NM2208 Creations

Tuesday, July 6, 2010

Monday, April 12, 2010

Reflection

I've finally handed up my portfolio this morning! Throughout this module, I had learnt alot from the technical use of the illustrator software to group dynamics. Although the workload is heavy, I enjoyed this module as it is something different from the rest of the modules which are more theory based. The assignment I like best would be the storybook project. It is the first time I created a storybook from scratch with my groupmates. It is a great learning experience indeed!

Thursday, April 8, 2010

Final Project - Casey & the Magical Candy Kingdom

The final storybook:

By: Angelina, Joy, Jasmine and Jisoo (:

These few weeks, our group worked hard to finish the storybook. It was such a relief after handing up the final project. Although there was a mini crisis in the middle of the project, we manage to tide through and continue by reassigning part of the project among the rest of the group members to speed up as it was nearing the dateline. Patience and understanding is key towards working together as a group. It has helped us grow not only as a team, but also as individuals. Communication is extremely important as well. Our initial discussions were held face to face to establish a strong foundation for our project with regards to the tasks allocation etc. Subsequently, it is through emails and phone.

We did our best! Thank you group mates for putting in so much effort!!

Thursday, April 1, 2010

Final Project Digitalisation Process

After the initial tracing of characters, it is decided that I will be doing the elves characters and Joy will be doing the main character, Casey and Casey's mother as Joy is better in drawing more realistic drawings and I'm better at fairy-like characters.

Due to some unforeseen circumstances, Joy and I are helping out with the background illustrations and digitalisation.

Some of the elves characters:

With the background:

Initially, we had some problems with the illustration style. After some discussion, we decided to use only gradient colours to standardise throughout.

Tuesday, March 30, 2010

Assignment 2 edited

After consultation with Miss Siti, she suggested to add more details to my abstraction process especially for the first picture. Thus, I included the background and added more details to the second picture. Here’s my final abstraction process.

Pictogram

Saturday, March 20, 2010

Final Project Timeline

Here’s a timeline our group had came up with:

I will be in charge of the character designs.
Here’s the initial drawings I did:

I will now work on improving these characters after Joy is done with the storyboarding so that I will know the position of the characters for better drawing.

Thursday, March 18, 2010

Final Project Discussion

For the final project, we have to create either a children storybook or a teenage comic. My group decided to do the children storybook.

After our research, culture can be considered as the following:
1)Food
2)Clothing
3)Recreation
4)Government
5)Education
6)Language
7)Religion
8)Transportation
9)Economy
10)Environment
11)Arts

4 storylines we came up with:
1)The story would involve a travel around the world. In each new world (e.g. Egypt), aspects of the culture will be introduced.
2)Instead of a wide scope of culture, we will just have one focus (e.g. food). Various types of food around the world will then be intertwined in our story.
3)The culture of a particular country (e.g. Korea) will be introduced. Aspects include tradition, fashion, language, food etc.
4)A fictional character will be created in a context (e.g. fairy culture). Fairy culture includes fairy food, fairy games etc.

We chose the final one because the concept is more original and it allows for more imagination to demonstrate creativity.

Till the next update! (: