IVN | LECTURE AND EXERCISES
23.09.2024 - 26.10.2024 /Week 1 - Week 5
Loh Kai Xuan (0365780)Illustration and Visual Narrative, Bachelors of Design (Honours) in Creative Media, Taylor's University
Task 1: Exercises
1. LECTURE NOTES
Week 1:
For the first week, we had an introduction to this course and read
through the first lecture slides.
Character design Basics
Stylized Design
- Iconic
- Simplicity
- Unique
Taken from lecture slides, "IVN 01"
I learnt that a good character design can be done just using the design principles.
- Shapes: adds weight to personality
- Colour: can help establish roles of characters and even based off psychology to express their personality.
- Emphasis: Exaggerate!
- Contrast: Makes designs easier to remember
- Harmony: every element must compliment each other
- Expressions, Poses: can help win the audience or associate certain behaviors to a character.
Week 2:
Chiarascuro
The matchmaker (Honthorst, 1625)
Chiaroscuro is the use of light and dark to create illusion of 3d on flat surface.
- Purpose: Increase Scene's dramatic tension
- Tenebrism: a painting method in which important details like the face and hand is illuminated by highlights which are contrasted with a predominant dark setting.
- Application: artistic lighting choice in comic, film and digital works which the focus point is brightly coloured or contrasted with dark background. Can be used for emotional or impactful scenes
Why? because it is an excellent lighting choice to differentiate positive and negative spaces.
Taken from lecture slides, "IVN 02"
Week 3:
Composition Theory 1: Visual Types and Shots
- How to Arrange elements? Do it in a way that brings out meaning.
- Make the focus of the scene stand out!
Taken from lecture slides, "IVN 03"
Week 4:
Composition Theory 2: Perspectives
Taken from lecture slides, "IVN 04"
- Isometric View: For creating detailed concepts of buidings
Taken from lecture slides, "IVN 04"
- Dynamic Application: Doesn't have to be rigid, you can mix different types of perspective or even skew them!Story telling basics: Central ThemeConflictCharacters
Week 5:
Composition Theory 3: FORE, MID, AND BACKGROUND
Taken from lecture slides, "IVN 05"
Example of Focus on foregroundExample of Focus on Middle-Ground
Example of Focus in BackgroundTaken from Adventure Time (Cartoon Network, 2010)
Design Flow
Good arrangement of visual focus using foreground, middle-ground and background should also indicate a sense of movement, and rhythm in your design. WILL LEAD THE VIEWERS EYES THROUGHOUT.
Recommended Video to Watch, good utilization of composition
Week 6:
3 Acts-Structure
Story telling basics:
- Central Theme
- Conflict
- Characters
- 3 Acts Structure
- Setup
- Rising Tension
- Conflict
Week 7:
Transitions
Continuity: can be done using frames, background, characters, closure....
GESALT Law of Closure: Objects grouped together are seen as a whole. Humans tend to ignore gaps and complete contour lines. E.g. there are no triangles below, but we still imagine one there immediately as it is a shape we are familiar with.
Scott McLoud's Transitions
- Moment to Moment
- Action to Action
- Subject to Subject
- Scene to Scene
- Aspect to Aspect
- Non Sequitur
Moment to Moment
Action to Action
Subject to Subject
Scene to Scene
Aspect to Aspect
Non-sequitur
Week 12:
Monkey's Paw Transitions
A continuation of the Week 7 lecture. This time with extra examples using the story of Project 4 ,"The Monkey's Paw"
Action to Action Example
Aspect to Aspect example
2. EXERCISES
Week 1:
There were no exercises but Mr. Hafiz gave us resources like slides and videos to better understand about illustration and visual narrative.
Week 2:
During tutorial, we played the beizer game which helps us learned about the basics of the pen tool. I struggled at first, but it got easier and I had the urge to complete the whole game as best as i could. I managed to finish it with 44 nodes left which i am quite proud of as a beginner in Adobe.
Week 3:
Mr. Hafiz taught us how to use the pathfinder tool during the tutorial, and I followed along. This helped me a ton during the task 1 assignment!
After class, I experimented a little more with different shapes and orientations to explore the pathfinder tool.
Week 4:
Mr. Hafiz given us a recorded video teaching about colour and gradients. We were also given videos regarding compositions and more to assist in our next task.
Week 5 & 6:
There were no extra exercises, but we were to work on our Task 2 assignment.
Week 7:
Intertwine tool and 3D practice
Mr. Hafiz thought us how to use the intertwine and 3D tools in Illustrator, and we are to try with our own names as well.
Results from following in class
For our own name, I chose to use my English name instead as it was more interesting to play with. Then, I Tested out some fonts. I decided on Cloister Black in the end.
Next, I wanted to add thorny vines but had trouble looking for a free brush online, so I went to research on how to make one instead. I used this video to help make one = Click here
Lastly, I just played around with the tools till I was satisfied.
Intertwine tool and 3D practice
Week 8:
Replacement for Week 6 exercises. We had a recap on 3D, intertwine, warp tools, text wrap and pencil tool. I decided to test it all out to familiarize myself with the tools for Task 3.
I. 3D MATERIALS
Inner Glow + Stroke
High Contrast Grain Filter
Duplicate, reduce size, change stroke to white.
Final
Final with Intertwine
My Attempt at using envelope distort
My Pencil Tool Practice
Week 9 -10:
Work on Project 3, no exercises.
Week 10 -12:
Work on Project 4, no exercises.
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