Watchmen Comic Gets Animated on iTunes

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Fri Jul 25, 2008 2:25PM3 comments ›

Fri Jul 25, 2008 — by Karl Cramer

Watchmen Comic Gets Animated on iTunes

Warner Premiere debuts Motion Comics with Watchmen

Creators have been struggling with how to bring comics into the digital age: CD-ROMs, subscription based services like Marvel Digital Comics Unlimited, or for free on the web like ComicMix.

A full-page ad in the most recent issue of Entertainment Weekly magazine gave readers a link to download the premiere episode of Watchmen Motion Comics for free on iTunes. Motion Comics is Warner Premiere’s new videos of comic books animated with full audio.

In many ways, it’s like those old Marvel cartoons where they took comic art and moved mouths and use limited animation to move cut-out pieces of art. But this time, they’re using modern digital manipulation technologies. The effect is weird, but it works. It’s Dave Gibbons’ art, but it’s moving.

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Anonymous (2:41 PM on Fri Jul 25, 2008)

How much for the other episodes?

Rick Taylor (6:41 PM on Fri Jul 25, 2008)

Kinda like Clutch Cargo or Space Angel?

mike weber (7:05 PM on Fri Jul 25, 2008)

Nickelodeon used to do comics stories by using camera motion on the actualpages with voices reading the dialog - no motion inside the art at all.

I specifically recall the "Swamp Thing" story "A Clockwork Horror"

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