Pixton: Create Comic Strips Online

31 Oct, 2009, by appsheriff || Topics: Inspiration

Pixton lets allows you to create your own comic strip without even having to draw anything by hand. You only need to select from a ton of characters, which are already made, customize them as you need it, and you can put them in different poses and also add text in order to make a coherent storyline. Once you complete a particular a strip, it is published on Pixton so that everyone will see it.

Pixton has another feature which allows other people to add to your comic strip while your original is saved. To take advantage of all of these Pixton’s features, you have to be a registered user.

Pixton-comic

Features:

  • Signing up is absolutely free and lets you participate in contests and also rate other people’s work.
  • Pixton is really interesting because, over the characters, you have amazing control.
  • There is an expression editor, using which, you can make your character show fear, smile or express other emotions.
  • For people who can’t draw, this functionality is helpful and efficient. With Pixton, you will be able to do much more and only thing you have to do is just select the words of the expression.
  • It is very neat.
  • There are editors for clothing style, colors, skin tone, posture, girth and many more. You don’t have to move lines to make your character look fat. All you need to do is a few clicks.
  • There is no need of any technical skills to use Pixton.
  • Pixton excels from a community perspective. You can vote, comment and share each strip. This functionality does seem pretty robust.
  • To explore the comic strip creation world, Pixton is a great way for beginners.
  • It gives you new levels of power and control.
  • You could be the author of your own comic strip without any need to draw or share or even remix your comics with the world.
  • It is easy-to-use click and drag comic creator and thus giving you the power to design your character the way you want, rotate all of the body parts or even turn it 360 degrees. You can make a punchy 3-panel strip or even full-length graphic novel.
  • Pixton is multilingual and in over 40 languages, it provides automatic translation on foreign-language comics.

Drawbacks:

  • It comes at a significant cost of usability.
  • There are so many controls and so it would be a bit tough to figure out how to use it. Only thing that you need to do is spend some time with the interface in order to get used to it.
  • Within their design parameters, you are confined to create strips. Though you can make lots of changes to your strips and characters, you are not able to import your own designs.
  • It gives all Pixton strips a similar look and feel.


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