Illustration and Visual Narrative Task 3

Illustration and Visual Narrative

Ng Jia Xien (0355062)

Task 3 & 4

-Exercise 1: Webtoon (week10-14)

-Exercise 2: Motion comic (week10-14)

Instruction

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Task 03

In task 3, we were tasked to create a one-shot Web Toon short with the premise of a FIGHT! genre story of our own creation. Consider 3-act structures but with interesting twists and plots and action pack scenes. It can be wordless and presented only with illustrations, or it can be detailed with stories, filled with speeches and texts.

Think of creating a premise for a story that makes our readers creeped out, and scared, and of course, we can end the story on a happy note too! Use logline visuals to help establish our narrative. 

Project requirements: Must be published at webtoons.com Story must have a 3-act structure and At least 60 panels Illustrations (stick man drawing is not an illustration) can either be colored or greyscale or screentone shaded render. But if you are interested to join the competition, your Web Toon has to be fully colored! Content must be PG-13 and SAFE FOR WORK.

Above is a sketch I did for the first story <Kampung Boy>, but in the end, I used another story and named it <The Lost Sheep>. Here is the original look of the comic, which differs a lot from the final version.

Figure 2. Comic 2

Figure 3. Comic 3

At first, I planned to use the pen tool to finish my comic, but I realized that it was difficult because I had to draw every scene of my comic instead of tracing it. So, I decided to use the blob brush tool to create my comic and the result is as follows. 

Figure 4. Comic 4

Figure 5. Comic 5

Figure 6. Comic 6

Figure 7. Comic 7

Figure 8. Comic 8

Figure 9. Comic 9

Figure 10. Comic 10

Figure 11. Comic 11

Figure 12. Comic 12

Figure 13. Comic 13

Figure 14. Comic 14

For some elements that will keep appearing in my comics, such as trees, flowers, clouds, and the main character, I draw these elements separately and when I need them, I duplicated them from here. This saves me a lot of time drawing the same things.

First, I drew the whole comic in Adobe Illustrator, and my artboard looked messy because I often duplicate my work and do a lot of different versions.

Then, I separate the panel one by one and save them in a separate file to create into animation.

A separate Adobe Illustrator file was converted to Adobe After Effects to create the animation. After creating separate panels with actions, I saved them one by one individually.

Finally, I dragged all the animation files into Adobe Premiere Pro and merged them into one video, and added sound effects here as well.

I upload my comic at Webtoon.com and my animations on YouTube. Here are the links to Webtoon and YouTube.

Animation

Webtoon