Motion comics are still a fairly new medium, which seems to be getting better all the time. There are several excellent pieces out there such as Marvel's adaptation of Stephen King's 'N.'...
And the excellent prequels to the 'I am Legend' movie by Jason Chan, which was one of the first motion comics that showed just what can be done...
As soon as the larger corporations such as Marvel and DC saw these, they realised the potential of this new medium and quickly jumped on board. DC have since released several titles such as Superman: Red Son, Batman: Black and White and Watchmen. While Marvel have released Spider-Woman, Iron Man: Extremis, Astonishing X-men and most recently Thor and Loki: Blood Brothers. Marvel also released an entire series of Black Panther as a motion comics based on John Romita's 'Who is the Black Panther' run.
With After Effects improving with every version, so is the quality of the motion comics themselves and Jason Chan and Marvel's Thor and Loki: Blood Brothers leading the pack so far.
As After Effect's is widely available, there are several amateurs who are turning out excellent work as well. The following is a motion comic made for a music video. The art is from Mark Millar and Steve McNiven's 'Nemesis'...
The motion comic has a long way to go as a medium but at a fraction of the price of live action or digital or even traditional animation, we are bound to see lots more and improvements all the time.
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