IVN Task 4: Webcomic

Eric Chang / 0378298 / Bachelor of Design In Creative Media

illustration and visual narrative

Task 4: Webcomic

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Instruction:

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Progress Work:

The goal of this task is creating a surrealism webcomic based on the story "The Monkey Paw". We are asked to choose the part of the story that we wanted to illustrate.

After I've picked the part of the story that I wanted to turn into a webcomic, now its time to come up with the sketches,the transition and composition.

Transition & Composition

At this moment, I am also picking the color for the webcomic

After I've done the sketch part, now its time to put it into illustrator to develop it further, this time was time consuming and I've spent the longest time in this part and It took multiple attempts, below are my first attempt at doing this part.

After the first attempt, Mr. Hafiz gave us some tips and tricks at tracing the image that we wanted to use, it helped me a lot and after watching the tutorials. I managed to improve my overall work.

And after a little bit of time I finally finished the illustrator part, I just needed to add some texture to make it more realistic, and then I could move on to do the animation.

Finalized Image With Texture

Next up is the animation, which is really straightforward. The part that I decided to animate is the third panel (waiting for the stranger) and the final panel.

Cover:

After I've done the comic part, now its time to create the comic cover, for this part I didn't have that many references, however, I wanted to create something that is very easy to read even from far away.

So for this part I decided to use a big font for the title and then scale it up and then put it in the middle of the cover.

The image above is the reference I found online, I wanted to create something familiar but put the title on the center of the cover. So below are the sketches & the cover that I made.

Next, I decided to animate my cover by making the paw glow, so for the animation part I used adobe after effects instead of adobe photoshop.

After I've Done everything it's time to put it all into 1 google slides:

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Self Reflection:

Although this is the hardest assignment from IVN yet, I had much fun doing this project. and thanks to this project I became a lot more efficient at using Adobe illustrator, I became more efficient and began using the Pencil Tool and Pen tool to trace an image. I also start using the shape builder tool to make shapes quickly. 

Although there's still a lot of flaws and imperfection in this project, I believe that I could improve my adobe illustrator skills in the future.