Webinar: Creating Interactive Comics with Mental Canvas

In this webinar, hosted by Julie Dorsey, panelists Rina Piccolo and Sam Nassour share their experience creating comics, storyboards, set designs (and more) with Mental Canvas.

Rina Piccolo is a cartoonist whose work has appeared in the New Yorker, Barron’s business, Reader’s Digest and beyond. Currently, Rina’s cartoons can be seen in Rhymes with Orange comic strip, in collaboration with Hillary Price and distributed worldwide by King Features syndicate. Rina recently used Mental Canvas to create the “Comic of the future” - an entirely unique cartoon experience that enables viewers to walk around a virtual art gallery and explore dozens of jokes and hidden surprises. Take a look here: https://rhymeswithorange.com/new-blog.... See more of Rina's work here:   / rinadraws  

Sam Nassour is an art director and designer working in the animation and entertainment industries. He has worked on films and tv shows for studios such as Netflix, Disney TV, DreamWorks TV, Nickelodeon Jr. and beyond. He’s currently working on game designs at Rovio in Finland. You can find Sam's amazing work on instagram at:   / samnassart  

Feel free to contact us at: info@mentalcanvas.com to learn more!

00:00:00 Introduction
00:02:13 Demonstration of drawing in Mental Canvas
00:06:19 Example scene using existing comic
00:07:58 Rina shares art gallery scene
00:12:15 Rina draws new character in art gallery
00:22:51 Sam shares an island scene
00:33:40 Question about importing photoshop images/layers
00:34:38 Question about publishing scenes online
00:35:35 Question about learning Mental Canvas
00:40:10 Question about devices that run Mental Canvas
00:40:30 Rina draws a new cartoon from scratch
00:53:36 Sam edits scenes
01:01:43 Rina shows cartoon with additional elements
01:02:39 Question about animation in Mental Canvas
01:05:56 Question about the future of comics, set design, animation
01:12:00 Scene of a childhood home created by Carol Hsiung (See more of Carol's work:   / carolhsiung  )
01:15:36 Conclusion