Interactive Comic - "The Little Mermaid"
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Project Brief:
We adapted the story of The Little Mermaid and put it into the modern context. We are inspired by the famous movie: The Truman Show. Ariel, the main character of the comic, is the star of the show. Her life is constantly streamed. Human on land love to see Ariel’s life because she is a princess and have luxurious lifestyle, which satisfies people’s curiosity. In the end, Ariel discovers what she really wants and escape being monitored. She gets to embrace the real life.
Working Process:
For the project itself, we have tried to think about what kind of interaction effects can improve the user experience without distracting users too much. In other words, the interaction effects serve for the plot. Therefore, we focus on “parallax scrolling”, in order to add fun to the comic.
For the drawings, we process the original images from the movie and simplify it.
I am mainly in charge of the coding part. At first, I gathered a lot online resources, then I think about how to combine them smoothly. Of course, when put it into practice, it takes me a lot of effort, especially when debugging. However, I think this is a really precious chance to improve my coding and mastering of HTML languages. By the way, using the inspector can save me a lot of troubles.
