November 30, 2023
1/12/2023 - (Week 10 - Week 11 )
QIAN GUOYI / 0369462
Illustration & Visual Narratives / Bachelor's of Design Honors In Creative Media
Project 3: Digital Triptych
LECTURES
class summary
Week 10:
Mr Hafiz briefed us about our new project called the digital triptych, which is often used to create a sequence or display different elements within a unified theme. Mr. Hafiz also took us through Scott McLeod's comic book rules - scene switching in different types of situations.
1. Moment to moment: It can be what happened to the same element from the previous moment to the next moment. For example, the moving time of a car or a cough.
2. Action to action: This shows the behavior from one behavior to the next behavior of the same element.
3. Topic to topic: It shows the transition of the topic, so that readers can understand the profound meaning.
4. Scene to scene: This shows the changes of elements from one scene to the next under the same theme.
Week 10 Lecture Slides:
Week11:
Mr Hafiz took an offline one-to-one tutoring class. We spent a lot of time asking the teacher for personal feedback. During the class, the teacher also talked about the precautions for the final assignment. Mr. Hafiz looked at the GIF animation of the urban legend and the sketch of the triptych that I designed and gave me some suggestions.
INSTRUCTIONS
PROJECT 3: Digital Triptych
3.1 Research
Before the project started, in order to let us better understand the definition of triptych, Mr. Hafiz showed us a slide for explanation.
Fig3.1
A triptych is normally a work of art, in the form of panel artworks that is divided into three sections that are hinged together and can be folded shut or displayed open. The three panels become one unified artwork in the eyes of the viewers. For this project, we were required to do a digital triptych based on the urban legend we used in our previous project.
The middle panel of the triptych should be the decisive moment (climax) and the other two panels illustrate the pre climax and post climax. Learn Scott McCloud's transitions and apply the principles to your own triptych to create an urban legend triptych. painting.
Fig3.2
Fig3.3
3.2 Sketching of Panels
I decided to show my sketches of urban legends from scene to scene and moment to moment.This urban legend tells that a magician performed a magic trick to bend a spoon. When the spoon bends, the head of the female teacher in red clothes next to her also breaks off and rolls to the ground.So the climax of the story is when the spoon is bent and the female teacher’s head is broken off. I decided to design the sketch from the perspective of before and after the climax.The magician starts the show as the first poster takes place before the climax. The spoon begins to bend and the female teacher's head begins to break off as the climax, as the second poster. The spoon breaks on the table and the female teacher's head falls to the floor as the climax occurs as the third poster follows.
Panel 1 (pre climax): The magician is preparing to perform magic.
Fig3.2.1 week10
Panel 2 (climax): The magic trick causes the spoon to bend and the female teacher’s head begins to break.
Fig3.2.2 week10
Panel 3 (post climax): The spoon broke completely and fell on the table, and the female teacher’s head also fell to the ground.
Fig3.2.3 week10
3.3 Digitalizing of panels
I imported the sketches into Adobe Illustrate and started working on my first set of posters. I wanted to create a darker and scary feeling overall, so I tried to use darker colors for the overall tone of the picture.
Background: Classroom blackboard and desk
Midground: spoon and female teacher
Foreground: Magician
Fig3.3.1 week11
In the second and third sets of posters, I changed the perspective.
Background: Classroom blackboard and desk
Midground: Magician's Hands and Blood
Foreground: spoon and female teacher
Fig3.3.2 week11
Fig3.3.3 week11
Full Detailed Explanation of panels and transitions :
Feedback
Week 10
Mr Hafiz gave me some advice on the GIF I made. He suggested that I try changing the head from falling to the ground to the head shaking from side to side and suggested that I add magician's hands to the second and third sketches of the triptych.
Week 11
Mr Hafiz suggested that I add the female teacher to one of the triptychs, and then he wanted me to pay attention to the proportions of the rule of thirds.
Reflection
Scott McLeod's Law of Excessive Comics is very interesting and practical. I have never carefully discovered the secrets when reading some comics before. Through this experience, I learned a lot about illustrations, including cartoon excess, the rule of thirds, etc.
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