NM2208 Creations: March 2010

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! (:

Sunday, March 14, 2010

Assignment 5

For this assignment, we have to create an infographic on the topic of fighting climate change. I did some research on the articles regarding climate change. There are many articles involving the effects that it had on the world, the animals and our own Singapore. I decided to focus in the Singapore context.

The link to the article: http://gs2050.wikidot.com/climate-change

My infographic would not be accompanied with the article. But, I got some ideas from there.

Here’s a sketch of my infographic:

The digitalised infographic:

It shows the consequences of climate change like haze resulting from the toxic gases emitted by factories and cars, sea level rise and coastal erosion as well as the mitigation measures Singapore can take to fight climate change. For example, planting trees, taking public transport and reducing, reusing and recycling.

The principle of contrast can be seen in my infographic through the illustration of haze on one side and the blue sky on the other. The key words are also highlighted in red and green to present the contrast of the effects and the ways to fight climate change respectively.

Comments from the class: One said that the smoke from the factories does not need to be outlined, to change it to the same effect as the clouds. Another said that I should have a heading for both sides to differentiate the effects and mitigation measures that can be taken to fight climate change. However another classmate pointed out that I have already shown it through the highlighting of key words in red and green. Thus, I felt that that the red and green highlighted words are sufficient in showing the difference between both sides.

The edited version:

Saturday, March 6, 2010

Assignment 4

Our task is to design a postcard to promote or create awareness for a chosen youth theme. My theme would be the Singapore Youth Festival 2010.

I did some research about the various activities during the SYF which includes band, Chinese orchestra, choir, dance and drama. I felt that dance would be a good way to portray the energy and enthusiasm of youths. Thus, the various dance poses would make up the whole postcard. The youths have to work together as a team to complete the dance and along the way, strong friendships are formed as they share their passion for dance. This is in line with this year’s SYF theme “Torch of Friendship”.

Here’s the colour scheme for the postcard:

Although the front of the postcard consists of repetitive dance poses, I used vibrant colours and different shades to distinguish the dance poses. To add a final touch to the post card, I created a “Singapore Youth Festival 2010” stamp.

For postcard 7 and 8, I used one colour to create the letter “Y’ which represents youths.

Here’s the back of the postcard:

The idea of the dance sash came to my mind thus I used brush to create this effect.

The postcard I chose out of the colour scheme is:

Comments from the class:
Front – Jisoo commented that there can be 16 different dance poses. Another classmate suggested having a wrapping paper look for my postcard (some dancers are cut off at the side).

I felt that the 16 different dance poses would be too complicated and the viewer would not know where to start looking from. I used only 4 dance poses which are repeated keeping in mind the viewer’s ease of viewing my postcard.

Back- Miss Siti suggested to have a passport whereby there’s various stamps to be associated with the stamp in front of the postcard.

I felt that the idea was good. Hence, I combined my classmate’s idea of the wrapping paper with Miss Siti’s one.

The end result:

Front

Back

The back of the postcard consists of the stamp I created and some are cut off at the side like a wrapping paper.