Illustration and Visual Narrative - Final Project
09/06/2020 - 13/07/2020 (Week 9 - Week 14)
Hong Ze Yee / 0335678
Final Project - Graphic Novel
INSTRUCTION
MIB:
FINAL PROJECT - Graphic Novel
Theme : The Pandemic
We have to develop a story based on our own perspective on this pandemic we are currently facing. We are require to think of all the amazing, adventures, creatures or pets we can create with this given theme. Create a motion comic and animated it frame-by-frame story telling.
This is about my real life story which I am experiencing now :
I went back to my hometown before lock down, it was a sudden for me as nobody will expect that our country will lock down because of this pandemic. I left everything in KL including my laptop.
Due to this pandemic I am not able to go back for few months. So this story basically will be about my laptop being alone in my room and he thought he was abandoned. Day by day, he is waiting me to come back but I didn't. The story will show how anxious is him being alone in room and he over thought at the night.
Until the end, the pandemic is finally over and he is very exciting when he saw me back, but I've got a new laptop with me. He is shocked and jealous that I've bought a new one and the new laptop is more advanced and much more stronger than him.
Three act :
- Beginning - Me going back to my hometown and leaving my laptop alone in my room.
- Climax - My laptop is being alone in my room and he thought he was abandoned.
- Ending - He got jealous to the new laptop
Before I start my panels, I draw some expression of my laptop
figure 1, expression
showing how anxious and worry is him at the night.
figure 2, character's expression
being jealous of the new laptop.
figure 3, expression
Some expressions I have draw
Some expressions I have draw
Panels :
figure 1, Panel 1
figure 2, Panel 2
figure 3, Panel 3
figure 4, Panel 4
figure 5, Panel 5
figure 6, Panel 6
figure 7, Panel 7
figure 8, Panel 8
figure 9, Panel 9
figure 10, Panel 10
figure 11, Panel 11
figure 12, Panel 12
figure 13, Panel 13
figure 14, Panel 14
figure 15, Panel 15
figure 16, Panel 16
figure 17, Panel 17
figure 18, Panel 18
figure 19, Panel 19
FEEDBACK
Week 10 :
No feedback is given
Week 11 :
No feedback is given.
Week 12 :
Need to draw various angle of my character, refer to more manga to improve the line quality.
Week 13 :
The character is cute, focus on finishing the panel first.
Week 14 :
Improve the lines quality so that it wont looks flat. Try not to use close up shot as an ending otherwise people may get confused.
REFLECTION
To come out with an interesting idea is really hard, I've spent two days to come out with my own story for this project. After I've got the idea, I do some research and take references to come out my character design. Therefore, I tried to explore more about facial expression since my character I've created need a lot of facial expression to tell the viewer about his feeling.
The hardest part for me is human character design because I am not good at drawing human face, hands, gesture etc. So refer to many simple animation cartoons to make it simple and easy as I can.
At the beginning, I find it difficult to catch up for this project because its not just require you to draw yet it requires you to animate the panels to create a motion comic. Some more, I am not really familiar with Adobe After Effects. However, I spend more quality time to discover the functions by trial and error. Thus, I found that I was enjoying the progress of animating especially when I've overcame the error. Overall, I have developed a lot of skills from this project for creating an artwork or animation. I hope all these things I've gone through can improve my design ability in future.
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