27.11.2023 - 08.12.2023 | Week 10 - Week 11

Maisarah binti Mohd Sufian | 0358458

Illustration & Visual Narrative | Bachelor of Design (Hons) in Creative Media

Assignment 2: Digital Triptych

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LECTURES

Week 10

Mr Hafiz briefed us on our digital triptych assignment and explained to us Scott McCloud's transition theory.

1. Moment-to-moment

A single action portrayed in a series of moments.

2. Action-to-action

A single subject in a series of actions

3. Subject-to-subject

A series of changing subjects within a single scene

4. Scene-to-scene

Transitions across significant distances of time and/or space

5. Aspect-to-aspect

Transitions from one aspect of a place, idea, or mood to another.

6. Non sequitur

A series of seemingly nonsensical, unrelated images and/or words.

He gave us examples from artworks of sequential art and 3 act structures such as Hieronymus Boch. Sequential art can be anything from comics to hieroglyphs and cave drawings. It is noted that all comics are sequential art, but not all sequential art are comics.

There are many ways of story-telling, such as Disney which is very clear, as opposed to Studio Ghibli movies which tell stories more passively, and is a bit vague. We can apply these story-telling techniques to create a narrative sequence.

Mr Hafiz highlighted the importance of continuity and incorporating patterns to help the reader find correlations between panels. Gestalt's Law of Closure uses different objects grouped together to be seen as a whole, and can be applied to illustrating panels by reducing the amount of details while still being clear to the reader on what is happening.

Week 11

This week Mr Hafiz briefed us on our final project, which is an integrated poster from IVN, DPI and Typography. He showed us examples from Pinterest and Behance, and we are required to use both Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop to create our poster.

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Assignment 2 Digital Triptych

Instructions

We are required to employ Scott McCloud's transition theory in creating a digital triptych that consists of three panels:

- Scene before the significant event

- Scene of the climactic turning point

- Scene of the aftermath

Each panel should embody a distinct transition type as outlined in McCloud's theory. We may use our existing illustrations from the previous assignment as the panel for our climactic turning point.

1. Sketch

I first started by creating the basic outlines of the panels straight away in Illustrator.

I wanted the first panel to depict the taxi driver stopping to pick up the ghost. The last panel is the aftermath of the ghost leaving, which leaves a puddle on the seat.

I chose to go with a scene-to-scene transition for each panel.

2. Illustrating

I proceeded into adding more details to the scene, using the same tools I used for the last assignment (gradient tool, shape builder).

Mr. Hafiz commented that it is a bit difficult to see the continuity from the second panel to the third panel, so I tried adding a cloth to the backseat (to show it is left behind by the ghost passenger) and also illustrated it from a further angle, showing the driver. I also added lighting to both panels using the same blending technique I did in the previous assignment.