About
This interactive installation is for my graduate thesis at NYU ITP. Comic Exercise amis to create a real-time interactive comics by using audience's own voice and captured images. This project proposes a new comics experience of turning the audience to be multiple roles: reader, author and also character(s).
Story
The story behind is about a group of pixels trying to escape from the paper where they are living in. They scramble around across comics frames and can't find their way out until the last minute: they squeeze into a naris to make the nose sneeze them out of the 2D world. I don't reveal much about the script in the comics. Instead, only few visual hints are given to the audience so that they can use their imagination to customize their own content.
Interactivity
There are 2 parts of interactivity. First one is Photo-Taking mode. In this mode, the camera takes a photo every 2 seconds and the image is stylized into comics hand-drawing art. After you finish all frames on the screen, you enter the second part: Play mode. All your images are turned into thousands of dots, flying around across the frames. The audience can make sound to change dots' performance and the dialogue bubble's shape.
