Illustration and Visual Narrative / Task 3

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Britney Chow Pei Jun / 0350043 / BDCM
Illustration & Visual Narratives
Task 3

INSTRUCTIONS

TASK 3: GRAPHIC NOVEL & FINAL PROJECT

Visual Research 

fig 1.0; Darkbox webcomics; sauce: (https://www.boredpanda.com/silent-horror-tales-comics-darkbox/?utm_source=google&utm_medium=organic&utm_campaign=organic)

fig 1.1; Darkbox webcomics 2; sauce: (https://www.boredpanda.com/silent-horror-tales-comics-darkbox/?utm_source=google&utm_medium=organic&utm_campaign=organic)

fig 1.2; Darkbox webcomics 3; sauce: (https://www.boredpanda.com/silent-horror-tales-comics-darkbox/?utm_source=google&utm_medium=organic&utm_campaign=organic)

Darkbox webcomics are more of a silent horror, and I really like how sometimes you don't need much dialogs to tell the whole story out, and I would like to try that one day. After browsing a few horror stories, I was able to come up with a story. 

fig 1.3; Rough story writing; 

This is my initial story idea, with just dialogs because I wasn't really confident in myself to be able to make a comic without any dialogs. However, with just full dialogs isn't able to fully bring out the whole story, so I tried to refine it by a bit. In the meanwhile, I have also planned how the panels should look like as well.

fig 1.4; Refine story;


The above is my version of refined story and also how I planned the panels to turn out. I then started to do my sketches. Below is a few of my sketches. 

fig 1.5; 1st page sketch;

fig 1.6; 2nd page sketch;

fig 1.7; 3rd page sketch;

After making these sketches, I tried to move it into the Adobe Illustrator to make the line art. 

fig 1.8; Line art in AI;

fig 1.9; Line art in AI #2;

fig 2.0; Line art in AI #3;

The above is my process of doing the line art in illustrator. In this I tried to change the creepy dude appearance compare to my sketches. 

fig 2.1; Ji Woon Hak from Dead by Daylight; sauce: (https://leonyash.tumblr.com/post/651698621515972608/ji-woon-hak)

fig 2.2; Slender man; sauce: (https://theslenderman.fandom.com/wiki/Slender_Man)

fig 2.3; Creepy dude;

Since I have made the creepy dude to look like the MC's boyfriend, and plus I have to keep it PG, I thought of making a creepy dude that does not look so creepy and scary because I'm also very scared. I also decide not to make it a colorful web comic since I do not think that it looks suitable. 

fig 2.4; Final outcome of Graphic Novel in PDF; 

Animating 
fig 2.5; Arranging layers; 

I first arrange the layers in Illustrator using the HDV 720 template under film and video. After grouping the sublayers and stuff, I release them to layers. 

fig 2.6; Moving in to After Effects;

After finish rearranging the layers in Illustrator, I import the AI file into AE and then made a new composition by naming it Panel 1 and start to animate from there. 

fig 2.7; Adding Fade in-out effects;

I inserted the fade in-out effects for the transition to make it look more smoother instead of looking too sudden. I also used the position, scale, opacity and rotation when animating as well. 

fig 2.8; Creating Mask;

For some of the dialogs here, I make the transition by creating a new mask and then mask the path. 

fig 2.9; Puppet tool;

I also used the puppet tool to control some of the animation parts. However, I am seriously very bad at it and could not control it fully. After trying it out a few times, I've settle on some of the parts here, though its not so good. 

fig 3.0; Compiling;

After finish animating it panel by panel, I then went to compile it by making another new composition. 

fig 3.1; Adding music and sound effects;

After that, I tried to add music and sound effects to the animation. To me, this part is quite hard as sometimes I can't find music that is suitable to the animation. However, I was able to make it. After I finish it, I then add it to render queue and exported it. 

fig 3.2; Final Project: The Haunted Ones

FEEDBACK 

Tried to make even more indications to the story, for example "My boyfriend", show perhaps picture or frames of MC and boyfriend together. 
REFLECTIONS

This task is very challenging for me as I keep doubting my illustration skills and whatnot, there's a few times I keep feeling like my illustration is really bad and I have always tried to change it to make it look consistent, however I wasn't able to succeed. Animating it in AE is very hard for me because it is very new to me and I haven't learned a lot about it too. However during the process of animating, I quite enjoy it because I was able to learn more new things about it. It is quite hard for me to do the line art in AI as I was still on my way of getting used to using the pen tool. It was very sad that I wasn't able to finish it in time, I wished that the time frame for completing this task would be longer. 

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