d-comic

The client came to us with the intention of making a manga for the Internet to give the feeling of doing “tateyomi” which is what the Japanese do when they’re in a bookstore or a convenience store and don’t want to buy the manga, but instead they read it standing in the store.

We tried several 3D libraries, including Papervision 3D, but the number of pages and information were so huge that we dismiss the idea.

Another problem was the updates needed, once a week for 12 months. We had to make a stable and easy way to update so much content.

Rol

I was responsible for various parts within the project, for example, create several prototypes to evaluate whether it was factible to do in 3D, although Away 3D gave us the best result, finally we didn’t use it.

Screenshots of the prototype in Away3D.