See what a PanelWave work looks like

Our first example is a real production: the opening of TARMAC, a sci-fi comedy by Peak State Entertainment. More examples follow as our Founding Creators publish their first works.

Look inside TARMAC

Example 01TARMAC – Episode 1 “Pilot” · cold open

Cover of TARMAC No. 1 “Cold Open”: Nina and her dad in a car under a purple UFO light.

Excerpt from TARMAC – Episode 1 – “Pilot”, reproduced with permission.

Created by Albert Bozesan & Robert Sladeczek · Original character designs hand-drawn by Ariane Emmerich

Based on the web series starring Chris Auber & Martina Peroni

Sci-fi comedy · conspiracy satire · linear

T.A.R.M.A.C.

Time Anomaly Research and Matter Acceleration Center

Night. A conspiracy-obsessed dad bursts into his daughter Nina's room: the Mothership is back. Tin-foil hat folded, cocoa poured, they chase a pink light down a country road — straight towards a restricted air base, where a UFO turns out to be something else entirely.

The pilot excerpt is PanelWave's real-world test bed. It was imported from the screenplay, laid out for five screens, animated panel by panel and exported as a portable work archive — the full pipeline, on a real production.

panels: 38
video panels: 14
live-text balloons: 22
screen layouts: 5

Panelsfrom the excerpt

TARMAC panel: Nina asleep at night in her star-covered bed under fairy lights, a telescope by the window.

TARMAC panel: Nina and her wide-eyed dad in their cluttered car, bathed in pink light.

TARMAC panel: a glowing saucer hovers over the old car on a winding country road at night.

TARMAC panel: two figures in yellow hazmat suits drive a military truck.

Videoone of 14 animated panels

Video panel — loops on view; click to play it large.

Layoutssame panels, five formats

Format	Pages
Phone portrait	23
Desktop landscape	15
Tablet portrait	11
A4 portrait (print)	6
Big screen	4

38 panels, re-arranged per screen: 23 phone pages for a comfortable vertical read, 4 big-screen pages for a TV — and an A4 layout for print.

A public, playable version of the TARMAC excerpt is being prepared. Want to see it first? Meet us at the Frankfurter Buchmesse (Hall 5.0, A71) or get notified.

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Sample works for the open-source player

The open-source player's demo is under construction. It will ship three sample works — and open any PanelWave manifest by URL.

Sample · linearCity NoirThe simplest form: a linear noir story laid out as big-screen pages, in English and German.Under construction

Sample · infinite canvasThe DescentPanels on an open canvas, camera moves between them, a lantern hotspot that branches through space.Under construction

Sample · videoVideo panelsEvery play and start mode, played in sequence — loops, ping-pong and click-to-play.Under construction

Developers: the format docs include example manifests ↗

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more examples arrive with the catalogue on peoplecomics.com

Every great story starts as a sketch.

Open the drawing board and start with your script, the smoothest way in, or with the art you already have: panel images, video clips or pages without lettering. Add balloons, shape the story, and see your first chapter running on a screen.

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