Illustration & Visual Narrative - Task 1&2
Sarah Cheong Yinshi / 0354962
Bachelor of Design in Creative Media
| Week 1 | 29-03-2022
Lecture : -
Tutorial : Play Bezier game to practice pen tool.
Practical : -
| Week 2 | 05-04-2022
Lecture : Character Design Basic
Stylized Design:Giving a new unique look from ordinary abstract elements.
- Iconic : Immediately recognise them even in black silhouettes
- Simplicity : Allows viewers to digest and understand the purpose of the character easily
- Unique : Not only memorable, but makes an impact on the viewers
Principles of Character Design
1. Shapes
- It is used to identify a character from one another.
- Possibilities of combining different shapes.
- Weight to character's persona.
2. Color
- Very important role, determine and separate basic characteristics of herbs, villains.
- Different colours give impressions of different emotions and easy relatable by viewers.
3. Emphasis, Contrast
- Exaggerates on the emphasis and contrasting visual elements to make it stand out.
- Exaggerate to memorise different shapes.
4. Harmony
- Every elements in your design should compliment each other.
- All shapes, lines, colours, motifs, patterns must put together in a tasteful manner.
- Think visual hierarchy. How it reflect with the narrative of the character.
5. Expressions
- Clear visualisation of your character behaviour, quirks, personalities.
- Expressive Emotion character, make it easier to appeal to your viewers.
| Tutorial : Lecture Report (week2)
Tutorial : Lecture Report | Visual Study
Character study : Lotso
Vormator Elements - Trace 2-3 times to practice
Vormator Challenge
Progress 1
Tracing the shapes using pen tools
Progress 2
Practice with pen tool, trace it again to make it
perfect and more familiar with the tool.
| Week 3 | 12-04-2022
Lecture : Chiaroscuro
1. Chiaroscuro
- Use of contrast between light and dark to create 3 dimension on flat surface.
- "Clear Tonal Contrast" to demonstrate 3 dimension models and figure.
2. Tenebrism
- A type of painting method.
- To highlight significant details in contrast on a dark setting.
- Subject bright, contrast it dark background.
3. Low-key Lighting
- Lighting style for television, film and photography.
4. Positive and negative space
- Positive is referring to a subject.
- Negative is referring to space, background and surrounding of the subject.
5. Chiaroscuro in visual narrative
Tutorial : Lecture Report 2 | Visual Study
Screen Media study : Demon Slayer Kimetsu no Yaiba | Kyojuro
Visual Research
This is Kyojuro from the movie Demon Slayer, it was my first anime movie and I was impressed by the setting and design of the whole film. The images are showing the character name Kyojuro, and he has the most powerful skill among all, before and after he's in power. The image on top shows the calm scene and uses less effect lighting and normal setting, with front angle, can feel it more friendly and easy to get along. For the second image, this is when he was using his power, using the positive and negative space for the subject and fire. With a lower angle, you can feel it is more strong, powerful and fierce, together with the light setting, it has a darker lighting on the background, brighter lighting on the character to focus on the expressions, the light coming from below forms the shadow at the back to make it contrast. The major elements is the fire to be focus, it is when he's throwing powers and defending enemies.
| Week 4 | 22-04-2022 (Friday)
Lecture : Visual Composition
Arrangement in frame
Basic composition rules
1. Visual narrative : Visual scene compliments the narrative.
2. Visual Flow : Direct viewer's eyes.
3. Visual Balance : Arranging balance composition.
4. Hierarchy
Types of Shots
1. Establishing
- Wide shot, give enough information to viewer
2. Bird's eye view
- Around 90 degree angle above the scene
- Overhead shot
3. Frame within frame
- Create visual interest in cinematic compositions
4. Medium shot
- 3 quarters
- Show what are they doing
5. Close up shot
- Catch emotions, expressions
- Look into character's mind
6. Worm's eye view
- Intimate moment
- Cause us to catch emotions as the rest of scene plays out, we invested to character
- Emphasis emotions
Tutorial : Lecture Report 3 | Types of shot
Tutorial : Lecture Report 4 | Composition
Big Hero
In this scene of the movie Big Hero, all of the superheroes are gathered in one scene. This is where they gathered to fight the villains. Up on the sky, with a front shot, to make them look powerful. The main character, which is Big hero will be focused in the middle, it is the main subject in this scene, which make the focal point. The owner of Big Hero will be at the foreground, taking the lead position. The other superheroes will be at the last position, which is the background.
