Manga, or Japanese comics, have a long and storied history in Japan and worldwide. While they traditionally follow a horizontal format, more and more manga artists opt to use manga coloring services for their works and make it vertical.
There are several reasons manga artists might colorize and verticalize their work. For many, coloring is simply a way to add visual interest and depth to their creations. Additionally, verticalization allows them to reach wider audiences, making the manga easier to read and access through smartphones.
We offer manga coloring services at CCCI, topping it off with manga verticalization. Our team of skilled manga artists can add color and life to your work, and our verticalization experts can help you reformat your pages for a new audience.
Webtoon Style Manga
Webtoons are popular for gaining a lot of readers as they are more accessible and easier to read on smartphones. The webtoon industry size was estimated to stand at around 1.05 trillion South Korean won in 2020. It is no surprise that the trend in the manga industry for verticalization is continuously growing. It allows artists to create more dynamic and engaging works of art that appeal to a broader audience!
In recent years, a new trend in the manga industry has emerged: verticalization. This refers to the practice of creating comics that are formatted vertically instead of horizontally, similar to webtoons. Now, we have learned to enjoy great vertical manga and work with more vertical manga publishers.
Manga Verticalization
While this may seem like an odd choice at first, many artists feel that verticalization is the future of manga, as it allows readers to engage more fully with the story by giving them more screen space to read and allowing them to view multiple panels at once. It is high time you enter the vertical world of manga!
Manga Cleaning and Redrawing
Along with our verticalization services, CCCI also offers cleaning and redrawing. Our skilled artists remove original texts from your manga to make it completely ready for the translated version.
Moreover, in the process of verticalization and cleaning, erasing some parts of the original artwork is inevitable. This happens when the texts are outside the text bubbles or boxes and on top of the artwork. We redraw these parts to make room for the translated text without compromising your manga’s overall look and feel.
Vertical Redesign
Manga are originally designed horizontally, with panels and text boxes arranged to fit the width of a page. Verticalization requires redesigning to make a manga optimized for mobile consumption. Our artists at CCCI can redesign your manga pages for a more immersive and engaging experience. And do not worry! We will not change your story or artwork, just the way it is laid out on the page.
Speech Bubble Conversion
Manga verticalization accordingly requires speech bubble conversion, especially during the vertical redesign. For example, we may use more large-sized panels and fewer text bubbles or boxes than usual, giving your readers more space to engage with the story. Additionally, if you decide to localize your manga from Japanese into another language like Korean, English, German, French, or Spanish, you may need your speech bubble and boxes converted from vertical into horizontal. This is because Japanese text is usually written vertically, while languages with Roman alphabet and even Korean are written horizontally. Localization does not only entail translation, but also changing the aesthetics of your comics. Let us do the speech bubble conversion for you!
Manga Coloring
Most enthusiasts and readers are used to manga black and white. However, manga colorization can be used to improve readability if text or dialogue is difficult to see on the page due to small font size or complex backgrounds. Additionally, some artists may use manga colorization to enhance their own creativity, allowing them greater flexibility in terms of shading and composition.
There is no need to go through any manga coloring tutorial or Google “How to do manga coloring?” Our manual manga coloring services are among the best in the manga coloring market. What manga coloring services do our artists at CCCI have for you?
Base Coloring
This is the starting point for all of our colorization services. We add color to line art, flat colors, and simple shading.
Shadowing and Highlighting
Our team of artists can add shadow and highlight effects to your manga to give it more depth and dimension.
Adding Special Effects
Textures and line arts? We can add all sorts of special effects to your manga! CCCI can help make your manga the best it can be… artistically!
Manga Coloring Software We Use
CCCI primarily uses Clip Studio and Adobe Photoshop when working on manga and webtoons. However, our flexible designers and artists can use specific software that you want if you have any.
Color Palette Creation
We can also help you create a color palette that is unique and consistent with the mood of your story. Whether you want rich, saturated colors or cool-toned pastels, our team at CCCI will work with you to find the right look for your manga.
Comics and Webtoon Coloring
There are many advantages of using color in manga and webtoons, particularly when it comes to verticalization. The increased screen space afforded by this format makes for more dynamic and immersive storytelling, allowing readers to easily engage with the story and get lost in the world of the characters. On top of that, coloring manga and webtoons allows artists greater flexibility in composition and shading, offering a wide range of tools that they can use to create truly stunning works of art.
CCCI offers high-quality coloring and verticalization services at an affordable price. Our team of passionate artists is dedicated to delivering the best possible results. We have a proven track record of success, having worked with some of the biggest names in the industry!
Our Manga and Webtoon Services
We have worked with manga publishing companies and authorized distributors in Japan and other countries, providing manga and comics services. With our years of experience providing manga and comics translation, typesetting services, and animation services, we are confident that we can also help you with our manga coloring services.
CCCI also has expert translators who know all the challenges of manga translation. Since we have gone through these challenges, we are now equipped with the knowledge and skills to handle your manga translation needs. Alongside them, we have native speakers who check the quality of our translations, ensuring that our clients receive only the best quality when they work with us.
We know that manga’s popularity across the globe is not stopping anytime soon. It has branched out from Japan, reaching even the countries beyond Asia. Millions of manga and anime enthusiasts worldwide are waiting for new manga and anime to love. Moreover, the lists of best manga with translations are getting longer, and we are more than happy to help you get in!
Our services can help you ride the wave of manga popularity, whether it is in America, France, Germany, Thailand, or the Arab world. Looking for a one-stop-shop for all your manga coloring services needs? It can be color palette creation for your manga or other services like translation, localization, and typesetting. Look no further than CCCI! With years of experience working with both traditional publishers and digital platforms, we are the leading company in the industry. Connect with us now!
FAQS ABOUT MANGA COLORING AND VERTICALIZATION
Manga verticalization was devised to optimize the reading of manga on smartphones. It is the format used in Webtoon. With vertical scrolling, readers are able to have a seamless reading experience. Many publishers and authors are making their manga or comics ready for vertical reading due to its growing popularity in the digital world.
Printed manga is, more often than not, formatted black and white. However, due to digital platforms requiring colorized manga or comics on their website, the coloring of manga has also become a trend.
It goes without saying that simply colorizing black-and-white comics can dramatically change the impact on readers.
There is no need to go through any manga coloring tutorial or Google “How to do manga coloring?” Our manual manga coloring services are among the best in the manga coloring market.
Manga verticalization includes manga cleaning and redrawing, vertical redesign, and speech bubble conversion.
We provide manga coloring services, which contain base coloring, shadowing and highlighting, special effects such as textures and arts, and creations of color palettes if needed.
Yes, verticalization allows manga to reach wider audiences, making those easier to read and access through smartphones. It will enable readers to engage more fully with the story by giving them more screen space to read and viewing multiple panels at once. It is high time you enter the vertical world of manga!
CCCI offers high-quality coloring services at an affordable price. Coloring webtoon and comics allow artists greater flexibility in composition and shading, offering a wide range of tools that they can use to create truly stunning works of art.
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