Illustration and Visual Narrative - Final Project

Azmina Fathima Haris (0337113)
Illustration and Visual Narrative
Final Project

Week 11: Planning & developing

For our final project, we had to pick a story and narrate it - either as a motion book parallax or as a tunnel book. I chose to do the parallax, on a short story called "The Paper Menagerie" by Ken Liu.
The story was beautifully written and had many aspects to it - one of the most important being the relationship between the boy, Jack and his mother. I decided to focus on this more and planned out the type of transitions I could use and how I could illustrate this.

I wanted colour to play a bigger role here in the narration of the story - going from very bright to darker, grey tones in the end. It was difficult to create a moodboard that worked with this but I did find references that I could use. I picked the kind of style I was looking for - which is simple and minimalist. 

Mini moodboard

Week 12: Illustrating 

As always, I started off by drawing the solid shapes in each in Illustrator first. This also helped me decide how it would overlap and how the colours worked out.

 

Week 13: Painting details 

As some of the panels had backgrounds or mid ground layers that would require more detail, I exported to Photoshop and added more shadows and highlights. Once I was done, I exported each layers as a .png file.

Panel 1

Panel 2

Panel 3

Panel 4

Panel 5

Panel 6

Panel 7

Panel 8

Cover/thumbnail

Week 14: Madefire

Madefire turned out be slightly easier than I thought it would be - the website kept crashing, you could easily lose unsaved work and the website was hard to navigate, but I felt like the functions it offered where very straightforward and powerful. Given my story, and the art I did, there were not too many effects I could add and the parallax effect was kept to a minimum as it looked really off otherwise. 

 

Link to final work: http://content.madefire.com/s-df94727e09cb4ef18dfe3bbc2b68df59/index.html#