The PDF handouts below will help get you or your students started. Each will introduce the tools used in Comic Life. After reading several handouts, the recommended way to create a comic in Comic Life is in the following order:
- Pick a template
- Add Pictures. (Gather pictures from other places.)
- Add caption boxes. For example: Meanwhile...... or Later that day.....
- Add speech or thought bubbles (left to right in the order they speak or think)
- Lettering for sounds and action
How to Handouts:
Creating with comic life A B C D F E - http://blogs.ksbe.edu/ets/files/2007/11/comic_life.pdf
Instructions adapted from Comic Life Help manual
Comic Life Online Help - http://plasq.com/helpfiles/Comic_LIfe_manual.pdf
Comic Life makes creating digital comics a snap. Use Comic Life to produce high quality comics for posting on the web, including in a movie or printing out for friends. With a comprehensive set of features, Comic Life gives you numerous ways to explore your creativity - liven up holiday snaps, tell a story, even quickly create fun and helpful "how-to" guides.
Comic Life - http://www.cedu.niu.edu/ceduhelp/tutorials/documentation/ComicLife.pdf
Handout for use of Comic Life on the MAC platform.
Getting started with Comic Life - http://www.larkin.net.au/comic_life/docs/03_comic_life_colour.pdf
Comic Life getting Started Handout. Pictues are for MAC platform.
Creating with comic life A B C D F E - http://blogs.ksbe.edu/ets/files/2007/11/comic_life.pdf
Instructions adapted from Comic Life Help manual
Comic Life Online Help - http://plasq.com/helpfiles/Comic_LIfe_manual.pdf
Comic Life makes creating digital comics a snap. Use Comic Life to produce high quality comics for posting on the web, including in a movie or printing out for friends. With a comprehensive set of features, Comic Life gives you numerous ways to explore your creativity - liven up holiday snaps, tell a story, even quickly create fun and helpful "how-to" guides.
Comic Life - http://www.cedu.niu.edu/ceduhelp/tutorials/documentation/ComicLife.pdf
Handout for use of Comic Life on the MAC platform.
Getting started with Comic Life - http://www.larkin.net.au/comic_life/docs/03_comic_life_colour.pdf
Comic Life getting Started Handout. Pictues are for MAC platform.
Helpful Links
Writing script:
Comics in the classroom with graphic organizer - http://www.readwritethink.org/classroom-resources/lesson-plans/comics-classroom-introduction-narrative-223.html or http://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/lesson_images/lesson223/plot_mountain.pdf
Rubric for Comic Strip Reports - http://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/lesson_images/lesson195/comic-strip-rubric.pdf
Introduction to Graphic Novels Podcast (20 minutes) -
http://www.readwritethink.org/parent-afterschool-resources/podcast-episodes/introduction-graphic-novels-30326.html
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Gathering Material:
Using Google Advanced Search to find images and backgrounds without copyright images. - http://www.google.com/advanced_search
Creating characters - http://projectahead.weebly.com/day-1.html http://www.miisearch.com/mii-creator.html
Mini Mii
Create your own signs and more - http://www.says-it.com/
Free clip art :
http://iconbug.com - very cool site just started by a young man in North Carolina...Cool image..great search.
http://www.iconbazaar.com - tons of graphics has been around for many years.
http://www.free-graphics.com/
http://etc.usf.edu/clipart/ Free educational clip art like the presidents of the US, math graphics and more.
http://www.teacherfiles.com/clip_art.htm - neat place for teacher graphics.
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Adding Sound effects:
How to write the sound of things - http://www.writtensound.com/index.php
83 Sound Effects Flashed During the Fight Scenes on the “Batman” Television Show, Presented in Alphabetical Order - http://scrimbrown.wordpress.com/tag/sound-effects/
Onomatopoeia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onomatopoeia
Example sound words - http://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/lesson_images/lesson104/sounds.pdf
Comics in the classroom with graphic organizer - http://www.readwritethink.org/classroom-resources/lesson-plans/comics-classroom-introduction-narrative-223.html or http://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/lesson_images/lesson223/plot_mountain.pdf
Rubric for Comic Strip Reports - http://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/lesson_images/lesson195/comic-strip-rubric.pdf
Introduction to Graphic Novels Podcast (20 minutes) -
http://www.readwritethink.org/parent-afterschool-resources/podcast-episodes/introduction-graphic-novels-30326.html
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Gathering Material:
Using Google Advanced Search to find images and backgrounds without copyright images. - http://www.google.com/advanced_search
Creating characters - http://projectahead.weebly.com/day-1.html http://www.miisearch.com/mii-creator.html
Mini Mii
Create your own signs and more - http://www.says-it.com/
Free clip art :
http://iconbug.com - very cool site just started by a young man in North Carolina...Cool image..great search.
http://www.iconbazaar.com - tons of graphics has been around for many years.
http://www.free-graphics.com/
http://etc.usf.edu/clipart/ Free educational clip art like the presidents of the US, math graphics and more.
http://www.teacherfiles.com/clip_art.htm - neat place for teacher graphics.
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Adding Sound effects:
How to write the sound of things - http://www.writtensound.com/index.php
83 Sound Effects Flashed During the Fight Scenes on the “Batman” Television Show, Presented in Alphabetical Order - http://scrimbrown.wordpress.com/tag/sound-effects/
Onomatopoeia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onomatopoeia
Example sound words - http://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/lesson_images/lesson104/sounds.pdf