Visual Storytelling

Visual storytelling is an area that is widely neglected by researchers. One can find a wide variety of literature on telling or writing stories in any library; but we do not see such a variety in visual storytelling. The practitioners such as cartoonists, comic book artists and storyboard artists learn the tools of the trade from each other or from existing works. As a cartoonist, I think that comics and cartoons provides a strong model to start storytelling process visually. It is important to identify and formalize the experience and discoveries of cartoonists and comic book artists; and to disseminate these findings. I also think that caricature is also a part of visual storytelling since it encapsulate one of the most important artistic concepts: exaggeration, which is essential for visual storytelling. My most influentical work on storytelling has been on caricaturing. I published methods to convert images into caricatures. On the other hand, my work on visual storytelling goes beyond caricature principles. I recently published a few papers on formalizing storytelling using causality theory. Visual storytelling is an area that is widely neglected by researchers. One can find a wide variety of literature on telling or writing stories in any library; but we do not see such a variety in visual storytelling. The practitioners such as cartoonists, comic book artists and storyboard artists learn the tools of the trade from each other or from existing works. As a cartoonist, I think that comics and cartoons provides a strong model to start storytelling process visually. It is important to identify and formalize the experience and discoveries of cartoonists and comic book artists; and to disseminate these findings. I also think that caricature is also a part of visual storytelling since it encapsulate one of the most important artistic concepts: exaggeration, which is essential for visual storytelling. My most influentical work on storytelling has been on caricaturing. I published methods to convert images into caricatures. On the other hand, my work on visual storytelling goes beyond caricature principles. I recently published a few papers on formalizing storytelling using causality theory.