Illustration and Visual Narrative: Task 2
2023.10.30 - 2023.11.20 Week 6 - Week 9
Teh Ming En/0364908
Illustration and Visual Narrative-Bachelor of Design (Honours) in Creative Media--Taylors University
Task 2
Lectures
Week 6:
This week, we were given a new assignment in which we needed to illustrate
a turning point of an urban legend and animate it. We only allowed to
illustrate the art with art deco style. The urban legends can be local or
international.
Week 7:
Mr. Hafiz introduced us that the composition theory. Composition is mainly
composed of three factors, which is foreground, midground, and background.
Then he showed us a video name 'The Soloists' help us have a better
understanding.
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| Fig 1.1 The Midground and Background |
In this scene I think it strongly expresses the midground and background. The
three sister in midground and the background is wood planks. It use the three
sister and the wood planks to create a clearly contrast.
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| Fig 1.2 The Midground |
In this scene, it shows the middle ground. The three sisters sit down evenly as a cancave shape and the background is not too cluttered or blank, these allowing my eyes to focus on the middle. And there is a good use of lighting.
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| Fig 1.3 The Focus Point |
The light in this secene guide my eyes focus on the three characters. The
light create a focus point in the middle to highlight the characters and
weaken the background. This shows that a good use of light and shadow is very
important.
Transparency Gradient and Noise
We have to create a textures by adding shodow to our illustrations with
Grain Effect. Mr Hafiz showed us the tutorial videos of how to create a
transparent gradient mask with illustrator and how to create texture
gradients. After that we need to apply them in an exercise.
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| Fig 1.4 Texture Exercise (7/11/2023) |
Instructions
Project 2: Decisive Moment
In the assignment, we were required to create an illustration based on an
urban legend with using Adobe Illustrator. After researching the urban legends,
I decided to choose Slender Man because Slender Man is an urban legend that
most people know. After that I started to sketch out the scene.
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| Fig 2.3 Mood board/References and Color Palettes |
Before sketching, I searched the references about slender man and use eyedropper to pick the main color that I want to use.
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| Fig 2.1 Sketch 1 (7/11/2023) |
This is my first try to sketch out the scene. My idea is that Slender Man
is said to like seduce children, and late one night he seduces one child,
and this scene is seducing the second child (the viewer). After receiving
the feedback from Mr Hafiz, I try to modify the sketch but I still not
satisfied with my sketch.
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| Fig 2.2 Sketch 2 (14/11/2023) |
Then I created the sketch 2. Same idea with sketch 1 but in sketch 2 the slender
man was seducing the little girl with toy, I removed the second perspective.
After that, I started digitizing it in Adobe Illustrator.
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| Fig 2.4 Digitize with no texture (15/11/2023) |
I traced the scene overall and filled in the color. Then I started applying
the texture and refining the scene. Below is my final digitizing.
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Fig 2.5 Final Digitize (16/11/2023)
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Next, I come to the animation part. Mr Hafiz said that we could use Adobe Photoshop or After Effects to perform the animation part. I chose to use Photoshop because I am familiar with it.
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| Fig 2.6 GIF Draft (21/11/2023) |
The tentacles of the first draft looks like a little bit weird so I decided to redo it.
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| Fig 2.7 Process |
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| Fig 2.8 GIF Timeline |
After that, I created the frames and edited the seconds of them. Finally, the GIF was completed. Below is my final outcome.
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| Fig 2.9 Final Outcome (22/10/2023) |
Feedback
Week 7: The second child (viewer) point of view could be more of a worm's
eye view and the slender man can lean down towards the viewer.
Week 8: After confirmation, Mr Hafiz said that I can start digitizing.
Reflection
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