EVOLUTION Try to approach this new venture by redefining your existing team's basic roles. This only requires a small modification to your thought process and your tasks, or at least this is what you can tell your boss.
GRAPHIC ARTIST
OLD ROLES - PRINT
NEW ROLES - WEB
You too have the luxury of capturing the "in betweens." You too have a new thought process and approach to creating your images. So from the project planner and multimedia producer's point of view consider that you have a whole new set of dimensions of time and space. With this new method of layering your material, think onion peeling. Story board; gather all your angles; consider animation and progression your tools to tell the story. Think "motion pictures."
Meet with writer/editor. Review request/assignment and research material.
Assess your materials, consult with designer and photographer to review possible mixed media, plan possible recon trip.
Sketch your illustration/graphic.
Identify/isolate pieces that will need to be animated or manipulated. Make sure you consider the in betweens so you have all you'll need.
Generate visual, proof and correct.
Consider a few basics of the medium. Interactive representation of the print graphic is an adaptation both for the sake of dimension as well as method of experiencing the information both in respect to order and depth.
You don't have to have a 3D program but you do need to think that way now that what you generate can move around your canvas. plan your perspectives and angles with thought to how you'll animate them and be efficient. You probably will not have time to generate two separate products.
Your 1-2-3 presentation of the key steps might also benefit from some of the "in betweens."
When building/generating graphics think about building them in whole pieces and isolating the pieces you'll want to animate.
Deadlines as time management tool.
Use templates, site planning and rough storyboarding as tools to maximize your time. Publication date is still your deadline but don't be shy about further enhancing post pub date if the material has shelf life. Go to sketch sample
