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CCT300 – Labs

Week 5. CCT300 – Labs. Comic Creation and Tips from McCloud’s. CCT300 – Critical Analysis of Media October 15, 2009. The Big Triangle. A comic’s visual vocabulary from Chapter two “Big Triangle”:. The Big Triangle.

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CCT300 – Labs

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  1. Week 5 CCT300 – Labs Comic Creation and Tips from McCloud’s CCT300 – Critical Analysis of Media October 15, 2009

  2. The Big Triangle • A comic’s visual vocabulary from Chapter two “Big Triangle”:

  3. The Big Triangle • Look at a photo or photorealistic picture, and you’re getting a close approximation of what your retina would receive if you were looking at the real thing. You accept the basic meaning (a face, in this case) by way of resemblance.

  4. The Big Triangle • By contrast, cartoon imagery moves away from resemblance (stripping away details, conceptualizing forms, exaggerating features, etc...) but still manages to convey that basic meaning as effectively as a photo might.

  5. The Big Triangle • The continuum from realistic to cartoony images represents increasing levels of iconic abstraction; removing (abstracting) an image from its retinal source, but still retaining its basic meaning.

  6. The Big Triangle • This same process, taken all the way, arrives at written language. Full Meaning.
No Resemblance. Meaning

  7. Pure abstraction, on the other hand, departs from both the resemblance and meaning of the source image. Taken all the way, it leads only to the the picture plane; the realm of pure shape, color, and line. The Picture Plane Resemblance Meaning

  8. Connect the three
vertices and you’re
looking at a map of
every possible form
of visual art and
communication. The Picture Plane Resemblance Meaning

  9. Cartoons and written language stare over a fence at each other on the right end. The Picture Plane FACE Resemblance Meaning

  10. “Realistic” figurative art tends toward the lower left. The Picture Plane Meaning Resemblance

  11. Abstract art tends upward. The Picture Plane Meaning Resemblance

  12. And plenty of artists and communicators take elements from all three. The Picture Plane Meaning Resemblance

  13. The Big Triangle 
isn’t a particularly 
scientific or exact tool. 
It glosses over important 
aspects of artist intent and 
viewer interpretation. But I hope it 
can provide a filter for taking a fresh 
look at the interrelationship between
different kinds of art and written language.Much more on this and related topics in
Chapter Two of Understanding Comics. The Picture Plane Resemblance Meaning

  14. Activity • In groups of 3 or 4 visit the following web comic website: • http://www.thewebcomiclist.com/ • Using three concepts from the supplement on Web Comics from McCloud, explain how the comic you choose makes use of the technique. • Click here to see supplement: • http://www.scottmccloud.com/makingcomics/five_half/00.html

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