Digital Graphic Narrative

Development

Taynie Gage

Shape Task

EvaluationWhat did you like about your image?I like how you are able to identify what the animal is as soon as you look at the image due to the basic colours and shape. I also like the eyes of the panda cartoon as I used the stroke tool to definition and the polygonal lasso tool to create a glint in the eye.

What would you improve if you did it again?If I did the project again I would use more shading to make the head, neck and body look more defined as they all look like one at the moment. I would create a more separate layers to make the panda look more detailed.

Shape task

Evaluation

What did you like about your image?I like how this image has more shading than the cartoon panda. I think the shape of the eyes is good and the slight fur effect works well. In order to make the image more eye catching, I used the difference in colours for the more realistic view on the animal.

What would you improve if you did it again?I think the general shape of the wolf could have been improved by warping the basic shapes and I could have added more fur by using the colour range tool on Photoshop. I could have used a wider range of colours and included smaller bits of detail which could have improved the image in general.

Rotoscope

Evaluation

What did you like about your image?I think the main thing I like about this rotoscope image is how I have created the eyes. I made each separate part of the eyes on different layers and coloured them all individually.

What would you improve if you did it again?If I did the same image again, I would add more shading and definition to the facial features especially around the nose.

Rotoscope

EvaluationWhat did you like about your image?I feel like I paid more attention to the smaller details within this image in this task, I think by doing this I have drastically improved the look of the image and feel like it looks much better than the animals I created during the shape task. By adding small bits of detail like the cupids bow between the nose and mouth and slight shading around the nose, I feel like the image has become a good example of rotoscoping.

What would you improve if you did it again?If I did this task again I would try to improve this such as the clothing and the hair as I feel like don’t look quite as good as I would like. Some parts of the hair, such as the curl which falls in front of his face, are a bit too jagged and should be slightly softer. I would have also considered the choice of colour for the neck as looking back on the image now, I feel it doesn’t fit very well with the colour of his face.

Text Based

Evaluation

What did you like about your image?I like the many different ways I am able to present the text, with the spacing, fonts and colouring.

What would you improve if you did it again?I would ensure I tried a wider variety of techniques. Then I would be certain I was able to apply these techniques in the future.

Comic Book

EvaluationWhat did you like about your image?I like the cartoon look of the images that would work well in a comic book. I find that the colours within the image look very exaggerated and unrealistic, this makes the photographs look even more cartoon-like. The most realistic of my images is the film Mean Girls as I only slightly changed the settings in the filter gallery on Photoshop. The most surreal image is the screen grab of Pineapple Express, I drastically changed the settings in the filter gallery and also changed the threshold settings to create more shadows and definition.

What would you improve if you did it again?If I did this task again I would make sure I had more variety within my images, I feel as though three of my images are rather similar in terms of what I have done when editing them. I would make one image have extreme adaptations to the original image and have one with even more subtle changes than the image of Mean Girls.I feel as though the image of World War Z would have looked good and worked well as an exaggerated cartoon image and therefore I would have edited this even more to create this look.

Photography

Evaluation

What did you like about your image?

What would you improve if you did it again?

Illustration

Evaluation

What did you like about your image?I like the look of different kinds of drawings however my favourite kind is realistic drawings especially facial features. I like the way you are able to make drawings look like what you are thinking unlike with software on the computer where it is harder to do so.

What would you improve if you did it again?I would possibly draw something of a cartoon nature to show the type of thing that would feature in a children's book.

Initial Ideas

Mood board of inspiration

Idea Generation

Mood board of chosen idea

ProposalDimensions

(number of pages and page size)

Story Overview

(Provide an outline of your story)

Export Format

Advantages:

Disadvantages:

Deadline

Audience

(Think about who you are targeting as your audience. Consider age, gender, class, location and other characteristics which could define your audience.)

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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

Feedback Summary

Sum up your feedback.

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

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

Storyboards

Storyboards

Storyboards

Original Script

Original Script goes here with link to where it came from

Original Script

Original Script goes here with link to where it came from

Final Script

Final script goes here.

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