Students will launch the project by analyzing how comic-book and production tools shape a 3D animated experience, then investigate potential users and create an evidence-based audience-needs brief for the next design phase.

Students will synthesize audience evidence, identify design priorities, and frame an actionable challenge for a comic-book storyboard that can guide a 3D animation project.

Students will use audience evidence and comic-book visual language to generate multiple interactive narrative concepts, compare their desirability and production feasibility, and select a well-supported storyboard direction for drafting.

Students will translate prior audience research and selected concepts into a working comic-book storyboard prototype for a 3D animation project. They will practice visual sequencing, map branching interactions, coordinate production technologies, and complete an evidence-based peer-feedback loop while investigating, “What tools lead to an effective comic book storyboard that can be used for a 3D Animation Project?”

Students will prepare and conduct structured user tests of their interactive comic-style storyboard, gather evidence from peers about narrative clarity, accessibility, and engagement, and visualize the findings. Teams will use two feedback cycles to make and justify a targeted revision before advancing to formal critique.

Students will calibrate criteria for effective comic-book storyboards, conduct evidence-based critiques, and revise their production plans using audience-testing data and feedback from two peers. They will defend how their revised visual, interactive, and technical choices answer the essential question about which tools create an effective storyboard for a 3D animation project.

Students will synthesize evidence from audience research, critique, testing, and revision; finalize individual design dossiers; and present production-ready interactive comic storyboards in a culminating showcase. They will answer the essential question using specific artistic, technical, and audience evidence while identifying limitations and next-step tests.