The images here are my original and final sketches which I have used for my final comic/ prologue. The sketches I have drawn were sketches using a HB pencil and was drawn over in a black finaliser pen, this was so when it came to scanning the images in, the computer would find it easier to see the lines.I drew these images with my storyboard in mind, these are the refined version of my original storyboard images. My story has changed as a have gone along however, I believe the changes were for the better. , I drew all these images by hand and tried to go for a simplistic art-style. my original idea was to draw out the images using a pointillistic art style and keep the images black and white. however upon experimenting with colour on one of my images, I realised colour would be the best way to show my story.
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FMP Animation/ Evaluation
To start off I’d like to state that I tried my absolute best with my animation, however, given the fact that my animation skills are very poor and I didn’t understand it completely, the animation kinda failed for me. The animation was originally going to be an informative and educational animation about the “brief facts” about Eadweard Muybridge.
However, during the process, my ideas changed as the character’s movements were relatively restricted as well as the movements would move strangely and gave a feeling of poor quality or something not to be taken seriously. so I decided to work on that and actually make it intentionally “bad” in the sense of the movements. however, I tried to make it somewhat interesting, with special effects (implemented by after effects), and music (implemented by garage band as well as logic pro).
The animation had to consist of 30s (30s maximum and 27 secs minimum). to create the environments I took images of Kingston as well as images that I have taken in the past and applied a posterised/ cut-out effect onto them. all the images I used were a primary source (taken by me) however a few of the sound effects like the birds chirping were from “soundbible”. to create the rain effect, however, I got rice and literally poured dry rice onto my phone whilst the recording was playing. meaning the phone was able to record the impact properly as well as being able to hear the impact the rice/ rain would have if it was actual rain.
I originally created my environments using illustrator and photoshop using the paintbrush tool as well as various tints and tones of colours. however, I realised that the environments ended up looking amateur and mediocre, so I decided that environments which are sourced from real life areas would look more effective.
I originally wanted to create this animation frame by frame but I later realised how tedious and time consuming that would’ve been as it took extremely long to create this animation using digital means. The character featured in this animation is a variation of Eadweard Muybridge. the reason why he has no eyes or mouth is merely the art style I chose to use. I thought an abstract approach to the animation would give it a more surreal feel.
the requirements were to make it 1080p HD, H.264.
the feedback i got was mixed but was very helpful.
it has shown me that people did appreciate my efforts as well as getting some great feedback from them all, i believe it would give me a better chance in future.
Poster for EGX/Game
Here are 3 attempts at creating the poster for EGX, however the most recent one that I a submitting as my final poster is the one that is located at the top of the page. the poster was created to promote my Game idea as well as the event known as EGX, which is like a gaming convention to showcase “indie” or corporate games. I decided to go for a more simplistic approach, with the colours only consisting of blacks and whites. I decided to add the smoke as an effect to promote the word “drift” as when a car drifts the friction often causes smoke; and to bring the word “tobacco” dock to a more literal meaning, so people would remember where the event was based on the very distinct style of the poster and the smoke (because tobacco is often smoked.)
Character development
I created this image using adobe draw (the smartphone’s equivalent to illustrator), Photoshop fix as well as lightroom. It took me 3 hours to draw and i used various blend effects as well as different paint tools. I am using my face as a template for my character, however when i get a better idea, i may alter it so it looks less like me. The issue is that i’ve been making the character look too much like me so i could get used to drawing faces. but now with my next drawing, i will make it look completely different.
Ryan Williams’ Interactive Games 