Illustration & Visual Narrative / Project 4

30/06/2023 - 16/07/2023 / Week 13 - Week 15
Iman binti Kamarudin / 0364014
Illustration and Visual Narrative  / Bachelors of Design (Hons) in Creative Media

Project 4: Animated Comic

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TASK

I started looking up some examples of comic pages that I enjoyed on Pinterest for some inspiration. I wanted one panel to have significantly more space than the others for emphasis on the main plot point. I also chose to illustrate the second act in the story. 

Figure 1.1 - Comic Reference #1

Figure 1.2 - Comic Reference #2

Figure 1.3 - Comic Reference #3

After finding some references, I went onto sketching out ideas for the layout as well as figuring out how to colour the page. I wanted to go for a more horror-ish theme, therefore I really wanted to limit the palette with a red and deep black, along with small accents of green. I eye-dropped colours from the triptych illustration to maintain consistency. I also didn't include any text bubbles as I wanted the illustration to speak for itself.

Figure 1.4 - Sketch #1

Figure 1.5 - Sketch #2

Figure 1.6 - Sketch #3

Figure 1.7 - Final Comprehensive Sketch

Once I finished my comprehensive sketch, I moved onto Adobe Illustrator. This process once again was relatively simple as I had already planned out everything during the comprehensive sketch phase.

Figure 1.8 - Panel #1 Paths

Figure 1.9 - Panel #2 Paths

Figure 1.10 - Panel #3 Paths

Figure 1.11 - Panel #4 Paths

Figure 1.12 - Panel #5 Paths

Figure 1.13 - Full Page Progress

Figure 1.14 - Full Page Progression

Once I finished up all the lineart and colours, I felt like it felt very flat so in an attempt to solve that, I added some paper and graphite textures.

Afterwards, I moved onto After Effects to animate the elements I wanted to move. I seperated the ones I wanted to move to seperate layers and then imported the whole composition. Initially, I wanted the thumb to move as well, however I felt like it was a bit overwhelming so I decided to remove it. The paper texture overlay I added also had to be removed as it couldn't be imported into After Effects.

FINAL

Figure 2.1- Final Static Comic JPEG

Figure 2.2 - Final Animated Comic GIF