparalleled work of one of the most original artists-slash-animators currently active on the Web and beyond: Han Hoogerbrugge. The book with DVD covers all aspects of Hoogerbrugge’s work and career: from the early beginnings of the Neurotica web series up to Hotel, Nails and … Continued
The man behind Jawbone.tv – where non-linear dreamz are born – just shared this intriguing oeuvre-in-the-making with us: a dark, gory and compelling crowd-powered, interactive graphic novel-type project in which you get to kill and kill again the world’s deadliest killers. Keyword: kill :-) The project is *transmedia*-tastic, combining gaming, books, animation and live action … Continued
Set in a gritty sci-fi universe, NAWLZ is a dazzling journey into the mind of Tasmanian graphic novellist Stuart Campbell, a.k.a. Sutu (who, interestingly, moonlights as a HUD designer for military applications). Combining eye-popping illustrations with eerie audio, readers can navigate the 10 (so far) episodes via a series of visually stunning linear paths. Like … Continued
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