{"id":887,"date":"2022-09-06T15:28:42","date_gmt":"2022-09-06T15:28:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/itp_dev\/?p=887"},"modified":"2025-04-14T15:21:10","modified_gmt":"2025-04-14T15:21:10","slug":"experiential-comics-interactive-comic-books-for-the-fourth-industrial-revolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/itp\/experiential-comics-interactive-comic-books-for-the-fourth-industrial-revolution\/","title":{"rendered":"Experiential Comics: Interactive Comic Books for the Fourth Industrial Revolution"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/itp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Experiential-Comics_-Interactive-Comic-Books-for-the-Fourth-Industrial-Revolution-1024x576.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6644\" srcset=\"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/itp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Experiential-Comics_-Interactive-Comic-Books-for-the-Fourth-Industrial-Revolution-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/itp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Experiential-Comics_-Interactive-Comic-Books-for-the-Fourth-Industrial-Revolution-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/itp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Experiential-Comics_-Interactive-Comic-Books-for-the-Fourth-Industrial-Revolution-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/itp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Experiential-Comics_-Interactive-Comic-Books-for-the-Fourth-Industrial-Revolution-1536x864.png 1536w, https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/itp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Experiential-Comics_-Interactive-Comic-Books-for-the-Fourth-Industrial-Revolution.png 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Tony Patrick<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Juxtaposed to traditional comics, Experiential Comics combines emergent tech, unconventional comic book art\/structure, and game engines to offer users a more immersive, continuous storyworld experience. Challenging the status quo of classic and contemporary digital comics, students will explore new technologies\/world-building techniques better suited to craft innovative comic book narratives and formats &#8211; worthy of the Fourth Industrial Revolution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Students will ingest a brief history of classic and digital comics formats, collaborate with comic book artists to design engrossing characters, engage in world-building sessions, play with Unity\/Unreal engines to generate avatars\/ virtual environments, work with actors in motion capture\/volumetric capture studios, learn the latest iteration of the Experiential Comics format, and share their unique expressions of Experiential Comics in a final presentation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Throughout a 7-week period, the course will be divided into 7 themes <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>1) The Disconnection of Digital Comics <br>2) Classic and Unconventional Comics Continuity <br>3) Marvel vs DC vs Insert Your Universe Here <br>4) Fourth Industrial Revolution Technologies <br>5) Capture &amp; Creation <br>6) Infinite Engagement and Unlocking Immersive Format <br>7) Experiential Comics Presentations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Each weekly class will be divided into two halves <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>1) Exploration of Theme\/Discussion <br>2) Process, Practices, &amp; Play.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Juxtaposed to traditional comics, Experiential Comics combines emergent tech, unconventional comic book art\/structure, and game engines to offer users a more immersive, continuous storyworld experience. 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