After many days of not blogging I finally have my storyboard! Some pages are missing.
Here is the summary:
Slug Boy is the protagonist of the story. He has a backpack and headphones...
He goes to school and is irritated by the Binary language that persists everywhere (campus environment, classmates, street..) Only he refuses to use the language.
His dad dislikes him because of that and for listening to non-binary music.
However slug boy can use binary well. He even finds use for it in reparing his computer. the spare parts comes from the Malaysian floor.
One day a janitor (who is LEO from PieR's story) gives him spray paints. Slug boy used it to make graffiti designs all over the place, erasing the binary-ness of the area.
He is apprehended by the police. His dad visits him and says sorry in non-binary.
Hey Powil
good to read your storyboard -- I like the snails. They are sweet guys! Why did you dicide to go for snail heads - I´m thinking how to integrate one to my story. Please tell me a bit more about them.
Will you translate the code? And is there a 12th page?
snail/slug heads
Hey Nele,
Glad you like them. To be honest i find them too simple in design (visually). But i feel great drawing them.
I have drawn a snail cartoon before (http://www.4wires.net/blog/green-shell) and i loved the simple heads and their expressions. Originally for Wires* i wanted them to have shells but i dont know yet how to fit it with a humanoid body (hunchback looks bad for me, maybe as a headgear..). So technically they are slugs...I remember there was a phase in my childhood i tried to have them as pets...i was unsuccessful =(
Before actually settling with slugs/snails i was thinking also of chickens..but it's too common. Remember ELMER comics (http://alanguilan.com/sanpablo/elmer/) which has talking chickens.
If given the pages I want to have the chickens act like beaurocrats that mismanage the slug population...in contrast with the chickens slugs are too passive to act..easily gives in to their emotions and love to socialise...
I think slugs/snails fits well for Philippines... they are friendly (no fangs, claws) but if left unchecked can ruin your garden! it's like seeing hordes of them one happy sunday morning scattered all over different pots. Similar with Filipinos scattered all over the globe (not saying they are pests).
Another thing I'm looking is to make something out of their eyes. It's the part of their body that is so obvious at first glance... Eyes that reads Binary language with infromation being exchanged in a very fast rate... Maybe evolved from mother nature, or through machines.
Yes I want a 12th page... But i dont know yet if i will take PieR's suggestion to translate them to "100010" or use "barcode".
with "10100" i'm thinking of over-filling speech balloons which (hopefully) give an impression of fast machine-like communication. With the barcode i like to deface the walls on the street..aha maybe i'll use both.
Hope you get something out from this! ^_^