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Today we’re taking a look at a brand new web app from comic book giants, Marvel. where you can create your own comics from scratch without having any artistic talent and in next to no time.
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What's up guys, Stephen Cult of Mac here, and today we're taking a look at a brand new
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web app from comic book giants Marvel, where you can create your own comic book from scratch
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right in your web browser in next to no time at all. So let's roll that intro and get started
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Let's roll the intro
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So Marvel have recently teamed up with Chinese games developer TapTap to roll out a website where you
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can create your own comic book online called Marvel Create Your Own. That's right, you can
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design your very own Marvel story with the most popular characters in original stories and
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situations. It looks like it'll give fans a host of options to create a comic book masterpiece
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Have you ever dreamt of being Stan Lee or Frank Miller but struggled to draw a convincing stick
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man? Well that's no longer an issue thanks to this site as it gives you a range of Marvel characters
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backgrounds and speech bubbles, meaning you only have to concentrate on telling a killer story
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After you've signed up and picked your pen name, it's really simple to start your first Marvel project. There's a Spider-Man story already started for you when you open the page
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so you can get stuck in right away. If you're like me, you'll want to build your Marvel words
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straight away but there will be tutorials which are in the top right hand side of the My Stories
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tab that are really useful when you need to find out exactly how everything works. You can even
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have a read of the other comics that have been created by clicking on the read button on the
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main page to get some inspiration for your graphic story creations as well. What's great about
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designing your story is that the characters are fully manoeuvrable 3D models that you can shift
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spin and rotate into the perfect position for your ace new comic strip. It's pretty impressive the
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level of detail you can get with their positioning. By selecting the page thumbnail, you can pick your
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pose before making use of the tilt, zoom and rotate sliders to get your superhero climbing
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jumping and swinging just the way you want them to. It can be a little bit tricky to begin with
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working through the wealth of poses and positions you can put the characters into
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but once you get to grips with the controls, it gets much easier as you go along
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Once your character is in place, it's simple to change the background to match the action
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of your character. There's lots to choose from like a cool cityscape or an action-packed explosion to
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get your creative juices flowing. The speech bubbles can be moved around to fit the visuals
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so you can get them to say exactly what you want, when you want. If you need to take it to the next
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level, there's the option to split the page layout and put a series of images on one page
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or give your characters a close-up shot if you need to. There's also a host of other standard
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features to help you out including auto-saving, drag and drop layers, layer locking and a preview
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mode. All in all, there's plenty of options to get you working like a true Marvel pro
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To start you off, there's 5 demo pages but you can create up to 24 full pages on site
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This would usually take the guys over at Marvel around 6 weeks to create a single comic
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but you can do it in next to no time. There's a solid range of characters to choose right
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from the beginning such as Spider-Man, The Hulk and Captain America to name a few
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but you can build up your collection by buying one of their reasonably priced character bundles
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The website is currently offering up to 50% off when you want to unlock new characters
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so it's worth a real look at what you want to buy. I reckon the Ultimate Villains bundle is a
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great shout to give your superheroes some real bad guys to save the world from. And there's plenty
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more characters for you to look forward to adding to your comics with around 100 extra scheduled to
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be on site in time for Christmas. And of course there's a handy share button that will allow you
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to show off your new creations to the world. At the moment it's only available as a web
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application on Safari and Google Chrome, but all of you iPhone addicts can rest assured as there's
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plans to create iPad and iPhone apps for the platform in the near future. It's a really powerful weapon in the battle for comic book supremacy and up to this point there
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are 30,000 plus stories already out there in the Marvel Create Your Own Fiction universe
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If it gets more people interested in the art form of comic book illustration and encourages people
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to try their hand at doing it for real, then that's only a good thing in our book. And who
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knows it might be giving the next Alex Ross or Neil Gaiman their first shot at becoming a comic
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book legend. Well that is it for this video, but make sure to let us know your thoughts on the
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Marvel Create Your Own platform in the comments section down below. I've had a ton of fun playing
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with my favourite Marvel superheroes over the past two weeks and I'm sure you will too. Thanks to the
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guys over at Marvel for sponsoring this video, I will make sure to leave all of the links you need
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in the description below. But if you enjoyed this video please support us by hitting that like
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button, subscribe if you haven't already and I'll catch you in the next one
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