Any platform that you use to tell stories helps you regardless of the medium regardless if they are bedtime stories that you tell your children or comics or film. Specifically what makes comics unique is that they are a storytelling device that forces you to think both visually and economically. Some might say you are limited by your imagination, but that is not true because someone has to draw it.
I'm a much better filmmaker than painter. But studying it did make me visually acute and taught me lessons like being economic: Say something once and you don't have to say it again.
I feel the need of attaining the maximum of intensity with the minimum of means. It is this which has led me to give my painting a character of even greater bareness.
Cinema is a visual medium one has to communicate through visuals, and therefore, dialogues should be less.
As a visual storyteller, a lot is learning what to include so you're not being redundant between images and text.
Basically, less is more when it comes to film.
I like sparseness. There's something about that minimalist feel that can make something have an immediate impact and make it unique. I'll probably always work with that formula; I just don't know how.
We work in vertical and horizontal planes. We avoid depth characteristics as much as possible. This reduces the number of pictures in a five minute segment from 12,000 to 1,200. And the public likes the technique better.
There has to be the right pacing of images to tell the story. I'm always stunned at how little you can put in.
I'm often forced to draw a lot of tiny panels due to the limited number of pages and the complexity of the story.
