This is just my opinion:
- Well placed speech bubbles.
- Text effects used for certain words, but not frequently.
- Diverse looking characters.
- Characters with more original backstories and personalities.
- Decent directing (it honestly doesn’t have to have the best directing on the app. A story can be heavily directed without much of a plot).
- Good grammar and spelling (if this isn’t your field, you can have your story proofread).
- Filters is something else a lot of author use to make their stories more aesthetic, but this alone definitely doesn’t determine whether a story is good or not.
- Overlays and animated overlays definitely enhance stories.
- Diverse backgrounds can also help bring a story to life instead of sticking with a few of them.
- Well placed zooms are a great way to enhance the story too. But I’ve noticed some stories that excessively use moving zooms, and I suggest you avoid that because it makes it look messy and it becomes difficult to focus on who’s saying what.
- Different outfits make the characters more personalized and human. I also tend to like stories more that have characters who change their outfits throughout the story instead of keeping the same outfit on for the entire story or rarely changing.
- Keep in mind that there could be hate or criticism since you’re putting your work and yourself out there on a public platform.
- There may be a lot of readers who will ask you if they can customize your characters (CC). Remember to only allow CC if you as the author don’t mind because it’s your story, not theirs.
- If you want a character to do an animation directly after doing a previous animation, then use starts instead of is because starts allows them to do it instantaneously without the awkward idle pause.
- You can choose a speech bubble style that suits your story if you’d like to. I generally find the pink bubbles suit comedy more than a serious story does etc.
- It’s really up to you, but I recommend having a way for your readers to communicate with you, whether it’s fanmail, Instagram, Twitter etc because readers will always have questions.
- Avoid repeating the same animations and the same dialogues. It’s actually really noticeable.