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.

Digital Design - Movie Poster

The Brief

Your task is to design an (1) original movie poster and a movie title for (1) from below

Synopsis A

YOU are a Taylors Lakeside Campus student with superpowers, including supersonic flight, invulnerability, immortality, super-strength and etc. YOU use your powers to rescue people and stop criminals around KL city, your activities inadvertently cause millions of dollars in property damage due to your playful and skeptical attitude.

Synopsis  B

YOU come from a poor family, and spends most of your time dreaming. On one such occasion, you run into a bookshop where the old proprietor reveals an ancient story-book to you. Shortly after, you open up the book and begin reading it; you drawn into the mythical land of Fantasia

Synopsis C

When your country is invaded and your families are taken, YOU and your other teenagers friends band together to fight.

And so, based on all the synopsis, I chose to do B.

Fantasy is more like my kinda thing :)

And Mr.Adam said you can either take your own picture (the poster must have our face) in the photo studio, or illustrate yourself (which was limitless).

And I did take a picture last year, for my Superhero in Creative Thinking class in FID.

Did consider using it, but I changed my mind in the end.

So I went and look for inspirations for my illustration instead.

And I thought of doing a light and dark kind-of-concept.

And this time, I've decided to NOT be ambitious, so I'm going for the anime colouring style.
Which is why I decided to make it an anime poster.

References ;

Fan art - Kingdom Hearts

Princess Mononoke
(this one influenced me in adding texture to my poster)

Spirited Away

Ponyo :)


Sketches

This wasn't really a light and dark concept.
The image just popped up in my head,
and I thought I'd draw it down in case I could work out on it later.

Was trying to show the light and dark through the eyes, and the "magical" book

Mr.Adam said it doesn't really look like a movie poster, so he suggested me to do a mirror image, which shows the light and dark characters.

*and he said not to take the mirror idea coz it'd be his idea instead

So I worked on that direction, and I came up with this final sketch.

Lai Yenn.

Mirror Mirror - Initial Idea and Progress

My initial idea for the assignment.

I wanted to do a graphic novel, but then Mr.Hafiz suggested me if I could try out something else.
Which was kinda true, because I really don't think I can handle it.
And by looking at the images I have, it looks more like a game to him.

Also, he suggested that someone was doing a DVD cover as well.
So, after some consideration, I changed my idea to a game DVD cover.

 

My sketch for the cyborgs.
I only did three poses because I didn't really want to focus on them.

Cyborgs - coloured.

The setting I had in mind was kind of a post-apocalypse world, so I Googled for some inspirations.

And some images of cyborgs.

I was trying to do a CG-styled colouring, but I realized that I was too ambitious.

So in the end, I changed it to manga-styled colouring.
Or an attempt for it, I'd say.

Some reference for the colouring style :

Lai Yenn.

Mirror Mirror - Character Influence and Development

Pictures that inspired me ;

Final Fantasy, Cabal, Tomb Raider, Devil May Cry

My Characters - Romeo and Juliet

Sketch - No reference

Sketch - with anatomy reference

Sketch + Simple colouring

Sketch - No reference

Sketch - With anatomy reference

Sketch + simple colouring

Lai Yenn.