IVN - Project 3

13 October 2022 - 1 December 2022 / Week 7 - Week 14
Sim Jia Min 0349784
Illustration & Visual Narrative / Bachelor of Design (Hons) in Creative Media / Taylor's University
Project 3: Original comic plot, comic cover & animated one-page intro

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INSTRUCTIONS (MIB)

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LECTURES

Week 7 Lecture: 3 Acts Structure

Week 11 Lecture: Transitions

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PROJECT 3: Original comic plot, comic cover & animated one-page intro

Project 3 brief:

Original comic plot

The making of comic cover

Figure 1.1: Comic cover sketch 1

Figure 1.2: Comic cover sketch 2

Before making the actual cover, I did some rough sketches to visualize the ideas in my mind.

Figure 1.3: Comic cover attempt 1

Figure 1.4: Comic cover attempt 2

Figure 1.5: Comic cover attempt 3

Final comic cover

Figure 1.5: Final comic cover, "The Mysterious Her"

Based on the comic plot I wrote, there's a rumour about her being two-faced and she's actually a psychotic person behind the scene, so I visualize that in my cover, which the white colour silhouette of her is her normal side, and the upside-down black colour silhouette at the bottom is her rumoured psychotic side.

The making of comic panels

Figure 2.1: Chosen part to visualize into comic

Figure 2.2: Comic panels sketch

 

Progress on Illustrator

Figure 2.3: Drawing the hair by using brush tool based on the sketch

Figure 2.4: Eyes and lips, using pen tool and brush tool to track the sketch

Figure 2.5: Using brush tool to draw the dark silhouette with messy lines

Figure 2.6: Using direct selection tool to adjust the lines surround the dark silhouette

Figure 2.7: Doing colouring, using gradient tool to make shades on lips

Figure 2.8: Eyes & lips

Since I want to animate her eyes and lips into a smiling expression, so I drew another two panels for the smiling expression, I will combine them into GIF.

The making of animation

Figure 2.9: Animated panel 1

Figure 3.1: Animated panel 2

Figure 3.2: Animated panel 3

Using the timeline tool in Photoshop to create frame animation by layers.

Animation outcomes:

Figure 3.3: Animated panel 1

Figure 3.4: Animated panel 2

Figure 3,5: Animated panel 3

Figure 3.6: Add camera recording animation

I used a video editing app, CapCut to add an animation of a camera recording frame.

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FINAL SUBMISSIONS

Figure 4.1: Original comic plot 

Figure 4.2: Final comic cover, "The Mysterious Her"

Figure 4.3: Animated one-page intro

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FEEDBACK

About the comic cover and comic panels sketch:

- The red lip colours are not really visible with the red background, perhaps can change it to black colour lips

- Play more with the composition, all the elements on the cover are too centralised, maybe the question mark or the title can reposition to left or right side

- Can consider animating the camera recording frame

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REFLECTION

Doing this project is quite a challenging task for me since I am not really a good storyteller and also not really used to doing creative writing, so I have used quite a while of time to create a story. I feel like I should have done better with the shading since the shading is barely showing in the comic. But overall it is nice to have this experience to create a comic with my original plot, since I never had experience drawing comic before, so it is nice to step out of my comfort zone.