| Week 6 | 06-05-2022
Lecture : Composition Theory 2 | Perspective
Tutorial : Lecture Report 5 | Perspective
1. Point perspective
3. Point perspective
Practical : -
| Week 7 | 10-05-2022
Lecture : 3-Act Structure
Storytelling Basics
Central Theme : The theme is what the story is really about. It's the main idea or underlying meaning. Often, It's the storyteller's personal opinion on the subject matter. A story may have both a major theme and minor theme.
Major Theme
An Idea that is intertwined and repeated throughout the whole narrative.
Minor Theme
An idea that appears more subtly, and doesn't necessarily repeat.
Conflict : The conflict is what drives the story. It's what creates tension and builds suspense, which are the elements that make a story interesting. If there's no conflict, not only will the audience not care, but there also won't be any compelling story to tell.
Conflict is what engages an audience. Its what keeps them white-knuckled, at the edge of their seats, waiting impatiently to see if the protagonists will overcome their obstacle.
Character : A story usually includes a number of characters, each with a different role or purpose. Regardless of how many characters a story has, however, there is almost always a protagonist and antagonist.
Central Characters
These characters are vital to the development of the story. The plot revolves around them.
Protagonist
The protagonist is the main character of a story. He or she has a clear goal to accomplish or a conflict to overcome. Although protagonists don't always need to be admirable, they must command an emotional involvement from the audience.
Antagonist
Antagonist oppose protagonists, standing between them and their ultimate goals. The antagonist can be presented in the form of any person, place, thing, or situation that represent a tremendous obstacle to the protagonist.
Three-Acts Structure
1. Setup : The world in which the protagonist exists prior to the journey. The setup usually ends with the conflict being revealed.
2. Rising Tension : The series of obstacles the protagonist must overcome. Each obstacles is usually more difficult and with higher stakes than the previous one.
3. Conflict : The point of higher tension, and the major decisive turning point for the protagonist.
Resolution : The conflict's conclusion. This is where the protagonist finally overcomes the conflict, learns to accept it, or is ultimately defeated by it. Regardless, this is where the journey ends.
Traditional 3 acts structure chartTutorial : Lecture Report | Short Narrative Exercise
Practical : -
| Week 8 | 17-05-2022
Independent Learning Week
Task 2 Decisive Moment progress
Poster : A Little Red Flower
Design and create ONE unique character by using the given sets of shapes. Start with a rough sketch of your character and then use Adobe Illustrator to create the final design. Think wacky, think creative. Think of stylized designs that truly reflect your imagination!
- you’re allowed to rotate, flip and duplicate the shapes
- you are not obliged to use all the shapes
- scaling is allowed, but only proportionally, so no skewing or free transform, cannot alter the original shapes!
- you can add, subtract, intersect and group elements as you see fit
- the use of colour is unrestricted, you can create your own colour schemes
- you are allowed to use gradients
- NO STROKES!
- background is not necessary
A Little Red Flower (Chinese: 送你一朵小红花) is a 2020 Chinese romantic-drama film.
Wei Yihang, a cynical and reclusive teenager, has been in remission since his brain tumor operation. After meeting fellow brain tumor patient Ma xiaoyuan, He begins to open up socially, as the pair share various imaginary travel adventures and try to live life as "ordinary people" which they are unable to be because of their respective illnesses.
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