Just finished the second video, lots of fun and great information on visual storytelling! Mr Mitchroney is a great and enthusiastic guest! Thanks for doing these. You guys are building up a great library, I often fall behind on watching all the videos I'm interested in because I actually have to pay attention and can't just let them play in the background... That's clearly a sign of good, valuable content, but probably makes it harder to generate a million views quickly. Hope to see more "bigfoot" artists in the future, from animation, comics or both. Stephen DeStefano would be high on my very subjective list, but what are the odds ;) I'm sure it's gonna be worthwhile in any case.
Thank you, Jano! We are willing to take the hit on massive hit counts for the sake of highly engaged viewers who really pay attention, learn, converse, etc. That is the coolest. If someone can make a connection we would love to talk to Mr. DeStefano!
Dr. Peter Walker of Lancaster University did a study that concludes our brains have a left-to-right bias in regards to objects or beings depicted as moving; no such bias exists when the same objects are depicted as being stationary. This has been used to explain a number of general design choices that seem arbitrary, such as why Mario is going left-to-right. No idea of the veracity of the study or if it's been investigated further. This series of interviews with Ken have been amazing; hilarious, authentic and full of so much practical knowledge. These go into the "watch every few months" library with how much insight is contained here. Just excellent. And Carson's reaction to "big apple juice" was priceless.
That's fascinating, Eric. I'm going to read the abstract and report back. Was worried about derailing the conversation or driving us into a cul-de-sac, but this is one of these issues that has been brewing in my mind for more than a decade. I once dissected the work of several manga-ka to see whose pages were directionally dependent, and HOW strongly the directionality was present, and it was all over the place. Some cartoonists (like Samura, Tsuge, Kawaguchi) being very strongly directionally oriented, others so little directionally oriented (for instance, Tatsumi) that you could swap the orientation panel-for-panel and have very little obvious difference in the page layout, other than occasional balloon reading order issues. (This is in fact what D + W had done w their Tatsumi releases!)
That IS fascinating. I will also have to follow up. The big question there is if the sample audience included right-to-left readers. Thank you, Eric. I do know there is evidence suggesting that an objects "face," even just the front of a shoe, should have more room in front of it than behind it in a composition. Anthony Waichulis talks about it in his Primer on Pictorial Composition. We have been blessed to become friends with Ken. What a guy!
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Just finished the second video, lots of fun and great information on visual storytelling! Mr Mitchroney is a great and enthusiastic guest! Thanks for doing these. You guys are building up a great library, I often fall behind on watching all the videos I'm interested in because I actually have to pay attention and can't just let them play in the background... That's clearly a sign of good, valuable content, but probably makes it harder to generate a million views quickly.
Hope to see more "bigfoot" artists in the future, from animation, comics or both. Stephen DeStefano would be high on my very subjective list, but what are the odds ;) I'm sure it's gonna be worthwhile in any case.
Thank you, Jano! We are willing to take the hit on massive hit counts for the sake of highly engaged viewers who really pay attention, learn, converse, etc. That is the coolest.
If someone can make a connection we would love to talk to Mr. DeStefano!
Dr. Peter Walker of Lancaster University did a study that concludes our brains have a left-to-right bias in regards to objects or beings depicted as moving; no such bias exists when the same objects are depicted as being stationary. This has been used to explain a number of general design choices that seem arbitrary, such as why Mario is going left-to-right. No idea of the veracity of the study or if it's been investigated further.
This series of interviews with Ken have been amazing; hilarious, authentic and full of so much practical knowledge. These go into the "watch every few months" library with how much insight is contained here. Just excellent.
And Carson's reaction to "big apple juice" was priceless.
That's fascinating, Eric. I'm going to read the abstract and report back. Was worried about derailing the conversation or driving us into a cul-de-sac, but this is one of these issues that has been brewing in my mind for more than a decade. I once dissected the work of several manga-ka to see whose pages were directionally dependent, and HOW strongly the directionality was present, and it was all over the place. Some cartoonists (like Samura, Tsuge, Kawaguchi) being very strongly directionally oriented, others so little directionally oriented (for instance, Tatsumi) that you could swap the orientation panel-for-panel and have very little obvious difference in the page layout, other than occasional balloon reading order issues. (This is in fact what D + W had done w their Tatsumi releases!)
That IS fascinating. I will also have to follow up. The big question there is if the sample audience included right-to-left readers. Thank you, Eric.
I do know there is evidence suggesting that an objects "face," even just the front of a shoe, should have more room in front of it than behind it in a composition. Anthony Waichulis talks about it in his Primer on Pictorial Composition.
We have been blessed to become friends with Ken. What a guy!
Yeah, shee, yeah