Comic-Style Screenplay

My method is simple: instead of creating a traditional screenplay in standard format, I draw a quick comic version of the story to test it — not only from a narrative perspective, but also from a staging and visual standpoint.

This approach helps me in several ways: I can test the humor with a target group even before producing an animatic; I get an early sense of the required scenes and backgrounds; I gain a preliminary idea of layout and visual composition; and I can begin shaping the direction.

Of course, a comic is a different medium from an animatic, so it needs to be adapted. For example, dialogues can be longer in a comic, while they may need to be shortened for an 11-minute episode like this one.

For comparison, you’ll find below an excerpt from the animatic, based on the latest comic story that you can download from the link below.