How To Make Sprite Comics: Adding Text

How to make Sprite Comics

Chapter 3: Adding Text

Ok now it's time to learn how to add text. This will be a short chapter since it's pretty easy. If you've done the tutorial right, you should have this:

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Now, the situation is Mario coming up behind Bowser. He can say whatever you want, depending on the story went, but let's just have him say, “Give me the princess!” So what we do first is create a text box big enough to hold all the text. You can use either a rectangle or a rounded rectangle, but for this example, I'll use a regular rectangle. Click the rectangle button, and create a square, now you have this:

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Now we have to add some text. Go into Microsoft Word, and type out what you want him to say. Then highlight it, right click it and click copy, then paste it into Paint. Then drag the text to where it will fit inside the box, so now it looks like this:

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I made the text for Mario red so it looks more appealing. Now we need to connect the text box to Mario. Click the button that says “Polygon” when you move the mouse over it. Find a place on the bottom of the text box, and click, then drag it the where Mario is, this will make a line, then click again on a different spot on the square, and it will automatically connect. Fill in all the space with white and the result should look like this:

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That's it for this chapter! Next time we'll learn to actually make the comic.