Illustration and Visual Narrative - State of Mind

Assignment 3 - State of Mind

You are to storyboard and make an Animatic from a set of the following psychological states : (there's a lot, but I chose Happy to Sad)

Outcome :

- Fully rendered (color) storyboard

- Must use correct transitional mechanisms

- A2 Presentation board

- Mounted on foam board

- 1 Animatic (min. 2, max. 4 minutes)

Initial research on abstract Sadness & Happiness.

Tried doing some sketches after that.

Was trying to do abstract, but then I figured that its abit too difficult.
Even I couldn't understand what I just sketched ._.

Then I got a very "cute" idea
(from thinking about my niece at home)



Its actually about a baby throwing tantrum when she didn't get what she wants. And because babies can't talk, all she could do was cry (practically what my niece does at home).

But Mr.Hafiz said its too straight forward.

Then I got another idea.

Inspired by this picture, actually.

So it starts of with this tree, very rich in colour, very lively.
And then these veins starts to climb, like a parasite, sucking the life out of the tree.

And slowly, the colours starts to fade. And soon enough, there isn't any colours left. All that's left behind is the tree trunk.
And the veins starts to tighten its grip, causing the trunk to crack.

Then, it snaps the tree into half.

Tryouts on different trees.

 Lai Yenn.