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JavaScript

Posted by johncashin
johncashin
4,979 Points

College Project with snap.svg/svg.js

Hi

I have a college project coming up were I have to design and create a interactive graphic novel which would run in the browser. I have been looking at a few options and have set my mind on using javascript as one of the main technologies for animating my project.

Anyway I'm wondering if either of these frameworks would be suitable for such use and if you guys could recommend either or any other for that matter.

I have very little experience in using javascript but another module I am attending uses a lot of it and I felt that this could greatly benefit myself to create such a project using javascript.

Cheers John

3 Answers

Tyler Oliver
Tyler Oliver
8,306 Points
Tyler Oliver
Tyler Oliver
8,306 Points

Javascript is great for manipulating the DOM and adding interactivity. This could be a good educative project for you

Ricardo Hill-Henry
Ricardo Hill-Henry
38,443 Points
Ricardo Hill-Henry
Ricardo Hill-Henry
38,443 Points

You could really accomplish this without using a library. Regular Javascript and/or JQuery should be enough.

johncashin
johncashin
4,979 Points

If I was to be working fully in svg would I still be better off using just regular javascript/jquery?

Ricardo Hill-Henry
Ricardo Hill-Henry
38,443 Points

Well, I guess it depends by what you mean graphics novel.. Will you just be using Javascript to display some sort of page of sorts that you've created in Illustrator, or will you be actually animating characters and such?

johncashin
johncashin
4,979 Points

The graphic novel is of chapter 17 "thunderchild" from war of the worlds. Now im in a very early stage of it all and have only read over the chapter a few times to gain an idea of how to tackle it. But I was hopefully going to create a type of art style out of using svg in either illustrator or affinity. I want there to be a level of interactivity in the form of moving objects from hovers,buttons and scrolling i.e. the tripod chaps and the boats from the chapter to obvious other elements. How it would play out in terms of scrolling and such I haven't decided as that would come around once I start the storyboard.

I haven't used svgs and from what I have looked into, its vector based and lightweight. So I guess it could be useful if I wanted to cover a lot of content from the chapter.

As this would be my first crack at anything really javascript heavy id like the animations to be as simple as possible while not looking shite lol.

Tyler Oliver
Tyler Oliver
8,306 Points
Tyler Oliver
Tyler Oliver
8,306 Points

thats cool, what ever floats your boat