The MMI Wrokshops are a 3 weeks-long hackathon that mixes all the students. The rules are : develop a concept through a site or an app and/or social media, that responds to an important SOCIAL or SOCIETAL issue. The project has to be innovating (never done before), scalable, useful and self-maintaining. This second year we chose to create a web novel for highschoolers for the association 'Les Orchidées Rouges' (LOR) who fight against EXCISION or FGM (Female Genital Mutilation).
We started by documenting ourselves and see existing web novel to get references. We got inspired by comic books like Persepolis or The Waltz with Bashir. We then started to write 3 scenarii <will decrease to 2>.
In a pair, we started to create a few sketches of our characters and of the scenes.
We digitalised and stylised our sketches. Only 3 colors to convey our stories : black, white and red. We kept the line clean and minimalistic for the stories and cloudy and faded for the dreams or the memories of the girl.
Finally, we created asssets that could be animated to make the web novel engaging
