Illustration and Visual Narrative - Task 1: Exercise
28/3/2022 - 18/4/2022 (Week 1 - Week 4)
Anna Chin Siaw Fong / 0354370
Illustration and Visual Narrative /
Bachelor of Design (Honours) in Creative Media / Taylor's University
Task
1 / Exercises
LECTURES
- Iconic: Can immediately recognize them even in black silhouttes
- Simplicity: Allow viewers to digest and understand the purpose of the characters easily
- Unique: Makes them unique characters memorable which impacts the viewers
- Design a character's silhouette
- Used to identify a character from one another
- Make designers think iconic
- Explore the possibilities of combining different interesting shapes
- Adds weight to character's personality
- Use character's persona as basis of the shapes
- Establish the basic roles of the character
- Determine and separate basic characteristics of heroes, villains and background characters
- Colour Psychology
- Give different impression of different emotions and is easily relatable by the viewers
- Exaggerate to memorate
- Exaggerate on the emphasis and contrasting visual elements to make design stand out by using colour
- Every element in design should compliment each other
- All shapes, lines, colour, motifs, patterns must be put together in a tasteful manner
- Visual hierarchy
- Reflects with the narrative of the characters
- Expressive, emotive characters win the audience
- Clear visualization of your charactersbehaviours, quirks, personalities make iteasier to appeal to your viewers
- The use of light and dark to create the illusion of three dimensional volume on a flat surface
- An italian term, meaning 'light-daark'
- To increase the scene's dramatic tension
- Highlight emotional changes in characters
- Used to highlight significant details
- A style of lighting
- Accentuates the contours of the subject
- The subject matter of object of interest in a visual
- The filled space or background that surround subject matter or object of interest in visual
- An excellent lighting choice to differentiate positive and negative space
- Increase dramatic tension
- Create sensational effect
- Attract attention
- Makse tasteful composition
- The visuals in the scene complements all aspect of the narrative
- Think of look and feel of the scene
- Get their emotions on the same page
- The scene haas clear flow of visual that directs viewer's eyes
- The visuals in arrange to balance the composition in the scene
- The visuals are arrange in such ways that directs viewer's eyes to specific details first
- Wide shots were often used to establish not just the setting, but to portray spectacle and give audiences the chance to take in all the splendor and grandeur of a location, while still giving them enough information to process what's going on.
- Also known as overhead shots
- POV placed directly above the subject
- Can fracture screen space, add depth, and create visual interst in your cinematic compositions
- Also called a three-quarters shot
- Frames three-quarters of the character
- Emphasize emotions aand thoughts within a grander context
Bubbles is one of the main characters from the show, Powerpuff Girls. Her
character design is very iconic, simple, and unique. Just by looking at
her silhouette, people can easily recognize that the character is Bubbles.
The creators made her design unique so that she could stand out as she is
one of the heroes of the show. Her design is also simple as her design
mainly uses circles, rectangles, and lines.
The use of circles and rectangles to create the character portrays that
she is one of the heroes in the show. Some of the characteristics of cute
characters are to have a big head and big eyes. Therefore, her character
design portrays her as a cute character as she a small body, big eyes, and
a big head.
The use of blue and yellow for her design shows that she has a bubbly and
happy personality. The colours used for her design also has a nice
contrast between each other. Her character design was emphasized on blue
as each of the heroes in the show has their own emphasized colour. Though
her entire design emphasizes more on the colour blue, her hair was yellow
to create a contrast for the character. The use of the colour blue also
shows her personality as she is easily sad, and cries more compared to the
other characters in the show.
Her design also has harmony because the shapes and colour complement each
other. The expression of the character shows her as a cheerful character
as she always has a smile on her face.
Lecture Report 2
This scene from Alice in Wonderland uses chiaroscuro lighting. In this scene, Alice found herself lost in the forest. She started to cry as she was singing because she was clueless on what to do and could not find a way out of the forest. As the scene continues, the animals and trees in the forest starts to dim out, leaving only a ray of moonlight shining onto her.
By using the chiaroscuro lighting, it was able to increase the dramatic tension for the scene. The dramatic tension gives viewers thrilling emotive depth on the look and feel of the scene. It can be seen that at that moment, Alice felt very hopeless cause she was unable to find her way out of the forest. The chiaroscuro lighting helped to viewers to understand the feeling of hopelessness that Alice was feeling as she was crying.
Other than that, the chiaroscuro lighting also creates a sensational effect which allow the viewers to emphasize on the narrative of the character. It shows that Alice was really sad and was crying.
The chiaroscuro lighting used in the scene also attracts the viewer’s attention. It established a visual hierarchy in the scene. During the scene, the trees in the forest slowly dim out till there was only a light left shining onto Alice. The lighting helped the viewers to focus on Alice as she was the main point of the scene. Therefore, the chiaroscuro lighting was able to attract the attention of viewers by shining a light onto Alice.
Other than that, the scene also has tasteful composition.
In the scene, there were more negative space compared to positive space.
Although there was more negative space, it fitted well with the positive space
to create an attractive scene that catches the viewer’s attention.
Lecture Report 3
6 different type of shots
1. Establishing
2. Bird's eyeview
3. Frame within a frame
4. Medium shot
5. Close-up
6. Worm's eyeview
After experimenting with different colour palletes, I decided to choose the blue and purple design as my final design. I gave my character a name and a special power. Her name is Pyxie. Since axolotl are able to regenerate lost limbs in real life, I decided that her special power was to regenerate HPs lost after 1 turn.
FEEDBACK
- Blog is well-organized.
- Technical skills for Adobe Illustrator is not bad.
- Have good composition and layout for design but might need to be careful of colour combination
- Makse sure to apply visual hierarchy if there are informations that require reading
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