State of Mind - Touch ups and Remake

Tree of Life - After editing

Edited the last panel of the "dead" tree.
Made it extra darker to show that "its life has been sucked away"

Mr.Hafiz pointed out that leaves don't just dissapear like that. It falls off one by one.
So I remade this scene in Photoshop, and turned it into a GIF.

He also suggested that when the leaves touches the thorns, it "absorbs" the colours" so I changed the levels according to the panels.

This is the other GIFs that was in the video, but I forgotten to upload it.
I find the grass movement so cute :D


The original Tree of Life
Before editing


Lai Yenn.

State of Mind

Finished colouring the tree and the vines.

And I decided to change the "happy" background, because it'd clash with the colours of the tree.
It's all in the same composition because I figured that Premiere can zoom in and out more efficiently.
And the tree would be consistent as well.

Somehow, this reminds me more of Metamorphosis o.o

Lai Yenn.

State of Mind - Tryouts

Trying out the moods with colours.

Happy

Sad (1)

Somehow, this looked more like angry to me. LOL

Sad (2)
Same image as Happy, just that I made it black and white.

 Tree  :)

Tree with happy colours ~

Tree with happy colours and MORE colours!
Maybe I should've made it bigger. It looks like Christmas baubles now LOL.

Tree with Sad (1) background
Seriously this looks more like anger.

Tree with Sad (2) background.
This looks more sad to me, I think?
Lai Yenn.

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.