Challenge
- Use relevant style and media formats to connect history to a middle-school target age
- Write in script form the story of a key Civil War battle from numerous historical documents
- Balancing historical accuracy with creative storytelling
Solution
- 15 action comic styled panels for an interactive display
- animated teaser for the CSS Alabama exhibit featured on the Washington Post website
- a 16-page comic book with accompanying motion comic on DVD
Services: illustrations, character design, animatics, motion graphics, print design
Software: Sketchbook Pro, Illustrator, InDesign, After Effects