BSA306, Motion comics- who knew? film review, 28 April, 2017

Campbell Henderson, dearly beloved and departed (for Wellington) former classmate at SIT, has made a motion comic of his Bob the Libearian comic.

Incredible!  I must learn more...
Walking Dead MC credits sequence by Daniel Kanemoto

Batman Black & White

It's another type of "puppet" animation that I was totally unaware of!  I love it.  The blog post where I found these examples describes the comics:  "by their
very nature a lesser product. Not possessing the nuances of a comic or the visual flair of a cartoon, these things are weird creatures traveling through the night in search of their own identity."

Many of them seem to be made as fan tributes to the graphic novels by enthusiasts who take them apart and give them some movement.  This still takes a tremendous amount of effort- even if the graphic novel isn't theirs, the work it takes to take the pieces apart, repair them, and move them has to be respected.

Here's the original 2 page spread from Chapter 12 of the graphic novel Watchmen by Alan Moore

And holy cow!  Look at this:  Here's what happened when it was animated by Juice Films: 

Sure, the movement is simple, but the animator still had to make decisions about timing, focus, and emphasis as the camera moves around the scene as well as what, if anything, to move. This isn't a "lesser product".   Juice Films, as it turns out, isn't a guy in his mom's basement but a proper little production company hired by DC to work up the comic.