Sentences with phrase «word balloons»

Instead, a swipe may bring in new word balloons, a new panel, or a change in focus.

As in my previous explorations with three - dimensional word balloons, I wanted to explore how the act of speech has the capacity to carry a significant intellectual and emotional weight.

Many of the motion - comics techniques Madefire uses on its Motion Books platform will be familiar to readers of Thrillbent and other digital - first comics: Rack focus, panning, panel - by - panel reveals, word balloons dropping in with a swipe or a click.

Bryan Singer's «X-Men «for example,» Millar said in an podcast with Word Balloon via ComicBook Movie.

It's a Guided View Native comic, which means it uses comiXology's Guided View features to create digital - only effects such as word balloons dropping into place and panels popping up when the reader swipes the screen.

As you go through the pages, have students identify words that are written in an unusual font (either in bold or in a different color than the rest of the text), larger than other words, or within different colored word balloons.

Alternatively, you can use a page from a dialogueless title (Korgi or The Snowman) and create word balloons yourself.

Big panels with large word balloons and words follow Little Mouse as he gets ready for a trip to the barn by putting on each article of clothing, one at a time, while his mother waits, not so patiently.

For Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center in Buffalo NY, I created and installed seven word balloon sculptures.

We picked out seven games that have (basically) never had their own comic book series before and detail as best we can for potential publishers just why they'd work in the realm of word balloons.

The comics and picture book I sampled all used the full screen as a single panel, but with each swipe or page turn something happened: Word balloons dropped in, someone came crashing through a door, a squirrel dove from a tree.

Instead, each swipe brings up new word balloons, a new panel, or a change in the page; it's not unlike Marvel's Infinite Comics in that the swipes don't necessarily turn the page, they bring in new elements.

Some of the sections in these chapters are a little overwhelming, littering panels with word balloons that alternately work to advance the story and serve as the occasional comedic aside, all spewed forth from a cast that's constantly expanding.

The following example is nothing more than a word balloon from God, but what do you think of what this writer has God saying?

He always has a hat on or, indoors, his pate is cleverly obscured by well - placed lampshades and word balloons.

This was the first parody to caricature the actors as well as their roles, portraying a Montgomery Clift who stutters and stammers through his part, taking five word balloons to deliver a single line.

Not necessarily wanting to go in (enthusiastic reaction from trusted online friends helped) I left exhausted, from all those ideas and fights and word balloons, but I felt I had seen something, with a brain and a heart to accompany its fists and feet of fury, and it, too, has a place on my year - end honors list.

When it launched, Comixology's app was notable for its Guided View mode, which walks you through the entire contents of a comic panel by panel — sometimes even word balloon by word balloon.

The word balloons drop in after the art is in place.

Fortunately, the sound is easy to toggle off with a button (marked with a word balloon) in the upper right corner of every page (or on the Nexus, every panel).

In fact, it's hard to imagine any way to translate the DC2 comics into print: Rather than moving from panel to panel, readers will tap the screen to bring in the next storytelling element, which could be a word balloon, a pictorial element, or a whole new scene.

His comic is horizontal, so it fits into a computer screen without scrolling, and the panels, images, and word balloons are large relative to the page, making it easy to read on a computer without putting your nose to the screen.

This comic makes full use of digital - only techniques like having the background of a panel change, or a word balloon drop in, with every swipe.

That means you lose the nifty digital effects: The scene where four panels and a word balloon appear one at a time in the web version becomes five pages in the PDF, with a new panel appearing on each page.

These comics are part of Marvel's Infinite Comics line and are made to be read on a tablet; most of the time, a single panel fills the page (sometimes with a second panel as an inset) and a swipe may bring up new word balloons or pictorial elements or a new page altogether.

The DC2 storytelling style, like Mark Waid's Thrillbent, involves a lot of extra pages: Most of the page may stay the same, but with a swipe the background might change color or a new panel or word balloon might appear.

The creators use the standard tools, such as dropping in panels and word balloons, and they use blackouts and focus changes as well.

Graphic novels are something like cinema, yet the addition of text in word balloons (another important element of incredible nuance) makes them something like literature.

Hold up copies of the word balloons that have been blocked from students» views (with the «stems» of each removed so the direction of the speaker is not indicated) and have the students decide which part of the dialogue belongs to which character in a panel.

With a left - to - right sequence (the action and order of the word balloons within the panel) within a left - to - right sequence (the order of the panels themselves), a comic book reinforces sequence like nothing else.

In the Classroom: Photocopy and, if needed, enlarge a page (depending on whether you're working in small groups or with the entire class) from one of the above titles, blocking out the word balloons in the panels.

In his comics, the reader controls every motion on the page — the word balloons that drop into the panel, the shifts in focus, every single change is initiated by the reader.

Yet there are so many well - known, obvious visual elements — the heavy blacks, panels, word balloons — that its easy to miss the subtleties.

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After a second, his word balloon appears.

I still couldn't zoom in, and it's still hard to read the word balloons, but I was awed and amazed that they arrived in full - blown color.

«The Word Balloons in the Comics Made Me Think of Smoke Signals» — from the story Vision Quest: Echo When someone asks you to think of American comic books,...

Sometimes, they word balloons will pop up as hints to completing a puzzle, so pay attention if you become stuck.

At least, we'll assume that it was mid-sentence because the characters speak in gibberish and word balloons that hint at what they are discussing.

I hoped to create connections between the contents on the word balloons and physical objects themselves.

I elevated the word balloons off the ground with a series of two by twos.