Comics are a medium used to express ideas with images, often combined with text or other visual information. It typically takes the form of a sequence of panels of images. The history of comics goes as far back as prehistoric Lascaux cave paintings. By the mid-20th century, comics flourished, particularly in the United States, western Europe (especially France and Belgium), and Japan.
The history of European comics is often traced to Rodolphe Töpffer’s cartoon strips of the 1830s, while Wilhelm Busch and his Max and Moritz also had a global impact from 1865 on and became popular following the success in the 1930s of strips and books such as “The Adventures of Tintin”. American comics emerged as a mass medium in the early 20th century with the advent of newspaper comic strips. The superhero genre became prominent after Superman appeared in 1938.
Thus we see that the journey of comics has come a long way since then! We can call this the comics evolution.
With the advent of modernisation, comics has also been digitalised and now instead of only a readable material, it has transcended to motion comics, which is a form of webcomics. This is an amalgamation of Animation and Comics.
A motion comic is a form of animation combining elements of print comic books and animation. So it is also called an animated comic, which is a form of graphic novels. Individual panels are expanded into a full shot while sound effects, voice acting, and animation are added to the original artwork of the comic art.
Text boxes, speech bubbles and the onomatopoeia are typically removed to feature more of the original artwork being animated. Motion comics are often released as short serials covering a story arc of a long running series or animating a single release of a graphic novel. Single release issues of a story arc are converted into ten- to twenty-minute-long episodes depending on content.
It creates an unique blend of visual art, compelling narratives, and impressive surround sound, to engage audiences.
We make Interactive motion comics for kids. Our Interactive Comics are specially designed to enhance emotional intelligence for kids. We combine imagination and storytelling.
River Comics makes screen time for kids both enjoyable as well as educational as they learn a lot of life’s lessons while watching the journey’s of our heroes of River Comics.
Introducing kids to motion comics at an early age can do a great job of teaching the building blocks of reading in a visual way. Children can learn inference by studying the pictures. They start to identify and understand complex human emotions based on simple visuals. They learn the basics of dialogue because they can “see” it in a speech bubble. This is possible by the captivating methods of storytelling through motion comics.
Comics have always been associated with fun and entertainment. But not just all fun and games, here we talk about motion comics for learning and fun. Comics offer a myriad of educational benefits, encouraging literacy, critical thinking, and visual comprehension.
There are several benefits of motion comics for kids like for example, motion comics for improving reading skills. Also, since children get easily inspired by the superhero characters, we make sure that our comics impart valuable life lessons for the young audiences.
Now that we have highlighted so many benefits of motion comics, parents will not think watching comics as a waste of time, and can actually use it as a method to bond with the children and teach them valuable lessons through it. Introduce your kids to the world of motion comics, that way the entertainment and fun of it will keep them engaged and interested while parents can spend quality time with them and impart valuable knowledge.
Introduce your kids to the world of motion comics, that way the entertainment and fun of it will keep them engaged and interested while parents can spend quality time with them and impart valuable knowledge.