Illustration and Visual Narrative - Task 2: Decisive Movement
19/4/2022 - 17/5/2022 (Week 4 - Week 8)
Anna Chin Siaw Fong / 0354370
Illustration and Visual Narrative /
Bachelor of Design (Honours) in Creative Media / Taylor's University
Task
2 / Decisive Movement
LECTURES
Week 5
Composition Theory 3 // Fore, Mid and Background
Composition
- Refers to how your image is put together, and there are tricks you can keep in mind that, if used in the right way, can take your art to the next level and make a piece really grab your audience’s attention
Different Types of Planes
Foreground
- Objects that are nearest to the viewer
Middle-Ground
- Objects in between foreground and background
Background
- Objects that are the furthest away from the viewer
Design Flow
- Good arrangement of visual focus using foreground, middle-ground and background should also indicate a sense of movement, and rhythm in your design
- A design with good flow will lead the viewers’ eye throughout the layout, moving from element to element with ease
Week 6
Composition Theory 2 // Perspective
Composition Theory 2 // Perspective
Perspective
- The art of representing threedimensional objects on a twodimensional surface so as to give the right impression of their height, width, depth, and position in relation to each other
One-point Perspective
- Most simple method of producing three-dimensional images entails drawing your objects emerging from a single point on the horizon
Fig 1.0 One-point perspective
Two-point Perspective
- There are vanishing points on either side of the horizon, and the objects and buildings within the scene are drawn to both of these vanishing points
- Helps create a greater sense of space in a scene and helps give objects more of a sense of dimension and place
- The network of lines allows objects to recede toward two separate points, allowing more dynamic views than that one point alone
Fig 1.1 Two-point perspective
Three-point Perspective
- Usually consists of two vanishing points on opposite sides of a horizon (as in two-point perspective), but with the addition of another vanishing point high above or below the horizon
- Most useful to achieve a sense of drama and scale, or to show more objects in a single scene
- If the vanishing point (which is not connected to the horizon) is a great distance from the horizon, the intensity of the angle will be less than if it were placed close to the horizon (which creates a more extreme viewing angle)
Fig 1.2 Three-point perspective
Isometric View
- For creating detailed concepts of individual buildings, it’s more beneficial to use a simple isometric view, since it allows you to clearly present three sides of your design without distorting perspective or obscuring details
Fig 1.2 Isometic grid
Week 7
3 - Acts Structure
Storytelling basics
Central Theme
- What the story is really about
- 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
- What drives the story
- 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
- What engages an audience
Characters
- A story usually includes a number of characters, each with a different role or purpose
- 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 - Antagonists 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 represents a tremendous obstacle to the protagonist
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 obstacle is usually more difficult and with higher stakes than the previous one
3. Conflict
- The point of highest tension, and the major decisive turning point for eperotagonist
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
Fig 2.0 Traditional three-acts structure chart
REPORTS
Lecture Report 4
Fig 3.0 Scene from Moana
Fig 3.1 Outlined foreground, middle-ground and background from Moana
Fig 3.2 Scene from Tangled
Fig 3.3 Outlined foreground, middle-ground and background from Tangled
In this scene, Rapunzel made Pascal wear a pretty pink dress that she made. Pascal was in the foreground while Rapunzel was the middle-ground. The main focus in this scene was Pascal because he was wearing a pink dress. Rapunzel as the middle-ground also helps keep Pascal as the focus because she was admiring him.
Lecture Report 5
Fig 4.0 One-point perspective
Fig 4.1 Two-point perspective
Fig 4.2 Three-point perspective
INSTRUCTIONS
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Task 2: Decisive Movement
I decided to design a minimalist poster for Your Name, also known as Kimi no Na wa. Your Name is a 2016 Japanese animated romantic fantasy film. It depicts a high school boy in Tokyo and a high school girl in the Japanese countryside who suddenly and inexplicably begin to swap bodies.
Fig 5.0 Your Name
In the movie, what connects Taki and Mitsuha together is the red string that is seen throughout the movie. You may see it as a ribbon in Mitsuha's hair or a red string around Taki's wrist. I would to capture the meaningful moment of the time where Taki and Mitsuha connects together via the red string.
Fig 5.1 Your Name Scene 1
Fig 5.2 Your Name Scene 2
Visual Research
Before starting my task, I did some visual research for minimalist posters. I scrolled through Pinterest for some inspiration for designing minimalist posters.
Fig 6.0 Mary Poppins
Fig 6.1 The Emperor's New Groove
Fig 6.2 Howl's Moving Castle
Sketch
I sketched out my poster design using Procreate after doing visual research. As it is a minimalist poster, I had to keep my design simple.
Fig 7.0 Poster sketch
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Upon approval of my sketch, I proceeded to outline my minimalist poster using Adobe Illustrator.
Fig 8.0 Poster outline
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Fig 8.1 Coloured poster
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After colouring my poster, I added shadows to make the poster nicer.
Fig 8.2 Added shadow
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Next, I added a logline to the poster.
Fig 8.3 Added logline
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After completely my minimalist poster, I proceeded to animating the poster by creating a gif using Adobe Photoshop. To do so, I had to first create the frame-by-frame animation using Adobe Illustrator. I created a total of 172 layers.
Fig 8.4 Animation Frames
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Fig 8.4 Animation Timeline
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Fig 8.5 First animated GIF
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The first animated GIF was a bit slow and there were misalignments for some of the frames. Therefore, I went back to Adobe Illustrator to fix the alignments. After that, I reimported the layers back to Adobe Photoshop. To make the GIF faster, I changed the FPS to 60 FPS.
Fig 8.6 Corrected alignment and 60 FPS GIF
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Final Outcome
Fig 9.0 Minimalist Poster
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Fig 9.1 Animated GIF
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FEEDBACK
Week 9
- Poster looks good
- Add a logline to the poster
Week 10
- Animation is alright but it is a bit slow. Try to increase the frame rate
- Make the delay for the last layer longer so that the GIF does not repeat abruptly
REFLECTION
I had fun creating the minimalist poster. It was not as hard and this is the first time for me to try this art style. Even though, I enjoyed creating the minimalist poster, it was a pain for me to create the GIF. Making a smooth GIF is not easy especially when you need to have so many layers to make it smooth. It took me a long time to make all 172 layers for the GIF. When I first finished the GIF, I realized that there were misalignments in some layers. I had to find out which layers had misalignment from the 172 layers. It was quite frustrating as I could not seem to figure out why I was not able to fix the alignments for my GIF. I spent countless hours trying to fix the alignment only to figure out that I've actually been fixing it on the wrong layers. This was because I did my frame animation from the back by deleting sections of the red string. When I was trying to figure out which layers had misalignment, I did not think to reverse the layer sequence in Adobe Illustrator. This make me realize that I should be more cautious in the future, so I do not waste my time on fixing nothing. I also struggled a bit when I was creating the GIF as I could not figure out how to increase the frame rates for the GIF. It was a relief once I finished everything even though it was a pain, but what matters is, I got to learn more from this task.
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