Digital Graphic Narrative

Development

Courtney Whittaker

• Pig image my pig image

Shape Task

EvaluationTo practice my skills in in Print I created different animals in Photoshop using different shapes. My first animal I created was a pig to do this I searched on google images for a JPEG image of a pig, then I copied and pasted it into adobe Photoshop. I then used the circle fro the shape tools and created a circle similar size to pigs head. I then changed the colour of the circle by double clicking the layer and going to colour overlay and using the transfer pen to get a similar colour to the original image. It wont be exact as no pig has a perfectly circular head so then I clicked on the layer I had just created, went to edit and went to transform and warp. This feature allowed me to align the circle with the pigs head exactly. I did this for the rest of the pigs body, then I added inner shading to give the pig a more 3dimentianal realistic look. I found the pigs feet the hardest to produce as they are quite an unusual shape and it took me a few times to warp my created image.I also created a panda to try and improve m skills using shapes in Photoshop I tried to make it look even more realistic and detailed.

What did you like about your image?I like that you can see how much I have improved from the two images the first image is not very detailed compared to the second which looks a lot more realistic.

What would you improve if you did it again?If I did it again I noticed the face is made of two colours were on the picture its just a little shading if I wen back I would change the darer colour and chose a could more similar t the 1srt shade I have used. I would maybe create the background as well as using the shape tool.

Rotoscope

EvaluationI also created 2 images using Rotoscope in adobe Photoshop. 1 of the images was of Eddie Murphy and the other was of Rowan Atkinson I did these celebrities as I think they are easily recognisable. First I searched for Eddie Murphy on Google images then I copied and pasted the image into Photoshop ten I used the polygon lasso tool to draw around his head once it reached back to the start a dashed line appeared and I would click on my first layer and right clicked on the outlined image then I clicked layer vi copy. A new layer appeared so I changed its name to something appropriate head so that when I had done lots of facial features I can easily edit them as I know which layer is what. I also coloured the layer using the transfer tool to get a similar skin shade to the one in the image. After completing his whole face and hair I shaded bits in using both drop shadow and inner shadow to give my image a realistic 33 dimensional look and I also clicked on select and colour range to help me get the highlight and textures for his hair and moustache. I found his nose rather difficult to create but after lots f practice I managed to get it as close to the original image as I cold. Then I created Rowan Atkinson In the same way I found getting his frown lines to look as close to the image I could get. It was really difficult as the colours didn't look right t first.

What did you like about your image?They are easily recognisable faces, or at least I hope they are. I like the detail I put in for example I like the nose and the wrinkles.

What would you improve if you did it again?I would create more celebrity's to practice my Rotoscope skills, and try to practice noses, as I found them rather difficult to create I used the colour range tool to help me create the noses I have presented above.

Narrative Environment- Original Image

My Edited version of the image

EvaluationI searched “city settings” in google images and up came a beautiful Boston landscape. So I edited it on Photoshop to personalize it and make it my own. I added a picture of a moon and a car and extra parts of buildings to make the image more unique. I copied the layer and turned off the visibility of the layer by clicking the eye tool then I went back to the original layer. I clicked on adjustments then I clicked posterize and turned he other image back visible and then I clicked on adjustments and threshold and scaled y image then clicked done.

What did you like about your image?I like that you can personalise your photo, and add images of your choice to the photo. I like the car I Rotoscope into the image. And the moon. I like the different effects I have found while creating this image. And I might incorporate them into my final product.

What would you improve if you did it again?I would try and make the car look like its driving on the road more as it looks like its about to crash in the street lamp.

Text Based

EvaluationI wanted to experiment with the text tool on Photoshop used the text tool to draw a text box on Photoshop. Then I wrote my name in the text box. I changed the colour and the font size and style of my font to my liking and then I Copied it and this time I changed the colour of the font an space between the letters I made the space decrease to make my name appeal shorter. I then recopied the original image and wrote my surname underneath. I used the character window to change he setting and I decreased the space between the lines to look as if they were almost touching. I warped the next copy of my name, so that it starts of small and then increases n size. I copied my name two more times after this an fill it with and image that describes me or my interests.. I did this using the clipping mask tool, you place an image over the shape you want and click the clipping mask tool and the image is inserted into the shape.

What did you like about your image?I liked how this task was very personalised. You write your name you design it with your choice of colours and styles and you can add a image that that describes yourself or your interests I added the Korean flag because I like Korean music and TV and language. And I added watermelons because that’s one of my favourite foods.

