IVN / Project 3 & Final Project: Original Comic Pilot Cover Page and One Page Introduction & Motion Comic

15/9/2022 - 2/12/2022 (Week 7 - Week 14)
Sheryl Pang Pui San / 0349746
Illustration & Visual Narrative / Bachelor of Design (HONS) in Creative Media
Task 3: Original Comic Pilot Cover Page and One Page Introduction
Final Project: Motion Comic


INSTRUCTIONS

 
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Task 3 Requirements:
1) Short story narriative
2) Comic cover page
3) one page intro
4) animated panels intro

NARRATIVE

3 ACTS STRUCTURES
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Setup
- A girl who is working as a barista in the cafe notice that what she says when making the coffee will come true.
- Every wishes came true (when she wish that there is a holiday tmr, when she wish that the coffee machine is broken, wish that there is more customer, etc) but this time her wish did not come true.

Conflict
- There was one customer who always come and sit in the corner of the cafe, he always left the table messy and one day the girl wishes that she never see the customer again and he disappear for about one week and suddenly appear as her new co-worker. She was shocked when she see the customer again as her new coworker

Resolution
- She finds out secrets of her co-worker when working with him and notice that he is the one who makes her wishes come true every time she make a wish.

VISUAL REFERENCES
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Figure 1.1 Art Nouveau smoke effect from Ebay

Figure 1.2 Image of moon from Pinterest

Figure 1.3 Typeface used for cover - Belda from Adobe fonts

COVER PAGE 

SKETCH
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Figure 2.1 Initial sketch idea

The initial idea is to draw a coffee cup on the table with an apron at the back. 


DIGITALIZATION
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Figure 2.2 First attempt on digitalization in Adobe Illustrator

Adding in smoke effect coming from the coffee cup and the cafe the the back.

Figure 2.3 Second attempt of digitalization

Added in moon and stars with purple gradient background. 
In this attempt, I was thinking to add in the character that I made from Task 1: Vormator Challenge but changed it in the end.

Figure 2.4 Exploration of title

Changed the title, using the typeface "Belda" and removed the vormator character. Also changed the yellow colour line to white colour.

Figure 2.5 Exploration of background colour

Changed the background to brown colour to represent the theme of coffee, the purple background will represent the theme of fantasy or magic of the comic story. Changed the title to brown colour to represent the brown colour of coffee bean.

FINAL COVER PAGE OUTCOME
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Figure 2.6 Final Outcome of comic cover


INTRO 

NARRATIVE FOR INTRO
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There is a cafe in the forest where their coffee can grant your wishes.
The cafe only appear when it is full moon and the cafe is named LUNA.
One day, there is one customer that came to the cafe for the coffee to grant her wishes. 

The intro is like a prequel to the original narrative of the story that I initially wrote. 

The cafe LUNA after became an ordinary cafe that the main lead of the story work in that noticed the coffee could grant her wishes and the customer that are messy and became her coworker has a backstory with the old LUNA cafe.

SKETCH
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Figure 3.1 Initial sketches of intro panels

DIGITALIZATION OF INTRO
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Figure 3.2 First attempt of digitalization in Adobe Illustrator

Figure 3.3 Adding in gutter to the intro page



Figure 3.4 Progress of illustrating the intro panels

FINAL ONE PAGE INTRO OUTCOME
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Figure 3.5 Final outcome for one page intro 

I draw the cafe owner as a person wearing a witch hat and illustrate the back of the customer using the technique of chiaroscuro. At the last panel, I changed the yellow flowing line to white smoke with sparkling stars flowing to the right.

ANIMATED PANELS

PLAN OF ANIMATION
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1st & 2nd panel: moon gradually become brighter
3rd panel: bulb lighting up
4th panel: witch coming up
last 2 panel: putting a saucer, flowing movement of smoke of coffee and the sparkle of the stars beside the smoke

Figure 4.1 Initial animated panels

I first animated them all together but after that I seperate them to animate them seperatly by drawing them  frame by fame in different artboards.

Figure 4.2 Seperating of panels into different artboards

Figure 4.3 Drawing out the animation panels frame by frame




Figure 4.4 & 4.5 Importing frames of illustrated panels from AI to PS

After drawing out each of the frame for animation in AI, I imported the JPEG files into stack in PS to animate them into GIF.

Figure 4.6 Frames of animated panels

I decided to draw this 3 panels together for the animation panels.

After exporting all the animated panels GIF in PS and compile them in google slides for the final animated intro outcome. 

FINAL ANIMATED INTRO OUTCOME
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FINAL SUBMISSION

Cover page
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Figure 5.1 Final comic cover

One page introduction
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Figure 5.2 Final one page introduction

Animation introduction page
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