World Wide Web certainly has quite a few engaging tools.
Manga (as comics and printed cartoons are called in Japan) and anime (Japanese word for animation) have gained quite some popularity these days. First it was home-grown Sarnath Banerjee who wrote a graphic novel, then came Sanjay Patel who created manga about Hindu dieties. His illustrations in the book The Little Book of Hindu Dieties has earned good reviews from various fronts. I don’t know what RSS might say about this. Nor do I care what they think about it.
Though Sanjay Patel’s take on why he created this book does matter. It was his attempt to familiarize kids, especially ABCDs (American Born Confused Desis) to their Gods in a fun, interesting way. He self-published his first book. Look at his Web page gheehappy.com to read more about how his book came into being.
So have you, like Patel, ever harbored the ambition to create your own cartoon graphix? Here are some fun tools: Check out this Web link. You can choose a layout, balloon type, and character to create your cartoon and print it. I could have created a whole comic book if they had some more choices of characters, balckgrounds etc. Still it was fun to print my graphix or mail them to friends. 🙂
Hmm… you can also create your own animated movie online. Go right here and start creating your movie. 🙂
That sparked my interest, I stumbled on these fun Web sites:
- Visit this Web page, make your choices, and create your movie. What’s more you can share it with your friends. 🙂 This Web site uses MovieMakerV2.0, upgraded versions are in offing.
- This is another crazy Web page, where you can create a Star War movie script just by choosing a few options.
- Once your movie is created, visit here to create a befitting poster for your movie. It just takes a few minutes to create one if you have your idea clearly in mind.
- You might get few more tips to create your poster at this blog.
If this post has sufficiently piqued your interest about animations and films, do Google some more tools and tips. And don’t forget to share them with me. 🙂
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You diverted me to other website for Photoshop…..next comment will come after visiting those sites.
Best of Luck…….
Hey Ramesh, were you looking for Photoshop? Did you visit these Web sites? I am curious to know what you think of them. Were they of any use to you?
One of those web sites is my favorite, the scholastic web site that let me make my own comics. Only it was difficult as there is limitation of both characters and props.