ILLUSTRATION &VISUAL NARRATIVE- PROJECT 1

September 26, 2018

ILLUSTRATION &VISUAL NARRATIVE- PROJECT 1

29/8/18- 24/9/18 (Week 1- Week 5)

Andrea Vie Choong Jia Qi (0331945)

Illustration & Visual Narrative
Project 1
Character Design
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INSTRUCTIONS

Module Information Booklet (MIB)

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PROGRESS OF CHARACTER DESIGN

27/8/18 (Week 1)

This project is basically about creating our own character. We need to create a character based on our exercise of tracing the Vormator shapes/elements using the pen tool. Later on, we need to decide either to laser cut, UV print or 3D print the character and create a pokemon card of it.

At first, I designed a simple character before but I was not satisfied so I develop the idea further.

Fig 1.1 Ideas for my character design (Idea 1-3)

Fig 1.2 Final Outcome (Character Silhouette & Outline )

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3/9/18 (Week 2)

Fig 1.3 Final Outcome (Character Silhouette With Details and Shadows)

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8/9/18 (Week 3)

Fig 1.4 Final Outcome (Colour Scheme)

After creating the colour scheme for my character, I moved on to designing a simple background. It does not have to be too complicated and must make our character stand out.

Fig 1.5 Final Outcome: Background + Outline

Fig 1.6 Final Outcome: Background Colour Scheme + Details

Fig 1.7 Final Outcome: Character in Background

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21/9/18 (Week 4)

I decided to not add texture to my character and leave it as a opaque colour. But I tried out a texture on my character to see the visual difference. I wanted to show a wavy movement so I used a cloth texture.

Fig 1.8 Cloth texture

Fig 1.9 Character With Texture (Try-out)

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24/9/18 (Week 5)

For this week, we went to Fabspace KL where we could print our characters on wood, acrylic or embroidery. I planned to laser cut the outline of my character first then I decided to print colours onto the outline.

We needed to draw out a red outline of our character in Illustrator to indicate the cutting area.

After the laser cut is done, the character outline is moved to the UV printer where the colours will be printed on the wood piece.

Fig 1.10 Final Outcome: Laser cut design of my character

After completing with my character, I created my own Pokemon card. The image of the Pokemon needs to include the character and background. I used an app called pokemoncardapp.com where it creates a design for you after editing on the card itself.