Technological Innovations in Social Storytelling with Sequential Art The Infinite Canvas 2.0 Ben Serrette Table of Contents Title ................................................................................................................................................. 1 Project Title ................................................................................................................................. 1 Design Name ............................................................................................................................... 1 Name ............................................................................................................................................... 1 Introduction ..................................................................................................................................... 2 Summary ..................................................................................................................................... 2 Problem Space ............................................................................................................................ 2 Importance and User base ........................................................................................................... 3 The Design .................................................................................................................................. 4 Approach and Methodology ........................................................................................................... 6 Literature Research ......................................................................................................................... 8 Overview ..................................................................................................................................... 8 Understanding Comics ................................................................................................................ 8 Reinventing Comics .................................................................................................................... 9 Anatomy of a Successful Social Network ................................................................................ 10 Summary ....................................................................................................................................11 Research ........................................................................................................................................ 12 Exemplar Research ................................................................................................................... 12 “Infinite Canvas Engines” ..................................................................................................... 12 Collaborative Art Systems .................................................................................................... 15 Social Art Systems ................................................................................................................ 18 Online Art Programs ............................................................................................................. 21 Comic Jams ........................................................................................................................... 24 User Research ........................................................................................................................... 26 Post-it Study .......................................................................................................................... 26 Survey ................................................................................................................................... 30 Design Research........................................................................................................................ 31 Sketching............................................................................................................................... 31 Brainstorming ....................................................................................................................... 35 Alternate Reality Discussion................................................................................................. 36 Analysis, Insights, Discussion, and Contribution ..................................................................... 36 Design Process .............................................................................................................................. 39 ii Conceptual Development .......................................................................................................... 39 Prototyping ................................................................................................................................ 39 Introduction ........................................................................................................................... 39 Iteration 1 .............................................................................................................................. 40 Iteration 2 .............................................................................................................................. 41 Iteration 3 .............................................................................................................................. 42 Iteration 4 .............................................................................................................................. 42 Iteration 5 .............................................................................................................................. 43 Final Design .................................................................................................................................. 44 Summary ................................................................................................................................... 44 The Infinite Canvas – The Viewer ............................................................................................ 46 The Grab and Drag navigation .................................................................................................. 47 The Trails .................................................................................................................................. 48 Disappearing/Sliding Frames .................................................................................................... 48 Timeline and Choosing Options ............................................................................................... 50 Logo .......................................................................................................................................... 52 Adding Panel ............................................................................................................................. 52 Artist, Date, and Time ............................................................................................................... 54 Tags ........................................................................................................................................... 54 Ratings ...................................................................................................................................... 55 Comments ................................................................................................................................. 55 Login ......................................................................................................................................... 56 User Profile ............................................................................................................................... 56 Shared Paths .............................................................................................................................. 57 Strategy ......................................................................................................................................... 59 Conclusions ................................................................................................................................... 61 Acknowledgements ....................................................................................................................... 62 Biography ...................................................................................................................................... 63 References ..................................................................................................................................... 64 Appendix A ................................................................................................................................... 65 Appendix B ................................................................................................................................... 66 iii Title Project Title Technological Innovations in Social Storytelling with Sequential Art Design Name Infinite Canvas 2.0 Name Ben Serrette 1 Introduction Summary Comics, as most people think about them, have been around since the late 1700s. They range from short political cartoons to super hero comic books to graphic novels. Comics is, however, a much more diverse medium. Influential comic book writer and artist Will Eisner defined comics as “sequential art.”(Eisner, 1985) Scott McCloud, a highly respected comic theorist, expands this with his own definition of “juxtaposed pictorial and other images