illustration n’ipads
Purely a topic dreamt up by Adobe or a genuine issue? Print magazine asked several illustrators including Illustrators Ireland member Steve Simpson what they felt about the future of publishing debate at ICON6. (image:Scott Gandell)
July 26th, 2010 12:58
We’ve been here before with the debate over whether cinematic adaptions of comics represent an improvement on the originals. To many fans, they don’t, though they can be entertaining. Comics aren’t storyboards, still images (paintings, illustrations) aren’t frustrated animations. Visual spoon-feeding of this kind fails to recognise the crucial involvement of the viewer’s imagination. I’m sure technology such as the iPad will herald a new strain of moving or interactive illustration, but the demand for still images will continue.
July 27th, 2010 09:57
Do it if you want to is the only way I can think about it, rather than be a sheep and follow what others are doing. Other than that it’s pretty much a non issue for me, or am I missing a huge point here??
July 27th, 2010 10:36
I think the fact it was the opening keynote and there was a fair bit of stress on animation and interactivity being the future of editorial illustration. Many saw this as being possibly extra work for the same rates.
July 27th, 2010 16:10
Animation is fast becoming my bread and butter – as in animations houses like Caboom give me a list of ‘assets’, or predetermined characters/scenes/things, I draw them and they make them move. Would love to survive purely on one-off, high-detail imaginative stuff for editorial, but coming in late to the game, editorial work is all too rare. So I suppose I’m pro-animation. It means I can eat.
This is my first post as an IGI member btw.. Hi everyone