What would you improve if you did it again?I would experiment more especially using the clipping mask because I like the style of it. I keep forgetting how to use it so it would be a good idea to practice it again. I might even incorporate this style in my final product.

Photo Story

EvaluationI created a story made of 8 pictures about a man who finds a key. I was given a storyline but it was just a man finds a key and I had to come up with the rest myself, and be imaginative as I could be. I went around with a camera, and took pictures that I could later develop in Photoshop. My story is a man finds a key, it leads him to a door, he opens the door and looks in to see a bright light appear, and the next shot shows the light is coming from a train and it’s coming straight for him. Comics are usually comical so I thought I would incorporate humour in my storyboard.

What did you like about your image?I like the story I have created and the different images I took which should clearly portray what is happening.

What would you improve if you did it again?I would go out with my camera and take more pictures so I have more variety of options to

Photoshop.

Comic Book

Comic Book

EvaluationI gathered 2 images one of a scene from a film the other Marylyn Monroe which I fund on google images. Then I edited them in different ways to explore all the different effect features, styles, tools and techniques on Adobe Photoshop Software, which will help me in my final product. Ii played around with things like the hue, saturation, threshold and filters such as the oil paining effect.

What did you like about your image?I like all the different effect features and tools you can use. I might use these effects in my final product now I know where to find them. I think I chose the best effects to experiment with some filters were over the top and you couldn’t even see what the image was, but the filters I have used a slightly different but still effective

What would you improve if you did it again?I would experiment with more filters and effect features.

Illustration

EvaluationI was given a quote from a book I got… and I had to interpret into what I felt was the meaning, by expressing it into an image. I found an image of marigolds which are mentioned in the quote off google images and I Rotoscoped the flowers and created more flowers to make the picture look bit more busier then the original image which contrast with the quote as it talks about silence and this suggest emptiness. I tried to make the flowers black and white as it state in the quote there were no marigolds left.

What did you like about your image?I like the idea I came up with I don’t think I could improve on that as I believe I portrayed the image as best as I could.

What would you improve if you did it again?I wasn’t to pleased how the black and white flowers turned out. Now that I have had more experience on Photoshop I now know what I could do to improve this. I could use a threshold effect I could use a black colour overlay but reduce the opacity.

Initial Ideas

Children's Story

Settings

Hansel and Gretel's house A wood

Characters

Goldilocks and the 3 bears: Goldilocks, Mummy bear, Daddy bear, Baby bear

Little red riding hood: Grandma’, little red ridding hood, Woodcutter, Wolf

The 3 little Pigs: Pig 1, Pig2, Pig3, Wolf Gingerbread man: little gingerbread man, fox, old lady Hansel and Gretel: Hansel, Gretel, Witch

Here are the main character from some classic stories. In my children's book I want to mash up a few different story’s so I will need a range of different characters from this list. The characters I have decided to use are goldilocks, the 3 bears, little red riding hood, Hansel and Gretel, and the wolf.

Classic Stories

Goldilocks and the 3 bears

Little red riding hood

3 little pigs Gingerbread man Hansel and Gretel

Because I cant choose a classic story to base my children's book on. I am going to mash up a few story's together and adapt their storyline slightly so that they fit nicely together.

Style/layout

Text

Big bold readable text with 0.5cm spacing between the line

Big first letter of a new scene

Images

I want my images to be colourful, so that the images attract to a young audience, as that is what my book is aimed towards

I might use darker colours to present more scary/sad parts of the story, such as when Hansel and Gretel find out the old lady at the house is a witch, I would use darker colours to represent their fear.

I want to make the images detailed so that the look more realistic and help the child to imagine the story more easier

I will create my images in Photoshop because it has many different features that can develop my pictures to the standard I want them such as using the polygon lasso.

Layout

Image of every page, Image on every

other page Image in the middle

are text around Picture on a double

page Small pictures dotted

about on the pageI decided to use a mixture of layouts so that my book has some variation and certain images want to make will work well with a certain layout style.

