Update for Oct 28

Not much to report this week as I had to forsake studio work time to deal with several family and finanical issues this week.
(sorry for uploading this basically at midnight)

This monday is halloween and it is time to get spooky.

I made some really interesting strides in my research. One of the main inspirations for my work is Bongcheon dong ghost. A horror webcomic with intergrated animated elements

http://comic.naver.com/webtoon/detail.nhn?titleId=350217&no=31&weekday=tue

This is the link but fair warning, it is disturbing and rather shocking.



I will never forget how scared I was the first time I read this comic and it is exactly how I want my audience to feel when they read mine.

There is such a sense of fear and anticipation.
I think I identified what makes this comic so effective with the way it sets up it's horror "jump scares"

Out of nowhere one of the panels of the comic moves and the ghost turns around to face the audience in a jaw dropping display of gore and terror.

This first scare is rather small, but highly unexpected in a static meduim.
You see it and it suddenly dawns on you that the next time you scroll down to the next panel, another animated jump scare might happen.

By not showing the biggest scare first, the comic both shocks us, but also warms us up to the idea of the animated jumpscare. So you are not totally terrified but you are now mentally preparing for the next one.
The first one scared you because it came out of nowhere. The second one scares you because you KNOW it is coming, but you don't know what it will be or when it will happen. So you spend the rest of the comic wrapped in awful anticipation that only grows larger and larger the more you read.










And this leads me to my newest discovery.
An app called "Webtoon"
it lets you read webcomics from your phone , and has some exclusive titles that use the features of your phone to manufacture jumpscares, like a ghost appearing behind you using your camera or getting texts messages from a character in the comic.

This is honestly the most scared I have been reading a webcomic since I first read Bongcheon dong ghost back when i was 16 years old.

I plant to read all of them by next monday and begin working on a "mock up" of my own ghost comic to take advantage of the same medium.

And maybe watch some Black Mirror season 3 i have heard good things about it.

That's all for this week it was very slow and I felt very unmotivated and unproductive but I am working to get back on track and this is just the inspiration I need