Illustration and Visual Narrative Final Project

 05/Apr/2023 - 16/Jul/2023 

Wang Zilong / 0361141

Illustration and Visual Narrative / Bachelor of Design (Honours) in Creative Media / Taylor's University

Continuing from Project 3, based on the selected story, create a ONE PAGE introduction of your visual novel or comic to your readers… with at least ONE animated panel.

Arrange your story in visual sequences that make sense and easily understood. Consider the choice of panel arrangements and transitions. Determine as well which panel(s) will be best visualized as animation. 

Choose the one that has the best timing in the story flow and transitions of the visuals that strongly reflect the narrative through characters, panels, particle effects, texts etc.

Timing is important! Too slow, your animation will be draggy and boring. Too quick, your animation won’t make sense. So timed the flow appropriately!

The challenges are:

Continue with the same story and design aesthetics from Project 2

Work only from one paragraph of the story for the 1st page.

First of all, I separated a A4 size art board into 4 parts.

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Then I decided to make the first part in the art board I made a scene of the ocean.

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In addition, I added some cloud mixed with thunder to preview storm.

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Here comes the main body of the comic--the unknown captain.

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The last part is under water and shark comes with sea water waving.

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The final design:

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Animated process

The animated comic started with creating 6 art boards in AI.

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Then I exported them into the Adobe Photoshop and using the timeline, adjusting the time between each frame.

Final animated comic:

Reflection

This is my first time to create a animated comics. It is a hard but also interesting process. I have learnt how to make comic and make it moving.