I decided to use curly font for my title as goldilocks is one of my main characters and she has curly hair

I might use this as my font because its easier to see then the previous font as its much more bolder and bigger

I looked at different styles of the 3 bears in goldilocks on google images I looked at more realistic looking bears on the left and more simple long bears on the right

I looked at some pictures on google images of goldilocks to give me an idea of how to design my goldilocks character, from these pictures I can see most people interpretation of her is blonde hair with a small bow and a blue dress

Here I have collected different styles of the cottage made of sweets in the story Hansel and Gretel. I have looked at cottages made of sweets from both films and cartoons to give me ideas for what my cottage will include. I want my cottage to have a lollypop trees, with a white iced roof. I also want to include candy canes and gingerbread men.

I looked at all the interpretations of the wolf from little red ridding hood to give me an idea of what my wolf should look like. From these images I can see that that the wolf in all pictures looks mildly scary with big, sharp teeth and large paws.

ProposalDimensions

12 pages

Export FormatI am going to use Jpeg for my export format

Advantages:

• JPEG’s compress after you save them so that the file is smaller. A larger file size takes up a lot of space on a computer and it’s slower to open up.

JPEG has become the most popular universal format, because of its small file size and Internet compatibility.

Small file size so it’s easy to print

Disadvantages:

• The level of JPEG file compression can be increased or decreased. However, image quality is sacrificed for file size.

• While JPEG images can contain colourful, high-resolution image data, it is a lossy format, which means some quality is lost when the image is compressed. If the image is compressed too much, the graphics become noticeably "blocky" and some of the detail is lost

Deadline

6th November

Deadline

6th November

Audience. Consider age, gender, class, location and other characteristics which could define your audience.)My children's book include some grizzly moments so this books is aimed towards children 6-8 years of age so that they aren't effected badly.I think my book might appeal to no specific gender as I feel it would interest both gender as it’s a slight twist on a very popular fairy tales read to both males and females

Production Methods

(Explain the methods you are going to use to produce your pages. Show us the thinking behind your decisions for a more detail response)I will use adobe Photoshop software to help me create my images. I will create the images by using

What are the strengths of the proposal? What areas of the proposal need further work?

The proposal contains an in-depth description of what your story entails, this is good because we get a brief, yet detailed look at what to expect from your children’s book.

The advantages and disadvantages need completing, also, the production method needs completing.

What are the strengths of the idea generation? What areas of idea generation could have been further developed?

A lot of ideas have been looked at and a lot of different examples have been used.

A lot more information can be added too the idea generation, a more in-depth analysis of different techniques and ideas can be added.

What are the strengths of the proposal? What areas of the proposal need further work?

A good outline of the story, the twist throughout the book is captivating and intriguing for readers children and adults to enjoy thoroughly. Clear outline of the audience the book is aimed at.

Look into what production methods would be used to create your book such as rotoscoping, real life photographs, the shape one.

What are the strengths of the idea generation? What areas of idea generation could have been further developed?

A lot of ideas and creativity has gone into this and that is clearly shown through the narrative that has been created. The depth into text and aesthetics is good too.

Look deeper into the styles you could uses to create your book, and how these could change the way its read.

P.S. that was a proper morbid ending and was not expecting it ahaha.

What are the strengths of the proposal? What areas of the proposal need further work?

Good idea, and strong pitch with your plot and outline of what you will do.

(Very nice twist ending)

You should explain your production methods and how/why you will use them. As well when talking about your audience say what you can do to reach your targeted demographic to make it clear how you will reach the audience. You should also explain about why you chose to use JPEG and what’s good and bad about that file format. You could go a lot more in-depth with your information to make things much more clearer in your proposal.

What are the strengths of the idea generation? What areas of idea generation could have been further developed?

The strengths of the idea generation is that you have annotated it well and made it clear what gave you, your inspiration to create your chosen story. You also have a very detailed mindmap which shows us where you first got your ideas from.

I would perhaps go into more detail with your mood boards, doing things such as colour pallets to show what colours you could use throughout your book and when and why you could use them. As well as perhaps gathering more interpretations of characters to get a better idea of how you would be able to present them within your story. As well I would explain about the choice of font more as “because it is curly like her hair” is a good idea however I believe that you should go into more detail about it and perhaps explain how fonts like that are used in older stories. E.c.t

Feedback SummarySum up your feedback.I had lots of good feedback, from this I have learned that I have written a detailed overview of my children's book which people have found rather creative and enjoy my plot twist ending.

Which parts of your feedback do you agree with and why?I am very pleased with my feedback overall. I have been given constructive feedback to finish some parts of my proposal such as the production methods and why I am going to use a JPEG. I also agree I need to add more detail in my annotations for my mood board

Which parts of your feedback do you disagree with and why?